And now, the Grand Napier! Special podcast today as we commemorate the 20th anniversary of 9-11 and I know if you are old enough

you remember exactly where you were and what you were doing on that fateful morning.

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N-E-W-R-X plumbing.com 20 years ago 911, and for me personally growing up on Long Island and watching those

buildings being constructed, being in those buildings a number of times, both towers. I remember the last two times I was once in the Windows on the World restaurant which is at the top of one of the towers.

I remember it like yesterday June 17th 1978.

I was there with my girlfriend from college.

We were celebrating my birthday which was June 18th and you know what do I remember the most about that night is getting into a taxi and they had the Yankee game on on the radio and Ron Guidry was pitching against the angels and when we got in the taxi it was the ninth

inning and Phil Rizzuto was on the call going crazy and Ron Gidri ended up

striking out 18 angels that night and it's amazing what you remember from a nice night out, but that's what I remember more than anything was the game in the cab listening to the top of the ninth inning at Yankee Stadium with Louisiana Lightning striking out so many

angels.

And then the second and last time, and I was in there many times, but the last time I was in the

tower was in the summer of

1986 I was on the outdoor observation deck my dad worked a block from the trade

center after he had moved his office from a

42nd street right across the street from Grand Central Station.

He moved this insurance business one block from the tower and I remember depending on which subway

station we would get off at when I went to work with him or went to visit

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