Sky lobby at 4:40 - this is the lowest floor the plane impacted and where firefighter Oreo Palmer reached, he describe a large amount of dead people who died while waiting to board the elevators to safety when the plane struck the tower. I can't imagine the sight he saw.
6:14 behind the guy in the red jacket you can see the head of somebody sitting down. I remember from my visit there in August 1977 that you could sit on the floor looking out the window. My friend wanted to go to Times Square but I insisted I wished to go to WTC. I'm glad I got my wish.
1st time we went, dad told us to bend our knees for the long elevator trip. I still do so in all elevators. Beautiful footage of a beautiful building. Thank you
@@JustRememberWhoYoureWorkingFor in case of a high speed stop! Good advice 👌 I work for otis elevator now and these were big machines (otis 269 I believe) and travelled at 1600fpm. In the event of a high speed stop in the down direction (could happen for a few reasons), knees slightly bent will help you absorb the stress.
This video made me think about the people who were trapped in the elevators the entire time. It is reported that some people were stuck in. Think of everything they heard or smelled or felt. Terrifying
footages of the sky lobby are rare this video is so exceptional feel like it never happened local elevator trips are probably made when the express elevators were on maintenance there is 12 express elevator that stop at the 78th sky lobby
Yes, I was there in 2000 and took 2 elevators. So that was not the common thing? they told us we had to take 2 elevators due to the hight of the buildings.
@@LauRa-re9un I think it depended on how high up you were in the building, sometimes you needed to take one elevator, and sometimes two. I can't be sure though.
@@blendozendoz Well, I remember exactly that I had to go in mechanical stair to the first floor, there they made me pass through Xray, I bought my ticket and then they took us to a elevator, from there to the 78th floor, then go out, walk a little and take another elevator to the 107th floor. I am sure I took 2 elevators. I was just a tourist.
We went in 1998 (as shown in my video) and we went in one elevator from the lobby straight to the top floor. In fact the elevator only had a limited number of buttons (100 to 107R from the photo I took) certainly not 107 different ones. The only WTC employees we met was the lady selling tickets in the lobby and what seemed to be teenagers operating the elevator. When I think about our visit I wonder what happened to them.
there were 3 express elevators. one went straight to the top, one to the lower sky lobby and one to the upper sky lobby. On busy days I suppose they used them all
I’ve taken the underground tunnel to the escalator that takes you to the winter garden. I’ve also walked across the pedestrian bridge over by Liberty St…those doors are heavy!
It shows how different things were back there. We had a video camera and I did have a low quality digital camera too but we didn’t have every kid walking around with smartphones. I’m a techie so, hey, whatever but I do miss when a Tamagochi kept kids occupied for days...and they told us to stop filming! 😂
It's amazing to watch this video. When I am watching it, it almost feels like the Towers are still there. I remember visiting the Skylobby during my 8th Grade Class Trip. I also recall walking through the underground Mall many times after getting off of the PATH Train from Jersey City. I passed by that Warner Bros. store many times. This video is important because it allows us to never forget all of the lives lost on 9/11. Thank you for posting this!
This is extraordinarily important in terms of layout of WTC2. It is very rare footage, which explains how people got up to the top without using the express lift which went all the way to the top. Was it out of action that day? Interestingly they have to bring people all the way down to the concourse level from the mezzanine level and it seems they have blocked the escalator from the mezzanine/plaza level. The plaza is said to be closed. Was it entirely for that purpose? After all, the down escalator would had to have been a secure area because you can see that people had passed through security at that point. How then did normal workers and so on move between mezzanine and concourse level that day. This has answered a number of questions I have had since looking at WTC layout for year so, but it also poses a rafter of new questions. Thanks for the footate!
I knew there was 2 elevators, I knew it. I´ve seen a lot of videos posted from people and I asked them if they took 2 elevators and they said "no". But when I was in the towers in june 2000, I remember I had to take 2 elevators, due to the hight, at least that´s what they told us. So thank you very much for confirming this to me! I was not crazy LOL I have only a few pictures of the towers, I didn´t have much money when I did that trip. Thanks for all the reminders of my trip!!
@@MrDuncl I really don´t know why, but I am sure I took 2 elevators going up and 2 going down. I went on june 4,. 2000. I have it written, that is why I remember the date.
@@LauRa-re9un it’s most likely due to the express elevator from the lobby level being down due to maintenance. The motors for these elevators had to be routinely serviced considering they were the only ones in the buildings that went from 1 to 107 in a single trip. I remember when our family went to the Empire State Building in the summer of 96’ we had a similar experience. We took the elevator from the lobby to some floor midway up the building to another elevator that took us to the main observation floor. Some have told me years later they only took one elevator but I distinctly remembered two trips.
@@josephbeierschmitt That is the most likely explanation. Maybe someone with more knowledge of the original WTC can tell us how many express elevators there were. If it was just the one it would be bound to need maintenance sometimes. p.s Check this out th-cam.com/video/j6Piy7FfNII/w-d-xo.html I haven't a clue what most of it does but it looks to be very complicated.
You're both right cause both times I visited and the first time ( 1989 or 90) we rode 2 elevators and the second time (1992) we took one express elevator all the way to the observatory
Brings back a lot of memories. What a place. We took photos with a film camera but lost the film (long story). The only tangible artefact I have now is the ticket stub.
This was filmed a year after i was in NYC was supposed to go to the Towers for a tour and Grandmother was tired and said NEXT TIME. There never was a next time 😢.
Thanks for uploading. When we visited we just saw the lobby, the top floor, and "The Deck" on the roof. If you ever get hold of the original footage again it looks as if you have the interlacing wrong which leads to wavy verticals on movement. It took me ages to sort that out when trying to do video editing on a PC (where it looked O.K.) then burn DVDs which came out like this.
Sadly I couldn't do anything about the lines, as this footage is taken from TH-cam.. If I had the original footage, I'd probably be able to get rid of them.
@@blendozendoz Good footage, sadly it was transferred and deinterlaced really bad. If you still had the tape you could get a Digital 8 camera with a FireWire cable and a s-video cable for your analog camera and then deinterlace with QTGMC filter.
@@Galidorquest I believe it was from a reddit post but likely it was exaggeration/false. I read that the chief firefighter got up to the sky lobby and radioed back there were many casualties inside but didn't go into detail before the tower collapsed.
@@WWERULEZ1000 Orio Palmer made it up to 78. It is unclear how many people were alive out of the many in the lobby. Funnily enough the survivors seem to have been in the local lifts lobby alcove area, at the northerly end of 78, which is where you see the family being shepherded into the second lift. Might it be that some of the people who survived on 78 and made it down by foot from there downplayed the number of people who survived, because otherwise questions would arise as to why they did not stay to help?
@@benlowry9357 I don't think they were going around checking vital signs mate, they'd just been in a room hit head-on by a plane and they were all severely injured or burned themselves.
The original twin towers of the World Trade Center was a very unique site that was a city with in a city featuring the landmark twin towers and the only twin towers in the United States. This site had a underground shopping mall, A hotel, a restaurant on 1 WTC, a water fountain in the outside plaza with a golden like structure on it. I can not at all believe all of this was destroyed on 9/11/2001 unbelievable..
Also to mention that people most likely died in those same elevators shown in the footage. Reports have said that about 200 to 400 people died on WTC elevators on 9-11. While some WTC elevators saved people's lives, others turned into human coffins. Some people were killed instantly when their elevators plunged to the bottom when the second plane hit and other people people who were trapped in blind shafts were killed when the building collapsed. Uugh I can't even imagine the hell those people went thru. May all the victims continue to R.I.P.
@@kimomalone3783 It was worse than that actually. Some of the elevators did in fact plunge when their cables were severed by the plane, however the emergency brakes engaged and stopped the cars just above the lobby, partway between floors. The flaming jet fuel went down the shafts, collected underneath the elevators, and was literally roasting the people inside the elevators alive. Some firefighters and the people inside the elevators pried open the doors but couldn't get out as the elevator was stuck partway between floors and there wasn't enough space to escape, so some of the firefighters sprayed fire extinguishers down the elevator shaft underneath the elevators attempting to put out the fire. The firefighters then went back to their vehicles and got the jaws of life to cut into the elevator area and they managed to rescue a couple ladies who escaped before the whole thing collapsed on the rest of them. RIP Heroes & Angels.
Not all of them, but the vast majority. I think 12 people survived from that floor. When the North Tower got hit at 8:46, most people chose to evacuate the South Tower within relatively short order. Of the roughly 3,200 people who were on floors 78-110 of the South Tower at 8:46, over 2,500 were either completely out of the building or below the impact zone (77th floor or lower). However, the sky lobby was a transit point for many during the evacuation; some chose to evacuate via elevator, meaning they'd have to pass through the sky lobby. Some people just happened to be unfortunate enough to be in this area at 9:03 when the South Tower got hit. Others gathered on the 78th floor awaiting instruction or trying to figure out what to do, and this was especially the case after the "south tower is secure" announcements. And a few minutes of delay could easily prove fatal.
Only reason why these were Attacked so much were because they were/Are so Symbolic ! The What's there Now is Symbolic in the Wrong Way so therefor won't be Attacked .
I'll never go up to the top even in the new 1 WTC observation level 102. I was in the original one back in the 1980's in 2wtc and I'm not at tourist. These morons will try it again if they think they can get away with it. I rather be on the street for safety reasons.
I'm sure the CIA, FBI, and USAF have their act together by now. The stupid thing is that back in 2001 they could have probably spotted a missile being launched in North Korea with no problems at all.
Means the original video from the original poster can't be found and might've been privated or deleted, for whatever reason. WTC-related videos tend to get taken down a lot.
parents were embarrassing their kids in those days videotaping too much , the kid was keeping it real , now kids are the embarrassment for recording amongst other things
Sky lobby at 4:40 - this is the lowest floor the plane impacted and where firefighter Oreo Palmer reached, he describe a large amount of dead people who died while waiting to board the elevators to safety when the plane struck the tower. I can't imagine the sight he saw.
roughly 200 people in that lobby at the time. A vision of hell
6:14 behind the guy in the red jacket you can see the head of somebody sitting down. I remember from my visit there in August 1977 that you could sit on the floor looking out the window. My friend wanted to go to Times Square but I insisted I wished to go to WTC. I'm glad I got my wish.
Amazing video inside the local and express elevators. I had no idea how the local elevators looked from the inside prior to this video.
If this is the South Tower, that was the sky lobby I used to board the shuttle elevator to floors 83 and 86. A million thanks!
It's hard to believe that all came crushing down in 6 seconds
*10 sec
10 for wtc and 12 for wtc 1
1st time we went, dad told us to bend our knees for the long elevator trip. I still do so in all elevators. Beautiful footage of a beautiful building. Thank you
Bend your knees in an elevator? Why?
@@JustRememberWhoYoureWorkingFor
in case of a high speed stop! Good advice 👌 I work for otis elevator now and these were big machines (otis 269 I believe) and travelled at 1600fpm. In the event of a high speed stop in the down direction (could happen for a few reasons), knees slightly bent will help you absorb the stress.
@@junglemastah ok thanks, never thought of that
This video made me think about the people who were trapped in the elevators the entire time. It is reported that some people were stuck in. Think of everything they heard or smelled or felt. Terrifying
For a german guy its unbellevable how fast these express elevators were. Thank you for shaing this amazing video material.
footages of the sky lobby are rare this video is so exceptional feel like it never happened local elevator trips are probably made when the express elevators were on maintenance there is 12 express elevator that stop at the 78th sky lobby
Yes, I was there in 2000 and took 2 elevators. So that was not the common thing? they told us we had to take 2 elevators due to the hight of the buildings.
@@LauRa-re9un I think it depended on how high up you were in the building, sometimes you needed to take one elevator, and sometimes two. I can't be sure though.
@@blendozendoz Well, I remember exactly that I had to go in mechanical stair to the first floor, there they made me pass through Xray, I bought my ticket and then they took us to a elevator, from there to the 78th floor, then go out, walk a little and take another elevator to the 107th floor. I am sure I took 2 elevators. I was just a tourist.
We went in 1998 (as shown in my video) and we went in one elevator from the lobby straight to the top floor. In fact the elevator only had a limited number of buttons (100 to 107R from the photo I took) certainly not 107 different ones. The only WTC employees we met was the lady selling tickets in the lobby and what seemed to be teenagers operating the elevator. When I think about our visit I wonder what happened to them.
there were 3 express elevators. one went straight to the top, one to the lower sky lobby and one to the upper sky lobby. On busy days I suppose they used them all
Thank you for this. Our building’s Winter Garden was beautiful. Good to see again
Glad the Winter garden survived.
I’ve taken the underground tunnel to the escalator that takes you to the winter garden. I’ve also walked across the pedestrian bridge over by Liberty St…those doors are heavy!
Lots and lots of nostalgia.
That annoying kid who said "stop recording" cost us historic footage treasure
It shows how different things were back there. We had a video camera and I did have a low quality digital camera too but we didn’t have every kid walking around with smartphones. I’m a techie so, hey, whatever but I do miss when a Tamagochi kept kids occupied for days...and they told us to stop filming! 😂
He's not annoying, he's just a kid.. plus, I feel like I would've done the same, especially in a place which had been bombed a few years previously.
cost us ? whos us . im not with you millennial
no your annoying.
@@seanodonnell6947 you must be that kid
It's amazing to watch this video. When I am watching it, it almost feels like the Towers are still there. I remember visiting the Skylobby during my 8th Grade Class Trip. I also recall walking through the underground Mall many times after getting off of the PATH Train from Jersey City. I passed by that Warner Bros. store many times. This video is important because it allows us to never forget all of the lives lost on 9/11. Thank you for posting this!
Nice camcorder. I still remember how big my father’s video camera was when I graduated high school in 1993.
The South Tower's observatory had a great queue line!
This is extraordinarily important in terms of layout of WTC2. It is very rare footage, which explains how people got up to the top without using the express lift which went all the way to the top. Was it out of action that day? Interestingly they have to bring people all the way down to the concourse level from the mezzanine level and it seems they have blocked the escalator from the mezzanine/plaza level.
The plaza is said to be closed. Was it entirely for that purpose? After all, the down escalator would had to have been a secure area because you can see that people had passed through security at that point. How then did normal workers and so on move between mezzanine and concourse level that day. This has answered a number of questions I have had since looking at WTC layout for year so, but it also poses a rafter of new questions. Thanks for the footate!
I knew there was 2 elevators, I knew it. I´ve seen a lot of videos posted from people and I asked them if they took 2 elevators and they said "no". But when I was in the towers in june 2000, I remember I had to take 2 elevators, due to the hight, at least that´s what they told us. So thank you very much for confirming this to me! I was not crazy LOL
I have only a few pictures of the towers, I didn´t have much money when I did that trip.
Thanks for all the reminders of my trip!!
We took an express elevator straight to the top floor. Maybe it was out of service some days.
@@MrDuncl I really don´t know why, but I am sure I took 2 elevators going up and 2 going down. I went on june 4,. 2000. I have it written, that is why I remember the date.
@@LauRa-re9un it’s most likely due to the express elevator from the lobby level being down due to maintenance. The motors for these elevators had to be routinely serviced considering they were the only ones in the buildings that went from 1 to 107 in a single trip. I remember when our family went to the Empire State Building in the summer of 96’ we had a similar experience. We took the elevator from the lobby to some floor midway up the building to another elevator that took us to the main observation floor. Some have told me years later they only took one elevator but I distinctly remembered two trips.
@@josephbeierschmitt That is the most likely explanation. Maybe someone with more knowledge of the original WTC can tell us how many express elevators there were. If it was just the one it would be bound to need maintenance sometimes.
p.s Check this out th-cam.com/video/j6Piy7FfNII/w-d-xo.html I haven't a clue what most of it does but it looks to be very complicated.
You're both right cause both times I visited and the first time ( 1989 or 90) we rode 2 elevators and the second time (1992) we took one express elevator all the way to the observatory
Brings back a lot of memories. What a place. We took photos with a film camera but lost the film (long story). The only tangible artefact I have now is the ticket stub.
Rode these everyday but to the lower skylobby on 44.
here before this blows up
lol
This was filmed a year after i was in NYC was supposed to go to the Towers for a tour and Grandmother was tired and said NEXT TIME. There never was a next time 😢.
Thanks for uploading. When we visited we just saw the lobby, the top floor, and "The Deck" on the roof.
If you ever get hold of the original footage again it looks as if you have the interlacing wrong which leads to wavy verticals on movement. It took me ages to sort that out when trying to do video editing on a PC (where it looked O.K.) then burn DVDs which came out like this.
Sadly I couldn't do anything about the lines, as this footage is taken from TH-cam.. If I had the original footage, I'd probably be able to get rid of them.
@@blendozendoz Good footage, sadly it was transferred and deinterlaced really bad. If you still had the tape you could get a Digital 8 camera with a FireWire cable and a s-video cable for your analog camera and then deinterlace with QTGMC filter.
everyone was so normal and straight forward. miss everything about this video
04:46 "Move it." That guy was so rude to that family.
Whoa u ryt! Hate those types of people like that smh they thought they’re ur boss!🤬
Don't wear a cowboys jacket in Giants Territory
04:40 about 200 people died in that room.
Yep, they were waiting for lifts in the sky lobby to take them away at 9.02am.
@@WWERULEZ1000 Where did you hear that from?...
@@Galidorquest I believe it was from a reddit post but likely it was exaggeration/false. I read that the chief firefighter got up to the sky lobby and radioed back there were many casualties inside but didn't go into detail before the tower collapsed.
@@WWERULEZ1000 Orio Palmer made it up to 78. It is unclear how many people were alive out of the many in the lobby. Funnily enough the survivors seem to have been in the local lifts lobby alcove area, at the northerly end of 78, which is where you see the family being shepherded into the second lift. Might it be that some of the people who survived on 78 and made it down by foot from there downplayed the number of people who survived, because otherwise questions would arise as to why they did not stay to help?
@@benlowry9357 I don't think they were going around checking vital signs mate, they'd just been in a room hit head-on by a plane and they were all severely injured or burned themselves.
you will get a lot of more views if you add in the name of this video wtc 2 78 floor skylobby
The famous 78th floor
Yes I always wanted to see what that looked like but could never find anything
The original twin towers of the World Trade Center was a very unique site that was a city with in a city featuring the landmark twin towers and the only twin towers in the United States. This site had a underground shopping mall, A hotel, a restaurant on 1 WTC, a water fountain in the outside plaza with a golden like structure on it. I can not at all believe all of this was destroyed on 9/11/2001 unbelievable..
The golden sculpture The Sphere survived the attacks, with some damage. You can still see it in Liberty Park.
Wow, a two ride trip....thanks for digging that up!!!
I was there before 9/11
There were over 200 people jam packed on the 78 floor when United 175 crashed and they all died
Also to mention that people most likely died in those same elevators shown in the footage. Reports have said that about 200 to 400 people died on WTC elevators on 9-11. While some WTC elevators saved people's lives, others turned into human coffins. Some people were killed instantly when their elevators plunged to the bottom when the second plane hit and other people people who were trapped in blind shafts were killed when the building collapsed. Uugh I can't even imagine the hell those people went thru. May all the victims continue to R.I.P.
@@kimomalone3783 It was worse than that actually. Some of the elevators did in fact plunge when their cables were severed by the plane, however the emergency brakes engaged and stopped the cars just above the lobby, partway between floors. The flaming jet fuel went down the shafts, collected underneath the elevators, and was literally roasting the people inside the elevators alive. Some firefighters and the people inside the elevators pried open the doors but couldn't get out as the elevator was stuck partway between floors and there wasn't enough space to escape, so some of the firefighters sprayed fire extinguishers down the elevator shaft underneath the elevators attempting to put out the fire. The firefighters then went back to their vehicles and got the jaws of life to cut into the elevator area and they managed to rescue a couple ladies who escaped before the whole thing collapsed on the rest of them. RIP Heroes & Angels.
Not all of them, but the vast majority. I think 12 people survived from that floor.
When the North Tower got hit at 8:46, most people chose to evacuate the South Tower within relatively short order. Of the roughly 3,200 people who were on floors 78-110 of the South Tower at 8:46, over 2,500 were either completely out of the building or below the impact zone (77th floor or lower). However, the sky lobby was a transit point for many during the evacuation; some chose to evacuate via elevator, meaning they'd have to pass through the sky lobby. Some people just happened to be unfortunate enough to be in this area at 9:03 when the South Tower got hit. Others gathered on the 78th floor awaiting instruction or trying to figure out what to do, and this was especially the case after the "south tower is secure" announcements. And a few minutes of delay could easily prove fatal.
It was quite dark inside the old WTC...
It's like in the Death Star...
Unbelievable this was all destroyed in less than 2 hours really was a city inside a city
america lost its mojo that day
I think I heard Muzak in those cars....
Best Tower 2 footage. Did u guys stop on 78 skylobby and take a local elevator to the observatory?
they did
This isn’t my footage sadly, but I do quite like it..
I remember doing this a couple times.
Dang these have classic leveling and relay logic
Beautiful
Only reason why these were Attacked so much were because they were/Are so Symbolic !
The What's there Now is Symbolic in the Wrong Way so therefor won't be Attacked .
The kid that told him to stop recording should just go off camera lol.
this is why you teach kids to be quiet in public
When was this?
Also, It’s so surreal and baffling to think all of that huge complex would be just an empty hole many years later.
I guess around 1995/96. Looney Tunes characters at 1:10 They were popular in that time.
Timestamp at 1:36 says March 16, 1999.
Ojalá hagan las torres gemelas otra vez
I'll never go up to the top even in the new 1 WTC observation level 102. I was in the original one back in the 1980's in 2wtc and I'm not at tourist. These morons will try it again if they think they can get away with it. I rather be on the street for safety reasons.
I'm sure the CIA, FBI, and USAF have their act together by now. The stupid thing is that back in 2001 they could have probably spotted a missile being launched in North Korea with no problems at all.
*The last part of the video the building still exist to this day.*
That's not a part of the building, thats the winter garden. It was located near the south tower, but was not part of it.
LoL I need a second footage from a second camera operator..
The express elevators did not notice it has MUZAK
Where did you find this?
A friend sent it to me, it was around on TH-cam for a while, I think.
All this great stuff went to ruin. Damn shame.
*Never Forget* ❤️😭
Looks like footage from 1978
Es como ver a un viajero del tiempo sabes?
Rare!
me asombro que el que grabo esto era un argentino
What does that mean exactly that original video might be lost ?
Is THIS the only Survived Copy ?
Means the original video from the original poster can't be found and might've been privated or deleted, for whatever reason. WTC-related videos tend to get taken down a lot.
I was a fetus when this was recorded.
BbRalph Gregg
The World Trade Center 😍😻😍😻😍😻😍😻😍😻😍😻😍😻😍
parents were embarrassing their kids in those days videotaping too much , the kid was keeping it real , now kids are the embarrassment for recording amongst other things