You've seen the 37th Street Christmas lights, right? Daniel Mottola reports in the Chronicle that the folks who started the display are selling and moving away:
The owners of 310 W. 37th, the main attraction house in the block's Christmas light extravaganza, have announced that they are selling their home and moving away. Jamie Lipman, a co-founder of the electrified yuletide display, said he and his wife are tired of the noise and traffic that has become commonplace on the street year-round. Lipman has lived in the house for 16 years and on the street for nearly 30. He remembers a large number of renters when he moved to 37th as a renter himself, but as other homeowners stated in a "Naked City" report last week, Lipman says noisy college renters have made the street too rowdy, and that a place in the country could be a better place to raise their 4-year-old daughter. He emphasized that the lights had nothing to do with their decision. "We are going to try to screen potential buyers to find someone more than willing to carry on the tradition," Lipman said. It is doubtful, however, that his Clark Griswold-like legacy, complete with a front and backyard walking tour of lights, will be carried on with quite the same excessive, mesmerizing zeal.
Shucks. 'Makes you a little sad.
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