I was there in August 2001 when I was 12 years old. My parents decided that we wouldn't go to the top because there was an hourlong wait, and my younger brother started having a tantrum. When I expressed how disappointed I was, my dad said that we would come back next time, because "it will still be there."
I was there in 1993 just 6 months after the first terrorist attack. I wanted to go to the top and, for the same reason as your parents, but also out of fear, my partner didn't want to wait. I loved NYC and thought I would have to do it another time. Came back for work in 1998 and couldn't find a free moment to go there. So I never went up to the observatory, and I understand your feeling. Had we been to the top, I think the pain would be even bigger.
@Marc-Austin Rowe You're missing the point, I'm showing you how unlikely it is that most of the people in the video died considering it was only a fraction of the people that worked there.
I was at the World Trade Center on August 31st, 2001, it was the first and sadly last time for me. I got the chance to go to the top of the South Tower observation deck and man the views were breathtaking. I remember not wanting to leave, I wanted to stay at the top forever lol. I unfortunately never got any video footage except a few pictures and the ticket for the observation deck but I will always cherish that memory. I'm forever thankful for getting the opportunity to go to the top of the World Trade Center.
@@reconforsales7708 you do know the towers received almost 2 million visitors a year right? It’s not that crazy of a thought. You’re just being a dick.
That was my first thought too. Then I remembered that the destruction of this was no accident, no miscalculation, no oversight. It was a deliberate evil.
It would be so cool if they made a movie about the WTC in the style they did Titanic.... except not really cheesy. And add fucking Jack and Rose to the cast and let Jack escape.
Clinton Township Lifts by MagicalLift256 I saw them once when I i was like 10 year old then in like 1996 or 1997 then that was the last time I saw them standing I was on chambers st in Manhattan
1:15 I remember as a four year old kid walking into this lobby in April 2001 because I was in the area and I needed to use a restroom. It wasn't until 5 years ago I made the connection that the large square shaped room with the flags hanging off the railings was the original world trade center. It's ominous realizing a location from a fairly insignificant memory you've had most of your life no longer exists
You have a shitty way of presenting chronologically your memories, in april 2001 you enter WTC and it makes you remember your 4 year old self doing the same. 2016 you remember the WTC you entered was the original one. OR you were really 4 yo in april 2001 and remembered in 2016 that it was the original WTC.
There was something strangely awesome about standing on top of one of the towers and seeing its twin just a few meters away...it was as if it was a reminder that New York didn't just build America's tallest building, it built it TWICE! It's really a shame that there is only one tower put up as a replacement. It looks kinda...incomplete.
Yeah, the Twin Towers became the tallest buildings in America (and the world) in 1972 but then in 1974 the Sears Tower was completed and it became the tallest and remained the tallest for 24 years. The Sears tower was 13 to 19ft taller than the twin towers and the antennas didn't count.
As a visitor from Italy I remember having seen the first floors of the first tower under construction in 1971, then having enjoyed the breathtaking sight from the top of it at least three times in the next years and then having watched both towers falling down on TV. So so terribly sad
Well....yes....the future is unpredictable, always changing, never written in stone. Maybe what’s eerie is the realization we have no control over history, even our own existence as much as we like to think we do.
i really dont care for WTC, its nothing important, i mean who talks about war crimes yanks did in vietnam or that road in Iran or literally any war yanks were in
@@greggblade810 what could someone have done? “You get off that plane right now!”? Do you really think anyone could have just stopped it from happening?
W latach 80 ych mój tatuś pracował w sąsiedztwie wierz. Podczas zamachu,będąc już w domu ,płakał jak dziecko. Nie mógł w ten dramat uwierzyć ,był w szoku .Mogłam tylko przy nim byc. Kocham Cię tatusiu ...zawsze .
Współczuję twojemu ojcu. Nie mogę sobie wyobrazić trudności, jakie musiał znosić tego dnia. Wierzę, że jest przynajmniej wdzięczny, że nie było go tam wtedy, więc ty mogłaś być przy nim.
Fakt że można tu znaleźć też komentarze ludzi z innych krajów niż Stany Zjednoczone wskazuje jak globalna to była tragedia. Fascynuje mnie też to że tu w Polsce, tak dużo ludzi pamięta co robiło 11 września 2001 roku...
Having been born in 2004 it’s honestly odd to see footage of the World Trade Center outside of 9/11. Ive grown up to know the WTC as a symbol of the attacks, and seeing that this place was once a calm, peaceful area is a bit out of left field. That being said, I’m thankful for the internet for providing a clearer picture of what this place was like before the attacks.
Being born in '03 I feel the same way as you do. It's awfully eerie because subconsciously your brain thinks: "Hold on they shouldn't be there, they should be on fire." We've grown up viewing these towers as a symbol of terror that to see them in any other state is jolting.
as a person born in 2009 i completely agree with both of you. it just seems weird that im looking at what it was like before 9/11 happened, since i never went there
I was born in 2006. I agree a lot. I've never saw any footage of the WTC before the attacks so I saw it as a symbol of 9/11 and how much devastation was caused that day. Seeing how calm it is really puts a clearer picture in my head, but it also freaks me out to know this video was taken less than 3 months before the attacks.
Really? Maybe it's something to do with me being from the quaint old country (England) but whenever I find myself more than three floors up in a building, I feel very giddy.
But back when they were proposed, then built, many people hated them. Saying they were blah, unimaginative, intrusive, ugly, or too big. How dare they buildsomethong higher than the beloved Empire State Building! In the early 1970s, some actually wanted the monster buildings to be torn down to "restore the NYC skyline"!
Canadian Gamer I visited them a few times & they always given off a strange vibe. Maybe the gray steel used on its exoskeleton skin or long stretched windows. Or it’s wind heard elevator shafts, Eerie. When I was on top floor I watched a movie after looking out its windows & felt that of anything were to happen you’re screwed. You are up so high it’s not good. Not that anyone knew that a plane would end up hitting towers but more if something happened to its structure you’re toast.
I went to the city many times as a kid, and the first thing I would see when driving into the city were the beautiful towers. They truly made the skyline. I was in Nyc for a field trip my 8th grade year. June 2001 I took a class photo outside the North Tower. I still remember everything I was doing that tragic day and it still breaks my heart 💔
@@asagoodfriend Also, the class photo I am thinking of was actually in front of the gold globe fountain that was in between both towers in the plaza/ court yard area. It was taken in front of the gold globe with North Tower behind us. That globe sculpture actually survived the collapse. It had damage but survived. There are photo’s of it on google in the rubble. The globe now sits in Liberty Park, at the edge of the 9/11 memorial.
I’m left wondering what the person who recorded this was thinking on September 11th. I’d personally be quite heartbroken, because this is literally just weeks away from the attack.
My mom bought a fridge magnet of lower manhattan’s skyline at night from the point of New Jersey in the 90s. That fridge magnet is still on our old fridge as of 2024.
There is a serene tranquility to these scenes. A certain energy and quality that hasn't been seen or felt since.. At least not in the Western hemisphere. The world changed forever on that terribly dark day and was never the same again.
I disagree, look at the Balkans, a war had just ended there a few years beforehand, now these places are just everyday places that people go on weekend trips to. Ireland only 3 years before 9/11 experienced a bomb go off that killed 28 people in a small town. 9/11 was a definable moment for us all but the world in many ways is better(and in a lot of ways worse) Depends on the perspective.
You’re right 💯 Everything changed on NYE 1999-2000, and it’s been Crazy ever since. I live in Australia and saw the news on morning TV in 2001. I remember watching the planes flying into those buildings, that were massive structures and not being able to breathe. 💔
Blessed to have taken a class trip in the early eighties… we weren’t outside but I guess indoors observation floor. Huge glass windows…amazed as a kid watching the horizon curve…..sad
I never went to the original towers but I went to the memorial in 2016 on 12th of September it’s so surreal seeing what was there in this video knowing I’ve stood where there was a whole complex towering upwards and where all those people died.When I was there my chest felt tight like I couldn’t breathe but when I left about a block away I felt better it was a surreal experience as a lot of people were taking selfies I couldn’t do that or understand why people were doing that I was just crying as I walked around reading the names
I was fortunate enough to go up there in 1998, thanks to my best friend in high school. I'm 41 now and I can say, for those brave souls that lost their lives, it brings back chills because you don't realize how high up you are! 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸
I was there in 1998 as well. My high school band stayed in the Marriot World Trade and had the priviledge of going up to the observation deck and ate a few meals in the mall under the plaza.
@@cameronbartlett6593 Actually the only asbestos used was in the North Tower and only to the 38th floor. After that they switched to another fire proofing material for the rest of the complex.
@@wilfthebig7910 shut the fuck up. People are here to appreciate a gentler moment in time and you've gotta come in and act like a bigshot with your theories. Be they true or not, you're not adding anything useful
2024 JUNE 20. watching this. Remember that day. On TV. It was an cold rainy afternoon here in S.A . Since that day. I was obsessed with these buildings at 14 years old.
Man it's baffling to me that these big towers i was lucky enough to experience as a foreign visitor, i traveled to NYC with my uncle during the summer break of the year 2000, i was 8 years old at the time my aunt had an apartment there as she worked as a freelancer and stayed there for two weeks, being a Norwegian this was really rare back then, unlike in recent years where travel across such distances has been relatively affordable. Coming from the country side here in Norway to a city like NY, the contrast was staggering, everything was big. Man those towers they were something else, the day we went up to the observation deck, it was sunny and really hot, i still remember the smell, the sounds, the air inside was refreshing, nice and cool, we looked around a fair bit before going up, i have a fond memory of the lady we met higher up well dressed, she worked there, not sure for whom or what position, very little made sense to me as there were so many people and large spaces everywhere, my uncle looked down at me and told asked me if i was thirsty i nicked and soon after she passed me and my uncle a blue bottle of Bawls, i remember the taste being somewhat similar to Sprite, only better, best part is i actually brought with me those two bottles home as a souvenir, and to this day they're sitting in my glass cabinet in my living room with the bottle caps for display. I have been thinking about this for years, it's emotional, especially when you have artifacts that was given to you by someone with a kind heart that may have passed away during that horrible tragic day of 9/11. I really enjoyed my stay in NYC, the people there where some of the nicest city folks i have ever come across, ever since my stay i have been drawn to those towers, they were truly fascinating like some sort of bond, they weren't the generic type of skyscraper, very unique design the way they did the exterior with the steel beams, especially at the bottom where they curve in some places, and the way they would reflect sunlight, they would beam light all the way from the statue of liberty. NYC has and never will be the same without the twin towers, they were not only the staple of NYC but America, those where the first two things i would things about when i would think about USA. No matter where we went i often asked my uncle if we could see the towers or not, i was obsessed with them, and truly no matter where we would go, i would glance at them whenever they were in view, since then, over 20 years have passed and i have traveled quite a bit and have yet to see something man made with such stance and presence.
@Sturm Art Well since there's no way to know who jumped fell stumbled or bravely chose to avoid burning to death I'll refer to them ALL as jumpers. Other than the nit picky butthurt PC technically accurate comment Nazis throwing in their unsolicited two cents, everyone else knew what I meant & that's all that really matters.
@jethro riz Wtf does that have to do with anything???? Where was your god when these innocent people begged him for another day with their family & friends???? As a matter of fact the ass clowns who "supposedly" did this were more than proud of murdering thousands of innocent souls in "God's" name!!!!! Damn near NEVER have an atheist slaying innocent lives for their non-existent enabler in the sky but it's easier to deflect via the same ole lame ass virtue signaling & hide behind the guise of moral righteousness than to EVER actually earn that pat on the back!!!! Stop being a weak cut line bitch & own your 💩 before bothering to worry about mine ChaChi 🙋♀️ Have a nice day😊
1:51 - I can see my apartment building that I lived in at the time in Newport (Jersey City) which was almost directly on top of the Holland Tunnel. It's interesting to see where I lived from this perspective (thanks for posting!!). On 9/11 I actually slept through the whole thing (!!). I was sleeping that late because I worked nights (commuted through the WTC a few hours before the attacks). Seeing how close I was makes it that much more unbelievable that I was not woken up by it all. What did wake me up were sirens and non-stop phone calls. Never forget.
I was visiting NY in July and August 2001; was in Mahattan many days. I went up to the top three times, last in late August. Outside had been closed before, but a few of us were allowed to go out on the roof. All visits to NY were always outstanding. I spent many different days on the WTC public square. There were metal benches and I would always lay on one and look up between the buildings. They were massive. American strength. Everything was so nice then and we never thought it could happen. Considering all the years the towers were there, my last visit in August was too close. Just a couple weeks before I could have been there. I love our country so much. Bless and keep our Nation. I was a flight attendant for two airlines. I was not flying that day, and I did not work for the airlines again.
@Sturm Art No offense man but, what do you know. His alarm clock went of late and he missed his train. His dad worked on some of the electricity there. The person he worked next to died as he tried to escape through an elevator but it filled up with smoke and he suffocated.
The plaza seems to have been an excellent place to just sit down and enjoy a day, checking out the various faculties and eating your lunch while staring at those massive towers. Absolute tragedy that it became a place of so much pain and loss. My heart goes out to anyone who tried to spend their day there to never get home, and the families that lost their loved ones.
20 years later and I remember it like it was yesterday the 7th grader I was living in queens at the time. Videos like this give me goosebumps but thanks to the uploader recorded for filming this and appreciate the true beauties these skyscrapers were and how much they are missed today as well as the love ones we sadly saw perish during this heinous act.
@@JakeBor You really drank the brain dead conspiracy theory Kool-Aid , didn’t you ? I saw a documentary that explained all these ridiculous 9/11 conspiracy theories.
My birthday is on that day. Turned 5. It sucks that I don't have much recollection of a world that was still simple. World was still shining back then.
Yep I was 6 years old watching this in the early morning, my parents woke me up to see the footage on live TV. A defining moment really, for our generation. There are those who remember 9/11 and those who don't. I feel for our age, it was defining for our perspective geopolitically. I remember after this, everything was about Iraq, Afghanistan, and the war on terror throughout my childhood.
It's so eerie to watch, me and my husband went to NYC for a day trip and it was exactly 3 weeks b4 9:11.As we stood in front of tower 1 I will never forget saying to my husband as I looked all the way up imagine these buildings falling.. couldn't fathom it and 3 weeks later gone..I will never forget my words..my heart still hurts 20 yrs later.. Godspeed and love to NYC.. 🙏🏻😇🙏🏻😇🙏🏻😇
@@brianbrian4016 Yes yes straight out with the conspiracy theorist stuff. Yawn. Switch off your tv & do some real research. You'll soon figure out you've been lied to your whole life.
The thing is: I am 17, so I wasn't even born when 9/11 happened, I never even imagined NY with the WTC simply because when I was born everything was already gone. And yet I feel terrible just thinking about this horrible page in human history. I think that this is a nice thing of 9/11, it brought and still brings, everyone together, despite the age, the colour of the skin, the sexuality, the language, the clothes, the traditions... It is incredible how humans can be so comprensive sometimes. And I guess that the fact that Internet was somewhat around in 2001 made the fact so much closer to my generation and the ones after it is really good, since people can share their memories and help to prevent anything like this from happening ever again. At 2:42 I even heard the sound that my watch makes, I felt the urge to cry at just thinking how close 2001 is
From 1990 to 2001 was maybe the most peaceful, worriless period one could have ever lived in as a western citizen. Promisses of nuclear disarmement, an innocent newborn internet, no smartphones and social media to pit ppl. against each other. I was lucky to be a child and a teenager in this period. It's indelible proof to me that there was and can be a place of peace in history. WTC in its hayday, right before the attacks, to me is a reminder of the lost paradise of my youth.
Crazy to think all these videos are always seen as how many months, days or weeks was counting down to the very day these towers fell in 9/11 years before was even more different because of the amount of time there was before 9/11, I still remember searching up what these towers looked like and knowing all of those tables, computer, desk, gym, restaurant are all competely gone is insane.
Crazy, I was two on this exact date. I didn’t really understand what happened on 9/11 until I was in grade school. It’s even crazier that kids younger than me weren’t even alive when it happened.
It still blows my mind that people ended up jumping out of the towers that day. I know it was because of a choice between burning up or suffocating to death from the smoke or jumping out and getting the inevitable over with. Plus the heat inside was just unreal. I can not begin to imagine being forced into such a choice. And to fall from that height is unfathomable
The fact that there's no talking, no pausing.. or anything. Really makes this video one of the best, it's just classic new york in its finest, no sugarcoating, no nostalgic things.. just.. New york.
No offence, but at least they saw beautiful New York before they fell but it would be really smokey and terrifying so it would be a terrible way to go...😔
Those towers became such an ominous sight after 9/11. Whether you're seeing them in old movies, or in videos and photos of the NYC skyline, your mind immediately goes to the attacks. Two massive, looming towers, gazing out over the city. They're so geometric and faceless, they've always looked almost like headstones to me. They were the sight of so much needless destruction and suffering, it's difficult to fully imagine. RIP to all of those who died there.
When you look at it, you feel like nothing can happen. All surrounded by peacefulness....That you are safe. It’s unthinkable that a couple of months later, this became a real place of apocalypse, death, destruction and pain....
A whole new respect for Firefighters. I couldn’t imagine looking up at that colosal structure and everyone is looking at them for help. Rip to those 343 ❤️
thirteen3 Each floor was an acre (why do we in the US still use the British spelling of 'acre? Here, it should be 'acer'. That's now a computer company copyright).
@@elchinitofeliz1699 not about that he side PLAIN ridiculous the plain part made me say bruh i think he meant a air plain becuse a plain hit the towers it is a bad joke he did
@@donutgamingyt1849 if they meant plane, they would either say "plane ridiculous" or would write "PLAIN ridiculous" That was probably an unintended pun.
Noaoah same, I’m not american and I wasn’t born yet but my parents just got married and where traveling through the US at that time, the day they would leave this happened, someone my parents visited would also get on a plane on that day, at the same time she sat in the terminal, passengers of the plane that was going to hit one of the towers, she may even have sat next to one of the terrorists
I was here 2 days before the attack. 13 years old. I’ll never forget how huge these buildings were in person. 😔 we were going to go to the observation deck but decided to do it next time we came. Didn’t know there wouldn’t be a next time.
The new one doesn't have the same impact. I try to tell people who were never there what an occasion the twins were but you really need to stand near them to understand.
I still think it’s always amazing to see people just walking and lining up pre 9-11 days. No cell phones, so nobody is looking down. Everyone is looking up and at each other. Crazy how our simple mannerisms are so changed today
@I I Those cellphones were nothing like today- You could basically just call- Maybe a little Tetris; but no videos or apps, and the cameras were non existent or basically a banana. It's a real shame to see how disconnected we've become in real life. Taking a look back at this video always makes me yearn for more of that undiluted human connection.
These buildings were the biggest things I had ever seen in my childhood. They looked especially phenomenal at night with the hundreds of lit floors. It was incomprehensible at the time that they could actually fall.
the view at the end was what most people saw before they died. imagine how scary it must be to either decide on burning up inside the building or to jump to death. it’s an extremely hard decision. at the end of the day they didn’t have a choice
I still cant believe its been 20 years i wish they were able to stop it i miss the original towers cant imagine just seeing all those people jumping out i watched the vid of the tower collapsing that was scary
If you've seen terminator 2 and go the the part where Sarah Connor is shouting at those kids in the park but they can't hear her. That's how I'm feeling right now
One of the most stand out things in this video, apart from the immense scale of the buildings, is strolling in with no security lines or searches. How times have changed! Very sad...
I was there in August 2001 when I was 12 years old. My parents decided that we wouldn't go to the top because there was an hourlong wait, and my younger brother started having a tantrum. When I expressed how disappointed I was, my dad said that we would come back next time, because "it will still be there."
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I was there in 1993 just 6 months after the first terrorist attack. I wanted to go to the top and, for the same reason as your parents, but also out of fear, my partner didn't want to wait. I loved NYC and thought I would have to do it another time. Came back for work in 1998 and couldn't find a free moment to go there. So I never went up to the observatory, and I understand your feeling. Had we been to the top, I think the pain would be even bigger.
@@morganwright224You were very lucky
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@@morganwright224 For real?
Some of the working people in the video would be dead 52 days later. How unsettling.
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@@Atl-jv1kw Yea and ten thousand more were badly injured/ wounded and many more thousands died later because of 9/11 related illnesses like cancer.
@Marc-Austin Rowe You're missing the point, I'm showing you how unlikely it is that most of the people in the video died considering it was only a fraction of the people that worked there.
the people who worked at the viewing deck at the top died. people who worked on the first 50 floors got out
The calm before the storm...
Good one😀
Damaris Padron thats not a joke😔
Good one?
CALIFORNIA ADVENTURES That’s not meant to be funny.
*Google “Dancing Israelis”*
I was at the World Trade Center on August 31st, 2001, it was the first and sadly last time for me. I got the chance to go to the top of the South Tower observation deck and man the views were breathtaking. I remember not wanting to leave, I wanted to stay at the top forever lol. I unfortunately never got any video footage except a few pictures and the ticket for the observation deck but I will always cherish that memory. I'm forever thankful for getting the opportunity to go to the top of the World Trade Center.
@Elwei Melsei No it would be 11 days before since it happened on the 11th.
I wasn't born at the time and I hate how I will never be able to go visit and go up the towers but I plan to go to the memorial once in my lifetime
Then your drugs wore off and you woke up.
Do u have any of the pictures id be really intersted?
@@reconforsales7708 you do know the towers received almost 2 million visitors a year right? It’s not that crazy of a thought. You’re just being a dick.
This is like watching the glories titanic sailing on the ocean before it sunk...so emotional...
That was my first thought too. Then I remembered that the destruction of this was no accident, no miscalculation, no oversight. It was a deliberate evil.
Xiaoke Ding yea it actually is ... so tragic
It would be so cool if they made a movie about the WTC in the style they did Titanic.... except not really cheesy. And add fucking Jack and Rose to the cast and let Jack escape.
World Trade Center who?
Both of those things got hit and sunk
Who would have thought that such simple video would become important archival material for historical reference.
It's a shame two months later they were gone
Jerome king I'm kind of mad these are gone. Would have totally loved to visit these epic buildings & film there high speed OTIS elavators
HC EleFilms by Technicalboy3000 yeah I know I mad they gone
It's shame that Osama Bin Laden did not pay for it.
@dverferyance
Well, there was his life. Whether he did it or not.
Clinton Township Lifts by MagicalLift256 I saw them once when I i was like 10 year old then in like 1996 or 1997 then that was the last time I saw them standing I was on chambers st in Manhattan
1:15 I remember as a four year old kid walking into this lobby in April 2001 because I was in the area and I needed to use a restroom. It wasn't until 5 years ago I made the connection that the large square shaped room with the flags hanging off the railings was the original world trade center. It's ominous realizing a location from a fairly insignificant memory you've had most of your life no longer exists
But what a special memory to have. I miss that time so much it hurts.
You have a shitty way of presenting chronologically your memories, in april 2001 you enter WTC and it makes you remember your 4 year old self doing the same. 2016 you remember the WTC you entered was the original one. OR you were really 4 yo in april 2001 and remembered in 2016 that it was the original WTC.
It's so terrible that it was the building with all the flags which represented unity between nations... that was the building that was targeted.
I dont get your story
Anyone who doesn’t understand this story is obviously ESL. I’m a native speaker and I understood it immediately the first time I read it.
In an alternate universe these two buildings are still standing. It's like peeking into another universe.
jerolvilladolid man that gives me chills like in a alternate universe there just sitting there untouched
Just watched the entire series of FRINGE. The towers still stand in the alternate universe.
in the alternate universe the buildings were built on 9/11/01 by Al Qaeda, a peaceful group of people lol
There are even alternative universes in which the towers never existed or one of them remained standing
jerolvilladolid CORRECT
There was something strangely awesome about standing on top of one of the towers and seeing its twin just a few meters away...it was as if it was a reminder that New York didn't just build America's tallest building, it built it TWICE! It's really a shame that there is only one tower put up as a replacement. It looks kinda...incomplete.
It looks like shit and doesnt blend in with other skylines at night.
Driving in from jersey the towers were always the first thing I noticed ... Definitely not the same
The Sears Tower in Chicago was the tallest building in the country.
Piggy Oink Oink My brother tripped on somebodies shoelace on top of WTC2, can’t imagine what it’d be like jumping from that height
Yeah, the Twin Towers became the tallest buildings in America (and the world) in 1972 but then in 1974 the Sears Tower was completed and it became the tallest and remained the tallest for 24 years. The Sears tower was 13 to 19ft taller than the twin towers and the antennas didn't count.
i miss you so much dad
aaaaaaaaaaaand i'm calling bullshit
love you too mom
FUCK UP BRUH
R.I.P. You and your father have my respect! Strong men.
Greece from a soon german soldier..
I'm jealous! I wish I could go to the Twin Towers FRIRND!
Man thats alot of structure to come down! The sheer size when your inside is insane to think about! So sad.
As a visitor from Italy I remember having seen the first floors of the first tower under construction in 1971, then having enjoyed the breathtaking sight from the top of it at least three times in the next years and then having watched both towers falling down on TV. So so terribly sad
2001 still had such a strong 90s vibe.
Such beautiful towers...it is an eerie reminder that the future is never thought about in the present.
Learn the hard way
Well....yes....the future is unpredictable, always changing, never written in stone. Maybe what’s eerie is the realization we have no control over history, even our own existence as much as we like to think we do.
Oh but I always think about the future.
i really dont care for WTC, its nothing important, i mean who talks about war crimes yanks did in vietnam or that road in Iran or literally any war yanks were in
Flamingpieherman9822 unless your baba vanga.
Imagine this, the person who is recording is a time traveller, and he just appreciate that building for the last time.
You gave a new view to this
And not stop the attack? Unlikely
Gregg Blade
Yeah what John said and what could he do, he’s just sum time traveler if he told law enforcement they would be suspicious and take him in
@@greggblade810 what could someone have done? “You get off that plane right now!”? Do you really think anyone could have just stopped it from happening?
Ik its like watching a doctor who episode the doctor visits the twin towers 52 days before they were attacked and collapsed
W latach 80 ych mój tatuś pracował w sąsiedztwie wierz. Podczas zamachu,będąc już w domu ,płakał jak dziecko. Nie mógł w ten dramat uwierzyć ,był w szoku .Mogłam tylko przy nim byc. Kocham Cię tatusiu ...zawsze .
Nice story
Współczuję twojemu ojcu. Nie mogę sobie wyobrazić trudności, jakie musiał znosić tego dnia. Wierzę, że jest przynajmniej wdzięczny, że nie było go tam wtedy, więc ty mogłaś być przy nim.
Fakt że można tu znaleźć też komentarze ludzi z innych krajów niż Stany Zjednoczone wskazuje jak globalna to była tragedia. Fascynuje mnie też to że tu w Polsce, tak dużo ludzi pamięta co robiło 11 września 2001 roku...
szkoda że nie było jego w tych wiezach
@@BillKill2011 nie kompromituj się, nikt nawet nie bierze na poważnie takich komentarzy, co najwyżej ludzie ci współczują
Having been born in 2004 it’s honestly odd to see footage of the World Trade Center outside of 9/11. Ive grown up to know the WTC as a symbol of the attacks, and seeing that this place was once a calm, peaceful area is a bit out of left field. That being said, I’m thankful for the internet for providing a clearer picture of what this place was like before the attacks.
Being born in '03 I feel the same way as you do. It's awfully eerie because subconsciously your brain thinks: "Hold on they shouldn't be there, they should be on fire." We've grown up viewing these towers as a symbol of terror that to see them in any other state is jolting.
as a person born in 2009 i completely agree with both of you. it just seems weird that im looking at what it was like before 9/11 happened, since i never went there
I was born in 2006. I agree a lot. I've never saw any footage of the WTC before the attacks so I saw it as a symbol of 9/11 and how much devastation was caused that day. Seeing how calm it is really puts a clearer picture in my head, but it also freaks me out to know this video was taken less than 3 months before the attacks.
@@aidanhickey9845 Same year. Wish I could've been there to see it
@@findecks as a person born in 2020 i can also agree
i still think these are and will always be the most beautiful buildings ever created
Really? Maybe it's something to do with me being from the quaint old country (England) but whenever I find myself more than three floors up in a building, I feel very giddy.
But back when they were proposed, then built, many people hated them. Saying they were blah, unimaginative, intrusive, ugly, or too big. How dare they buildsomethong higher than the beloved Empire State Building! In the early 1970s, some actually wanted the monster buildings to be torn down to "restore the NYC skyline"!
They were impressive, but they built while the dirty new york. When New york was in economic trouble in 1970's and crime was dominated.
Canadian Gamer I visited them a few times & they always given off a strange vibe. Maybe the gray steel used on its exoskeleton skin or long stretched windows.
Or it’s wind heard elevator shafts, Eerie.
When I was on top floor I watched a movie after looking out its windows & felt that of anything were to happen you’re screwed. You are up so high it’s not good.
Not that anyone knew that a plane would end up hitting towers but more if something happened to its structure you’re toast.
@Insane James That's interesting can you explain why you felt a strange vibe?
It's insane to think all that would be destroyed and we would never have this again - appreciate everything in your life.
Its hard appreciating the shit we’re in today sadly…..
I went to the city many times as a kid, and the first thing I would see when driving into the city were the beautiful towers. They truly made the skyline. I was in Nyc for a field trip my 8th grade year. June 2001 I took a class photo outside the North Tower. I still remember everything I was doing that tragic day and it still breaks my heart 💔
Do you still have that class photo?
@@asagoodfriend Yes I do. I keep all my photos, even the real crappy ones taken with the ancient disposable cameras, lol.
@@asagoodfriend Also, the class photo I am thinking of was actually in front of the gold globe fountain that was in between both towers in the plaza/ court yard area. It was taken in front of the gold globe with North Tower behind us.
That globe sculpture actually survived the collapse. It had damage but survived. There are photo’s of it on google in the rubble.
The globe now sits in Liberty Park, at the edge of the 9/11 memorial.
@@michellem3315 Can you upload it somewhere?
@@asagoodfriend sure. I have to hunt for it, but it shouldn’t be too hard to find. I know the box it’s in. I’ll take a look when I get home from work
We were there on 7/11/01. Hard to believe what would happen two months later.
I’m left wondering what the person who recorded this was thinking on September 11th. I’d personally be quite heartbroken, because this is literally just weeks away from the attack.
No like a month.
Is a little over a month not... weeks?
@@TheRoseGawden a little over a month is still a little over four weeks.
@@maria-melek that’s still a little over four weeks
Lost for words I'd imagine.
My mom bought a fridge magnet of lower manhattan’s skyline at night from the point of New Jersey in the 90s. That fridge magnet is still on our old fridge as of 2024.
It used to be in the 2000s. The 1980s seemed strange to people. Even now the 2000s seem old. How fast time passes ..
There is a serene tranquility to these scenes. A certain energy and quality that hasn't been seen or felt since.. At least not in the Western hemisphere. The world changed forever on that terribly dark day and was never the same again.
I disagree, look at the Balkans, a war had just ended there a few years beforehand, now these places are just everyday places that people go on weekend trips to. Ireland only 3 years before 9/11 experienced a bomb go off that killed 28 people in a small town. 9/11 was a definable moment for us all but the world in many ways is better(and in a lot of ways worse) Depends on the perspective.
wonderfully articulated, tremendously accurate
You’re right 💯
Everything changed on NYE 1999-2000, and it’s been Crazy ever since.
I live in Australia and saw the news on morning TV in 2001.
I remember watching the planes flying into those buildings, that were massive structures and not being able to breathe. 💔
Blessed to have taken a class trip in the early eighties… we weren’t outside but I guess indoors observation floor. Huge glass windows…amazed as a kid watching the horizon curve…..sad
That's when I went too. Wish we'd had a super 8 camera or similar.
You cant see the horizon curve from that altitude lol
The horizon does not exist you've been told a lie learn your topography
@no name Thx feel free to quote me for a project you have or anything
You can't see the horizon curve, not even at commercial airliner flight altitudes.
I never went to the original towers but I went to the memorial in 2016 on 12th of September it’s so surreal seeing what was there in this video knowing I’ve stood where there was a whole complex towering upwards and where all those people died.When I was there my chest felt tight like I couldn’t breathe but when I left about a block away I felt better it was a surreal experience as a lot of people were taking selfies I couldn’t do that or understand why people were doing that I was just crying as I walked around reading the names
Rachie doodle after graduation since today starts my new step later on in 2021 I am planning on going to ny to honor thse people especially ffs 😥
You're soft hearted for sure.
better having a big and soft heart and strong mind than having a heart of stone and a head full of air ;)
people are so disrespectful
Bless
I was fortunate enough to go up there in 1998, thanks to my best friend in high school. I'm 41 now and I can say, for those brave souls that lost their lives, it brings back chills because you don't realize how high up you are! 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸
I was there in 1998 as well. My high school band stayed in the Marriot World Trade and had the priviledge of going up to the observation deck and ate a few meals in the mall under the plaza.
That would have been a lot of asbestos to remove.
@@cameronbartlett6593 Actually the only asbestos used was in the North Tower and only to the 38th floor. After that they switched to another fire proofing material for the rest of the complex.
I got sick to my stomach watching this. Just knowing the aftermath. It was so calm in there before.
Same. So freaking anxious.
It was planned by your own government sadly
@@wilfthebig7910 shut the fuck up. People are here to appreciate a gentler moment in time and you've gotta come in and act like a bigshot with your theories. Be they true or not, you're not adding anything useful
@@TransistorBased but if he is right then he would be adding something
@@Marklennon 'if'? There is no if.
2024 JUNE 20.
watching this. Remember that day. On TV. It was an cold rainy afternoon here in S.A .
Since that day. I was obsessed with these buildings at 14 years old.
Man it's baffling to me that these big towers i was lucky enough to experience as a foreign visitor, i traveled to NYC with my uncle during the summer break of the year 2000, i was 8 years old at the time my aunt had an apartment there as she worked as a freelancer and stayed there for two weeks, being a Norwegian this was really rare back then, unlike in recent years where travel across such distances has been relatively affordable. Coming from the country side here in Norway to a city like NY, the contrast was staggering, everything was big.
Man those towers they were something else, the day we went up to the observation deck, it was sunny and really hot, i still remember the smell, the sounds, the air inside was refreshing, nice and cool, we looked around a fair bit before going up, i have a fond memory of the lady we met higher up well dressed, she worked there, not sure for whom or what position, very little made sense to me as there were so many people and large spaces everywhere, my uncle looked down at me and told asked me if i was thirsty i nicked and soon after she passed me and my uncle a blue bottle of Bawls, i remember the taste being somewhat similar to Sprite, only better, best part is i actually brought with me those two bottles home as a souvenir, and to this day they're sitting in my glass cabinet in my living room with the bottle caps for display. I have been thinking about this for years, it's emotional, especially when you have artifacts that was given to you by someone with a kind heart that may have passed away during that horrible tragic day of 9/11.
I really enjoyed my stay in NYC, the people there where some of the nicest city folks i have ever come across, ever since my stay i have been drawn to those towers, they were truly fascinating like some sort of bond, they weren't the generic type of skyscraper, very unique design the way they did the exterior with the steel beams, especially at the bottom where they curve in some places, and the way they would reflect sunlight, they would beam light all the way from the statue of liberty. NYC has and never will be the same without the twin towers, they were not only the staple of NYC but America, those where the first two things i would things about when i would think about USA.
No matter where we went i often asked my uncle if we could see the towers or not, i was obsessed with them, and truly no matter where we would go, i would glance at them whenever they were in view, since then, over 20 years have passed and i have traveled quite a bit and have yet to see something man made with such stance and presence.
Ya man, should have been built back the same. Trump said they should have. Were amazing architecture designs.
thanks for sharing your story sir
I wish I could see the towers, they must’ve been so beautiful in person
They were beautiful, I would see them everyday on my way to school 😞
Everytime I see a video like this all I can think about are those poor jumpers😢
Most of them were tourists.
@Sturm Art
Well since there's no way to know who jumped fell stumbled or bravely chose to avoid burning to death I'll refer to them ALL as jumpers. Other than the nit picky butthurt PC technically accurate comment Nazis throwing in their unsolicited two cents, everyone else knew what I meant & that's all that really matters.
@jethro riz
Wtf does that have to do with anything???? Where was your god when these innocent people begged him for another day with their family & friends???? As a matter of fact the ass clowns who "supposedly" did this were more than proud of murdering thousands of innocent souls in "God's" name!!!!! Damn near NEVER have an atheist slaying innocent lives for their non-existent enabler in the sky but it's easier to deflect via the same ole lame ass virtue signaling & hide behind the guise of moral righteousness than to EVER actually earn that pat on the back!!!! Stop being a weak cut line bitch & own your 💩 before bothering to worry about mine ChaChi 🙋♀️ Have a nice day😊
@thecashcowpinata-hitmetoge8353 Believe in jesus christ even when times are difficult it test your faith.
@thecashcowpinata-hitmetoge8353 Communication is key thanks for your feedback.
1:51 - I can see my apartment building that I lived in at the time in Newport (Jersey City) which was almost directly on top of the Holland Tunnel. It's interesting to see where I lived from this perspective (thanks for posting!!). On 9/11 I actually slept through the whole thing (!!). I was sleeping that late because I worked nights (commuted through the WTC a few hours before the attacks). Seeing how close I was makes it that much more unbelievable that I was not woken up by it all. What did wake me up were sirens and non-stop phone calls. Never forget.
My dad worked at the top of trade tower 7. I remember going into work with him occasionally as a kid. It looks just like remembered.
did he work the day it happend ?
@@s8v1 No. He decided that morning to drive up to another office in Connecticut for a meeting. His entire office was destroyed though.
@@laurens9663 wow your dad is very lucky, what are the odds he decided to go to a different office on the day it happened
Damnnn 😮😮😮
Building was evacuated anyway, it collapsed but no lives were lost when it came down
Steel building looks amazing. It changes colors continuously with reflection.
Thanks for sharing this with us.
I was visiting NY in July and August 2001; was in Mahattan many days. I went up to the top three times, last in late August. Outside had been closed before, but a few of us were allowed to go out on the roof. All visits to NY were always outstanding. I spent many different days on the WTC public square. There were metal benches and I would always lay on one and look up between the buildings. They were massive. American strength. Everything was so nice then and we never thought it could happen. Considering all the years the towers were there, my last visit in August was too close. Just a couple weeks before I could have been there. I love our country so much. Bless and keep our Nation. I was a flight attendant for two airlines. I was not flying that day, and I did not work for the airlines again.
I’m so glad my dad survived
I wouldn’t of even been born
@Sturm Art No offense man but, what do you know. His alarm clock went of late and he missed his train. His dad worked on some of the electricity there. The person he worked next to died as he tried to escape through an elevator but it filled up with smoke and he suffocated.
For some reason I’ve always thought those were beautiful buildings that really gave the New York skyline real character.
Especially at night...
This footage is actually pretty cool! When I'm older, I want to be a media archivist and work with digital media like this!
The plaza seems to have been an excellent place to just sit down and enjoy a day, checking out the various faculties and eating your lunch while staring at those massive towers. Absolute tragedy that it became a place of so much pain and loss. My heart goes out to anyone who tried to spend their day there to never get home, and the families that lost their loved ones.
TH-cam is the best history book you could ever imagine
it topped history book with facts, but also filled with opinions
20 years later and I remember it like it was yesterday the 7th grader I was living in queens at the time. Videos like this give me goosebumps but thanks to the uploader recorded for filming this and appreciate the true beauties these skyscrapers were and how much they are missed today as well as the love ones we sadly saw perish during this heinous act.
Y de pensar que que allí yace el vacío de ellas.
2:43 is that a pager I can hear right there!? :)
You bet your sweet ass it is
Such a peaceful, ordinary day. It's still hard to believe.
Crazy how it's been 21 years since this video was filmed, how things have changed since then.
Yeah
This video was taken on the same day i was born
R.I.P. Leslie E. Robertson (lead structural engineer) - You did a fantastic job. Your buildings stood long enough to get most of the people out.
Controlled demolition.
@@JakeBor What ?
@@KB-sv7fm The buildings stood until the explosions were triggered. All 3 buildings were wired for controlled demolition prior to 9/11.
@@JakeBor You really drank the brain dead conspiracy theory Kool-Aid , didn’t you ? I saw a documentary that explained all these ridiculous 9/11 conspiracy theories.
@@JakeBor Incorrect 😂
Don't forget the owners had the insurance on those buildings greatly increased shortly before this disaster. No such thing as coincidence.
that was such a beautiful lobby. it is hard to believe it all got pulverized...
0:02 what that the actual music being played in the other building?
Muzak’s Environmental Channel, broadcasted from satellite.
My birthday is on that day. Turned 5. It sucks that I don't have much recollection of a world that was still simple. World was still shining back then.
im nostalgic for buildings i have never been to
Even if i was 5 years old, i remember a bit watching tv with m'y parents. This is something you dont forget...
Yep I was 6 years old watching this in the early morning, my parents woke me up to see the footage on live TV. A defining moment really, for our generation. There are those who remember 9/11 and those who don't. I feel for our age, it was defining for our perspective geopolitically. I remember after this, everything was about Iraq, Afghanistan, and the war on terror throughout my childhood.
20 years today... i was born 2 years later but i never forget this day :'(
It is something that undoubtedly remained in history
Who knew this footage would be Special one day
I felt 11 september was yesterday.
I am French... but i feel so sad for this beautiful country.
Viva America.
It's so eerie to watch, me and my husband went to NYC for a day trip and it was exactly 3 weeks b4 9:11.As we stood in front of tower 1 I will never forget saying to my husband as I looked all the way up imagine these buildings falling.. couldn't fathom it and 3 weeks later gone..I will never forget my words..my heart still hurts 20 yrs later..
Godspeed and love to NYC..
🙏🏻😇🙏🏻😇🙏🏻😇
Such a serene video
Lasting memories....
Truly beautiful 💗💗💗
The explosives were probably already planted in the buildings at this point.
@@UnifedCreation369 Definitely. Takes weeks to set all that up, especially when they have to hide the fact they're doing it.
Does that make you happy?
Yes and the world is flat and the moon landing was fake.
@@brianbrian4016 Yes yes straight out with the conspiracy theorist stuff. Yawn. Switch off your tv & do some real research. You'll soon figure out you've been lied to your whole life.
It is very sad that the twin tower is gone. Man, I wish NYC can rebuild the exactly same twin tower with better infrastructure.
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Hmm anti plane infrastructure
@Fire Heart Yep, We can just improve the emergency exits so people can go out before the building collapses
@Fire Heart I know I was just mocking the dumbass thinking there was a building strong enough
The thing is: I am 17, so I wasn't even born when 9/11 happened, I never even imagined NY with the WTC simply because when I was born everything was already gone. And yet I feel terrible just thinking about this horrible page in human history. I think that this is a nice thing of 9/11, it brought and still brings, everyone together, despite the age, the colour of the skin, the sexuality, the language, the clothes, the traditions... It is incredible how humans can be so comprensive sometimes. And I guess that the fact that Internet was somewhat around in 2001 made the fact so much closer to my generation and the ones after it is really good, since people can share their memories and help to prevent anything like this from happening ever again. At 2:42 I even heard the sound that my watch makes, I felt the urge to cry at just thinking how close 2001 is
Song heard at beginning: Say What's In My Heart by Andre Mayeux
RIP to all the victims, families, 1st responders. You are dearly missed & never forgotten 🙏 🕊
❤ty for sharing 😢. I truly felt like I was there watching this video. Never experienced it in person but ty for taking time to share. Amen 🙏
2:24 oh my god the view is so beautiful!!
It's crazy to think that I was here on this day For a Micheal Jackson concert at Madison Square Garden and just 2 days after I left
From 1990 to 2001 was maybe the most peaceful, worriless period one could have ever lived in as a western citizen. Promisses of nuclear disarmement, an innocent newborn internet, no smartphones and social media to pit ppl. against each other. I was lucky to be a child and a teenager in this period. It's indelible proof to me that there was and can be a place of peace in history. WTC in its hayday, right before the attacks, to me is a reminder of the lost paradise of my youth.
21 years since this video was filmed.
Crazy to think all these videos are always seen as how many months, days or weeks was counting down to the very day these towers fell in 9/11 years before was even more different because of the amount of time there was before 9/11, I still remember searching up what these towers looked like and knowing all of those tables, computer, desk, gym, restaurant are all competely gone is insane.
Crazy, I was two on this exact date. I didn’t really understand what happened on 9/11 until I was in grade school. It’s even crazier that kids younger than me weren’t even alive when it happened.
It still blows my mind that people ended up jumping out of the towers that day. I know it was because of a choice between burning up or suffocating to death from the smoke or jumping out and getting the inevitable over with. Plus the heat inside was just unreal. I can not begin to imagine being forced into such a choice. And to fall from that height is unfathomable
TH-cam is the closest thing we have to a time machine
Your the closest thing to stealing a comment
@@wyattm6782 your the closest thing to someone whos mad about comments
@@wyattm6782 bullsh1t, everyone can comment the same thing, this isn't a problem, prob u have a problem about it
The more you watch, you realize these buildings were much bigger than you would imagine.
Each floor was ONE acre!
Compilation Corner Look up 432 Park Ave tower, its higher than WTC was, but less than half the width of WTC, or less than quarter acre per floor
The more you watch the harder it is to realize that everything in this video is now just completely gone.
Each floor was 40,000 sq ft. ..huge
And there are still a plenty of morons who believe that 2 average jets managed to completely demolish this might.
The fact that there's no talking, no pausing.. or anything. Really makes this video one of the best, it's just classic new york in its finest, no sugarcoating, no nostalgic things.. just.. New york.
LilyTheFanatic yes i agree its so calming and strong
yea cant believe they didnt put their own touch and add some sad music to bother us....THANK YOU FOR NOT DOING THAT!!!
No vlogging, just peaceful recording.
You're New York
LilyTheFanatic ok weeb
The view of the city was the last thing a lot of people who jumped saw. Sad thing to think about.
No offence, but at least they saw beautiful New York before they fell but it would be really smokey and terrifying so it would be a terrible way to go...😔
well they died an epic death
@@dalmatiaball7687 you're disgusting.
Dalmatian Mapper grow up
@@exeaux3033 thank you, i wasnt joking at all
Those towers became such an ominous sight after 9/11. Whether you're seeing them in old movies, or in videos and photos of the NYC skyline, your mind immediately goes to the attacks. Two massive, looming towers, gazing out over the city. They're so geometric and faceless, they've always looked almost like headstones to me. They were the sight of so much needless destruction and suffering, it's difficult to fully imagine. RIP to all of those who died there.
I know. One day I was watching some old TV movie with Tom Hanks called Mazes and Monsters and climax is at the towers.
Yeah, they have become sort of a memento mori by now. I still have a cup from before, with the towers on it!
OK, but that's not a very nice description of the towers imo! 🤔😅
@@michael.barlow☹️☹️😢
The two headstones of America but nows there's just one wander what that means.
When you look at it, you feel like nothing can happen. All surrounded by peacefulness....That you are safe. It’s unthinkable that a couple of months later, this became a real place of apocalypse, death, destruction and pain....
what about the apocalypse USA gave to Afghanistan? Ah yes, that one doesn't matter.
@@FockeWulfFW200 - don't
Fran Barrios bro look at your fucking name. Imagine being named Fran barrios like what. Go pray at a mosque sand boy
@@FockeWulfFW200 true
@@FockeWulfFW200 shut up 🙃
But only 52 days later...
William 99 I absolutely DID cry FRIRND
William 99 that comment has 52 likes
fried chicken fan club ISIS does have the Internet
Mick Funny i never said it didn’t
The building collapsed
A whole new respect for Firefighters.
I couldn’t imagine looking up at that colosal structure and everyone is looking at them for help.
Rip to those 343 ❤️
You often forget how the huge the towers were. It's no wonder people thought it was a small private plane that crashed into the tower first.
thirteen3 they are huge you dumb ass!!! Wake up
Before you call someone else a 'dumb ass', you might want to make sure your sentence makes sense.....
Amethyst Go back to the drawing board and learn to spell!
John Adams *you're
thirteen3 Each floor was an acre (why do we in the US still use the British spelling of 'acre? Here, it should be 'acer'. That's now a computer company copyright).
Okay.. this is eerie.
Like seeing the Titanic pre-iceberg.
Thats what i thought
Exactly. Freaking horrible.
exactly, if only the past could be changed
mhm, you know its going to happen, when its going to happen and how its going to happen, you want to stop it but you cant.
@@erraticnob1519 maybe it can't be stopped, but at least maybe a few lives could have been saved, if only they could have at least been warned
Is anyone else being recommended a ton of World Trade Center footage??
This is like the 8th I’ve been shown in 2 days. Most are pre 9/11
It's because i watched few videos of that era.
Maybe its warning us....
Google “dancing Israelis”
Weird me too
@@14TND88 it won't happen again because airport security are better now
Visited these buildings in 1994. They were stunning.
BE@UTIFUL1🗽 & Company, Fantastic!
Crazy to think it will be 20 years in a few weeks. It's like looking at ghosts.
Geez
I know, it's so depressing!
And there's a new generation who were born during and after that time.
@@danielschannel701 Which includes me.
It only seemed like yesterday when it was 10 years. Scary.
This is still clearer than the security cameras in 2020
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Seeing the towers in person you really cant describe how massively tall they were it is just plain ridiculous
bruh
@Splitz X he side PLAIN ridiculous the plain part made me say bruh sorry if i made you mad or something because this is a sad thing
Like they were the tallest towers in the world in that moment wym bruh
@@elchinitofeliz1699 not about that he side PLAIN ridiculous the plain part made me say bruh i think he meant a air plain becuse a plain hit the towers it is a bad joke he did
@@donutgamingyt1849 if they meant plane, they would either say "plane ridiculous" or would write "PLAIN ridiculous"
That was probably an unintended pun.
As a person born after the disaster, it truly is a mesmerizing thing to watch things that were, it’s really is a unique, new perspective
Duupar exactly it’s an entire new level and perspective, seeing the normal life, instead of just wreckage, how every day felt in that place
Noaoah same, I’m not american and I wasn’t born yet but my parents just got married and where traveling through the US at that time, the day they would leave this happened, someone my parents visited would also get on a plane on that day, at the same time she sat in the terminal, passengers of the plane that was going to hit one of the towers, she may even have sat next to one of the terrorists
I was also born after 9/11.
I was 5 when 9/11 happened, 1st grade
I was born 4 years and 9 days after this video was taken
Thank for posting this video 🙏🏼
Didn't expect to see you here
@@kevinmontoya7318 why do people say this? Can popular TH-camrs that not morn and honor the dead? Can they not be like the rest of the world?
@@Zaron_Gaming cmon now, you took it too far
@@kevinmontoya7318 ikr
@@kevinmontoya7318 I just don't understand. Why is it so surprising to see TH-camrs watching TH-cam
I was here 2 days before the attack. 13 years old. I’ll never forget how huge these buildings were in person. 😔 we were going to go to the observation deck but decided to do it next time we came. Didn’t know there wouldn’t be a next time.
you were very lucky
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The new one doesn't have the same impact. I try to tell people who were never there what an occasion the twins were but you really need to stand near them to understand.
In 2012 after a long day spent in Paris, I passed Notre Dame Cathedral and thought I'd see it another time.
I still think it’s always amazing to see people just walking and lining up pre 9-11 days. No cell phones, so nobody is looking down. Everyone is looking up and at each other. Crazy how our simple mannerisms are so changed today
@I I Those cellphones were nothing like today- You could basically just call- Maybe a little Tetris; but no videos or apps, and the cameras were non existent or basically a banana. It's a real shame to see how disconnected we've become in real life. Taking a look back at this video always makes me yearn for more of that undiluted human connection.
These buildings were the biggest things I had ever seen in my childhood. They looked especially phenomenal at night with the hundreds of lit floors. It was incomprehensible at the time that they could actually fall.
Wish they would rebuild the twin towers to it original design.
@@mrbear716 yeaj the new One WTC is borring and hasn't any charisma
@@Croco140 i think these buildings are quite boring
@@UserName-ii1ce the fact there are double and shifted is impressive and change with other buildings
I few the opposite like it was a miracle they stood at all or they didn’t fall sooner
the view at the end was what most people saw before they died. imagine how scary it must be to either decide on burning up inside the building or to jump to death. it’s an extremely hard decision. at the end of the day they didn’t have a choice
some wore also sucked out of the building
It Must Be So Scary To See A Plane Coming Full Speed Into You're Building
I still cant believe its been 20 years i wish they were able to stop it i miss the original towers cant imagine just seeing all those people jumping out i watched the vid of the tower collapsing that was scary
It was either death by fire, by jumping, or eventually crushing when whatever tower they were on collapsed.
The observation floor wasn't open at the times of the planes crashing. If it was there would have been way more deaths
Just imagine being in that building not knowing that people were in the middle of planning to destroy it
yes in the oval office
@@FahadFSA spot on
@@FahadFSA nahhhh, the government wouldn't do something like that. . . . Would they?
@@gizmort9964 *military contractors
@@FahadFSA nope. osama bin laden masterminded it and it was in the middle east at the time
I wonder if some of the recorded people died that day? Never know
More than 2 Mill people died on that day América wass attacked in Lower Manhattan 911 never forget always remembered
ZarcGamer 209 2 thousand not 2 million
ZarcGamer 209 2 million??? Where did you get that from??
@@MattPacksXD other people died around the world
@@fatherleo4603 of the shock!!
If you've seen terminator 2 and go the the part where Sarah Connor is shouting at those kids in the park but they can't hear her. That's how I'm feeling right now
One of the most stand out things in this video, apart from the immense scale of the buildings, is strolling in with no security lines or searches. How times have changed! Very sad...
I noticed that too. Weird. It’s like life has been separated into two distinct time periods; Pre and post 9/11.