World Trade Center by Day and Night 1998

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  • World Trade Center by Day and Night 1998
    Uploaded in memory of the victims on 9/11/2001..
    This was videoed using a camcorder we bought especially for our holiday in the USA in October 1998. Sorry about the picture quality. I think that any interference on the videos was due to the powerful TV transmitter on the other tower as it didn't happen elsewhere.
    Having already been up the Empire State Building we almost didn't bother visiting The World Trade Center but, even back in 1998, we were very pleased we did after comparing the spacious wide open views from The World Trade Center Deck to the small cramped cage at the top of The Empire State Building. After our holiday I kept telling people how much better the World Trade Center experience was.
    After 9/11 a couple of my photos taken at the World Trade Center including the one in the thumbnail were exhibited at the "This is New York" exhibition held to raise money for the victims.
    If you want to see more of the "Deck" viewing platform check out the music video Depeche Mode made there
    • Depeche Mode "Enjoy Th...
    Music on this video
    "Six Seasons" by The Unicorn Heads from the TH-cam Audio Library.

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  • @MrDuncl
    @MrDuncl  3 ปีที่แล้ว +196

    If you are interested in the interior shots make sure you watch to the end. I am pretty sure that after going outside we had to go back into the World Trade Center to get to the subway station (past the "Two World Trade Center" plaque).

    • @MrDuncl
      @MrDuncl  3 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      @Juan Chiluiza The only photos I took of note were the one of the lift, the one looking up at the two towers which are both in the video and a photo looking down at the street which wasn't as interesting as the panning down to the street shot in the video. Those were the ones exhibited at "This is New York".
      The rest of the time I was too busy operating the camcorder, which we had only had a few weeks, to take photos. Of course this was back in the days when our Camcorder (a Sharp Viewcam) did nothing but take video, and my camera took 35mm film.

    • @vineshjankee5213
      @vineshjankee5213 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      I would like to see the offices inside the
      World Trade center

    • @C.R886
      @C.R886 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Thanks for this 💚

    • @Matt-yh6we
      @Matt-yh6we 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @Vinesh Jankee m.th-cam.com/video/u1wdwRsCiEQ/w-d-xo.html

    • @MrDuncl
      @MrDuncl  3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@vineshjankee5213 Here is a video from someone else that shows just that th-cam.com/video/7B8JRuo3oNY/w-d-xo.html
      Literally just another day at the office, with the person who published it fooling around with his camcorder. Sadly one of the men in the video actually died on 9/11.

  • @xxpsilocybinxx8878
    @xxpsilocybinxx8878 3 ปีที่แล้ว +445

    the 90s were something else man

    • @newton983
      @newton983 3 ปีที่แล้ว +25

      The 90s is my favorite decade. Now, for those like me who lived somewhere in Latin America, they weren’t “something else”. Still, I feel this deep nostalgia when I remember my childhood and teenage years back in the 1990s…

    • @Falcxon
      @Falcxon 3 ปีที่แล้ว +43

      90’s were the perfect compromise between technology and freedom

    • @xxpsilocybinxx8878
      @xxpsilocybinxx8878 3 ปีที่แล้ว +32

      @@Falcxon agree. enough technology to ease everyday life, but not consuming people's lives

    • @vibes8930
      @vibes8930 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      But remember, there are great advancements we have today

    • @Dr.SyedSaifAbbasNaqvi
      @Dr.SyedSaifAbbasNaqvi 3 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      @@xxpsilocybinxx8878 perfectly said. The smartphones ruined everything.

  • @ariass9345
    @ariass9345 3 ปีที่แล้ว +325

    I’ve been on the 107 floor with my father in the north tower. It was the most beautiful thing ever. It felt like your on top of the world

    • @B_58_hustler_
      @B_58_hustler_ 3 ปีที่แล้ว +13

      If i was up that high i would be so scared

    • @ariass9345
      @ariass9345 3 ปีที่แล้ว +10

      @@B_58_hustler_ I was scared at first but after a while you get use to it

    • @sneakstv8958
      @sneakstv8958 3 ปีที่แล้ว +14

      1973-Sep. 11th 2001 😢 gone by too soon

    • @somebloke2238
      @somebloke2238 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      *you're

    • @MamesJatthew29
      @MamesJatthew29 2 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      After the complex came down, everyone seemingly had lost their bearings in and around the city, because for so long- you could always reorient yourself and/or your direction, because the towers were so visible from far away and in any direction. Beautiful at night and especially during sunny days, the way the aluminum facade would reflect the light.

  • @2kdemiks816
    @2kdemiks816 3 ปีที่แล้ว +368

    absolutely crazy how this is all gone

    • @AG058
      @AG058 3 ปีที่แล้ว +20

      Gun(War) companies wanted to make money bro

    • @Kill--alllll---IDF
      @Kill--alllll---IDF 3 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      @@AG058 but tbey didn't have noo feeling in their heart and minds that killing innocent people is just toooo bad

    • @frost_spirit3314
      @frost_spirit3314 3 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      @@Kill--alllll---IDF i had a stroke reading this

    • @Kill--alllll---IDF
      @Kill--alllll---IDF 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@frost_spirit3314 ur largers is ur heaven ĺol

    • @frost_spirit3314
      @frost_spirit3314 3 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      @@Kill--alllll---IDF the what

  • @mountainbirder9872
    @mountainbirder9872 ปีที่แล้ว +24

    I visited the SouthTower observation deck in 1999. Will never forget it. Very strange how something so massive is entirely gone. That point is now air. I visited the memorial in 2019. It was really beautiful.

  • @F5Storm1
    @F5Storm1 2 ปีที่แล้ว +52

    No matter what we all thought of them, I think in our hearts we still wish those buildings were still there, New York will never be the same without those towers, every time I see New York it seems so empty

    • @Ayoub-y1w
      @Ayoub-y1w ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Same!!! even though I was born after the 9/11 but the wtc were always a part of my childhood (see them in movies, cartoons, etc....) without knowing that they don't exist anymore until my early teens, to me when I was younger, whenever I see skyline I immediately think of NYC and the twin towers....

    • @3UZFE
      @3UZFE ปีที่แล้ว +2

      What replaced it almost seems worse than nothing.

  • @KingTriton1837
    @KingTriton1837 3 ปีที่แล้ว +62

    Visited here in 1988. I still can't imagine falling from those top floors like that!!!

    • @J1407b_father-of-saturn
      @J1407b_father-of-saturn 3 ปีที่แล้ว +11

      Thats what breaks my heart most is the people falling to their deaths, so tragic 😥

    • @C.A._Old
      @C.A._Old หลายเดือนก่อน

      same.

  • @jammy_rex3038
    @jammy_rex3038 3 ปีที่แล้ว +187

    Such wonderful footage of these beautiful buildings. What an amazing photo looking up at the Towers at night. Thank you for sharing. I visited New York in 2008 (from the UK) and sadly never got to see the Towers. At ground zero I sat down, and just looked up in contemplation, trying to visualise these once magnificent structures standing tall and proud, and also process the horror which took place in that very same spot. I could have sat there all day just pondering it all and thinking of those who lost their lives.
    Twenty years on from the attacks I find myself more fascinated than ever with these buildings and watching any old footage like this I can find.

    • @oliverjumelle
      @oliverjumelle 3 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      To me. They should have been rebuilt. Higher!

    • @maybugz
      @maybugz 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Me and my brothers went there in 2008 from UK aswell

    • @bendeegan5907
      @bendeegan5907 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      I also visited from England but in 2006 I think.

    • @maybugz
      @maybugz 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@bendeegan5907 time flys doesn't it

    • @bendeegan5907
      @bendeegan5907 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@maybugz certainly does my friend. I just can't comprehend it really.

  • @-XXIII-
    @-XXIII- 3 ปีที่แล้ว +34

    I can't stop watching videos of the World Trade Center.. 😭 I'm 26 years old and so sad that I never see it in reality. Greetings from Germany..

    • @rknine7998
      @rknine7998 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      I know that magnificent feeling.

    • @eueu4644
      @eueu4644 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Yes I too , one day I Will to visit the museum

    • @AbidKhan-zp8zz
      @AbidKhan-zp8zz 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Yes friend

    • @JoseG-pn8vm
      @JoseG-pn8vm 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      I feel just like you

  • @Miss-Sarah-Lumen
    @Miss-Sarah-Lumen 2 ปีที่แล้ว +15

    It's time again to watch the old movies from them and to remember the victims. I'm 26 years old, never ever had the chance to see them, so why am I crying when Im watching the old movies??? Love the music it fits perfectly ☺️

    • @kawaibakaneko
      @kawaibakaneko 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Thanks you elder for the generational trauma! /s
      You must be a good person to have so much empathy

  • @franlooving4203
    @franlooving4203 3 ปีที่แล้ว +55

    Minoru Yamasaki outdid them all! As a young person I'd just stare at how he designed them. Just stunning!!! I miss them!!! Great video & great music. Thank you!

    • @agustinhernandez3171
      @agustinhernandez3171 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      Yamasaki logro con sus obras lo que pocos han hecho, que sus Torres se quedarán en la mente de todos, el simple hecho de imaginar un rascacielos se piensa en una estructura prismatica, esa imagen de horizonte con el WTC es simplemente imponente.
      Logro quedar en la Historia, hasta cuándo ya no existe su obra la gente sigue acordandose

    • @The-Great-Brindian
      @The-Great-Brindian 2 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      Agreed.
      During a press conference in 1973, Yamasaki was asked, "Why two 110-story buildings? Why not one 220-story building?" His tongue-in-cheek response was: "I didn't want to lose the human scale."
      :-)

  • @cyriljacob4839
    @cyriljacob4839 3 ปีที่แล้ว +57

    The music is like homicide movie kind of stuff. The sadness and horror radiates from it.I can't believe such magnificent structures are never there. And there will never be such beautiful towers anywhere else on Earth.

  • @ChrisZoomER
    @ChrisZoomER 3 ปีที่แล้ว +44

    The beautiful twilight view drives me to tears given that 9/11 was more than two decades ago, and our world hasn't exactly changed for the better since then...

  • @peace-to-the-world
    @peace-to-the-world 3 ปีที่แล้ว +28

    Those towers in dusk of the night, lightened inside from distance look magical

  • @steevorific
    @steevorific 3 ปีที่แล้ว +39

    I've loved those buildings since I saw them on that 1970's King Kong movie poster as a kid. Gorgeous in their elegant simplicity.
    The new building, is just a building, not iconic like the Towers were.

  • @newton983
    @newton983 3 ปีที่แล้ว +54

    The lobby was beautiful and huge! Can’t help thinking about the daily routine of those who worked there. It makes me sad 😞

    • @eloisebrynlee
      @eloisebrynlee 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Yes I agree. 4:35 onwards, seeing it in the dark all lit up. 😯

    • @The-Great-Brindian
      @The-Great-Brindian 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Just look at it, and try to comprehend the huge scale and size of it though. The Lobby of the wtc. It seems scary that some people had just made it to the lobby when the the tower began to collapse on itself. Could you imagine the terror? Could you?

  • @borleyboo5613
    @borleyboo5613 3 ปีที่แล้ว +78

    This is very weird. I’ve been watching lots of 9/11 videos since the 20th anniversary. Plus, I discovered this gorgeous music on another video. So I’ve associated this music with these videos.
    And here is this beautiful video combining the two. Thank you for posting this. It’s a stunning reminder of the iconic ‘Twins’. 👍😃

    • @thomasm1281
      @thomasm1281 3 ปีที่แล้ว +13

      Me too, been watching 9/11 video's for a couple of weeks now like wanting to be as close as I can get to that tragic day. It keeps me too busy and grieving over those poor victims. Greetings from Holland 🇳🇱🇺🇲

    • @jonsmeeguitar8665
      @jonsmeeguitar8665 3 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      I’m the same. Been fascinated by these amazing towers for a while now but the 20th anniversary made me want to research and watch videos on them! So tragic what happened RIP 🇺🇸

    • @terryhaircastle5702
      @terryhaircastle5702 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Same here. Most strikingly I found a video shot inside an office high up, on a regular work day. Just amazing footage

    • @gordito4716
      @gordito4716 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@terryhaircastle5702 link?

    • @terryhaircastle5702
      @terryhaircastle5702 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@gordito4716 here you go:
      th-cam.com/video/7B8JRuo3oNY/w-d-xo.html

  • @tjrtt
    @tjrtt 3 ปีที่แล้ว +172

    The lobby was beautiful. The new WTC is built like a giant bunker, nothing like this.

    • @nessa2481
      @nessa2481 3 ปีที่แล้ว +10

      That is so cool you saw the original! I want to go to ground zero someday… never forget.

    • @marte3351
      @marte3351 3 ปีที่แล้ว +39

      The new tower lacks all the grace the Twins had.
      It's bulky att the base with a exaggerated dramatic walk just to get to the elevator.
      The glassfacade is generic and messy at the top. And it's alone.
      I like absolutely nothing about the new tower and miss the old ones like hell.

    • @blueskythefox1594
      @blueskythefox1594 3 ปีที่แล้ว +22

      @@marte3351 and only workers can go to lobby of One WTC. while old one is just an open lobby that anyone can go in. it's pretty sad.

    • @marte3351
      @marte3351 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      @@blueskythefox1594 very sad.

    • @blueskythefox1594
      @blueskythefox1594 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@marte3351 indeed.

  • @littlecookingtips
    @littlecookingtips 3 ปีที่แล้ว +57

    Thank you for this upload. It's still so hard to grasp what happened on this day, 20 years ago. RIP for all the people lost.

  • @k.cooper8816
    @k.cooper8816 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    I'm overwhelmed with such beauty on VHS...

  • @nzer19
    @nzer19 3 ปีที่แล้ว +27

    So extraordinarily sad to see such strong buildings reduced to that brittle skeleton on 9/11.

  • @nkruber
    @nkruber 3 ปีที่แล้ว +16

    Был на одной из башен в 1993 году - до сих пор храню билеты - не забываемое приключение...

    • @Др.Рданныеудалены
      @Др.Рданныеудалены 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Капец, и как это чувствовать что ты был в месте которого больше(почти) нет?

  • @loganlane8199
    @loganlane8199 2 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    If they ever build a time machine, the first place I would go to is these two beauties pre-9/11.
    There so beautiful!😢😢

    • @MrDuncl
      @MrDuncl  2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Go to 1 WTC at 8:30 on 9/11/2001 and set off every fire alarm in sight.

    • @c.eb.1216
      @c.eb.1216 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      I would flash my smartphone around to convince people I have authority superceding the port authority and make them all evacuate under threat of federal penalty. I'd scare the bossy people in charge into helping me herd people out instead of telling them to stay. On the other hand, maybe I just would find a way to prevent anyone from entering the building that morning.
      Wouldn't it be funny if so many people didn't go in or were late because of some subliminal influence broadcasted the evening before? If it had been possible to send out a mass text message suggesting life is too short to go to the office on such a beautiful day...

  • @Queue26
    @Queue26 3 ปีที่แล้ว +14

    Wow, I have such a vivid memory of the views from this video. One of my fondest memories of being a kid in the 90s was going to the top of the WTC with my grandmother in the evening and seeing the sunset, and the city transition to lights. Afterwards my grandma pretended to get lost and tossed a map at me and said navigate us home to Long Island lol. The WTC was a magical place and pre 9/11 was a better time.

  • @Crispy99999
    @Crispy99999 3 ปีที่แล้ว +43

    They have become more famous, mysterious and iconic in death then they were in life. They have become immortal, their power and status as sentries of New York cemented…the paradox is that they had to be destroyed, and take so many poor souls with them, to achieve this.

    • @margui6224
      @margui6224 3 ปีที่แล้ว +25

      I believed It was their fame that lead to their horrific fate. The Twins were majestic. They were heavily featured in movies and music videos. Thousands of tourists visited them and looked at them amazed. They glowed during the day and night. They were the most photographed towers in the world. New York was proud of its Twins. The new tower is modern, but lacks elegance and doesn’t match the skyline like the Twins did. Their simple beauty was amazing. They were New York’s face.
      Rest In Peace all the victims of that horrendous attack. I wish the government would have protect both the victims and these wonderful Twin Towers.
      The terrorists won by watching New York been amputated.
      It’s devastating.
      The families of the victims wanted the Twins to be rebuild. Doing that would have been a slap on the face to those murderers.
      I never had the chance to visit the Twin Towers, I only “knew” them by watching movies.

    • @InvisibleHotdog
      @InvisibleHotdog 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      No, they haven't. As time passes, people are gonna forget about them just like any other building that was demolished. Unfortunately.

    • @jeffjansen582
      @jeffjansen582 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@margui6224 It was a Black Flag operation.

  • @jimryan5280
    @jimryan5280 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    Videos like yours do great job in capturing the majesty of these two buildings. I remember visiting NYC in 1989 and walking by these two imposing structures in awe of their massiveness. Little did I ever think in my wildest dreams that 12 years later these two buildings would be destroyed in the worst terrorist attack in our nation's history. I think alot about these buildings and the lives lost that day. I'm sure as you were capturing the video on that day you never thought that such an ordinary video would become part of history. I can only hope that for a younger generation with no memories of the original World Trade Center towers that they watch your video and others like it. I hope it will give them some insight into these two structures and the heoinus act that transpired on September 11, 2001. Let us never forget.

    • @MrDuncl
      @MrDuncl  11 หลายเดือนก่อน

      A thought provoking comment thank you. Did you check out the video Depeche Mode filmed there which I linked to ? th-cam.com/video/e7Y699aQvJk/w-d-xo.html
      Another video which nobody expected to become a history lesson.

  • @jimewen19681
    @jimewen19681 3 ปีที่แล้ว +101

    This was the view many lives seen when they were forced to jump. God i cannot fathom the thoughts of this. God knows who was responsible 100% for the happening of 9/11. May all lives lost rest in peace and know you will never ever be forgotten!! I pray that God holds whomever planned and had this attack happen very responsible and they pay dearly for their actions.

    • @HyperInflation2020
      @HyperInflation2020 3 ปีที่แล้ว +23

      They didn't "jump". They were pushed,,,forced out by the intense burning inferno heat.

    • @thefuccintruth
      @thefuccintruth 3 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      I thought the same thing! So beautiful.. yet I couldn't help but think this was the last thing they saw

    • @83loveanimals
      @83loveanimals 3 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      Skyscrapers turn into a live nightmare when things like this happen

    • @thefuccintruth
      @thefuccintruth 3 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      @@HyperInflation2020 that's what he said. They were forced to jump.. thank you for saying why they were forced to jump. I can hardly imagine it..

    • @CMilla69
      @CMilla69 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      @@83loveanimals Yes, They do also if another fire happens in the Building not caused by terrorists

  • @robrandle3022
    @robrandle3022 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    Why is this world so cruel, to not have these majestic buildings. And even more. The people who lost their lives!!!!! Much much love ❤️ from Solihull uk 🇬🇧 xxxx

  • @alessandropagliardini8623
    @alessandropagliardini8623 3 ปีที่แล้ว +10

    Music makes this video very beautiful.

  • @friendlysky7674
    @friendlysky7674 3 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    I would go back to the 90s. Beautiful.

    • @T3Daioh2003Azumanga
      @T3Daioh2003Azumanga 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      The 90s..... Lovely.... Lived in San Diego in 1996-1999. So funny I have my birthday 15 days after 9/11 on 9/26 but wasn't born in 2001... lol. 2000s kid but whatever. This building seems to be amazing and similar to the Sears Tower (went there on my 25th birthday on Sept 26) and went there for 2-3 days and went downtown for almost 2 hours on Sept 26th night (12AM-2AM) for photography of downtown streets, even the beaches and Sears Tower from the outside. With the peace finger symbol. Took REAL nerve and balls to do that.

    • @c.eb.1216
      @c.eb.1216 8 หลายเดือนก่อน

      You had to be outside to enjoy the 90s. Otherwise inside I promise you it was often beige dull drums. Most things were analog, tedious. Being connected to your checkbook and fax machines with the 90s pastel buttons isn't what we're missing. It's the outside world being more magnetic than the inside. Now you have a world within a world in your phone.
      We need to bring back the magic. When I was 4-5, I was communing with the trees in my yard and just experiencing the wind. I didn't have a tablet.

  • @T3Daioh2003Azumanga
    @T3Daioh2003Azumanga 2 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    Never been here but this looks g00seb3mp and memory inducing af, even though I was only 2 years old when this was filmed (also the towers came down 15 days before my birthday on Sept 26th 2001). Now as a 25 year old, this still gets too beautiful to look at. Very nice.

  • @AluminumOxide
    @AluminumOxide 3 ปีที่แล้ว +18

    Beautiful shots of the lobby

    • @MrDuncl
      @MrDuncl  3 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      Thank you. There are lots of videos on TH-cam of the rooftop viewing platform (like the Depeche mode one) but fewer of the interior.

    • @MissHannah2036
      @MissHannah2036 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      The lobby is stunning. Would have been overwhelming the enormity of it all. I visited NYC mid 90's only had a few days there saw the Empire State Building. Didn't visit the towers regrettably.

  • @michellebroome884
    @michellebroome884 3 ปีที่แล้ว +21

    Thank you for sharing this beautiful video on the World Trade Centers.

  • @Matthias-n7h
    @Matthias-n7h 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Le souvenir de ses hautes tours, nous rappelle encore et encore la beauté de ce lieu disparu, un véritable chef d'oeuvre d'urbanisme, vertigineux. 😓❤

  • @oussamav5927
    @oussamav5927 3 ปีที่แล้ว +12

    What a wonderful atmosphere 😍😍🙏🏻🥀. And romantic in that period before the fall of the two towers 😢

  • @patricklarry6645
    @patricklarry6645 3 ปีที่แล้ว +17

    Such classy architecture.

    • @wakenow1
      @wakenow1 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      Brutalism isn't classy Architecture at all... Try 1800s stone, granite, and marble sculpted architecture...

    • @patricklarry6645
      @patricklarry6645 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      @@wakenow1 in the modern Era it is.

    • @wakenow1
      @wakenow1 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      @@patricklarry6645 think of how backwards that is...in the age of technology and ability to construct things these days, they go with boring aesthetics which is called " Brutalism". We should have the most glorious architecture of all time, but we don't...

  • @mrslavinator1057
    @mrslavinator1057 3 ปีที่แล้ว +24

    Absolutely beautiful! They should build a second freedom tower so that future generations can experience the full WTC experience!

    • @teachandfunnstuff3127
      @teachandfunnstuff3127 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Sadly i think it won't happen :/

    • @governmentphone7933
      @governmentphone7933 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      They are already moving with plans to build two wtc just trying to securing a anchor tenant

    • @agustinhernandez3171
      @agustinhernandez3171 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      No hay espacio, ni ganas, ni dinero para levantar otra Torre idéntica sin utilidad, si la otra a cuestas la llenan, y menos con el COVID-19

    • @camdynbachman6976
      @camdynbachman6976 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      I thought the same thing at first, but now when I look at freedom tower I see exactly why they only built one. I don’t really know how to explain it, but I will to the best of my ability. Disclaimer, these are my personal thoughts. I feel that freedom tower represents how America can recover from such a tragedy. I feel that building two would be a harsh reminder of what happened. I went to NYC in 2019 and visited ground zero and looked at freedom tower and just felt a sense of sorrow because of where the original towers once stood and the beautiful memorials left in their places, but also a sense of pride. Freedom tower fits the site perfectly and like I said I don’t really know how to describe what I feel. It was a surreal experience.

  • @Aetherzic
    @Aetherzic 3 ปีที่แล้ว +14

    If the buildings were never destroyed, people would've gone but not that many new ones. Now that they're gone, everyone regrets not going there and talks about how beautiful. They were truly remarkable buildings but if 9/11 never happened, they wouldn't of been talked about as much.

    • @MrDuncl
      @MrDuncl  3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      That is true.
      Incidentally, do you know that the Concorde aircraft was killed off by 9/11. They actually made the first test flight after sorting out the fuel tanks on 9/11. However, after 9/11, many of the executives who used to use it decided to minimise flying anywhere.

    • @c.eb.1216
      @c.eb.1216 8 หลายเดือนก่อน

      It's a little eerie how they loom over you like a couple of giant judges. They were of their time. They wouldn't be the same today in any case. Either teched out with touchscreens and LED lighting or deprecated and empty. Or maybe they would have demolished them because of all the asbestos! Who really knows.

  • @The-Great-Brindian
    @The-Great-Brindian ปีที่แล้ว +8

    great track this by Unicorn Heads, heard it first on this WTC tribute video (i consider it as such) and it just celebrates the majesty of these great iconic buildings during happier and simpler times. My lord, how the world has changed since the late 90s ( circa 96 - 99 ) 😞
    RIP Victims of 9/11 - FOREVER in our hearts 🙏

  • @sj-30000
    @sj-30000 3 ปีที่แล้ว +30

    I bet not one person said "why are you filming?"
    "You need my permission"
    "Respect my privacy"
    "I'm calling the police"

    • @MrDuncl
      @MrDuncl  3 ปีที่แล้ว +12

      You are right. If we got any comments it was "That's a neat little camera".

    • @agustinhernandez3171
      @agustinhernandez3171 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Cómo cambian los tiempos

    • @mrandrossguy9871
      @mrandrossguy9871 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      You mean if wtc were still here, How many Karens would be around there ?

    • @qkings_Roblox
      @qkings_Roblox 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      There is a video where a kid tells a man to stop recording...

  • @pikasnipe1
    @pikasnipe1 3 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    Don't you just love how they called it the Freedom tower, and it brought anything but....

  • @asagoodfriend
    @asagoodfriend 3 ปีที่แล้ว +18

    Well what can I say.... the music and the visuals go hand in hand!🌟💯
    One love and peace to the fallen ones!🕯

    • @Galidorquest
      @Galidorquest 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      I don't like depressing music on WTC tourist videos... "Follow You Down" by Gin Blossoms and "I Only Wanna Be With You'" by HATB would've been more fitting & beautiful for footage of an ordinary day in '98.

  • @korbloxation
    @korbloxation ปีที่แล้ว +1

    A great visit! I had my great uncle and friend visit the same year.
    His friend revisited new york and went up the Twin Towers.
    That was 5 months before they fell.

  • @MsCharronegro
    @MsCharronegro 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    I must admit those buildings were impressive.

  • @chasard-theubiquitouscycli8904
    @chasard-theubiquitouscycli8904 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    This is a beautiful and well done video. Regardless of the quality of the image capture devices of the time. I can just imagine what this would look like in today's 4K. My regret is that I will never experience these incredible buildings on a visit to NYC. Thank you, @MrDuncl.

    • @MrDuncl
      @MrDuncl  3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Thanks. Unlike the Empire State, which we also visited, no one will see this again so I thought it was time I posted it.
      I wonder if there is any better footage of the lobby etc. The 1973 Sylvie film th-cam.com/video/GUKKykqhI04/w-d-xo.html is higher quality but like so many WTC films only shows the outside of the building.

  • @lt4324
    @lt4324 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    made so many deliveries as a courier back in the mid to late 70's!
    Sad to have these gone. So many great memories for me back then! Thanks for posting.

  • @KSDVLmom
    @KSDVLmom 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    Well I'm in love with this video. I've never seen the inside of of WTC even tho I only lived 40 mins from it my whole life.

  • @frosty_22
    @frosty_22 3 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    I wish I was brought back to the 90s and experience life

  • @searain1573
    @searain1573 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I have a question. Where did that shiny grey door on the wall at 5:38 lead to?

  • @MillerMeteor74
    @MillerMeteor74 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    I don't know what it is about it, but I really liked this one. Thanks for uploading.

  • @davidchunko1560
    @davidchunko1560 2 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    In 1995 I remember going to school with my sister and getting on a trans bridge bus for a school field trip to New York City we went into the world trade centers and from the floor we were on the cars looked like micro chips really really tiny I remember standing on this glass floor looking down at traffic under my feet it was breathe taking then on 911 watching those planes hit the world trade centers and them crumbling down on tv made me cry it was like a nightmare one of the places I went to on a school field trip was now gone

  • @lako8368
    @lako8368 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Beautiful images and appropriate music. Thank you

  • @Numberguynamed684
    @Numberguynamed684 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    What a site to see, Even though I wasn't alive when the Twin Towers went down, I wish I could've seen the Twin Towers before they fell. :(

  • @58twright
    @58twright ปีที่แล้ว +2

    That looks awesome at night

  • @TheYvel666
    @TheYvel666 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Excellent video and good quality too

  • @barbie.travels
    @barbie.travels 3 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    This building was simply beautiful! Think about it more, the airplanes were in those buildings and even with the horrible infernos, it stood for an extra 56 minutes at South Tower and 102 minutes at the North. Who would of ever thought this was going to collapse with beautiful tall windows and marble walls? Fire fighters definitely knew this was a tough rescue and fire from the beginning. Even to set up their command posts in the lobby of the building….. Breath taking! May they all rest in peace. 🌹

    • @misterbuklau4053
      @misterbuklau4053 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      I think after a certain period of time firefighters knew they were going to come down it was more of a matter as to when. They mentioned hearing groans inside the structure.
      They were remarkably strong for the damage they sustained, Reminds me of the Titanic sinking

    • @barbie.travels
      @barbie.travels 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@misterbuklau4053 exactly. What a sad day….

    • @misterbuklau4053
      @misterbuklau4053 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@barbie.travels Yeah, These buildings were before my time unfortunately I was born in 2003 so they were still cleaning up at the time.
      I believe in multiple universe theory so maybe theres one where the towers never fell.

    • @jeffjansen582
      @jeffjansen582 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@misterbuklau4053 They heard charges going off.

    • @jeffjansen582
      @jeffjansen582 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@misterbuklau4053 It was a Black Flag operation.

  • @isabellecasorla8160
    @isabellecasorla8160 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    Actually it is good quality considering it is 20 years ago thanks for sharing, i am so afraid of heights though

  • @annetteku1
    @annetteku1 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Beautiful video. Thank you for sharing

  • @FIFA_3600
    @FIFA_3600 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    I really like your video mate and i love the fact that you visited the world trade center and the observation deck during sunset, i just love the way you recorded your video at the top of the world trade center mate as the city's lights lit up it just made it even more spectacular and breathtaking to experience and to capture all those memorable moments that you'll cherish for the rest of your life's as no one knew what was coming on 9/11 and by the time united states and the rest of the world knew it was too late, new york city lost it's beloved twin towers of the world trade center and americans and the rest of the world lost a precious loved ones for their rest of the life's.... R.I.P. WTC, 2,996 and God Bless U.S.A. 🙏🗽🇺🇲

    • @MrDuncl
      @MrDuncl  2 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      It was definitely one of the highlights of our visit to New York. After visiting both I kept telling people not to bother with the Empire State Building but to go to the World Trade Center instead.
      If you haven't found it already check out "Depeche Mode "Enjoy The Silence" (World Trade Center)" here on TH-cam. Filmed at exactly the same location but with some helicopter shots as well.

  • @gabrielhenriquesilva2014
    @gabrielhenriquesilva2014 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    A rare shot from inside , and it looks exactly as i remember ..kinda hard believe all is gone.

  • @ainelawlor5755
    @ainelawlor5755 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Beautiful skylines in New York City

  • @rknine7998
    @rknine7998 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    Life was good back then.

  • @kalodont1916
    @kalodont1916 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    It's not that 90s or 80s or 70s were any better. Everyone's always nostalgic about their youth. You were young, fearless, tireless, dreaming. That's what it is.

  • @emmanuelcatalan3753
    @emmanuelcatalan3753 3 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    Que lindo lugar... pensar que de esta manera las puedo conocer... desde niño.las queria ver hasta que llego el 9.11 recuerdo tanto ese dia.. una pena

    • @margui6224
      @margui6224 3 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      Igual que tú, tengo que conformarme en conocer las Torres Gemelas de esta manera. Nueva York, así tenga una nueva torre, jamás será igual. Las familias de las víctimas querían que las reconstruyeran, pero los encargados de la reconstrucción prefirieron una sola torre, anteponiéndose a lo que las familias querían.

  • @rikvermar7583
    @rikvermar7583 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    Thankyou for sharing this with us, makes me sad but also makes me angry that they didn't rebuild them (safer of course) and not the shed what's replaced them - i don't see a bigger way to stick a finger up at the terrorists than building 2 brand new shiny towers

  • @SirWenger49
    @SirWenger49 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Does One World Trade Center possess a viewing deck like the original? It must be something else to feel the breeze that high up.
    Edit: Just googled it and there is a viewing deck, however, it isn't literally on top of the tower or outdoors, like the original. Another reason to miss the original, I guess. RIP all those lost on that day.

    • @MrDuncl
      @MrDuncl  3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      There are a few video reviews of it. th-cam.com/video/VG4tGAKmlUo/w-d-xo.html I guess the shape of the building with the antenna on top makes it incompatible with an open air platform. The Empire State did have an open area when we visited but it is isn't right at the top.
      p.s. Check out this amazing 70s film th-cam.com/video/GUKKykqhI04/w-d-xo.html

  • @turkishpunisher6386
    @turkishpunisher6386 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    So nostalgic, wow.

  • @philmeie3934
    @philmeie3934 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Wooow 👍🏼
    Perfect Music and beautiful Video

    • @mrandrossguy9871
      @mrandrossguy9871 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      Perfect music ? Why does it have to be sad and somber !?

  • @mcarlkv53
    @mcarlkv53 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    just the freedom to walk around and take pictures anywhere you wanted to go...wow, what days they were....

    • @Ayoub-y1w
      @Ayoub-y1w 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      Why ? Isn't it free to take pictures now (sorry never been in the u.s)

  • @patriciamercado1603
    @patriciamercado1603 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Increíble hermosa Cd. De ensueño y sus rascacielos impresionantes. Simple y sencillamente una Ciudad cosmopolita digna de admiración.

  • @qubex
    @qubex 3 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    I only ever saw them from outside. To this day, 21 years after they were destroyed, I cannot quite fathom that they’re gone - despite having been up the new One World Trade Center.

    • @-_deploy_-
      @-_deploy_- 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      20 years*

    • @qubex
      @qubex 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      @@-_deploy_- Yeah sorry real fail on the mental arithmetic there… 2021 is the 20th anniversary. I can’t believe I blundered that. Must’ve been emotional…

    • @markgriffin2087
      @markgriffin2087 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      @@qubex they should of been rebuilt the same way they were but taller and stronger but they instead they built a tower that is 6 floors shorter and comeback with 1 building even tho Bin laden is dead he took the W

    • @marte3351
      @marte3351 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@markgriffin2087 you are so right.
      I can't stand the new tower.

  • @laquintaknox5907
    @laquintaknox5907 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Miss the 90's

  • @arabelaaguilaralvaradoalva5818
    @arabelaaguilaralvaradoalva5818 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Gracias x tan lindos recuerdos.Es como volver al pasado

  • @2kdemiks816
    @2kdemiks816 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    man, what a view

  • @quantumfineartsandfossils2152
    @quantumfineartsandfossils2152 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    the sunrise view of ny at two minutes is just mesmerizing :(

    • @MrDuncl
      @MrDuncl  2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Thanks. It was actually sunset. In October when we visited t gets dark quite early in the evening .

  • @ronwilliams9825
    @ronwilliams9825 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Thank you for uploading. Great footage. Really enjoyed it.

  • @warhero0057
    @warhero0057 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    Life and everything was just fast and vabriant back then. No cellphones with apps, soo EVERYBODY you saw was interacting with each other

    • @MrDuncl
      @MrDuncl  9 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Check out my FAO Schwarz video th-cam.com/video/NblOEr-hfPM/w-d-xo.html for more evidence of that. It looks like I was the only person filming anything there.

  • @chris5152
    @chris5152 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    I've been up there many times when I used to live in usa ,I can't believe all this doesn't exist anymore, I remember the wind on the 110 floor , the elevator straight to 107 floor that run 10 floor every 5 seconds ,the amazing view that i would never forget , now there is the freedom tower but honestly I would never enter again in a tower like that , not anymore .

  • @d0g3br34d
    @d0g3br34d 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    how could someone.. WHY would someone do that to these beautiful towers???

  • @JMS2X
    @JMS2X 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    Just beautiful ❤️

  • @yooochoob
    @yooochoob 3 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    Mashallah as an Arab I want to personally apologise on behalf of my people for what they did to these beautiful towers

    • @masnwrdl0511
      @masnwrdl0511 3 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      Don't apologize. Cowards did this, not Arabs. Just like how white people shouldn't be blamed for George Floyd's murder or how black people shouldn't be blamed for the crime rate. Terrorists did this, not Arabs.

    • @yooochoob
      @yooochoob 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@masnwrdl0511 Thank you kind friend 😊

    • @masnwrdl0511
      @masnwrdl0511 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@yooochoob no problem :)

    • @agustinhernandez3171
      @agustinhernandez3171 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      No pidas disculpas por algo que tú y tu gente no hizo. Esos dementes de los terroristas no tienen derecho siquiera a llamarse humanos.
      Los únicos que deben arrepentirse y pagar eternamente son aquellos que lo hicieron, ellos si deben pagar por siempre el sufrimiento y muerte que dejan.
      Tu gente es admirable en verdad, han logrado más de lo que muchos han podido, saludos y bendiciones desde México

  • @alexcrivello4343
    @alexcrivello4343 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Wow... just wow. I was there in March 2001, back when I was a small child. Unbelievable that it would all be gone six months later. 😢

    • @eddiew2325
      @eddiew2325 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      Hi Alex did u kno I love u

    • @Mrd9960
      @Mrd9960 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@eddiew2325 🤣🤣🤣

  • @horselover7744
    @horselover7744 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    Breathtaking footage of the sky...the city....everything

  • @C.A._Old
    @C.A._Old หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    *its very sad mann... all these thngs are gone... but legacies still lives on.*

  • @juliusfritz9400
    @juliusfritz9400 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    So Beautiful 😍

  • @MAZE4
    @MAZE4 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    They should still be there, it's sad that there not.

  • @rayhurley1335
    @rayhurley1335 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Could i use this video with credit to you, this is just amazing footage of those beautiful buildings

    • @MrDuncl
      @MrDuncl  3 ปีที่แล้ว +10

      Providing it is done in a tasteful way memorising the victims then go ahead.

  • @HyperInflation2020
    @HyperInflation2020 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    I visited in 1998 also.

  • @kevinxanity4113
    @kevinxanity4113 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    It makes me mad knowing they’re gone

  • @sappersteel532
    @sappersteel532 3 ปีที่แล้ว +10

    Miss them.

  • @masnwrdl0511
    @masnwrdl0511 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Why is the night footage still better than the camera on my phone TWENTY-THREE years later?!

    • @MrDuncl
      @MrDuncl  3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      I just looked at the Sharp Viewcam this was filmed with and its 20mm diameter lens is probably a big help. 23 years ago we got quite a few comments on how small and neat the Viewcam was despite it being the size of twelve modern mobile phones

    • @masnwrdl0511
      @masnwrdl0511 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@MrDuncl 12 phones?! Interesting. Thanks for the information :)

    • @MrDuncl
      @MrDuncl  3 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@masnwrdl0511 This explains all th-cam.com/video/67ePJLm5-ew/w-d-xo.html I love the question towards the end "Can video cameras get any smaller?"

    • @masnwrdl0511
      @masnwrdl0511 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@MrDuncl that video was so weird to watch. It's mad to think that people thought that was as small as cameras could get. How times have changed over the past 28 years

  • @tonyt8765
    @tonyt8765 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I missed them towers , I missed how life was back in the 1990s , it was simple and regular , nothing like 2021 where everyone hates everyone, sometimes I wonder to whatever happened to united we stand divided we fall. Wish the 90s never ended. Missed the old good times.

    • @eddiew2325
      @eddiew2325 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      I don’t hate u Tony. I’m secretly in love with u

    • @IbukiMiodaa24
      @IbukiMiodaa24 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      not trying to start anything but politics is what happened... the fall of the Twin Towers was also the beginning of the downfall of the US

  • @JW-zx5dr
    @JW-zx5dr 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    It’s very sad, they were very beautiful buildings too

  • @sukhmanisingh2370
    @sukhmanisingh2370 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    World was beautiful in 90's era bcoz people love each other more than money in those beautiful days

    • @agustinhernandez3171
      @agustinhernandez3171 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      Si, hoy en día la humanidad solo busca formas de destruir a aquellos que les desagradan junto con todo rastro de su existencia

    • @mrandrossguy9871
      @mrandrossguy9871 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@agustinhernandez3171 Què,
      Damn I hope humanity Gets Better soon

  • @evgasha_stream
    @evgasha_stream 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    Why government do not build Twin Towers again, in memory of dead people and old buildings

    • @agustinhernandez3171
      @agustinhernandez3171 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      Porque muchos lo considerarían como insulto o les traería recuerdos dolorosos, solo causaría graves problemas

  • @ranoosamagic9068
    @ranoosamagic9068 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Missed them 😭 my heart is tearing although im not American

  • @MrTimeless101
    @MrTimeless101 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    Great video. looking north I remember when the empire state building was the tallest thing in midtown.

  • @louern123
    @louern123 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Omg I had never seen those windows ... they were what was standing after the crash 😢😢😢

  • @randycamacho7332
    @randycamacho7332 3 ปีที่แล้ว +14

    My dad told me when he was a little kid, he went to the world trade center in 1996 and he said it was the most beautiful building he has ever seen and if I can only wish the twin towers were still there I would have visited the world trade center

  • @lukasmiller486
    @lukasmiller486 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    Does anyone know if there are videos of the original St. Nicholas Greek Orthodox Church?