Can any private citizen commission a big fireworks display?
Anybody — birthday party, wedding, graduation; we do high school graduations, high school homecoming games. Obviously, July Fourth is our main season. New Year’s this year is going to be one of our busiest New Year’s ever. Spring is very busy for us. We do a lot of the baseball teams’ opening days. Continually through the year, we’re doing movies, television, theme parks. Every weekend, we’re doing something somewhere in California. On Dec. 31, 1999, you’re going to be hard at work. Is that frustrating? It is a little bit. We work so hard for the Fourth of July. The stress level is enormous. It’s nice to take a breather. We typically start working on the next Fourth of July in October, November. This year, we have to hit the ground running and continue on. And you won’t be sipping champagne until 1 a.m. That’s one of the deterrents for a lot of the guys that do this. Most of the helpers have regular jobs; they do this as a part-time hobby. Is there a special way to transport fireworks
