Sunday, May 17, 2009

Happy Birthday

217 years ago today, a bunch of suits met for coffee and organized the New York Stock Exchange. Legend has it that the first transactions were made under a tree on Wall Street. Given the current debacle, maybe they'll try that again.

Thanks to Leroy Neiman for the only interesting representation of this famous (infamous?) institution.

1 comment:

bowsprite said...

thank you for putting up this painting. LeRoy Neiman, farewell.