Anonymous
6/15/2025, 12:09:30 AM No.211742034
>Gottfried started working at Chemical Bank in the Financial District of Manhattan on May 27, 1968. By late August, a small band of admirers had noticed her as she traveled the same route each day. They timed her daily arrival and spread the word to their co-workers. For three weeks, the crowd of gawkers grew steadily larger until, on September 18, there were 2000 people waiting to watch her stroll by.
>By this point, the crowd itself had become the phenomenon drawing the crowd. On September 19, over 5000 Financial District employees left work and poured into the streets at 1:15pm to watch Gottfried exit the New York City Subway station and walk to her job at the Chemical Bank New York Trust Company's downtown data processing center. Police closed the streets and escorted her through the mob, which damaged three cars as men climbed on their roofs to gain a better view. Stockbrokers and bankers leaned out of windows overlooking Wall Street to watch as trading came to a virtual halt. "Ticker tapes went untended and dignified brokers ran amok," wrote New York magazine. Photographers from all the daily papers and Life, Time, and New York took her picture. "A Bust Panics Wall Street As The Tape Reads 43" read a headline in the Daily News.
>By this point, the crowd itself had become the phenomenon drawing the crowd. On September 19, over 5000 Financial District employees left work and poured into the streets at 1:15pm to watch Gottfried exit the New York City Subway station and walk to her job at the Chemical Bank New York Trust Company's downtown data processing center. Police closed the streets and escorted her through the mob, which damaged three cars as men climbed on their roofs to gain a better view. Stockbrokers and bankers leaned out of windows overlooking Wall Street to watch as trading came to a virtual halt. "Ticker tapes went untended and dignified brokers ran amok," wrote New York magazine. Photographers from all the daily papers and Life, Time, and New York took her picture. "A Bust Panics Wall Street As The Tape Reads 43" read a headline in the Daily News.
