Pacific Stock Exchange 1997

This is some of the only surviving footage of an extinct phenomenon, the vibrant regional exchange. See traders actually making money, and lots of people employed.

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Science & Technology

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• exchange
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• market
• money
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[nick5006taylor]

How can I get an internship here??

[nomotrouble123]

@nick5006taylor Go back in time about twenty years.

[easyp576]

cool video, where abouts was this?

[nomotrouble123]

@easyp576 San Francisco, the Exchange is at 200 Montgomery St.

[nomotrouble123]

Ya, that was me, time clock Carl. I still have a couple just for old time sakes.

[nomotrouble123]

About 800 or so people worked on this floor at one time. There was a lot of energy there and many people made and lost lots of money.

[poseytube]

This brings me back in the good old days in the floor! glad that there's a souvenir footage video taken at that time. I missed PSE it reminds me when we were all young and crazy lol! Now ,where is T76?

[aatox]

I don't have a single connection to this field of work, but find it quite fascinating. Are these exhanges disappearing worldwide? (I'm from Sweden.)

[evanmarkross]

Hi Carl- Evan here. Holy S&*$! That brings back some memories. How're you doing? Now I can give video footage of Steve, infamous for the time I made such a nasty remark to him that he freaked and called his lawyer. Stephen laughed and then I got a 20K raise a few months later. Life is strange. Hope the orchids are growing well. In Austin, TX, finishing a PhD in Latin American History. Harder than crossing a 5,000 lot reversal in front of the MU boys.

[ghgsell]

RJ - I'd recongnize those acronyms anywhere.

[boosnag]

I liked the time a guy went into full cardiac arrest, and (here's the funny part) when I went to administer CPR to the guy, Lynn Keck PHYSICALLY PULLED ME OFF HIM! Oh, well, she knew best... or at least that's what she probably told the grieving family.

[jessewiedinmyer]

@tranzparency One of the funniest things I ever saw on the floor... Back when I was I'd first started (roughly about the time of this video), I'd started as a runner for ChiCorp. Student had brushed me off for a quote a couple of times, when Jane Ryan marched back out with me and told him to give me the fucking quote before she pulled his order flow and gave it to someone else.

I swear the man almost did a belly flop chasing after her to apologise.

[doan007]

Could have sworn that more Asians worked on the floor. Aren't we 50% of SF population now? :-). Thanks for the upload Carl

[tranzparency]

@nomotrouble123 So bumbed I missed that first year of Matt's genius. Would have loved to enjoyed the swimming.

[tranzparency]

@nomotrouble123 Thank you so much for uploading this video. I worked for the book for a few years and just reconnected with a variety of friends who were there between 1997 and 2002. Great memories.

[tranzparency]

@WrytchusAnger When were you there? I stared with Cammie at Sharing then moved over to Compaq when Tommy was rocking the hot seat. Eventually moved back to Siberia to work with Marcus in X89.