American Experience
The Center of the World: Interview Outtakes

Guy Tozzoli:
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Visitors to the Trade Center 1 -- Closing the Deal for the Trade Center2 -- The Story of Windows on the World3 -- Opposition to Building the World Trade Center4 -- Meeting Philippe Petit5 -- Visitors to the Trade Center

Mike Wallace Pete Hamill Carol Willis Guy Tozzoli
Leslie Robertson Camilo José Vergara Niall Ferguson Philippe Petit
William Langewiesche Ed Koch Mario Cuomo Ada Louise Huxtable

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I used to stay at night and walk around the -- and talk to the night people on duty, etc., and find out what was happening. I parked my car all the time -- and I miss that -- where the tenants were. All the other directors had another private parking space. I parked with the tenants. I wanted to hear them say -- tell me what was wrong, or what was right, or what we ought to do. And they never knew who I was. I just -- I walk in, I wait at the elevators to go upstairs, but I listened. And I learned a whole lot. And I miss so much the -- I loved to watch the people walk through the lobbies. I -- It was just beautiful. And you could tell, you know, people from out of state looking up, out of the country, looking at -- And I used to engage in conversations -- I'd love it -- in the elevators. Sometimes I'd ride the elevators to the 107th floor just for the hell of it, because I wanted to hear people talking about it. And you'd hear them getting floor 100, etc. And then I'd say, "Where are you from?" And you'd hear they came from San Francisco, they came from the Midwest, they came from Amsterdam, and -- And I miss all that...