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Posted By Eagle_Eye 2 weeks, 3 days ago in Sports(Nov. 5) New York -- Add this to the many problems confronting Wall Street: There's no ticker tape for a ticker tape parade -- and a shortage of open windows.
When the New York Yankees locked down their 27th World Championship Wednesday night, plans were already under way for a victory parade through lower Manhattan's Canyon of Heroes. Unfortunately, traders can't just lean out the windows and toss ticker tape, as they did when Mickey Mantle was leading the Bronx Bombers.
So, while Derek Jeter and Alex Rodriguez were dousing themselves in champagne, the Alliance for Downtown New York, lower Manhattan's business improvement district, snapped into action. Workers received, bagged and began distributing more than half a ton of recycled shredded paper.
As the parade begins today, everything is in place to give the hometown heroes the party they deserve.
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Ticker tape went out the window in the late sixties, when it was replaced by electronic boards, though paper shredders seem to have made up for the loss.
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Anyway--congrats to the Yankees!
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