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to promote civic engagement in the Philadelphia region.A Best of “Fan Celebration Videos” in Philadelphia
Thursday, October 30th, 2008 at 1:41 pm - by Matt Campbell. Filed under: Uncategorized.
Updated copy posted at the bottom
Many Philadelphians were out with their video cameras early this morning as thousands of fans celebrated across the region. The largest post-game gathering occurred on Broad st just south of City Hall. There fans cheered, danced in the streets, shot of fireworks. There were some unruly fans. Philadelphia’s police commissioner Charles Ramsey says officers made 76 arrests and 10 businesses were damaged during Wednesday night’s raucous citywide celebration. Other incidents that were reported include windows were smashed at a bank, and at a luggage store. Several vehicles were overturned and the windows of a TV van were smashed. Also, dozens of huge street planters were flipped over and some bus shelters were damaged or destroyed.
It’s Our City has found a number of good videos that captured some of the enthusiasm of the early morning World Series celebrations in Philadelphia. Here are some of our favorites.
Fans on Broad st produced a music video/submitted to YouTube by irock1839
Souvenir streets signs/submitted to YouTube by RosenbaumPatrick
Fans climb on fire truck/submitted to YouTube by alexkworld
Bottle to the head/submitted to YouTube by whereufrum
Updated: 3:15pm
WHYY’s multi-blogging cyborg Dan Pohlig has just posted this video to our sports blog Unobstructed View. This video is probably my favorite, because Dan rode his bike from South Philadelphia up Broad St to the mayhem near city hall. It’s one of the best examples of what it was like along a huge stretch of the main north-south boulevard in Philadelphia.
A Ride up Broad Street by Dan Pohlig
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-2387232972365980033Updated: 4:20pm
Sights and Sounds: I just saw this on. I guy named Brian James Kirk put together a really nice sound/slide show on the post-game celebrations on Broad st.
Updated: 4:51pm
PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Philadelphia police are examining surveillance video and photos to try to identify more offenders in the vandalism that followed the Phillies’ World Series victory.
Unobstructed View: Check out WHYY’s sports blog coverage
