I never did understand why the people in this photo looked so jovial. There must have been a lot of that gas in the room of the type that dentists use.
This photograph was taken only a few weeks after the Greatest Crash in stock markets history, the Crash of October 29, 1929.
Well it appears that none of the floor brokers or specialists in this picture had lost their shirts, or for that matter their shorts.
Maybe that is why they all look so happy. They were short on Monday the 28th. Think about it.
Is that guy pictured on the right side of the photograph smoking? Sure looks like it to me.
Hey, does anyone know what that cool looking horn hanging from the ceiling was used for? Gott’a look at these photos with a careful eye.
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I never did understand why the people in this photo looked so jovial. There must have been a lot of that gas in the room of the type that dentists use.
This photograph was taken only a few weeks after the Greatest Crash in stock markets history, the Crash of October 29, 1929.
Well it appears that none of the floor brokers or specialists in this picture had lost their shirts, or for that matter their shorts.
Maybe that is why they all look so happy. They were short on Monday the 28th. Think about it.
Is that guy pictured on the right side of the photograph smoking? Sure looks like it to me.
Hey, does anyone know what that cool looking horn hanging from the ceiling was used for? Gott’a look at these photos with a careful eye.