SAN JOSE, Calif. (KGO) -- There's less than a week left until Thanksgiving, and the Christmas lights and popup bars are already up. You can cruise into the holiday season in the comfort of your own car.
On Thursday evening, Christmas in the Park's Drive Thru Light Show returned. There are 150,000 twinkling lights illuminated throughout the mile-long drive. Debbie Degutis is the managing director of Christmas in the Park.
MORE: Scouts partner with Bay Area food banks for annual holiday collection drive "If you have little kids and you're worried about them in a crowd, or you have older grandparents and you don't want them to be walking around downtown, this is a way to have the young and the old together and enjoying new memories and making memories that are going to last forever," Degutis said. Degutis says this ticketed show is a revenue source Christmas in the Park depends on more so now than ever before. "Those who have supported us in the past with $20 to $30,000, some of them have had to drop out, some of them have cut their sponsorship levels, and I get it.
It's hard out there," Degutis said. The nonprofit could run $100 to $150,000 short next year. DeGutis is confident it can make that up.
MORE: More than 800 care packages to be sent to troops overseas by San Jose nonprofit groups, USPS "We have been here since 1980. We're not going to go anywhere, and I know the community is gong to be behind us and support us," Degutis said. Admission Monday through Thursday is $25 a.
