The inflatables invasion began 10 years ago with a trio of blow-up witches for Halloween. Looming over the lawn of Doreen and Guy Haarlammert’s house on Dorothy Lane, the fan-powered broomstick riders were followed by a jumbo Santa balloon for Christmas.
Then Doreen caught inflatable fever. The symptoms were mild at first. For Valentine’s Day, she displayed a few king-size hearts.
“Then I thought: I’m going to do all the holidays,” she says. By 2017, she had collected air-filled decorations for everything from Cinco de Mayo to St. Patrick’s Day…