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Category Archives: South Philly Safari
The Last Gasp of Halloween 2024
Although the stores have rushed Christmas inventory to their shelves, I am not quite over Halloween. This was an unintentionally spooky Halloween scene shot on a side street in the neighborhood of Philadelphia’s Italian Market. The tenants didn’t decorate for … Continue reading
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Tagged 2024, door, Halloween, Philadelphia, South Philadelphia, spooky
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The Grim Reaper Visits South Philadelphia
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Proliferation of Plastic Skeletons
For reasons unknown, life-sized plastic skeletons seem to be all the rage in urban Halloween decorating this year. You can’t walk down the streets of South Philadelphia without seeing the disgorged contents of a graveyard in polystyrene.
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Seasonal Spookiness at Bardascino Park
A paper Jack O’lantern gets hit by just the right shaft of light in Bardascino Park in South Philadelphia.
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Change in the Weather
It seems like Autumn took it’s sweet time getting here, but now that it has arrived, it has brought considerably colder weather and some spectacular skies. This was the view from 11th and Christian in South Philadelphia. I find myself … Continue reading
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An Ideal Christmas Window
This once was a bakery and now it’s a private residence, but the owners never changed the front of the building. Only in South Philadelphia! The bakery in 1954.
