Daily News | South Philadelphians Do Halloween Big — and Beautiful.
“Always, all my life!” said Michelle Blevins, 58, her Girard Estates front porch packed with a small army of swinging ghouls, graveyard ghosts, and coffined skeletons, while Styrofoam tombstones, snakes, spiders, bones, and black roses crowded the front yard. “Oh, I’m in every store — Home Depot, Lowes, Home Goods. I mean, every store … It’s a tradition.”
Like that 12-foot skeleton on the sidewalk 12th Street in East Passyunk, that Monique Gubitosi had to put her name on a waiting list at the South Philly Home Depot to get. She put it up for her children — Gemma and Gabriel — who are also crazy about Halloween — and for the memory of her late husband, Peter, who died suddenly of a heart attack during the pandemic, who had bought her an elegant skeleton decoration one year, and always told her how much he loved her decorating.
There are the smaller decorations and details that may go unnoticed, like the haunting two-headed doll Karen DeVarti made from two dolls she found at a 99 cents store — and then hand-painted for her front window on South Warnock Street. The neon-painted pumpkins — carved with different faces on each side — that decorate the Halloween archway Alison Horn, 39 and her partner Sean Dooley, 34, constructed on South Hicks Street.
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