00:01Innovative.
00:02Splendid.
00:03Grandiose.
00:04Magical.
00:05Windows of the Wolf was a show every night.
00:08You couldn't get in unless you knew somebody.
00:13The World Trade Center was built during this financial crisis.
00:16It was a very big expense.
00:18People just didn't like these two buildings.
00:20And so the idea was open a restaurant, humanize it.
00:24Joe Baum was opening this restaurant over 100 stories up in the air.
00:29You understood that people went out because you wanted an experience.
00:34With 450 employees, Windows was like the UN of the restaurant world.
00:39I was from Peru.
00:41It's New York City.
00:42It's a melting pot.
00:43I came from the Ivory Coast.
00:45Being in the US was a big, big dream.
00:50This just in, the plane has crashed into one of the towers.
00:54My friend's wife called me to say, your building is burning.
00:57I'm trying to call my husband.
00:58We didn't know who was there.
01:01We are still here.
01:02And we retain the memory of them.
01:06Everybody's notion of the restaurant changed.
01:09It became ours.
01:11We weren't just coworkers.
01:13It was a family.
01:14These are the kind of stories that you remember.
01:17There will never be anything like Windows in the world.
01:22Top of the World premieres September 7th on CNN and next day on the CNN app.
01:26I'm looking at the website based on the new media network for 15 days to go to the drive to
01:26the drive.
01:26We open up some more stuff.
01:26You're here.
01:26We're still there.
01:27We're still here.
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