Do they know it's not Christmas?

No one ever accused South Philadelphians of under-decorating for holidays (if you don't see an animatronic figure for any given holiday in at least one South Philly window, it doesn't exist), but isn't it still a bit early for the full-on entire-neighborhood Christmas lights? Yesterday I encountered their prematurely-blazing glory on South 13th St., and took some pictures to prove it; my camera's too old and low-res to produce a good image after dark, but this gives you an idea of how the neighborhoods do cooperative light-bedecking down the entire block:




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