Scrooges In North Philly

The Inquirer’s Amy Rosenberg writes today about a street in North Philly that’s full of Christmas cheer.

Almost every house on the 800 block of North 10th Street is decorated in a smiliar fashion, and the neighbors walked around exchanging presents. (”And so you had Joan Adams in her white bathrobe leaning out of 810 and Marva Lazenbury in her turquoise and pink paisley silk bathrobe and pajamas leaning out of 806,” as Rosenberg puts it.)

But the Inky also blows the whistle on those who didn’t join in the decoration:

Pretty much the only ones who opted out of the decorations were the Jehovah’s Witnesses who live in two homes and the Sturgis family at 807 who, for various reasons, just couldn’t find the time this year.

Not to mention the undecorated house of Glenn “Hurricane” Schwartz.

A block reborn, a neighborhood united in sharing [Inky]
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