Gather Those Rosebuds: Larry Wachtel Has Passed Away
It’s the end of an era: Larry Wachtel, who spent 32 years at 1010 WINS as the station’s stock market and finance commentator, died on Sunday. He was 77 years old.
Wachtel, a Yonkers resident with one of the thickest Brooklyn accents known to man, was a fixture on the all-news radio station. At the end of each of his segments, he’d utter his motivational catchphrase to viewers: “Gather those rosebuds.” All in all, it gave him what CBS called his “populist style” and we’d say made his “Voice of Wall Street” nickname entirely accurate.
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