I've posted about this before, but...
Years ago our neighborhood had an official display that was pretty darn awesome. It was at the far end of the football field of the middle school directly across from my folks house (think WDW hub sitting in chairs with no obstructions). They discontinued it due to HOA budget concerns about the same time as a more affluent neighborhood down the road got annexed by Austin. And, within Austin city limits, fireworks are illegal.
After that, about three seperate groups of families from that neighborhood would come over to the park across the road to the right of the MS football field with all kinds of big fireworks. They would duel it out for around 2 hours!!!!! It was nuts!!!!!!! I can't even imagine how much money they went through, but, those were the best continuous, crazily-extended, fireworks displays I have ever seen in my entire life...!!!!!!!!!!!
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Then, a few years later, our neighborhood was annexed on a limited basis by Austin, and it all went away.
All of us...all 3 generations...lamented a bit about it on the evening of this past 4th...