Original WTC Design Features (History Channel, 2002)
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- Segment taken from DVD "World Trade Center - A Modern Marvel" (History Channel, 2002).
Time in: 02mn:12s.949ms / Time out: 13mn:13s.910ms.
Video has been deinterlaced with doubling the framerate, and video frame upscaled from 720x480 px to 1920x1440 px. Audio gain has been increased by 6.5 dB.
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Seeing "missing since 9/11/01" pop up next to some of these people is really eerie. Knowing they had only about 8 more months of life on Earth
Yes it's very disturbing.
Also, September is the ninth month.
@@gearoidp yes but these were recorded late January
@@Sc0rch91 yeah the post has now been edited by Dot. It stated 11 months when I wrote that reply...
@@gearoidp it was just a mistake, I just had the number 11 in my brain lol
8 more months? Where’d you get 8 more months?
god, each time "Missing since 9/11/01" appears it gives me fucking chills
because if they were never found, it means they were obliterated completely
and that's the most haunting shit
Absolutely makes my heart ache so bad
The window washer got me the most
They all practically got in there own graves, my heart goes out to every single person affected that day and there families.
honestly in a situation like that ; thats kind of how you WANT to go ; you dont wanna be alive for hours underneath rubble or what not. its better to just die as fast as possible in a situation like that
@Hygiene Care Exactly .. when something like that drops on you your best way out is an easy fast death
What hurts for me is seeing the dates recorded and all the smiles of the people working there and being interviewed. They genuinely enjoyed their jobs at the towers and they didn’t know what would happen just a few months later. I know this might sound sentimental but, they were beautiful towers. The whole complex was just breathtaking. I never got to visit it but I always saw it. My dad went there everyday to drop of documents at the cage at the lower level (before digital) and just hang out around the plaza or shopping areas before work. These days (of course with my family’s history with that day) he doesn’t ever want to visit the new tower because of everything that was lost and all the people he knew that worked there and loved their jobs. People that were my age (28) back then. I know this is all kind of incoherent but it’s just stuff I felt like I needed off my chest.
Great comment my friend
You’re not alone. Maybe and hopefully in our after lives, they will be standing tall in Heaven. We all miss them severely.
not incoherent at all. I remember my first thoughts were, "what kind of moron can't see the towers on such a clear day when we can see them from Jersey".
that summer, I was taking my kids to a lake near my house (I live in northern Jersey), and while they played in the water, I remember looking at planes flying over and thinking, "I never realized how low these planes flew in here", but I figured they were probably on final approach to Newark airport. I do know that, 5 or 6 years ago, hubby and I went to the mid-west, we were outside of st Louis, and he saw an airplane taking off? and pointed it out to me. All I could see was the city, and the twin towers and looked away. There's also patterns that I can't look at without thinking, twin towers.
I know this is nearly not as bad as my cousin in law, who worked across the street from the twin towers, or some of the people who lived in my town and were killed that day, but we all have our stories of what we were doing back then. can't believe it's been 20 years.
@@Jerseybytes2 yeah its crazy how hard it is to ignore the towers now that they're gone. My uncle used to work across across the street for the towers too. He worked in those beige buildings with the domes. I never new what they were called but, I just refer to them as those shorter buildings in front of the towers lol He survived though. He tends to keep to himself so I never really heard his story about that day.
When you mention the planes flying low, weirdly enough, the day after the 11th this year kind of felt like it did that day. It was a beautiful warm day. Not a cloud in sky. But when I was in JC with my dad running errands, I saw planes flying low to land at Newark, I still got antsy/anxious.
@@RadicalEdward2 before 9-11, whenever I took a plane out of Newark airport, I loved sitting by the window, and look at NYC from the sky. Now I drink a couple of beers at the airport, close the windows and hold on to my seat like my life depends on it.
My now hubby was active duty Navy at the time, and probably half way around the world near the middle east. I know this because, even tho I keep forgetting exactly where he was, he said it was evening to which I insisted it was 9 in the morning. Yet, he knew more about what was going on than I did since his shift was about to start and he saw the second plane hit the towers on the news.
I'll say this. without turning my reply into a short book, this was the longest call I ever had with my mother. it was a small plane (me), big plane (her), small plane, big plane, back and forth for a while until she said, tower fell and my first thought was, "holy cow, this time she really lost it, no way that building could collapse". so we went on another rather long back and forth rant between, it fell, it didn't fall, it fell, there's no way it could fall. we were still on this one when the second tower fell, so she told me, "second tower fell". I still didn't believe the first one had fallen, so I remember thinking, "first it was one, now it's 2, she's totally gone". I do know that by now I knew about the Pentagon, but flight 93 had not crashed yet. At some point, I did shut up long enough to finally pay attention to the tv (yes, I had the news on by then, but I would glance at it from time to time, and because I was on the phone wasn't really listening to everything they said), and OMG, she was right.
my kids came home from school at the usual hour. Pretty sure by then the news was saying it was an Islamic terrorist attack. I remembered the Oklahoma attack, so I was still thinking, how do they know so quick? shouldn't we take time before starting guessing who did it. Also remember they then began guessing how many other airplanes had been hijacked. think at one point they mentioned 7, 12 and other numbers. Then around 11? or so, I went out to the pharmacy down the street, and asked a friend who worked there if she wanted me to pick her daughter from the bus stop later that day. she said yes, we probably talked for a bit, and I came home, got my youngest off the bus, and waited
One thing that does stick in my mind was the missing people posters on the doors of the supermarket. SO many, you couldn't see into the supermarket. I mean, I know you'll probably say that by then we already knew about how many people had died. yeah, but one thing is talking about a number, another is seeing all the pictures.
now, it seems so long ago, and yet it seems like it was only yesterday. I do know the next couple of months are pretty much a fog, because next thing I remember was halloween, and me talking to a neighbor who had been debating with his wife on what to do that day (they were the one house in our entire neighborhood that used to do this amazing display and was the house all the kids loved going to).
oh well, so much for not writing a book. sorry for the lengthy reply.
That ending with that guy harmlessly falling, given that was a commercial, but still, just sends chills down my spine.
It is very disturbing indeed given the circumstances
Ok
I’m not the only one that thought about that
Well that really didn't age well
freaky ass foreshadowing
that guy was trying to tell us something
Everything they said about the twin towers, listening to it now that they’re gone…it just breaks your heart.
One of the wonders of the world, horrifically stolen from us and lost forever
It breaks your heart and it infuriates me !
@@charliechristie2949 Yeah, It makes me a combination of a little bit of sadness and a lot pissed off.
absolutley. it gives me such a surreal feeling.
It really does
The man at 5:00 is known to have helped many people escape at or right below the impact zone. They tried to send him down with others but he wanted to keep going up rescuing people. A true hero 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸
A lost civilization only we could create and bring down
Yes, I mean he was one of the architects so he knew the buildings better than anyone else
did he make it?
@@AlmightyLoud Unfortunately no
Frank De Martini
The pole vaulter commercial gave chills like someone falling from tower.
Me too. I don’t ever remember seeing that before.
Didn’t age that well..
Its the super computers matching adverts to the upload. 🇬🇧👍
Subliminal messages are funny aren't they?
That was the 1992 Olympics, nearly a year before they were even bombed, so no one thought of them as terrorist targets then.
This footage is very surreal knowing everything we see here in the interiors of the buildings were completely crushed and turned to dust.
And eerily, some of the people in this footage died as well probably…
Everything gone..so sad
@@Sc0rch91 some of them did. Several were identified as “missing” since 9/11 (meaning no identified remains were found as of this airing)
That's what direct energy weapons do....just totally vaporise everything NOT two jumbos
@@joebloggs2857 lol direct energy weapons enough to destroy two skyscrapers smuggled into the WTC
They were such beautiful buildings. Beautiful in their stark simplicity.
new formalism (architecture style) is so underrated
Until American government decided to destroy it. Plus take 3000 lives.
@@ampsoce6778 and another Millions of lives in east
@@ampsoce6778 pretty sure it was terrorist attacks
@@flybid301 it was. But who ask them to do that?
It's mind boggling to think that nothing of what we see in this video exists any more. It's all gone and not all that long after filming either.
The last column was removed at the end of May the following year, roughly sixteen months later. Can you imagine telling this to the people in this video? They would say that it's impossible.
@@ianwarburton5433 That was the American optimism for you ... Their it will never happen to us because we are the USA got them into this mess ...
Crazy isn’t it?
@@rick182z What a ridiculous and toxic thing to say. To not expect the unlikely is hardly "optimism". The victims of 9/11 were not complicit in what happened to them. The blame lies with the terrorists.
What about the underground parts like the shopping center, subway and adjacent buildings.
Did any of that remain or was rebuilt?
8:22 Roko Camaj. I remember watching a documentary that featured his son describing his zest and bright personality. He was in the south tower on 9/11 and called his wife to reassure her that he was fine. Sadly, he didn’t make it. What a life he lived among the towers. RIP Roko.
No, he was in the north tower
No, actually youre right, south tower… i got him confused with the other guy from 5:00
@@Grettss I thought I heard in the new history channel documentary that he was cleaning the north towers windows during the attack
5:00 The Face of a HERO! Frank Di Martini as well as some other members of his crew were credited with saving around 50 people on 9/11, he worked on the 88th floor of the north tower when the first plane stuck and helped as many people as he could, even helped carry a man down. God Bless this man!
His spirit is caring for the new generations working in the World Trade Center.
6:30 mark " I was stunned by the size and scale of the machinery , it was comparable to that of an aircraft carrier"
**gulp**
You mean 4:16?
exactly...that gave me the chills
Or when he said like a war room.
Not only is every "Missing since 9/11/01" absolutely haunting, but every second they refer to the World Trade Center in the present tense is another jarring reminder to me of what happened, that only a matter of months after this was filmed, no one would ever refer to the towers in present tense again
So they Turned to Dust and ash when the towers collapsed so erie
When you watch them refer to it in the present tense, it’s almost like existing in some alternate timeline where 9/11 never happened.
I remember going to Grandma's house for Christmas as a child in the late sixties & passing by the WTC as it was being built. My Dad told us it was going to be the tallest building in America. I never forgot that image or that conversation!❤
I remember when my brother was born 2 months before 9/11 He remembers seeing the twin towers in every new York image
How old r u Linda lavinno
What a lovely story Linda. What was New York like at the time?
Gandma was Gandalf’s half brother.
Not just in America, the Towers were the tallest buildings on earth for several years.
This is incredible
Bro that was sick!
What are u doing here? xd Hiii
Only 2 replies.. until now
@@typicalmatt7592 only 2 planes… until now
@@nodical802 Slickkkkk
Frank DeMartini the man who knew the towers from inside out. And the man who could have gotten out easily but instead risked his life to save others and helped them escape. That takes true courage. An incredible American and an incredible human being. RIP god bless.
Lots of people went inside or stayed inside to help. They didn't think it would collapse, otherwise they would have tried to evacuate the area instead of going in to free people and fight the fire.
Lost for 20 years today. Heres to all the people involved.
10:21 gives the chills, knowing that less than a year later people will be falling exactly like this.
That man falling at the end is a Erie resemblance of that very day 😔
H O L Y S H I T
I thought the same thing wtf.
I produced the pole vaulter commercial (for AT&T, for 1996 Olympics) footage used late in this documentary. I recall now later helping to get the documentary maker the footage.
Looking back with what we know happened to so many people in the towers does this footage haunt you at all?
@@UnderGroundKnox Not sure if haunting would be the right word for him... maybe it might make one feel a bit uneasy... in retrospect of course.
No you didn't. You're just trying to draw attention
@@alejandroperez5368 how would you know!
I am so sorry
oof, that ad at 10:20 gave me chills thinking of all the people who jumped from the towers before they collapsed because they couldn't escape.
Oof that is heartbreaking :/
Premonitory?
How fucked up must it have been up there, that the only option you (seemingly) have left is to jump to a certain death?!
Jesus 😓
Crazy how all the machinery, steel and literally everything was pulverized
@@Backflip789 You have never seen termite in action if you believe thats what it was
@@Futterknight it was controlled demolition for sure. One of the highest skysrapers in the world didnt fall in 9 second in the line of great resistance on his footprints
@@Backflip789 considering you believe the "demolition" was done with termite you should definitely look closer into it before coming to a "for sure" conclusion lol. I myself have not yet found an answer to the odd way they came down but by what i know now its actually for sure to me not a controlled demolition.
@@Futterknight only explosives can explaine these collapses nothing else
@@Backflip789 explosives dont explain anything, in fact they create so many more questions and things that do not make sense. I have come to terms with the idea that the way the towers came down the way they did is a whole new phenomenon we havent experienced yet and we need to study exactly what happened before coming to half ass conclusions like "explosives"
Everything done on a massive scale and yet so in touch with the human element: the windows were only as wide as a person's shoulders so you never felt like you were in danger at those incredible heights. So amazing and heartbreaking.
At 9:18 you can see Philippe Petit's signature on one of the beams next to the turn table, he was the guy who walked between the towers on a high wire in the 70s
Wow no shit !
Awesome
10:32 even though it was recorded in early 2001 the way she talks about the WTC as if they’re gone is ominous considering the fact that in 8 months they’d be gone.
I mean, it was made like 4 decades before this was filmed
@@JJ-re4qk ??
OP might be talking about when the WTC was made, which was 4 decades prior.
@@coennm the woman talks about losing history and stuff, because the wtc at the time was already prettyyy historic, so its not that odd that shes talking like that
My heart goes out to all that we’re affected by the events of that horrible day. Every year for 20 years I watch history channel all day and pray for all. It’s jus my way of honoring the wonderful people lost that day
It’s easy to forget what a phenomenal feat of engineering the WTC was, that air conditioning equipment is nothing short of incredible and the background running of the towers was akin to a small town. Quite incredible.
When I saw that Frank Demartini was missing since 9/11…I just feel empty…no words…the same feelings I felt that day…
Chokes you up seeing these people missing, they knew the ins and outs of the building and most likely could’ve saved themselves at any point. These are true heroes. Their stories should be shared more.
Rest In Peace to the window washer in this video Roko Camaj 🕊
What makes this footage chilling is the good quality of it. Everything looks so lifelike, like it was filmed just yesterday. Crazy stuff.
its 2001 not 1875
Damn you must be young… 2001 is recent this is a modern tragedy, not some past history, you making me feel old and I was 1 when it happened
@@JosePerez-hh5ju im a bit older than you, but what I mean is that the 60fps + the 1080p thing makes it feel like something you see in real life. I remember the only videos of this event we had were blurry and slow, but this one makes it feel like it was just yesterday.
Indeed most footage from the late 90's early 2000's that wasn't shot on professional grade material isn't very sharp. I thought the same.
@Freline You were a stain in a sock a few years ago.
Incredible video of Two amazing towers and people talking about them literally months before they were destroyed.
At 4:55 we see Frank De Martini, who is credited with saving over 50 lives on 9/11. He died when the North Tower collapsed at 10:28 AM.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_De_Martini
Thank you for this piece of knowledge! He was a blessing to mankind
Rip. He’s a legend😔.
Heartbreaking. May his soul rest in peace
Beautiful buildings. God bless to the buildings and the amazing people who worked there. You could tell the Manager loved his job and was passionate about the whole complex. The Window Cleaner gentleman seemed like a legend, he said to the cameras "I get a 30 minute break every time" 😂❤️ Also, that is such a clever way to clean those windows, that robot system was amazing 🙌
10:06 “today the world trade center has become an icon for success”
made me think they were still here for a second 😔
Roko and Frank 💔 may they rest in peace, beautiful souls
These people were all so happy. It's a sad outcome. I loved the simple style of the buildings with the mirrored look. It was a perfect backdrop to other buildings that added another layer to the skyline. And they were simply massive, bold, and urban.
Absolutely mind-blowing the origional WTC was just vast in scale it really was the economic heart of New York
Too bad it was violently trashed on Sept 11 just so the world elitists could build their new tower (1WTC) and begin building their one world government
The voice of Max Raphael from Modern Marvels which I always enjoyed watching.
Man… I thought they were just a few massive office buildings alongside a mall and a hotel. I never knew they were so complex.
I wish schools taught about this stuff along with with the bad. These towers truly were small cities within themselves, it’s crazy to think you never had to go outside because EVERYTHING was there. I loved this informative video. Incredible indeed❤️
I'm one of them who think WTC should have been rebuilt exactly as before 9/11. A powerful statement: you might harm us but you can't break us and ultimately you changed nothing.
@@Douglas_Hamilton So true!
RIP you magnificent structures. In retrospect, they are the most beautiful, imposing and powerful pair of structures one could imagine. The twin Petronas Towers come close, but the fact the WTC pair were on diagonals and embodied NY bravado makes/made them better
The Twin World Trade Centers should have been replicated, but with a more modern looking exterior as opposed to the 60s Gothic style of the old Towers.
But then again that would have defeated the purpose of Sept 11
The original air date of this episode was June 25, 2001. I remember watching a marathon of these on a Sunday during the summer of 2001, and they aired this episode either right before or right after the Pentagon episode.
Definitely hearing how they kept everything as safe as possible and had all its amazing services like it’s own police station and own city is crazy to know how it was going to wiped out. I never knew the scale of these buildings. It’s definitely crazy how much was in these buildings. The scale of these buildings going is unbelievable.
Not only did it have its own police station, but it was the headquarters for the Port Authority Police Department, and they had spent time dedicated to any potential terror attack or accident but they never planned on an aircraft striking the towers which how could you ever plan for that anyways
Dread to think what horrors they would have seen on those camera monitors that day.
@@loganbaileysfunwithtrains606 The military was running exercises that day for just that scenario, why do you think there was zero action taken?
@@jeffjansen582 did I say anything about the military? No
The window washer machine was way ahead of its time!
they were such beautiful buidlings
Crazy to think as this was being filmed people were out there making plans to fly 2 planes into it.
duuude it looks soo good. the quality is just amazing!
DVD quality.
Those towers were ahead of their time. Even compared to skyscrapers today they’re still MASSIVE.
those two men, Frank de Martini 7:14 and Roko Camaj 8:49 died in the attacks of september 11, 2001
"The Building Was Design To Have a Fully-Loades 707 Crash Into It.
That Was The Largest Plane at The Time.
I Believed That The Building Probably Could Resisting Multiple Impact of Jet Liners."
~ Frank He Martini
+@@zahwamutiara6152 707 was light plane in 1966. Had the towers been hit by 747-400,s on 9/11 they would have been decapitated on the spot. Amazing they stood up as long as they did hit by 767-200,s.
@@bloodyapril6392 they were hit by 767-200's actually. The 747 is unique as it has a quarter 2nd deck
+@@zogozogy98 Also has 4 projectiles and can carry much more jet fuel. I know they were hit by 767-200s.
@@bloodyapril6392 ah sorry, i rush read your comment
1:11 Great footage of the floor trusses attached to bare metal. The lower chords apparently had dampeners at the end to reduce the sensation of the building swaying.
The towers at dusk were the most gorgeous sight
The man at 5:00 (who helped many other people to escape btw) seems so happy and energetic talking about the heat exchangers and infrastructure and stuff and seems to be really fascinated about his job 😔 I‘m thinking why couldn‘t they just let this happy person (and ofc the others) enjoy his life and be happy working there 😢 May he rest in peace.
They were beautiful to look at. The pride of New York turned to rubble. When my Dad drove me to work, we passed the Towers. I used to look up at how tall they were and beautiful. The Freedom Tower is also beautiful. I always remember 9/11/01. Never to be forgotten. RIP to all that died that day. God Bless.
It's definitely a lost marble and it should still be here now
Lost marvel you mean?
@@JackSmith-kp2vsI didn’t say Marvel read it again 😂
10:21 it’s so Eerie to see that guy falling
I really wish these were still around today. Being born in 2000, I have no memory of them and growing up, I had no idea they ever existed and always looked at the empire state building as the iconic building of new york from watching movies as a kid. I didn’t learn about 9/11 till I was maybe like 13 or 14 surprisingly, and was shocked to see all that happened. Since I never remember them, it feels like a whole different world or universe when they existed, that I was barely alive for.
@@KS-xo3oh That must feel weird, like if you go there you will have to point at the empty sky to show were the picture was taken, it's shocking
They only existed for 20 odd years, which adds to the myth
I was also born in 2000. Found out about the towers when I was 6 or 7 at a time when I was fascinated with skyscrapers, and was also interested in the 9/11 attacks despite not comprehending the human tragedy, but I was really saddened that the buildings were gone.
Years later, I look through old home videos to at least give me some sense like I was there. My great grandma (who's still alive today) was fortunate enough to visit the South Tower in the 80s with a pic of her on the Observatory Deck.
It’s random about movies as I’m old enough to have been an adult in 2001 and many movies when I was a kid featured the towers when they were set in NYC. Trading Places is one I know for certain, but a number of apocalyptic future ones too where the towers were in ruins.
I think people forget about how beautiful they really are, obviously after what happened, the first thing you think of is 9/11 when you see them again, such a shame. I was to young to remember them but they look amazing.
I've seen countless documentaries like this on large buildings, but what makes this one so different is that it is about buildings that would be destroyed just months later which (you can also derive this from how the documentary is filmed and how the towers are spoken about) no one expected to go away for decades to come.
The former WTC complex was so much better in ambition, quality and as a whole than the current towers
Umm...no. It was quite an ugly and impersonal design that lacked human scale.
@@mbogucki1 no matter opinions of its aesthetic you’ve got to admit it was an icon of New York and the world as a whole
@@jcrossan1351 Well I will give you that. 👍
@@mbogucki1 it was simple
Are you kidding? I understand the significance and symbolism of the twin towers.... But talk about uninspired, hideous 60/70s architecture.... I haven't seen a single building designed in that time period that I liked. It lacks the grace of the gilded age/neoclassical/gothic architecture and the practicality of modern architecture.
Imagine the working hours put into designing, building and maintaining these towers. And then it's all gone. Unfathomable.
Myself, my brother and best friend left Galway Ireland for our first plane trip ever to NYC on the 1st sept 2001for a 2 week holiday of a lifetime. Ill never forget standing at the entrance of the North Tower in the morning or the 10th looking up getting dizzy trying to grasp how these magnificent structures could exist. Watched the news the next morning from an apartment on Mclean avenue. Something changed after this trip. The sombre sadness and reality of how cruel we can be to each other as humans changed my view on the world as a young and niave man. Iconic and magnificent in their simplicity, beautiful structures. Hope all that unfairly perished that day and the loved ones that continue to suffer have found some solice and peace since 💚🙏
Love to all ❤
1:42 40 thousand people used to live here now it's a ghost town really hit hard on this context...
The towers where the most beautiful building in the world and I'm sad and always be sad that i will never be able to visit such a breath taking architecture, may all the people rest in piece
I've always found it amazing how WFC 2, 3, and 4 (buildings with pyramid and dome roofs) survived the event. They're directly across the street and the original complex buildings that survived.
I think its because the towers fell onto the plaza, the opposite direction of the wfc, the wfc was damaged but since the building didnt fall on them and only the dust clouds and some debris, they survived enough to be repaired
@1111 javantgarde: In addition to all seven WTC buildings being destroyed, one structure and three other buildings were also lost: The Vesey Street bridge that was destroyed when the North Tower collapsed and St. Nicolas Greek Church was destroyed when the South Tower collapsed. Furthermore, two buildings that were demolished because of 9/11 were the Deutsche Bank Building from South Tower damage and Fitterman Hall from WTC 7 collapse damage. Fitterman was rebuilt and nothing has yet to be replaced in the Deutsche buildings place. You’re welcome
WTC not WFC🤦
7WTC was further from the Twin Towers than even the World Financial Center. But y'all aren't open to that conversation cuz you have been conditioned not to discuss it or else
@@explode5583 the damaged buildings were not repaired but demolished
"... represent a moment in history that is lost today." If only she knew how significant that one simple statement would turn out to be, less than a year later. It's incredibly eerie.
7:45
Now thats a good engineer. Instead of putting workers as risk, he designs something to protect them.
Wish all engineers could be more like him.
Thank you for deinterlacing this properly. It really makes a huge difference.
4:03 Dude in the jacket and tie realizes he's on camera and his fly is down.
Imagine telling the people in this video that in less than one year from when they recorded this that the entire complex would be obliterated.
i like how this video is exactly 11 minutes long, 11 looks like the Twin Towers
Frank De Martini supposedly saved upto 50 people that day along with 3 other colleagues, unfortunately there heroics cost them their lives.
RIP HERO’S.
Heroes.
I Hope Someone Would Rebuild The Tower and The Complex Again!.
Such Beautiful Building😔
@No no no no no there’s already a new World Trade Center with new towers. Won’t ever happen. I wish but in reality that’s never happening. It’s gone forever☹️
It’s sad there gone but interesting on how they weee maintained
If I had a Time Machine or a way to transport to times I would go back to that scene at 1:27 and just stare up and around in awe at what it just have felt like to be in the center of such a massive complex
As a person working in facilities management, all what’s described here continues to be impressive till this day.
The part that didn’t age well was “The machinery was more massive then an Aircraft carrier”
I like these videos that show the WTC as it used to be before the attacks since I never had the chance to see it with my own eyes. I went to visit NYC back in 2007 when the place was still a construction site.
My heart goes out to those who lost their lives that day.
Seeing two Giant empty Holes Which are pools for a memorial is so strange we're two towers stood too bad they were not re built with modern standards.
It is really a great loss. I was hoping the Twin Towers would be rebuilt but there are complete different buildings instead nowadays. I regret the fact I did not have the opportunity to visit the towers. I only saw the ground zero area two years later...
The remaining videos of the Twin Towers are a real treasure!
seeing the beauty of these buildings, knowing there are waterfalls in place of them now, knowing why they are gone and how many people are gone with them makes this so hard to watch.
@0:12-@0:17 I couldn’t help but think about how high up that is and how it was a lot of people’s last point of view that day. I just couldn’t imagine the pain and fear they went through before they had to jump. It makes me sick to my stomach to put myself in their shoes 💔 Rest in peace to all the victims of that terrible day.
We have to keep TWC alive. Thank you for uploading.
Crazy to think that all that surveillance footage of that day exists and is currently hidden away along with tons of other disturbing footage, probably never to be seen until the generation of the victims families pass away.
It’s indeed sad that we can’t visit anymore 💔
For 20 years, we the general population of the U.S.A. have been saying "Never Forget". I certainly haven't, and I will not so long as I do not suffer any serious brain damage.
These buildings always looked magnificent; my absolute favorite shot of them completed was [and still is] at the end of "Ghostbusters II" - (1989).
I was a kid in the UK when this happened. I'd never been to New York but I knew of the towers because of Ghostbusters II.
You did an amazing job of this i was super impressed having seen this before its like watching a new video thanks and how you do this 😊
And they were built in the late sixties, they were ahead of its time! Not only building up, but making it work inside with pipes/elevators/aircon and so on!
This was the most beautiful modern complex imaginable. This shows what man can do when he doesn't hold back. There was nothing subtle about this design, it took over from the Empire state building quite affirmatively as the new eight wonder of the world. Superior to the current complex in every way one could entertain.
The observation deck was my favourite place in the world, such a fabulous view on a clear day. The last time I visited was 9/10/01
So you visited the previous day? Right....NO.
@@alejandroperez5368 yep
You saw people who would die the next day.
@@alejandroperez5368 yep, somebody was looking out for me.
I would have loved to see these buildings. I've never been to NY but i remember 911 very vividly. There is a beautiful helicopter shot in Home Alone 2 of Mack Culkin standing at the top of one of the World Trade Centers, it's a really great shot
these were so intricate. what a shame they are gone.
Looking down from near the top is already creepy but made even more so knowing that some of the people above the impact zone were forced to leap from there. Looking up from the ground you understand where they landed. 10:22 just emphasizes my point. God that had to be beyond hellish
I never seen the building in such great quality. A very good documentary
These towers should never have been destroyed. If 9/11 never happened, not only would the Twin Towers still be around, but the world would be a much better place than it is now, especially America.
History and politics aside, I would’ve loved to visit these towers. My mom or dad would’ve taken me to the observation deck as I got older, probably by the time I turned 5 or 6 years old. I also would’ve loved to explore the mall as well.
Speaking of which, just a month before 9/11, the Westfield Group had acquired the mall from the Port Authority, and had plans on renovating and expanding the mall in 2002, renaming it “Westfield Shoppingtown World Trade Center”, but that sadly never came to be thanks to 9/11. Had the tragedy never taken place, I’d imagine the mall’s expansion would’ve looked a bit similar to the current mall we have now.
As for the Twin Towers themselves, they probably would’ve gone through some changes in the years following 2001. I’ve read a rumor about how in the mid-2000’s the North Tower’s antenna would have to be replaced due to it causing cancer, IDK, just some random rumor I read on Reddit or whatever. There also would’ve been an attraction similar to the Ledge at Chicago’s Willis Tower (you know, those glass boxes you step inside to get a closer view of the city?) installed at the South Tower sometime in the late 2000’s or early 2010’s.
Overall, if 9/11 never happened, the Twin Towers would obviously still be around, but with a few changes here and there. Granted, they would eventually lose their title as the tallest buildings in NYC by the time newer buildings such as 432 Park Avenue, One Vanderbilt, etc. are constructed, but I do think they would at least continue to be the tallest buildings in Lower Manhattan.
They would have got rid of the asbestos also
ahhh... the good days of the History Channel with this narrator
The only time in history a building fell at free fall speed from office fires.
What a shame that they are no longer there.
Incredible building. History will never forget. 🙏🏾❤
What an interesting video. Thank you for posting! I wish I could have seen these marvelous buildings in real life 😥
It would of been a dream come true for me if I went back to the past to see these historical twin towers.
Im not american, but i really wish they had rebuilt them exactly the way they was...they were americas 2 front teeth and they looked so iconic.
It was considered but many survivors and friends and families were against it.
10:23 what a scary scene like dam that's how people fell from the buildings