Wyckoff who in the following years became himself a famous Wall Street operator and stock market author. As an historical aside the interviewer was Richard D. Gann became a public figure after giving an interview in 1909 to the then leading Wall Street publication, Ticker and Investment Digest. Gann was such a character, and one of the few whose name remains part of the Wall Street legend even today. Although the average working family was not directly involved in the stock market as it is today, Wall Street was still news, and its often colorful characters, known as “Wall Street operators” at the time, were the main fodder for the nation’s gossip columns and notorious weekly magazines. In the early 1900s Wall Street and the New York stock market were very visible icons of burgeoning American power and influence.
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