Dodgers play their final regular season home game tomorrow. They should top 4 million tickets sold, for the second consecutive season, and set a new franchise record.
Lisa Lefler left this briefcase behind on the 103rd floor of the South Tower when she evacuated on 9/11.
Two days later, rescue worker Boyd Harden found it in the wreckage near Church and Liberty Streets. Her résumé was still inside, allowing him to track her down and return it.
Lisa survived.
The battered briefcase is now preserved by the Smithsonian.
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The mall beneath the World Trade Center was enormous.
More than 70 stores and restaurants sat below the plaza, connected directly to the PATH station and subway system. Thousands of people passed through it every day on their way to work, grabbing coffee, shopping, eating lunch, or cutting across the complex.
It is easy to think of the Twin Towers as just two giant office buildings, but underneath them was basically an entire underground neighborhood.
On 9/11, much of it was destroyed or buried.
That is part of what makes old photos of the mall so interesting. It shows how much ordinary life existed beneath the towers.
Did you get a chance to visit?
Window washers on the upper floors of the north tower.
They would ride on powered-carriages that were built into the buildings themselves.
Most of the buildings were cleaned by a custom automated window-washing system, but there was still a lot of manual work involved, such as the upper floors which had wider windows, corners, and more difficult sections.
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