Future Gordon Gekkos at Happy Hour - July 1986 - Shot on Film

            I could have titled this "Wall Street Yuppies at Happy Hour," since Gordon Gekko and the Oliver Stone movie "Wall Street" wouldn't be out for another year and a half. In fact, Stone's "Platoon" wouldn't be out for another six months. But so much water has passed under the bridge that Gordon Gekko is practically a household name. Everyone would eventually know who he is, even these guys, who probably saw Gekko as some sort of role model than a villain.

This is yet another of my NYC photos, all shot on film, that I had neglected to post on Flickr in the past. My friend and I were over at Pier 17, where numerous tall ships were located. (And they are already on Flickr. Check them out in my New York City album.) It was the beginning of Happy Hour, and we wanted to take advantage of that before we were to head across the Brooklyn Bridge so I could get photos of the bridge with the lower Manhattan skyline against a sunset.

This was probably July 3, as the brokerage firms would be closed the next day. When the day of buying, selling, and trading was done, these young alpha male wannabes emerged from their respective brokerages, ready to get properly shitfaced, after a long day of devouring their share of red meat -- figuratively speaking, of course.

This photo was taken with my Vivitar 400 S/L camera, using Fuji AX-15 motion picture stock, rated at ASA 500, whereupon I used my No. 85 filter for proper color correction for daylight. I used my Vivitar 200mm lens to grab this image. The negative was processed and scanned at RGB Labs in Hollywood. I recently spruced this image up via Adobe Lightroom, putting the finishing touches on it via Adobe Photoshop Express.

Taken on: July 3, 1986

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