Kenmont Avenue: toilet-papered again

Once again, Kenmont Avenue has been toilet-papered. This time, I managed to get my camera there just after it happened, shortly after midnight, I suspect. Click on the image below for a few more photos.

Kenmont Avenue at midnight on Sunday, October 30, 2011.

Trib: Mt. Lebanon says it's a wrap: Papering a popular holiday tradition

As revered holiday traditions go, few approach the majesty or the reliability of the Kenmont Avenue toilet-papering ritual.

Every Oct. 30 for the past 25 years, trees, shrubs and fences along the 400 block of the Mt. Lebanon street overnight have sprouted strands of brilliant white tissue among the falling leaves.

Read the full article:

• www.pittsburghlive.com/x/pittsburghtrib/s_763950.html (Pittsburgh Tribune-Review)

Kenmont Avenue Gets the Halloween Treatment Once Again

Yesterday, on my way to Aldo Coffee, I strolled south on Kenmont Avenue. Soon after crossing Bower Hill Road, I was greeted by a strange vision.

White steamers filled the air. Shivering in the wind, they hung from every branch of every tree. The trees had become ghostly jellyfish, their filmy tentacles in search of prey upon the sidewalk.

Kenmont had been toilet-papered. Again.

Kenmont Avenue on Sunday afternoon, 31 October, 2010.

Seeing a gentleman washing his car, I asked him if the street gets “the treatment” every year. He said he had lived there for twenty-one years, and it’s happened every year he can remember.

When I asked him who did it, he wasn’t sure. Kids, he guessed.

So, what’s the story? Why Kenmont? Anybody care to fill me in?