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Hamburger hamburger hamburger to go six figures in the top floors of a New York City brokerage

one of the most prestigious a grown man was shouting hamburger hamburger hamburger to go

but he wasn't hungry hamburger meant McDonald's hundred thousand shares and to sell and on that

day Monday the 19th 1987 everything was for sale today is black Monday the day the

Dow dropped more than five hundred points

fifty five thousand Pepsi to sell sixty thousand GM to sell hamburger hamburger thirty thousand

JP Morgan to sell I thought pandemonium said and when JFK was assassinated in the middle of

a trading day a long time seller of security said that wasn't it this is the real pandemonium

everything is out of control said another computers were freezing phones get

mm busy signals human voices needed Los Angeles it's busy and people are on edge the prices this

Monday morning were just dropping and nobody was on the other end to catch them as I say I don't

think anyone should panic in one hour one hundred and forty million shares are sold they can't

get rid of the stocks fast enough the day the Dow dropped more than twenty two percent almost

double the rate of the black Monday that signal the beginning of the crash of 1929 a precious

metal brokerage in New York City runs out of coins to give the anxious customers looking to put

their money into something else panic starting in Tokyo this morning while the West slept it didn't

take long for New Yorkers and news crews to figure out the whatty what the scale of what was

happening not just a New York crash but a worldwide crash people crowded the fidelity office downtown

New York with faces pressed up against giant glass windows peaking but there was nothing to see

and people inside didn't have much more information it was some of the hubbub of 1929 mixed with

silence screams of Jesus Christ as cell hoarders come in when firm doubled securities at the

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