I haven’t seen anything about here yet which surprised me. As a history and a movie nerd I’ve just always loved this Godzilla poster.
Also pretty sure it’s not an original poster and just a reprint but I’m cool with that.
I recently was given a box of family keepsakes to sell or donate. This leather box from The World Trade Center Club was one of the items. I thought this group might enjoy seeing it!
The only information I’ve found so far is a blog article from 2019 “The World Trade Center Club” written by a John Delach in his Blog “On The Outside Looking In” dated 2019/09/11 (He has written a few articles every month for the past 13 years(!) - started October 2013.)
It appears that these boxes were gifted to VIP visitors and dignitaries - not offered for retail sale.
Does anyone else have information about The World Trade Center Club?
Excerpt from John Delach’s blog:
“Austin Tobin was the driving force behind the construction of the World Trade Center. As Chairman of the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, he envisioned these twin towers to be the centerpiece of international trade. He wanted these towers to be the tallest buildings in the world, but he also wanted a crown jewel to enhance their glory. To fulfill this desire, he commissioned architects to design the World Trade Center Club, his personal gift to power. Located on the 106th and 107th floors of the North Tower, The Club became a magnificent drinking and dining facility with private rooms, fine wine and cigars, with a staff that exuded the proper snobbery of an elite country club. It was home for the three-martini lunch and its men’s room, adorned in pink and white Italian Marble, was so magnificent it could be an appropriate setting for a rock star, if not a national leader, to lie in state. The Club kept its own accounts and neither cash nor credit cards were accepted.
When the press became aware of the privacy and opulence of The Club, all hell broke loose. How could a public agency promote a subsidized private club? Tobin had to pacify the press and politicos and so, at night it became “Windows on the World” the unique public restaurant 107 floors in the air. The NY Times first review read in part: “…as to the quality of the food, you cannot beat the view.
At lunchtime, The Club remained members only. Senior officers in my industry, marine insurance, frequented several private luncheon clubs belonging to one or more. They were swell places to entertain clients, prospects and underwriters while their cost was buried in generous expense accounts.
LINK to blog: https://outsidelookingin.blog/2019/09/11/the-world-trade-center-club/
El juego se llama Timelines New York en roblox aún está en desarollo no es mi proyecto
Thought you guys would like it
June 4th, 2000 = Mohamed Atta purchases a cell phone and an Omnipoint prepaid calling card for $50.
June 5th, 2000 = Mohamed Atta looks into the Daniel Webster flight training school in Nashua.
June 5th, 2000 = Nawaf al-Hazmi is wired $1,000 from an unknown source.
June 7th, 2000 = Khalid al-Mihdhar makes reservations for a flight from Los Angeles to Frankfurt.
June 10th, 2000 = Khalid al-Mihdhar arrives in Germany from Los Angeles to Frankfurt on Lufthansa Airlines Flight 457.
June 18th, 2000 = Mohamed Atta signs a one-week deal with an unidentified individual to rent a bedroom in New York City.
June 22nd, 2000 = Marwan al-Shehhi rents a Chevrolet Cavalier in New York.
June 22nd, 2000 = Mohamed Atta files an application to Century Flight Academy in Morristown.
June 24th, 2000 = Marwan al-Shehhi returns the Chevrolet Cavalier in New York.
June 25th, 2000 = Mohamed Atta and Marwan al-Shehhi rent an apartment in Brooklyn.
June 26th, 2000 = Marwan al-Shehhi rents a Ford Escort in Port Jefferson.
June 27th, 2000 = Ziad Jarrah arrives in the US from Munich to Atlanta on Delta Airlines Flight 131.
June 29th, 2000 = Marwan al-Shehhi receives $5,000 from an unidentified individual.
June 29th, 2000 = Mohamed Atta books a flight from New York to Chicago.
June 29th, 2000 = Nawaf al-Hazmi spends $5 at Best Produce in La Mesa.
July 1st, 2000 = Mohamed Atta returns the Ford Explorer in Fort Jefferson.
July 2nd, 2000 = Mohamed Atta and Marwan al-Shehhi arrive in Chicago from New York on American Airlines Flight 325, then take a connecting flight to Oklahoma City on American Airlines Flight 1497.
July 2nd, 2000 = Mohamed Atta and Marwan al-Shehhi check into the Sooner Hotel & Suites in Norman.
July 5th, 2000 = Mohamed Atta and Marwan al-Shehhi rent a room in the home of a bookkeeper in Venice.
July 6th, 2000 = Mohamed Atta and Marwan al-Shehhi enroll at Huffman Aviation Academy in Venice.
July 6th, 2000 = Mohamed Atta and Marwan al-Shehhi rent a Blue Aries.
July 7th, 2000 = Mohamed Atta and Marwan al-Shehhi open a bank account in Venice with a $7,000 deposit.
July 7th, 2000 = Mohamed Atta and Marwan al-Shehhi are scheduled to fly from Oklahoma to Fort Worth on American Airlines Flight 1798 and a connecting flight to New York on American Airlines Flight 158, but do not take this flight.
July 7th, 2000 = Mohamed Atta begins training at Huffman Aviation.
July 7th, 2000 = Nawaf al-Hazmi makes three consecutive ATM withdrawals totaling $140.
July 7th, 2000 = Ziad Jarrah purchases a $20 phone card.
July 10th 2000 = Mohamed Atta writes himself a check for $4,200 to purchase a 1989 Red Pontiac Grand Prix in Venice.
July 10th, 2000 = Nawaf al-Hazmi withdraws $20 from an ATM in Lemon Grove.
July 11th 2000 = Mohamed Atta purchases car insurance.
July 11th 2000 = Mohamed Atta disconnects his cell phone account.
July 12th 2000 = Mohamed Atta and Marwan al-Shehhi lease a home in Venice.
July 12th, 2000 = Nawaf al-Hazmi extends his visa.
July 17th, 2000 = Mohamed Atta and Marwan al-Shehhi enter the Accelerated Pilot Program at Huffman Aviation.
July 18th, 2000 = Marwan al-Shehhi writes a check for $2,000 to Huffman Aviation.
July 18th 2000 = Mohamed Atta receives a Medical Certificate.
July 19th, 2000 = Mohamed Atta and Marwan al-Shehhi are wired $9,980 from an unknown individual.
July 21st, 2000 = Marwan al-Shehhi writes and cashes a $2,000 check.
July 24th, 2000 = Marwan al-Shehhi withdraws $200 from his checking account.
July 24th, 2000 = Mohamed Atta received a Class III medical certificate that states he must wear corrective lenses.
July 26th, 2000 = Marwan al-Shehhi writes a check for $2,000 to Huffman Aviation.
July 27th, 2000 = Marwan al-Shehhi deposits $1,760.61 into his checking account.
July 28th 2000 = Nawaf al-Hazmi purchases car insurance.
August 4th, 2000 = Marwan al-Shehhi writes and cashes a $2,000 check.
August 4th 2000 = Mohamed Atta purchases an AOPA chronograph watch and two e6b handheld electronic flight computers at Sporty’s Catalog.
August 7th, 2000 = Mohamed Atta is wired $9,485 from an unidentified sender.
August 7th, 2000 = Marwan al-Shehhi writes a $2,000 check to Huffman Aviation.
August 8th, 2000 = Marwan al-Shehhi signs a $550 check to The Rental Company of Venice.
August 9th, 2000 = Marwan al-Shehhi requests a new instructor at Huffman Aviation.
August 14th 2000 = Mohamed Atta and Marwan al-Shehhi take the Private Pilot test at Huffman Aviation.
August 14th, 2000 = Nawaf al-Hazmi spends $10.97 at Best Produce in La Mesa.
August 15th, 2000 = Ziad Jarrah purchases a $20 phone card.
August 16th, 2000 = Marwan al-Shehhi writes and cashes a $200 check.
August 16th, 2000 = Marwan al-Shehhi writes a $2,000 check to Huffman Aviation.
August 18th, 2000 = Marwan al-Shehhi writes and cashes a $1,000 check.
August 23rd, 2000 = Marwan al-Shehhi writes a $2,000 check to Huffman Aviation.
August 23rd, 2000 = Ziad Jarrah purchases a $20 phone card.
August 24th, 2000 = Nawaf al-Hazmi spends $19.37 at Mervyn’s
August 25th, 2000 = Marwan al-Shehhi writes and cashes a $3,000 check.
August 27th 2000 = Mohamed Atta requests a new instructor at Huffman Aviation.
August 29th, 2000 = Nawaf al-Hazmi spends $18.08 at Mervyn’s
August 30th, 2000 = Mohamed Atta is wired $19,985 from an unknown individual.
September 1st 2000 = Mohamed Atta and Marwan al-Shehhi received 3-4 hour daily flight lessons over the course of one month at Jones Aviation in Sarasota.
September 3rd, 2000 = Ahmed al-Ghamdi received a B1/B2 visa in Saudi Arabia.
September 5th, 2000 = Marwan al-Shehhi writes and cashes a $300 check.
September 7th, 2000 = Nawaf al-Hazmi spends $14 at Circuit City in La Mesa.
September 8th, 2000 = Marwan al-Shehhi received an SE/PP certificate at Huffman Aviation.
September 8th, 2000 = Mohamed Atta applies for a Private Pilot certificate.
September 10th, 2000 = Hani Hanjour applies for a visa in Saudi Arabia but is rejected.
September 10th, 2000 = Marwan al-Shehhi writes a $1,000 check to Huffman Aviation.
September 11th, 2000 = Hani Hanjour applies to Pinnacle Flight Academy in Bethany.
References
(September 15, 2001). Mohamed Atta: profile of a terrorist. The Guardian. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2001/sep/16/september11.usa7
Fainaru, S. & Whoriskey, P. (September 18, 2001). Hijack Suspects Tried Many Flight Schools. The Washington Post. https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/politics/2001/09/19/hijack-suspects-tried-many-flight-schools/cb9af525-e872-4d37-bd56-e7ad2e1b79a8/
Risen, J. (April 24, 2005). Money Transfers by Hijackers Did Not Set Off Alarms for Banking Regulators. The New York Times. https://www.nytimes.com/2005/04/25/politics/money-transfers-by-hijackers-did-not-set-off-alarms-for-banking-regulators.html
(2004). The 9-11 Commission Report: Chapter 7 THE ATTACK LOOMS. Chapter 7. https://www.mideastweb.org/9-11-commission-9.htm
Press, A. (December 8, 2001). Atta Spent Time in New York. The Washington Post. https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/politics/2001/12/09/atta-spent-time-in-new-york/381d9f5b-4018-431a-a6d9-a4b9426dac92/
"The Promise Beneath the White Throne"
His name was Michael Carver.
He had been thirty-four years old on the morning the sky changed forever.
For three years, since 1998, Michael had worked inside the North Tower of the World Trade Center. He was not a powerful executive, nor a famous man. Just another office worker among thousands, one soul carried every morning by elevators into the clouds.
His office was on the 70th floor.
And on the morning of September 11th, 2001, at exactly 8:46 a.m., the tower trembled.
Not violently at first.
Just enough for coffee to spill, ceiling lights to sway, papers to slide from desks.
A deep vibration passed through the bones of the building like a groan.
Michael remembered the silence afterward more than the sound itself. The confused faces. Someone asking if it had been an earthquake. Another man laughing nervously. Phones beginning to ring all at once.
Then came the smell.
Burning fuel.
Fear.
The announcement to evacuate.
Thousands descended the stairwells together, breathing stale air, hearing distant sirens growing louder below them. Michael kept one hand on the rail all the way down because his knees had started shaking around the 50th floor and never stopped.
When he finally reached the lobby, it looked unreal.
Marble floors covered in dust.
Broken glass.
Firefighters rushing inward while civilians stumbled outward.
And there, among the chaos, he briefly saw men recording with cameras — brothers documenting the unimaginable — alongside battalion chiefs and exhausted firefighters shouting orders through the confusion.
Outside, Michael turned back toward the tower.
People were screaming.
Some pointed upward.
Then someone near him cried out the words that shattered what remained of the morning:
“A plane hit the building.”
Michael stared upward.
The wound in the tower burned against the blue September sky.
And he cried.
Not elegantly.
Not quietly.
He wept openly on the streets of lower Manhattan while ash drifted through the air like gray snow.
Because he knew.
His friends.
His colleagues.
The restaurant above the city.
The people trapped beyond the fire.
The windows.
God, the windows.
In the days that followed, Michael barely slept. Every television image reopened the wound. Every missing-person poster felt like another funeral. Churches overflowed with candles and tears, and Michael prayed constantly, though sometimes the prayers collapsed into nothing more than sobbing.
He prayed for the dead.
For the firefighters.
For the souls who had jumped.
For the city.
And secretly, ashamed of himself for even asking, he prayed for one thing more:
Please let me see them again.
Years passed.
The skyline changed.
People rebuilt.
But Michael never truly left the North Tower behind.
Every September, his heart returned there before the rest of him did.
Then, one night in 2003, unable to sleep, he sat alone in his apartment while rain tapped softly against the windows.
And the room changed.
At first he thought it was moonlight.
A pale glow near the corner of the room.
But the light continued growing — gentle, warm, living — until it took shape before him.
Michael could not move.
Could not breathe.
Because standing there, clothed in quiet radiance, was Jesus.
Not terrible.
Not distant.
Only sorrowful and loving beyond anything human language could contain.
Michael fell to his knees instantly.
And Christ spoke only one sentence.
“Even if it’s hard for you to understand now… you will see them again.”
Then the light faded.
But the words never did.
They carried Michael through the rest of his life.
Whenever grief returned, the promise returned with it.
Whenever rage tried to take root inside him, he remembered the face of the Son of Man and chose mercy instead.
He grew older.
His hair whitened.
The years softened his voice.
And in the winter of 2025, at seventy-five years old, Michael Carver closed his eyes for the last time.
But death was not darkness.
When his vision returned, he stood before the White Throne.
Vast.
Infinite.
Terrible in majesty.
Every soul that had ever lived seemed destined one day to stand before it.
And upon the Throne was Christ Himself.
Michael trembled.
Not from fear alone, but from truth. Every moment of his life lay open before eternity.
Then Jesus spoke.
“You kept your heart from hatred.”
Michael wept again.
Not because he denied his sins.
But because he knew mercy had found him anyway.
And Christ continued:
“You remembered my promise. Now I shall remember yours.”
Then, in less than a heartbeat, eternity disappeared around him.
The White Throne vanished.
And Michael found himself standing once more inside the lobby of the North Tower.
Whole.
Untouched.
Alive with memory.
The polished marble floors gleamed softly beneath warm lights. The great windows reflected the evening glow outside. Elevators hummed peacefully in the distance. No smoke. No sirens. No terror.
Only home.
Michael’s breathing broke instantly into tears.
Because the last time he had seen this place had been during evacuation, amid ash and panic and screams.
But now it stood before him exactly as he had loved it.
Perfect.
Restored.
And near the entrance, waiting patiently for him, stood Jesus.
Not upon a throne now.
Simply there.
Like someone welcoming a weary traveler home after a long journey.
Christ smiled gently.
“Welcome home.”
Michael covered his face and cried like the young man he had once been on that terrible September morning.
And somewhere beyond the elevators, beyond the shining halls of the restored tower, familiar voices began calling his name again.
This was all taken way before the total collapse on September 11th of 2001
World Trade Center (1973–2001) - Wikipedia
Sources and Credits
SchuminWeb (Wikimedia Commons) August 19 2000 at the North Tower lobby
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:World_Trade_Center_lobby,_08-19-2000.png
Kostic (Fotki) 2000-2001
Jeff Lanka (SkyscraperPage Forum) sometime in 1999
https://skyscraperpage.com/forum/showthread.php?t=184976&page=29
THE TWIN TOWERS WTC (Youtube) January 3 1996
SkyscraperCity Forum
Displate
ArchDaily
The New Yorker
~It's_me! (Flickr) sometime in 1983 or 1988
https://www.flickr.com/photos/21410041@N04/2328021181/
WikiArquitectura
Cusack5239 / Wikimedia Commons
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:World_trade_centre_I.jpeg
r/WorldTradeCenter
r/TwinTowersInPhotos
r/911archive
Edit
Manhattan Bridge not Brooklyn Bridge
Its small sorry if the quality its horrid
