Similar parties are held in suburban neighborhoods. Filled with 10 year old kids having too much fun, and ~40 year old adults trying to. We don't hire DJs here, instead they usually guilt a kid with a wicked stereo (me) into doing the music. No matter what, do not help them. I did the music the last two block parties on my block, this year I said "forget about it" Choosing the music is fun, dragging 4 bigass Pioneer speakers home when everyone else is too drunk to help at 1am is not. The kids play basketball, egg toss and soccer, while the adults indulge in socialization until they think drunk tug of war is a good idea. drunk tug of war, usually played between men and women, often results in the anchor having his/her pants fall down. It's really a shame I didn't do the music, I would have made a badass DJ in my TOTAL WORLD DOMINATION t-shirt, and the music that the middle-aged people put on sucked rocks.

This is in Broomall/Marple, a suburb of Philadelphia, YMMV