The crowd marked the Oklahoma debut of playoff basketball by making its presence known.
As crowds marked the 50th anniversary of "Bloody Sunday" in Selma, Ala.
Columns of fragrant smoke rose from the crowd, marking the spots where slabs of spicy-sauced pig meat and joints of blackened chicken were being slapped between slices of cheap white bread and handed over unwrapped for four bucks.
He told crowds marking the 1945 Soviet victory over the Nazis that Crimea had shown loyalty to a "historical truth" in choosing to be part of Russia.
The Iran deal, the mistreatment of the Israeli Prime Minister, snubbing Bibi when he was in DC, skipping a visit to Jerusalem during his landmark trip to Cairo, and the list goes on, are all criteria that the anti-Obama crowd has marked up against the man.
He's also convinced the club will crack the 10,000 crowd mark for the first time this season at nib Stadium on Saturday.
The beach, extending for nearly 7km, is rarely crowded, and yellow buses (marked PQ and PF) leave every five minutes from the city centre.
Such heightened civic discord, marked by crowded zoning board hearings, petition drives, angry letters and bitter lawsuits, poses a thorny question: whether there are legitimate reasons for people to feel so beleaguered or the long bull market has spawned a comfort class of adults even more spoiled than their charge-card-carrying children.
The next stop was farther west along 125th, in front of the Adam Clayton Powell State Office Building, where Clinton had recently addressed a crowd to mark his arrival in the neighborhood.
Villa's players returned to the pitch after the final whistle to acknowledge the crowd and mark their last home game of the season.
