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Photos: South Philly’s Smedley Street Christmas Light Spectacular returns

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  • Residents of the 2700 block of South Smedley street illuminate the central common of their street with giant Santas, reindeer, snowmen, and other holiday lights for what they call the Smedley Street Christmas Light Spectacular, in South Philadelphia, December 17, 2017.
    Charles Mostoller

  • Check out the lights at the Smedley Street Christmas Light Spectacular.

  • Residents of the 2700 block of South Smedley street illuminate the central common of their street with giant Santas, reindeer, snowmen, and other holiday lights for what they call the Smedley Street Christmas Light Spectacular, in South Philadelphia, December 17, 2017.
    Charles Mostoller

  • Residents of the 2700 block of South Smedley street illuminate the central common of their street with giant Santas, reindeer, snowmen, and other holiday lights for what they call the Smedley Street Christmas Light Spectacular, in South Philadelphia, December 17, 2017.

  • Residents of the 2700 block of South Smedley street illuminate the central common of their street with giant Santas, reindeer, snowmen, and other holiday lights for what they call the Smedley Street Christmas Light Spectacular, in South Philadelphia, December 17, 2017.
    Charles Mostoller

  • Residents of the 2700 block of South Smedley street illuminate the central common of their street with giant Santas, reindeer, snowmen, and other holiday lights for what they call the Smedley Street Christmas Light Spectacular, in South Philadelphia, December 17, 2017.

  • Residents of the 2700 block of South Smedley street illuminate the central common of their street with giant Santas, reindeer, snowmen, and other holiday lights for what they call the Smedley Street Christmas Light Spectacular, in South Philadelphia, December 17, 2017.
    Charles Mostoller

  • Residents of the 2700 block of South Smedley street illuminate the central common of their street with giant Santas, reindeer, snowmen, and other holiday lights for what they call the Smedley Street Christmas Light Spectacular, in South Philadelphia, December 17, 2017.

  • Residents of the 2700 block of South Smedley street illuminate the central common of their street with giant Santas, reindeer, snowmen, and other holiday lights for what they call the Smedley Street Christmas Light Spectacular, in South Philadelphia, December 17, 2017.
    Charles Mostoller

  • Residents of the 2700 block of South Smedley street illuminate the central common of their street with giant Santas, reindeer, snowmen, and other holiday lights for what they call the Smedley Street Christmas Light Spectacular, in South Philadelphia, December 17, 2017.

  • Residents of the 2700 block of South Smedley street illuminate the central common of their street with giant Santas, reindeer, snowmen, and other holiday lights for what they call the Smedley Street Christmas Light Spectacular, in South Philadelphia, December 17, 2017.
    Charles Mostoller

It’s a Christmas miracle that happens every Christmas: the Smedley Street Christmas Light Spectacular.

The community puts on what of the area’s best-known and most-celebrated Christmas light shows.

Visit the Miracle on Smedley Street on the 2700 block of Smedley Street, between 16th & 17th streets, and Moyamensing and Oregon avenues.

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