Nearly Everybody Read the Bulletin
By Jay Wyatt
"Nearly Everybody Reads the Bulletin." Or, so claimed one of Philadelphia's oldest and most revered newspapers, The Evening Bulletin. Factory workers and businessmen streamed down the streets of Center City during the hustle-bustle madness of Philadelphia's evening rush hour. Hurrying to catch the next train or trolley, they often found the time to stop at a sidewalk newsstand and pick up the latest edition of the "The Bulletin." Indeed, by the 1960s, the paper stood as America's largest evening daily with a circulation over 750,000.
The Bulletin occupies a special place in...