mb10,
you are correct. As a matter of fact, I heard and saw some photos taken from an Hadloka in Boro Park by the Ribnitzer Rebbe ZTL Harav Chaim Zavell Abrowmowitz, who thousands flock to his kever in Monsey 24/7. He would light a Hadloka without prior notice, without music, and with a very short dance. His first took place in 1976 but was not consistent in the following years. It can be called a private Hadloka but may have been the seed planted for future years. I don’t have any other photos documented but did hear that the Yerushalayimer Rebbe, Harav Wolf Samet ztl, who lived for about 30 years in the lower east side since about 1929 and established the Kerestirer Bais Hamedrash there, in a postcard written in 1935 to his brothers in Yerushalayim he mentions that he made a Hadlakah for R’ Shimon outdoors. But it does not specify how or where it was done.
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