While researching Jim Mooney’s career to see whether it lined up with the advertising art I mentioned earlier, I fell down the rabbit hole of Google, and eventually ended up staring at the photo below of three architects dressed up as famous buildings each had designed.

That’s William Van Alen, architect of the Chrysler Building, in the center; Ely Jacques Kahn, who designed the Squibb Building, to the left; and Ralph Walker, designer of One Wall Street, to the right.

That’s right. A Wall Street architect was literally occupying Wall Street.

The reason they were decked out like that back in 1931 was to attend the Society of Beaux-Arts Architects annual ball, which I hope took place in a room with tall doors and high ceilings.

(I spotted this photo on multiple sites, but I smurched this one from Elevator View.)