[ ]  Tomorrow officially marks 25 years since the Sixers won the 1983 NBA title, Philadelphia’s last major professional sports championship. (Inky)

 

The last two minutes are below. Just move the toggle to 7:40 and watch from there.

 

 

 

[ ]   The depth of Katie Couric’s visit to Bucks County reveals the obvious: Even when Sen. Hillary Clinton eventually loses, none of her supporters will want to admit it. (Courier Times)

…Before Couric's arrival, some of the women the CBS anchor planned to interview said they were frustrated by Clinton's seemingly slim chances to win the nomination. Obama said Wednesday that he expects to lock up the nomination next week.

 

 

“I think it will be a real disappointment for me if [Clinton] has to drop out,” said Deborah Pellen, a stay-at-home mom from Newtown Township. “I think she's a super strong woman with a super strong resume.”…

[ ]   Suddenly the 28 year-11 month-and a week anniversary of the 1979 gas riots at Levittown’s Five Points intersection is big news.

 

-         Yesterday’s Inky piece.

 

…Twenty-nine years ago, service-station owner Steven Lankin watched as a summer-night Levittown crowd seething over gas rationing, two-hour lines at the pumps, and a then-stunning hike to $1 a gallon turn violent.

 

What began as a truckers' gas-crisis protest lasted two nights, June 23 and 24, 1979. It drew thousands of people and left 100 people injured, nearly 200 arrested, and one Shell station shattered in the first gasoline revolt in American history….

 

In the riots, car tires and a junked car were burned in the streets, Philadelphia and state police officers were bused in, and most of the gas stations at the intersection were vandalized. Police-brutality lawsuits were filed and eventually settled for $154,000. And national attention was drawn to a community founded as an iconic planned suburb in the early 1950s to embrace a car-centric vision of the American Dream.

 

…Five Points had seven gas stations in the late-1960s heyday of gas-guzzling "muscle cars"; it was down to four before the riots, and has just two today…

 

-         Today’s Courier Times story…with photos.

 

[ ]   Inky’s Michael Klein suggests that the now-closed Tiki Bob’s may resurface as a Philly branch of the Lodge Bar. (Food and Drinq)

 

 

[ ]   Six Flags Great Adventure has temporarily reduced its admission prices to $39 from $49. (6ABC)