00:01Innovative.
00:02Splendid.
00:03Grandiose.
00:04Magical.
00:05Windows and the Wolf was a show every night.
00:08You couldn't get in unless you knew somebody.
00:13World 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.
00:23Humanize it.
00:24Joe Baum was opening this restaurant
00:27over 100 stories up in the air.
00:29He understood that people went out
00:31because he wanted an experience.
00:34With 450 employees,
00:36Windows was like the U.N. of the restaurant world.
00:40I was from Peru.
00:41It's New York City. It's a melting pot.
00:43I came from the Ivory Coast.
00:45Being in the U.S. was a big, big dream.
00:50This just in, a plane has crashed into one of the towers.
00:54My friend's wife called me to say,
00:55your 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'll remember.
01:17There will never be anything like Windows in the world.
01:22Top of the World premieres September 7th on CNN
01:24and next day on the CNN app.
01:26We can see you next time.
01:26We'll be able to see you next time.
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