March 2001 | Windows On The World & Mall | World Trade Center 

they were too lazy to renovate it...

@@ang695 I said in an alternate universe.

@@ang695 The terrorists did it to hurt the USA. Their DNA was found near the remains of the towers how do you explain the terrorists? Your conspiracy theory is debunked.

Actually they likely would have deconstructed the towers down to the plane impact zones and then rebuild up from there

@@kevinmorris3200 it was destroyed because asbestos

i would imagine it wouldn't have already been open at the time of the attacks. but I don't know anything about the restaurant but if it served breakfast hours then maybe.

I think they did serve breakfast

Indeed. Actually the restaurant was open, especially because the “Risk Water Financial Technology Congress” conference was taking place on the 106th floor and at Windows of the World they were serving the appetizers for the “Check-in and Breakfast” that It started right at 8:00 a.m.

​@@whiskerbiscuit6209It was already opened , they had morning , evening and night working schedules. Leobardo López Pascual , a Mexican immigrant from a small and poor village called San Pablo Anicano in Puebla was one of he victims. He worked as a waiter , and how life is , according to his mom , who was the only person he had contact with in Mexico , he once joked about something happening to him while working at the World Trade Center. She also said that Leobardo entered working at the restaurant on the night turn , but just a few days before the attacks , he changed to the morning turn , how sad

Wasn’t “the falling man” wearing what looked like a chef’s uniform? That’s what I always thought. Unbearable horror for initial survivors above or near impact zones, my English teacher had me write 9/11 themed essays for weeks afterwards and it really was horribly depressing, can’t imagine the families or the briefly surviving victims feelings, to this day.

Very weird.

Ghosts have been reported at ground zero

We all do. 😔🥺

And avoid the tragedy

Yeah man seeing the wtc in movies and shows and watching videos like these taken before the attacks makes it's seem so unreal that they're gone...wish I could've seen em with my own eyes but i was a newborn then

Nooooooo

Could you warn them of the impending tragedy while you are at it?

😢

Oh cool i think we were born in the same month and year :D

@@snaga4138 that's cool! You were probably born earlier though, my b-day is on the 24th

Same here, except that I was 3 years old when this video was taken. I was almost 4 when 9/11 happened

@@triborn217 oh

5 months

It is. I’m sure most of the staff members at Windows on the World died in the attacks.

@@andrewsstation6436 73 to be exact :(

@First Of All why would a sound engineer work in a restaurant

@@rick182z lol 😆

@@zangwang46 And NOBODY above floor 91 got out of the North Tower... The first tower to be hit.. 01:36 in this video

But those plans didn't come intro fruition because it got destroyed by Arabians the day prior.

​@@elevatoralarmcoasterandarc1214 Arabians? Are you really sure about that?

Yes.

@@dieguito3422 idiot

Yes. Sure, others LET it happen, Arabians However brought it down.

Lol good call

@@neve2225 Its la bamba search it up

@@neve2225 it is still la bamba, or at the very least inspired by it. Look up La Bamba by Ritchie Valens

Ritchie Valens did not make the song. It used to be only a traditional Veracruzan, wedding song, and the song later became adapted by Richie Valens in 1958.

La Bamba is a folkloric Mexican Wedding song traditional public domain

I get it.

Right there with you.

me too. honestly for me, life is split into 2 bits. before 9/11 and after. before it was fairly peaceful and fun (but maybe thats because i was a child) but after i was 12, everything changed. it's hard to explain but im sure you get it if we're around the same age.

I was born when they were going up, in fact i was conceived 2 or 3 weeks before tower 1 began it's journey skyward,. I saw was introduced to American culture in 1976 while watching a documentary on them, so you could say it was the first thing on my bucket list and my heart sank when they both collapsed. One dream i'll never realise no matter how rich i become. :(

It had the highest revenue out of any restaurant in America of course it was lol

@@josephgamzo2908 in 2001

A wine cellar?? 😁😁😁

@@lassedk4955 Yes, a magnificent wine cellar in the sky, but nothing you can imagine. Most diners at the restaurant never saw it, but I was fortunate. Everything at WOTW was on a grand scale, and my late companion & myself were invited inside the "cellar" - which is a relative term, by the man who ran it, for an exquisite evening of discovery....1450 feet in the air.....me, this kid from Newark, NJ, who saw the towers going up over those years....

If you're referring to Kevin Zraly, of the "cellar in the sky," then yes, he did survive.

@tenplusten1116 I have forgotten his name, but if that is he, I am thrilled that he did survive. My guess is that at such an early hour, he wouldn't have been there yet. Still, he lost many people that he knew & worked with. The tentacles of the murderous tragedy spread wide.

Lovely story, and a reminder that there are still nice people around.

There were plans for it to be rebuilt, having the memorials where the original towers were (similar to the memorial fountains) and have the towers rebuilt next to it as they were, but even taller!!! And was even financially backed by Donald Trump and many family members wanted it too!! But corporate greed, politics and back room deals got in the way and we got was is built now :(

@@lapsitexillis I can definitely see how it would be distasteful. I would’ve thought rebuilding them would’ve given off a message of solidarity but I suppose that’s why they only built the One World Trade.

I don’t like the Freedom Tower personally. As a lifelong New Yorker, to me it looks like a tombstone. Like you said, rebuilding the towers would’ve given off a message of solidarity...but at the same time I do understand the controversy doing it would’ve caused....cus of Trauma PTSD etc

@@stackonez7182 I couldn’t agree more!

​@@andrewkelley434 I honestly don't like the aesthetic of the Freedom Tower. It looks like something dystopian, like the building looks like it belongs in Mirror's Edge. The Freedom Tower will never have the splendor that the Twin Towers had.

Still hopeful

Windows was the #1 restaurant in America, grossing nearly 40 million a year. You had to wait 7 months for a Saturday night reservation.

They didn't... I think it was said that people above the ninety somethingeth floor couldn't escape due to the stairwells and elevators getting severed. Sadly.

@@apieceoffabric294 The Mall at the World Trade Center was an indoor underground shopping mall that was located in the concourse area of the original World Trade Center complex which was destroyed on September 11, 2001. Most of the mall was located underneath 4 and 5 World Trade Center, as well as under the Austin J. Tobin Plaza.

@@apieceoffabric294mall was located at the base of the WTC. But I imagine anyone at work on the WOTW did not make it out as you mentioned.

​@@apieceoffabric294As said the mall was at the bottom. A lot of those made it out because they had time. The actual planes had little effect on those working in the ground level mall

@@apieceoffabric294 @johnishikawa2200 About 87% of people in the towers made it out, and the towers were not at full capacity. There would normally be 50k+ people in the towers later in the day plus 200k+ visitors that were not there during the attacks. the boutiques were undeground so they were easier to evacuate

Very historic.

The people who got breakfast on 9/11 had a bad experience

You are a real piece of 💩 for this comment..scum bad like your MOTHER

Yeah what a shame they didn’t get to experience it! What a shame! Lol smh

72 employees and 92 customers were trapped in the restaurant on 9/11, multiple calls came from the restaurant for help. Many of the people seen in the footage falling to their deaths were from the restaurant including the famous Falling Man image of the guy falling head first in the restaurant’s uniform. Windows on the World was on the top two floors. The head chef survived because he was waiting for the elevator up when the first plane hit.

@@osatocooley7080 wow that head chef prolly stared at the ceiling lying in bed at night that first year after 9/11 thinking how? That survivor guilt has to be brutal...

Way too many sadly

I remember when they'd invite people to see from the cockpit mostly kids but parents would be there as well. Edit: mid flight

@@FrankieWilde2021 This happened to me as a kid in New Zealand.

They were secure, they gained entry by unknown means, they make out like the doors were plastic.

​@@rowdyelitehater8595They must have took people hostage

The cockpit doors were locked and flight attendants had a key. The hijackers observed on previous flights approximately what time flight attendants would open the door to ask the pilots if they wanted anything to eat or drink. That is when they made their move. That is why the planes were all hijacked about a 1/2hr into flight.

My friend worked in the restaurant and overslept that day. He has never been the same since.

Don't forget the hostess directing customers up to the restaurant from below the point of impact. She had been ordered by the head manager to go a few floors below because the express elevator was out of order. The hostess was the only employee to clock in for work and survive that day. The head chef had not yet reported for duty.

Well not like all of them in this vid were there on sep 11 right?

I hate it too! I use it never existed

💀💀💀

Donny boy got laid after the dinner.

Was was her name?

That’s sad

I think she did survive

I think she survive

That waitress is Tabitha - she is alive. The video showed only the bar (Greatest Bar on Earth) where Windows on the World or Wild Blue guests would have cocktails before and after t heir reservations. GBOE was open to the public for lunch and dinner; no reservations required and dress was casual attire. There was live music or DJs in the evening. Thurs night was Mambo Night and the line would queue up around 4pm at the ground floor lobby level.

He might of thought he heard a low flying plane

That explains some things (e.g. the people wearing jeans at the bar). My dad went to the WTC in '01 and told me he wasn't allowed in the Windows on the World restaurant because he was wearing jeans.

@azariacba exactly, it was extremely formal (and expensive) but the WTC had these affordable options, especially for tourists

I do want to visit One World Trade Center and the memorial site one day. But a part of me feels like I'll be disappointed, because I was born before 9/11. I wish I could've had my parents take me to the Twin Towers in the time frame of 7 years I was around to.

I had a business lunch up there in ‘91 and I know what you mean. I felt vertigo whenever I walked from the table.

Imagine how creepy it is if you’ve actually been to the buddy Holly/Ritchie Valens crash site in Cerro Gordo County in Iowa in -40 not human weather the surf ballroom buddy Holly and Ritchie’s last venue they played on the 1959 WDP met Ritchie’s family and had photos with them I. The best western been stranded at Mason city municipal airport in Mason city photographed the runway from the airport managers office flown to Lubbock Texas after risking your life in snow chaos and flight delays had lunch with Buddy Holly’s niece Sherry Holley hanged out with her at her work spent time at Buddy Holleys grave in Lubbock Texas toured his high school and you own the 53’ Lubbock high school westerner the only one in the world twice signed and inscribed by Buddy Holley toured the Buddy Holly centre. Shook hands with Jerry Allison the drummer for Buddy Hollys Crickets and his best friend you fly back to Australia then fly all the way to Vancouver then onto Montreal spend a month with my Canadian love fly home to Australia then 12 days later fly all the way back to Vancouver then into Montreal then on this trip go to New York to spend time at Buddy Hollys apartment at the Brevoort in Greenwich Village and tour the World Trade Centre One oculus and the WTC memorials and you name it like I did!!

Rip la Bamba 😢😢😢😢

I'd consider it to be more of a cinema. In observatory inside World Trade Center 2, there was a small room where visitors would sit in to watch a video called, "Manhattan Magic", basically a trailer for the Observation Deck.

Those alarms were probably all the people who were trapped could hear before dying or the sirens outside as they jumped out.

I'm wondering if before the fall of the Soviet Union, that they had the Soviet flag.

Optimistic, I'd say, to expect that hermit kingdom to engage in free trade.

The terrorists technically broke North Korean law since they destroyed that flag…