The 44,981 patrons stood to follow the flight, roaring.
At many bars, patrons took their drinks out onto the sidewalk and stood to watch the city darken on scenes calm or chaotic.
With most patrons standing, the bartenders could more easily identify the unsteady people who had imbibed too much.
Several patrons were standing at the door, pints in their fists as they watched the police, and more stood across the street.
When the bomb went off, the restaurant was so crowded that some patrons were standing, said Majid Ali, an engineer who left just moments earlier.
Many patrons stand in the open air as "groundlings" like their Elizabethan predecessors.
The patron usually stands in front of the ox and the fortune teller.
It was smaller than she had envisaged, and so crowded that patrons were standing outside on the sidewalk.
All mellowed patrons stood, sang, and cheered both.
A few patrons stood drinking on the boardwalk in front of the saloon.