March 2001 | Windows On The World & Mall | World Trade Center
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- Video begins in the Plaza, looking at the Sphere and a pan up looking at our favorite twins. We cut to find ourselves in WTC 2's Lobby, showing a beautiful piece of artwork hanging off the core. With another cut, we find ourselves in an express elevator. Now you may think it's going to be the usual and we're going to be in the Observatory but- WHAT???? WINDOWS ON THE WORLD?????? With some video of the restaurant being very busy, we're now inside the WTC Mall, looking at the Warner Brothers Store. The video ends with us standing in front of WTC 6, looking at the North Tower and its lobby.
Source: • World Trade Center, Ma...
0:00 - World Trade Center Plaza
0:41 - South Tower Lobby
1:29 - WTC 1 Express Elevator
1:51 - Windows On The World
3:15 - World Trade Center Mall
3:53 - North Tower Lobby - เพลง
In an alternate universe, the Twin Towers are still here and being rennovated to remove all of the asbestos in them.
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
And in six months, all of this would be known as Ground Zero.
Just seeing the towers is kinda haunting, almost like looking at a ghost
Very weird.
Ghosts have been reported at ground zero
The only thing I’d ever want to visit if there were Time Machines would be the Twin Towers… Just have a touristy tour of them! Maybe eat a snack at Windows on the world that would be amazing… I wish they were still there today!!
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
When my mother was on vacation in NYC in September of 2001, she booked a reservation at the Windows On the World restaurant for the night of September 12th, 2001.
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.
Between visits to this grand restaurant, I had read about the wine steward - the man who ran the fantastic wine cellar there, and on my next visit, I asked our server to mention this to him. Shortly thereafter, the steward came to our table and was appreciative that I took the time to share what I had learned about him. He graciously invited us inside his cellar, and gave us a grand tour. My date and I were transfixed as he pointed out their incredible selection....some wines well over 100 years old, and explained the inner workings of his cellar in the sky. At the end of this spontaneous tour, he gifted us a bottle of a very fine wine, which was easily the finest wine I had ever had the pleasure of tasting. It was a wonderful addition to an already beautiful evening at WOTW. Naturally, I wonder...to this day, if this gentleman survived the attack. I remain so very thankful to him for taking the time to introduce my date - who has since passed away, and I to his world. The entire staff at WOTW were extremely kind & courteouss to us, and.........🙏🙏R.I.P. to all those who perished.
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.
Man it's very likely that even up to 80% of the employees present at that restaurant on this day were the very same people working the restaurant on the day it was hit.
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
I know this is 2001 but I miss the 20th Century with all my heart 💔
My auntie, uncle and two cousins visited the WTC in august 2001 weeks before the attacks, it’s haunted my cousin as he still remembers probably seeing many souls who died that day at the windows restaurant
This restaurant is fancier than most restaurants today.
It had the highest revenue out of any restaurant in America of course it was lol
@@josephgamzo2908 in 2001
You just want to shout at the screen "get out and don't come back."
Looking at everything inside furniture,railings ,art..all was gone turned to dust..crazy
I wanna just jump back into that time period, as a 21-year old and not as the 7 month old baby I was then
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
Very eerie, haunting, interesting all at the same time. Part of our tragic history unfortunately....
I am so blessed to be a 90s child and everything that happened before 2001
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. :(
This is absolutely surreal to witness. Wish the towers were rebuilt despite the controversy
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 :(
Wouldn't it be distasteful?
@@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!
Thank you! Windows was the #1 restaurant in America. You waited 7 months for a Saturday night reservation. I've thought of the people who had reservations for Saturday, 9/15 that didn't get to have an amazing experience.
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
I was conceived in late July 1968 weeks before tower 1 began it's journey skyward and was born 3 months after tower 2 started going up and grew up with them,
It was 1976 and i was 7 yrs old and off school sick and was watching a documentary on the construction and my mind was blown when i saw them on the screen.
Also i'm autistic and led a lonely childhood and even tho i had a younger estranged brother and sister, i considered the towers my brother and sister and it was my dream to go by the time i'm 30.
I turned 30 in 1999 and wasn't financially stable enough to go, so i made a promise to go in 3 to 5 years, and 2 years later i watched them collapse, i couldn't believe it and my heart sank because no matter how rich or successful i become i'll never ever stand on the top of the world and that makes me so sad.
intresting to hear "la bamba" at the beginning seeing as how the artist who made it died in a plane crash
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
Anyone who was at Windows on the World at the time of the attack would have perished. There was no way for them to get out of the building and no way for someone to get to them to be saved. All of these people would have died a horrible death full of pain and suffering. Many of them would jump. No one deserves to die like that. Absolutely no one.
I’ve become really interested in the pre-9/11 WTC. It seemed like it was a real architectural marvel when it was still standing. But also seeing all of the employees who most likely never made it out that fateful day… eerie.
Sad knowing that some of these people were likely killed during the collapse.
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
I use that restaurant at the World Trade Center as the wallpaper on my computer, and I imagine looking out and having dinner with a woman I met there by chance.
This was about six months before it happened , so many of the people who operated / ran those boutiques and shops in this video may well have been there on that day . I hope that they all made it out .
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
Seeing the staff and knowing none of them made it out alive (except one but that was bc he was getting his glasses fixed in the lobby) 😳
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.
This is great! Love finding new WOTW footage, hope you get more.
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.
This is not Windows on the World, that was a SUPER fancy restaurant, this is The Greatest Bar on Earth, on the same floor, but a way more casual and affoedable option next to Wild Blue, a different steak restaurant
This makes my heart ache
Everyone loved a denim Jean. I wonder how many in that video are no longer with us.
Way too many sadly
This is sad…….I wonder how many of the people going to work didn’t make it out six months later.
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...
Me and a date had dinner at Windows of the World on July 3, 1990. It was a beautiful night in Manhattan. Naturally, I'll never forget the experience and ehat came after.
No one would ever convince me to get in a skyscraper like that, let alone have supper there.
💀💀💀
Just 6 months later all this beauty would be a pile of rubble.
Hard to believe that nearly everything we saw in this video doesn't exist anymore. The old WTC was an amazing place.
This beautiful life as we all knew it is now gone forever.
I almost cry this beautiful tower is no more
It’s crazy to think that there was modern restaurants in buildings from the 70s and it probably would’ve continued to be retrofitted for decades to come
2:40 Looks like he's seen a ghost
He might of thought he heard a low flying plane
So beautiful ❤️! Always wanted to visit, but the opportunity passed me by.
Thanks for sharing - my first time watching this. I saw one of the waitress "Tabitha" in the video.
How were cockpit doors not secure in 2001? That is madness!
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.
Interesting (and kinda wholesome) to see the North Korean flag displayed inside the South Tower’s Lobby at 1:25
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…
And to think I had pending plans to visit end of Aug. 2001, & that restaurant was 1st on my list. I couldn't wait to see the view. O, well....
i have never seen a video of the inside of windows on the world...
I remember the Warner Brothers store in the basement showing at 3:40. We bought a Batman pen from there!
Insane to think that ALL OF THIS literally disintegrated into *nothing*
Pierces the heart,
I hate that 9/11 happened and so many people from these towers died that day. May they rest in peace.
I hate it too! I use it never existed
I can only pity those who grab a bite to eat while they're in the current One World Observatory; most of their cuisine options are comparable to any generic food court. Also incredible is the fact that their only restaurant (if it can even be called that) is accessible from a ticket to visit the observatory, meaning that, effectively, someone's paying for both an observatory ticket and their meal, even if those customers don't care for the former. I just miss that Windows On The World gave diners a view without the additional surcharge; just pay for the meal while also having a panoramic view that's $0.00.
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'm pretty sure the black waitress at 2:35 was one staff member of the Windows On The World team. I have seen her picture on the 9/11-obituary-website. She did not survive 9/11. May her soul rest in peace.
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.
Don't forget, 8 years prior to this film, the WTC was bombed from underneath and I believe 6 people died. The WTC had to undergo repair and renovation as a result.
Imagine that.. sitting eating breakfast and BOOM your life is over....
I remember going to the windows on the world on the World Trade Center, the food was very good the employees were super nice i use to go to the World Trade Center to eat at the restaurant when the 9/11 happened it was very frustrating. 😢
1/2 year before the towers went down.
R.l.P. to aII these peopIe six months Iater♥️
Wow short before things changed
Just looking at the footage of everything and to think that after the collapse would be only fine grey dust and twisted steel beams, its as if all the furnishings of every floor including all the people were pulverised into a fine powder, takes some getting your head around when you think about it.
Did the World Trade Center have a movie theater? It’s the one thing I haven’t read about so far
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.
The sad thing is we could be looking at a lot of folks in this video who probably didn’t make it and that’s the harsh reality!
At 3:07 I see Cerberus Pyrotronics MXL fire alarm speaker strobes. Did those alarms go off on 9/11? Because all I ever hear is that loud one in building 7.
Those alarms were probably all the people who were trapped could hear before dying or the sirens outside as they jumped out.
I wanna believe the Twin Towers and everyone we lost are still having a grand time in heaven . I just hate they had to suffer all that to get there
2:13 were they ordering beers lol?
Pretty surreal me and my family were there on that Summer of 2001
Crazy to think that only 6 months later every single person in this video in the restaurant would be dead because nobody up their survived 😢
Thoughts on the black employee at 2:34? Did she perish or was she not working that day?
I've never liked being in tall buildings like that.
Windows of the World was the highest grossing restaurant in the country at the time of the attacks
1:13 Never knew that there was a North Korean flag at the WTC.
cool
So sad such beautiful buildings destroyed by hate. Also, so many lives lost may they rest in peace.
March 2001 wow my 3rd birthday 🎂 in that month
Well if I ever get a time machine I will definitely go back to see the towers. And steal that tapestry right before the big ones hit.
In 6months gone
So sad seeing all the servers and staff in the background knowing many of them were probably still working there at the time of the attack
Quantos dos que estão aí nesse vídeo será que podem ter morrido no dia dos ataques???
*The World Trade Center Tapestry.*
The music...
I've been to the site several times. Downtown Manhattan is haunted by 9/11.
Everyone's wearing dad sneakers and mom jeans. 😂
Was this Wild Blue?
No, it's was GBOE (Greatest Bar on Earth). Casual bar/restaurant with live music or DJ in the evenings.
If you were a time traveler , and came back with warnings , you’d get called a nut or batshit crazy . But I swear even if they had to shut some stuff down for a while it would’ve helped cuz I hate we know what we know now and it’s just a constant story after story that didn’t need to be
The sad thing is the employees working upstairs that probably died a couple of months after the tape
And think that all that is gone
I was born on march 5 2001, feel weird to see that vid, may all 911 victims rest in peace
Did you intentionally use La Bamba as the background music because Ritchie was the victim of another famous American plane crash?
No I did not.
This version of La Bamba played at the towers complex, I believe in the plaza between the 2 towers.
North Korean flag☠️🇰🇵 (1:15)
Боже какой архив
Все живы , всё мирно
Все здоровы и что сейчас происходит
la bamba seriously
Very odd
So there was a mall in the World Trade Centre?
Yes, it was and still is the biggest mall in NYC.
@@dynasty0019 Roboco told me that it got destroyed on 9/11.
@@rogerkreil3314 Re-opened in 2016.
We won't forget you, bush son and father for bring it down.
Take off your tin foil hat.
Y pensar que en ese momento, en otro lado del mundo estaban planeando destruir esas torres y su gente dentro
Might as well pop open the most expensive wine there at 10:28am 9/11 and toast to the end.
Of all the terrifying and horrific things going on on the upper floors that morning, I do like to imagine that maybe, hopefully, someone was able to do that. If it were up to me, I'd be passed out drunk by 9am.
We often talked about that - working the wine Cellar that day was Steven (forgot his last name) and Jeffrey Coale.
Months later and the street would be cover in bodies blood dust and trash
I wonder if the waitress at 2:35 made it out on 9/11.
No shot they had a flag of North Korea in the foray.
Links to songs, please?
Route 66: th-cam.com/video/gD8geI5NLXE/w-d-xo.html
La Bamba: th-cam.com/video/kVTmwwGb5z8/w-d-xo.html
This is great as posterity. I probably remember 9/11 happening more than anyone else what a few days it was...!
Why is the north corean flag in the wtc? XD
Because it is the World trade center you dumb
@@space.midnight.cowboy North corean? It's not the enemy of U.S.A.
@@batmariostar1818 so?
@@space.midnight.cowboy Idk.
The World Trade Center had flags up for every country around the lobbies.
1:12 POLSKA GUROOOM
Mariusz pudzianowski
Dokladnie 🇵🇱🇵🇱💪
The month and year I was born
I was 7 months old then. 2000 and '01 just seems so ancient now
@@MisterAutist Even i was 7 months old
@@ThunderIndian When was your birthday? You probably got me by some days, I was born on the 24th of August
I was 8 years and 8 months old then.