Thanks for sharing. My wife was in the towers a few days before the collapse on a tour. I lost my cousin who worked on the top floor for Cantor Fitzgerald. RIP Annie
The corner part of the hotel that didn’t collapse protected like 18 people that survived the collapse of both towers and made it out. The reason it didn’t collapse was because of the 1993 bombing. They had reinforced that area so well that it survived the towers coming down on top of it. There is a whole documentary about it that was fascinating. I think it’s called the 9/11 hotel.
NONSENSE! The reinforcing of the Marriot had NOTHING WHATSOEVER to do with how they did on 9/11. The 93 bombing was from underneath. No building could survive having the Twin Towers come down on them, and it would have burned just like WTC7.
I saw that documentary and one of the staff were interviewed. This person had to go from floor to floor with others to make sure people had evacuated the upper floors. One of them said they had gone to the pool or some upper floor terrace, and they witnessed bodies and body parts from victims that had jumped out of the towers. Awful.
@@frankgarrett242 yes! It was horrific. Then there was that guy who made it out and survived both towers falling, only to find out later that his sister was on flight 175.
New Yorkers did not "hate" the look of the Twin Towers in 2001. Most thought they were beautiful and iconic including myself. Just look at the pictures of the mighty Twins in the background of the Brooklyn Bridge and tell me that the new garbage looking glass building even holds a candle to that. They were iconic and loved. MAYBE some New Yorkers didn't like them when they were first built, but by 2001 almost nobody thought they looked bad. Their beauty was in their simplicity yet when you get closer to them, you saw beautiful details about the buildings that made them special. I still have a bunch of Twin Towers shirts from when I was a kid. They remain my favorite skyscrapers of all time to this day.
My understanding is that when they were first built, their design was very controversial and a lot of people hated them. They were seen as these big ugly monoliths, but were slowly embraced by New Yorkers over time. I was only 8 when the attack happened, so I didn't know these buildings even existed until after they were gone, but ever since then I've had quite a fixation with them. They had an elegance that no other skyscraper has ever come close to achieving, with a design that was understated yet imposing at the same time.
I don’t think it’s fair to say everyone hated them. But they weren’t universally loved either. I remember people who still felt they were polarizing. Granted I grew up around a lot of older people born in the 1920s who lived in the city their entire lives. They still recalled Radio Row and didn’t think buildings got much better than the Empire State and Chrysler Building. Even the Pan Am building was polarizing. On that note, I miss old Manhattanites and that old accent. I don’t hear Manhattan accents anymore. Granted that accent varied depending on where you lived on Manhattan and your economic status. My mom is in her 60s and she still has some of it. She also lived for a time on Long Island. My mom was the older. Her sisters have straight LI accents. Sorry for the rant!
As someone born in 03, two years after 9/11, the twin towers look so damn cool. They remain in the category of mine involving buildings I want to visit that no longer exist anymore
Check out the building called One Woodward in Detroit Michigan. It was Minoru Yamasakis first skyscraper and basically a miniature wtc tower. Kind of like a practice run before he moved on to the twin towers. It has a lot similarities to the twin towers. The same center core design with open floor plan, same style tall and open lobby, same narrow vertical windows. One of my favorite buildings in Detroit, which is where Minoru was based out of.
WRONG! Many New Yorker hated the look of the Twin Towers from day one. Don't pretend otherwise. When I visited in the mid-90s they were just big. Not beautiful in any way.
I grew up in NY and these buildings were built when I was a little kid. I never remember NY without them. They were magnificent buildings, a symbol of NY and America. I wish I had spent more time visiting and enjoying them.
Thanks for your videos on the twin towers. I was lucky enough to visit the old WTC complex a few times as well as the observation deck of the south tower in the late 90s. The sights from the top, the lobby and plaza are still ingrained in my head.
Cool man, I never got too go but always wished I did. I visited the new complex a few years ago, and while it’s nice, I feel like the original complex would have been far better.
I wish I had, I had visited NYC back in June of 2001 but it sucks that the tour group I was with did not make it a priority to visit the original twin towers and complex because they thought that NYC would always have the twin towers. 😢😢😢😢😢😢😢
@@mdgraystone well its true, it was more for use than appearance. Fancy downstairs especially where the observation place was and the gift shop. Further up it was more for the office space that no one but who worked there saw.
What do you mean obsolete? All you have to do is remodel the interiors. There's nothing wrong with the exterior! And office buildings still have cubicles
These buildings were built to last forever they weren’t gonna be torn down because the exterior was outdated that’s crazy. Every city is filled with buildings that don’t have a glass curtain wall and eventually those buildings with be outdated. I’m sure they would’ve had to do some serious upgrades on the inside but the exterior is hard to appreciate just by looking at pictures, but those of us that actually saw the towers in person it depended on the time of day and how far or close you were to the towers. They looked like a solid color from farther away but as you got closer you could see the tight mesh of the steel beams. I think they would’ve aged well if they were never destroyed. Miss those buildings
They were needing a Million Dollar upgrade to remove all the asbestos. Silverstein apparently didn’t want to pay for that. See he pulled them, his words, not mine.
@@jamiewest4765ah yes The “pull it” excuse Ever thought he was Meaning “To Pull the Fire and Rescue Teams Out And Away from the Other buildings (7WTC) that were looking like collapsing !?
@@mrandrossguy9871 Way better than that stupid stacked cube design. That thing looks crap no matter what era it is. How anybody could have thought that was a great idea is beyond me???
That’s what I was thinking as I was watching this video, there was no desks, computer monitors, gym stuff absolutely nothing was found of what had been there before the atrocities that day x
I always thought of the towers as grand architectural marvels. But other than the view that office space was just like any other office space around the US. Really brings it home.
All you could really do there was hang out in the plaza. Visit the hotel, mall, the observation deck, and the WOW Restaurant. The rest of the complex was all office space. It was the biggest place of business in the whole world. A huge place of work. They were symbols of America's financial might.
What strikes me is how low the ceilings were. This would have funneled smoke very low to the floor. The volume of smoke coming from the towers increased over the duration of the event. Floors must have sagged and ruptured while the fires burnt below. And the heat in there must have been unbearable as the thermals rose through every space and through the core and elevator shafts. Looking closely at these interiors assists in forming a mental picture of conditions in there post-impact. This has always been very difficult to do as all we ever saw were the exteriors of the upper floors.
Slight correction, The ppl of Nyc hated the towers upon opening mainly cuz they killed Radio District, However by 2001 they were iconic and beloved by all.
IBM had a corporate print facility in the basement of one of the towers. I don't recall which one. It sustained damage from the '93 bombing, mainly from smoke and soot. The insurance company I worked for at the time insured IBM, and I handled the claim. Although it was IBM, there was nothing modern or electronic about any of the print equipment. It was all electromechanical, pretty much state-of-the-art 1950s technology. But it was there because it still worked. Wipe it down, oil it up, and you're good to go!
Slight correction, the erie “exit” exhibit was on the 91st floor. Which was not in the impact zone. But it was the highest floor anyone escaped from in the north tower. This actually makes it even more ironic.
This notion of most New Yorkers "hating" the look of the Towers is false. With the economic, Wall Street boom of the 1980's, they were downright iconic!
I hate people who just want to mindlessly destroy nice things or works of art because in the end what do they actually accomplish through mindless destructive acts?
At 4:36 i think they were checking the trusses to make sure that the fireproofing was put on properly They did have to redo parts but they didnt redo it all
Could be maybe not but I do remember hearing the night before, like overnight there was a thunderstorm so it stands to reason it was still clearing up in the very early hours
9:15 I don't agree at all. New is not better, the new building is nice, but nothing special, and at the bottom it looks like a bunker, you quickly get fed up by th design to be honest. The twin towers of New York were "the skyscraper" straight, functional. Those column trees and the silver lines to the sky, constantly changing with the light were beautiful. Once you've stood directly in front of them, you won't forget it. They even had a open roof, and next to it was the north tower, you could see what you were standing on. The new building does not have this. You just saw the twin towers on TV or a picture and you know it's New York. You can modernize every building from the inside, no big deal, this buildig already was a classic.
New Yorkers in the 70s were the ones that didn’t like the way the twin towers looked at first but it grew on them fast and became a staple for New York from the 80s-00s. Every one loved the twin towers in 2001
Wow! 😲 the North Tower rosed up before the South Tower, & yet the North Tower was the LAST to fall, after the South Tower on that 9/11 morning. A VERY GOOD VIDEO!!!!👍🏾👍🏾👍🏾🙂❤️🤍💙🥀🌹🌷🗽🇺🇸
Those windows looked really narrow across. There is one in Tulsa, Oklahoma that is a half scale replica of one of the original Twin Towers and even its windows are like at least 1.5 times further apart than what we're in the Twin Towers.
I believe the designer of the building was afraid of heights so he places the collums close enough together so a person could put both hands on each side of the column and look down
It would be very interesting to see the photos inside the towers that were taken during the attack. I’m always wondering why there isn’t any footage at all that made it out
Well you have realize there were no Smart Phones then. Taking pictures w/flip phones was not the easiest thing to do. Had there been the level of phones we now have, video would have come pouring out. But, we would regret seeing it.
I saw a clip of one man who took pics during the attack. The camera was recovered, but he was not. They only released maybe three pictures to the public
I was at the top in 1987 on a school trip. I remember looking down out the window and it just looked tiny. I was thinking suppose I get stuck here, how would I survive?
I read somewhere that the basements and subbasements and train line under the Twin Towers were packed together from all the force of the collapse. That'll be a cool video concept!
@@anthonyboarman3833 Yeah, i understand the construction, and have watched many documentaries on why they built it that way. Unlike neighboring skyscrapers (like Empire State building), which had more traditional layout of columns evenly spread throughout the office/floor space. I was just saying... it's completed design would make me claustrophobic (working there). Even though i understand their reasoning behind using that design.
@@MGillDesignIronically the architect wanted the narrow windows because he was afraid of heights and thought it would make people feel LESS claustrophobic.
I've also read in multiple places that the lead architect designed the thin windows because he was desperately afraid of heights. Makes sense. And the windows couldn't be too wide because of the structural design of the exterior walls.
That's just a gym for that specific office. There were other gyms in the building. Most offices and floors had their own kitchens, dining rooms, gyms etc.
I always wonder what's those sky lobbies looked like... because on the outside, you could see it's just like "two feasible stripes" on the middle of those two skyscrappers... so i'm wondering, was it like 2 floors connected?
There A LOT of photos of the complex and inside the towers pre 911 on a skyscraper forum site I’m a part of. Well were checking them out-thousands of photos from skyscraper fans.
Hello depressed ginger a few days ago i watched a documentary about the reaction of nyc atc during 911 during one part they said that i think it was flight 11 came almost 200 feet from colliding with another plane before he going into nyc. I was wondering is this true and if so what was the other plane and was if actually that close? 🤔
61st excellent - thanks - appreciate the vid.....but when you said they were gonna stay awhile....? Ahh Once they're built that big - they stay forever....or are supposed too.
According to an article from the Baltimore Sun, the FBI recovered a disposable camera from the body of someone that either jumped or died in the collapse. It was developed and it had photos from inside after the planes hit. I'm not sure which tower. Those photos haven't been released.
@@Great-DocumentariesI've replied twice with links to the Sun article and a podcast that talks about it, but it keeps disappearing. Laura Sullivan wrote the article and it was published on 12/21/03. The existence of the photos was reported in a major U.S. newspaper. I've obviously never seen them, but I'm not just "spreading myths" without any sourcing whatsoever.
@@Great-Documentaries The podcast is called “Missing on 9/11”. It's by John Walczak. It's episode 13 and is called, simply enough, “Bonus: The Disposable Camera”.
I think they should built the second World Trade Center that would be the spitting image of the Freedom Tower the first World Trade Center so that apart from the memorial the Twin Towers are commemorated in a modern fashion. The may even re-open Windows on the World restaurant and the outdoor observation deck. That would be really neat.
Recall them getting more popular near the end of their life because they were near the center of the longest stonk market boom in history, they were the backdrop of the millennium celebration in times square, they were full of rich generation Xers, & there was nostalgia for the 70's.
The FBI has a camera that they got from a jumper and from what I was told was the pictures on the camera from the jumper had images of what it looked like inside while the building was on fire
@@JohnathenSweeney because I know someone who has seen plaza video never seen before of jumpers hitting the ground, but then again it may seem unbelievable but it's the guy who contacted the 9/11 memorial and FBI for LolSuperman, Maxs.
@@Streamhighlights838 you do know people did steal stuff from the Mall and jumpers after they were diseased, it's not talked about but there was people stealing stuff cuz they knew them towers were gonna be gone
If someone was still in the top floor when the towers fell, would they have experienced a free fall, anti gravity, floating in space effect before they hit the ground? I know they wouldn't have been just standing around, they had people hanging out windows to avoid smoke. But just a thought.. The buildings buckled from the impact zones and you can see the tops of the towers as they fall holding shape before it was covered by dust. Does anyone know the velocity from the top level falling? I have been obsessed with 911 since the day it happened. It's just such a pivotal moment in history and it blindsided everyone
Cool vid, thanks man, just on the exterior comment... I reckon if they survived, they would have eventually remodeled the exteriors. Granted, those buildings were super high but the tallest building in Sydney (the AMP Tower), which had a very similar structure, only half the size, was completely remodeled. The way they do it is they strip about 40% of the building, but they keep the core, then rebuild around it. Anyway, not sure how relevant that is but I'm sure someone considers that mildly interesting.
They (the Port Authority would not have remodeled the exteriors. Sorry, no. That would have been a massive waste of money as well as disruptive for the 50,000 people who worked there. Wasn't going to happen. Sorry.
@@Great-Documentaries I'm sure eventually, someday, they would need to be recladded or reinforced, given Manhattan is actually sinking. Not sure why you keep saying sorry
The Twin Towers were NOT obsolete! They were gorgeous to look at, visit and sheer joy to work in. Not all floors had cubicles, but they gave you a feeling of having your own office. What's there now is far from "better" than the Twin Towers. It's unwelcoming, clinical, bland and threatening.
"It's unwelcoming, clinical, bland and threatening." Funny. That is EXACTLY what they said about the Twin Towers in 1974. Almost word for word. Maybe you should grow up.
The new 5 wtc will break ground and start construction next year and the stepped design 2 world trade center is not the official design as Norman Foster was renamed as architect of that tower.
I’m not sure where you uncovered this fact about New Yorkers not liking the look of the twin towers in the year 2000. It was definitely the case back in the early 1970s what are the towers were still going up, but not by the year 2000. If they were people they didn’t like the twin towers in 2000, they were in the severe minority.
Thanks for sharing. My wife was in the towers a few days before the collapse on a tour. I lost my cousin who worked on the top floor for Cantor Fitzgerald. RIP Annie
The corner part of the hotel that didn’t collapse protected like 18 people that survived the collapse of both towers and made it out. The reason it didn’t collapse was because of the 1993 bombing. They had reinforced that area so well that it survived the towers coming down on top of it. There is a whole documentary about it that was fascinating. I think it’s called the 9/11 hotel.
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NONSENSE! The reinforcing of the Marriot had NOTHING WHATSOEVER to do with how they did on 9/11. The 93 bombing was from underneath. No building could survive having the Twin Towers come down on them, and it would have burned just like WTC7.
I saw that documentary and one of the staff were interviewed. This person had to go from floor to floor with others to make sure people had evacuated the upper floors. One of them said they had gone to the pool or some upper floor terrace, and they witnessed bodies and body parts from victims that had jumped out of the towers. Awful.
@@frankgarrett242 yes! It was horrific. Then there was that guy who made it out and survived both towers falling, only to find out later that his sister was on flight 175.
New Yorkers did not "hate" the look of the Twin Towers in 2001. Most thought they were beautiful and iconic including myself. Just look at the pictures of the mighty Twins in the background of the Brooklyn Bridge and tell me that the new garbage looking glass building even holds a candle to that. They were iconic and loved. MAYBE some New Yorkers didn't like them when they were first built, but by 2001 almost nobody thought they looked bad. Their beauty was in their simplicity yet when you get closer to them, you saw beautiful details about the buildings that made them special. I still have a bunch of Twin Towers shirts from when I was a kid. They remain my favorite skyscrapers of all time to this day.
My understanding is that when they were first built, their design was very controversial and a lot of people hated them. They were seen as these big ugly monoliths, but were slowly embraced by New Yorkers over time. I was only 8 when the attack happened, so I didn't know these buildings even existed until after they were gone, but ever since then I've had quite a fixation with them. They had an elegance that no other skyscraper has ever come close to achieving, with a design that was understated yet imposing at the same time.
I don’t think it’s fair to say everyone hated them. But they weren’t universally loved either. I remember people who still felt they were polarizing.
Granted I grew up around a lot of older people born in the 1920s who lived in the city their entire lives. They still recalled Radio Row and didn’t think buildings got much better than the Empire State and Chrysler Building. Even the Pan Am building was polarizing.
On that note, I miss old Manhattanites and that old accent. I don’t hear Manhattan accents anymore. Granted that accent varied depending on where you lived on Manhattan and your economic status. My mom is in her 60s and she still has some of it. She also lived for a time on Long Island. My mom was the older. Her sisters have straight LI accents. Sorry for the rant!
As someone born in 03, two years after 9/11, the twin towers look so damn cool. They remain in the category of mine involving buildings I want to visit that no longer exist anymore
Check out the building called One Woodward in Detroit Michigan. It was Minoru Yamasakis first skyscraper and basically a miniature wtc tower. Kind of like a practice run before he moved on to the twin towers. It has a lot similarities to the twin towers. The same center core design with open floor plan, same style tall and open lobby, same narrow vertical windows. One of my favorite buildings in Detroit, which is where Minoru was based out of.
WRONG! Many New Yorker hated the look of the Twin Towers from day one. Don't pretend otherwise. When I visited in the mid-90s they were just big. Not beautiful in any way.
I grew up in NY and these buildings were built when I was a little kid. I never remember NY without them. They were magnificent buildings, a symbol of NY and America. I wish I had spent more time visiting and enjoying them.
Thanks for your videos on the twin towers. I was lucky enough to visit the old WTC complex a few times as well as the observation deck of the south tower in the late 90s. The sights from the top, the lobby and plaza are still ingrained in my head.
Cool man, I never got too go but always wished I did.
I visited the new complex a few years ago, and while it’s nice, I feel like the original complex would have been far better.
I wish I had, I had visited NYC back in June of 2001 but it sucks that the tour group I was with did not make it a priority to visit the original twin towers and complex because they thought that NYC would always have the twin towers. 😢😢😢😢😢😢😢
What always struck me about the twin towers, once you got up beyond the lobbies, was how utilitarian the upper floor hallways were.
It’s always great when you learn new words in the comments 😂💯
@UnitTrace
Exactly. Odd choice of words but whatever
Most office buildings are like that.
@@markg999 true. There was nothing fancy about the common area hallways.
@@mdgraystone well its true, it was more for use than appearance. Fancy downstairs especially where the observation place was and the gift shop. Further up it was more for the office space that no one but who worked there saw.
What do you mean obsolete? All you have to do is remodel the interiors. There's nothing wrong with the exterior! And office buildings still have cubicles
He keeps repeating this mantra in nearly all his videos. It's unebelieveable, like he's a 10 year old chile who has never been to an office.
These photos were taken by a Russian man who was taking a cooking course at Windows on the World these were taken in July 2001
Did the man still live today
@@Salman2323Putera No he passed away in a motorcycle accident the following year 2002
These buildings were built to last forever they weren’t gonna be torn down because the exterior was outdated that’s crazy. Every city is filled with buildings that don’t have a glass curtain wall and eventually those buildings with be outdated. I’m sure they would’ve had to do some serious upgrades on the inside but the exterior is hard to appreciate just by looking at pictures, but those of us that actually saw the towers in person it depended on the time of day and how far or close you were to the towers. They looked like a solid color from farther away but as you got closer you could see the tight mesh of the steel beams. I think they would’ve aged well if they were never destroyed. Miss those buildings
They were needing a Million Dollar upgrade to remove all the asbestos. Silverstein apparently didn’t want to pay for that. See he pulled them, his words, not mine.
Damn Straight !
Why people want boring mirror buildings is beyond me 😣
@@jamiewest4765ah yes The “pull it” excuse
Ever thought he was Meaning “To Pull the Fire and Rescue Teams Out And Away from the Other buildings (7WTC) that were looking like collapsing !?
Just because they were built in the seventies doesn’t mean that they weren’t modern. Technology evolves and so would the towers.
@@mrandrossguy9871 Way better than that stupid stacked cube design. That thing looks crap no matter what era it is. How anybody could have thought that was a great idea is beyond me???
It's quite incredible to think that practically everything you see in these photos was pounded into dust just a short while later
That’s what I was thinking as I was watching this video, there was no desks, computer monitors, gym stuff absolutely nothing was found of what had been there before the atrocities that day x
Because of gexogen ! Al in ashes
Patiently waiting for the Hurricane Katrina channel arc
Or the Roman Empire one
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I always thought of the towers as grand architectural marvels. But other than the view that office space was just like any other office space around the US. Really brings it home.
All you could really do there was hang out in the plaza. Visit the hotel, mall, the observation deck, and the WOW Restaurant. The rest of the complex was all office space. It was the biggest place of business in the whole world. A huge place of work. They were symbols of America's financial might.
The Twin Towers is sort of like the Titanic for our time.
Your vidoes are so good, You answer a lot of theories and questions about the WTC that I always wanted to know
Bro, these September 11th videos are so well made and interesting. GREAT JOB!
What strikes me is how low the ceilings were. This would have funneled smoke very low to the floor. The volume of smoke coming from the towers increased over the duration of the event. Floors must have sagged and ruptured while the fires burnt below. And the heat in there must have been unbearable as the thermals rose through every space and through the core and elevator shafts. Looking closely at these interiors assists in forming a mental picture of conditions in there post-impact. This has always been very difficult to do as all we ever saw were the exteriors of the upper floors.
I wonder what they used to break the windows, the survivors that were outside the windows ?
Slight correction, The ppl of Nyc hated the towers upon opening mainly cuz they killed Radio District, However by 2001 they were iconic and beloved by all.
Thanks for sharing this knowledge. Keep it up!
IBM had a corporate print facility in the basement of one of the towers. I don't recall which one. It sustained damage from the '93 bombing, mainly from smoke and soot. The insurance company I worked for at the time insured IBM, and I handled the claim.
Although it was IBM, there was nothing modern or electronic about any of the print equipment. It was all electromechanical, pretty much state-of-the-art 1950s technology. But it was there because it still worked. Wipe it down, oil it up, and you're good to go!
There was nothing modern about IBM in the 1990s. They were still acting like a 1950s with no competition. We (MSFT) buried them.
Slight correction, the erie “exit” exhibit was on the 91st floor. Which was not in the impact zone. But it was the highest floor anyone escaped from in the north tower. This actually makes it even more ironic.
Not necessarily true when you say that New Yorkers hated the look of them. A lot of us loved them. They were the Mom & Pop buildings of NYC.
This notion of most New Yorkers "hating" the look of the Towers is false. With the economic, Wall Street boom of the 1980's, they were downright iconic!
What's crazy I was in the towers on 9:10.01 at 5 pm and at that time a thunderstorm with heavy rain went through
I hate people who just want to mindlessly destroy nice things or works of art because in the end what do they actually accomplish through mindless destructive acts?
They were all perma virgins. That’s the real answer
It was New Yorks skyline, a beautiful one at that with the twins ❤
Great video ,there’s lot a lot of videos showcasing the interior
At 4:36 i think they were checking the trusses to make sure that the fireproofing was put on properly
They did have to redo parts but they didnt redo it all
The lobby and the windows were so beautiful ❤❤❤
Could be maybe not but I do remember hearing the night before, like overnight there was a thunderstorm so it stands to reason it was still clearing up in the very early hours
I’ve actually seen some photos from inside the twin towers whenever the plane impact it’s kind of eerie
got any links?
If you do, please please share a link. There are a lot of photoshopped fakes that purport to be what they arent
Can you please give us the links?
i thing he's lying, I doubt anyone would have gotten pictures and made it out before the collapse@@GanWael
@@alljourney2834 There are pictures people took during descent through the stairwell. Many faces of firefighters climbing up never to be seen again.
I wonder if they would shruggle to have tenants in 2023.
9:15 I don't agree at all. New is not better, the new building is nice, but nothing special, and at the bottom it looks like a bunker, you quickly get fed up by th design to be honest. The twin towers of New York were "the skyscraper" straight, functional. Those column trees and the silver lines to the sky, constantly changing with the light were beautiful. Once you've stood directly in front of them, you won't forget it.
They even had a open roof, and next to it was the north tower, you could see what you were standing on. The new building does not have this.
You just saw the twin towers on TV or a picture and you know it's New York. You can modernize every building from the inside, no big deal, this buildig already was a classic.
the best narration ever! no jokes!
New Yorkers in the 70s were the ones that didn’t like the way the twin towers looked at first but it grew on them fast and became a staple for New York from the 80s-00s. Every one loved the twin towers in 2001
For sure. That's why they were often featured in many media sources, such as movies, TV shows, video-games, and what not too.
Wrong. Whenever you say "everyone loved" no matter what it is, you are wrong. They were ugly and just big. #reality
Very interesting video, well done
im pretty
interested in the interior of the towers an nice vid👍
The open floor plan was intentional so the businesses could put up their own dividers or walls to customize their floor to what best worked for them!
Wow! 😲 the North Tower rosed up before the South Tower, & yet the North Tower was the LAST to fall, after the South Tower on that 9/11 morning. A VERY GOOD VIDEO!!!!👍🏾👍🏾👍🏾🙂❤️🤍💙🥀🌹🌷🗽🇺🇸
The 80s and 90s are not dated just the people of today who wouldn’t be able to function in that world are dated. We were happier back then.
They’re dated. It’s not derogatory lol, it’s just a fact.
@@abyz1467 Sorry, still not dated.
@@CRTLALTBACKSPACE do you really not know what dated means? it appears that way.
@@abyz1467 He knows. He just can't let go. He's stuck in the 90s.
can you do a video about wtc 6, 5, or 4 cause they are interesting (btw the first image inside of the marriot hotel like looks ai generated)
Those windows looked really narrow across. There is one in Tulsa, Oklahoma that is a half scale replica of one of the original Twin Towers and even its windows are like at least 1.5 times further apart than what we're in the Twin Towers.
I believe the designer of the building was afraid of heights so he places the collums close enough together so a person could put both hands on each side of the column and look down
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That is correct from what I read as well.
It would be very interesting to see the photos inside the towers that were taken during the attack. I’m always wondering why there isn’t any footage at all that made it out
Well you have realize there were no Smart Phones then. Taking pictures w/flip phones was not the easiest thing to do. Had there been the level of phones we now have, video would have come pouring out. But, we would regret seeing it.
@@b3j8There were Camcorders and Kodak cams and Digital Camcorders bro
I saw a clip of one man who took pics during the attack. The camera was recovered, but he was not. They only released maybe three pictures to the public
@@KrystyneY Where can i find these photos?
@@teegs74 I don't believe you can iirc they were never released to the public out of respect for his family's wishes.
I was at the top in 1987 on a school trip. I remember looking down out the window and it just looked tiny. I was thinking suppose I get stuck here, how would I survive?
It looked like papers were "snowing" out of the tower at 10:17 like they were on 9/11. I wonder if that pic was possibly taken on that day too?
It looks more like a drawing than a photo
@@marcelo_4779 Possibly yeah. Who truly knows though?
I read somewhere that the basements and subbasements and train line under the Twin Towers were packed together from all the force of the collapse. That'll be a cool video concept!
You read wrong. There is video of rescuers walking around under the buildings where the mall was looking for survivors.
The WTC 2 could be a reconstruction of the south Tower, like a New WTC1 was North Tower...
I'm very claustrophobic, and even with the open floor plan, those "narrow slits" for windows
would make me feel trapped.
Yeah the windows were so narrow because of the box column that went around the building. That way the inner office area would be column free.
@@anthonyboarman3833 Yeah, i understand the construction, and have watched many documentaries on why they built it that way.
Unlike neighboring skyscrapers (like Empire State building), which had more traditional layout of columns
evenly spread throughout the office/floor space.
I was just saying... it's completed design would make me claustrophobic (working there).
Even though i understand their reasoning behind using that design.
@@MGillDesignIronically the architect wanted the narrow windows because he was afraid of heights and thought it would make people feel LESS claustrophobic.
I've also read in multiple places that the lead architect designed the thin windows because he was desperately afraid of heights. Makes sense.
And the windows couldn't be too wide because of the structural design of the exterior walls.
@@tomr6955 Oh wow. Has the exact opposite effect on me. Makes me feel trapped like (like behind jail bars).
you should do a video about the south tower observatory's deck next!
That's just a gym for that specific office. There were other gyms in the building. Most offices and floors had their own kitchens, dining rooms, gyms etc.
Have you seen the 9/10 documentary? It's on TH-cam and it talks a lot about the Towers and lots of pictures and videos of the interior
thanks for sharing
I always wonder what's those sky lobbies looked like... because on the outside, you could see it's just like "two feasible stripes" on the middle of those two skyscrappers... so i'm wondering, was it like 2 floors connected?
Them stripes are the mechanical floors that worked for the skylobbies above
@@mike2c512 thanks, i thought it's the sky lobby.. but after your reply, i searched for it, and indeed it's the mechanical floors...
Wow amazing❤❤🎉
Some very interesting pictures. Just lately got back into the topic again. The pictures give me some serious the backrooms vibes somehow though
great video
What floor was the gym on ? I wonder if some of those on the windows of WTC1 were in the gym when the first plane hit ?
Can you do a video on the new wtc 2 building
There A LOT of photos of the complex and inside the towers pre 911 on a skyscraper forum site I’m a part of. Well were checking them out-thousands of photos from skyscraper fans.
Oh cool, what website it is??
I have pics from an office b-day party of 79th and 78th sky lobby floor of North tower in October 2000.
Hello depressed ginger a few days ago i watched a documentary about the reaction of nyc atc during 911 during one part they said that i think it was flight 11 came almost 200 feet from colliding with another plane before he going into nyc. I was wondering is this true and if so what was the other plane and was if actually that close? 🤔
61st excellent - thanks - appreciate the vid.....but when you said they were gonna stay awhile....? Ahh Once they're built that big - they stay forever....or are supposed too.
4:38 that's strange art looking back.
According to an article from the Baltimore Sun, the FBI recovered a disposable camera from the body of someone that either jumped or died in the collapse. It was developed and it had photos from inside after the planes hit. I'm not sure which tower. Those photos haven't been released.
But, the cameraman never dies...
The photos do not exist. End of story. Stop spreading myths.
@@Great-DocumentariesI've replied twice with links to the Sun article and a podcast that talks about it, but it keeps disappearing. Laura Sullivan wrote the article and it was published on 12/21/03. The existence of the photos was reported in a major U.S. newspaper. I've obviously never seen them, but I'm not just "spreading myths" without any sourcing whatsoever.
@@Great-Documentaries The podcast is called “Missing on 9/11”. It's by John Walczak. It's episode 13 and is called, simply enough, “Bonus: The Disposable Camera”.
6:14 is the AMEX building after 9/11
I think they should built the second World Trade Center that would be the spitting image of the Freedom Tower the first World Trade Center so that apart from the memorial the Twin Towers are commemorated in a modern fashion. The may even re-open Windows on the World restaurant and the outdoor observation deck. That would be really neat.
Recall them getting more popular near the end of their life because they were near the center of the longest stonk market boom in history, they were the backdrop of the millennium celebration in times square, they were full of rich generation Xers, & there was nostalgia for the 70's.
The movie Working Girl and the end of King Kong (1976) were filmed in the twin towers.
I finally found a video inside of the towers.
Exactly they renovated the oentavon and wtc and fitted extra bombs probably over a few months
Stunning buildings 🇺🇸🕊️
I was raised in alphabet city in NYCHA projects on losaida Avenue Pedro ibizu Campos plaza. I remember that day and morning.
Tbh i love your accent 👌
Such a vibe, are like backrooms
The twin towers give me such an uneasy feeling. It obviously has to do with the events. But wow, they just seem so eerie.
The FBI has a camera that they got from a jumper and from what I was told was the pictures on the camera from the jumper had images of what it looked like inside while the building was on fire
And how do you know this? 👀
@@JohnathenSweeneyhe got it all wrong on 9/11 morning some dude took a picture inside of the building a hour before the plane hit
@@JohnathenSweeney because I know someone who has seen plaza video never seen before of jumpers hitting the ground, but then again it may seem unbelievable but it's the guy who contacted the 9/11 memorial and FBI for LolSuperman, Maxs.
@@Streamhighlights838 you do know people did steal stuff from the Mall and jumpers after they were diseased, it's not talked about but there was people stealing stuff cuz they knew them towers were gonna be gone
The flat roofs must have been horrific to be stuck in, smoke rises and flat roofs trap heat
If someone was still in the top floor when the towers fell, would they have experienced a free fall, anti gravity, floating in space effect before they hit the ground? I know they wouldn't have been just standing around, they had people hanging out windows to avoid smoke. But just a thought.. The buildings buckled from the impact zones and you can see the tops of the towers as they fall holding shape before it was covered by dust. Does anyone know the velocity from the top level falling? I have been obsessed with 911 since the day it happened. It's just such a pivotal moment in history and it blindsided everyone
Modern doesn’t always mean better
Cuando era niño soñaba con conocer Nueva York y las torres hasta ese momento era intocable EEUU seguro.
we need the twins back
Cool vid, thanks man, just on the exterior comment... I reckon if they survived, they would have eventually remodeled the exteriors. Granted, those buildings were super high but the tallest building in Sydney (the AMP Tower), which had a very similar structure, only half the size, was completely remodeled. The way they do it is they strip about 40% of the building, but they keep the core, then rebuild around it. Anyway, not sure how relevant that is but I'm sure someone considers that mildly interesting.
They (the Port Authority would not have remodeled the exteriors. Sorry, no. That would have been a massive waste of money as well as disruptive for the 50,000 people who worked there. Wasn't going to happen. Sorry.
@@Great-Documentaries I'm sure eventually, someday, they would need to be recladded or reinforced, given Manhattan is actually sinking. Not sure why you keep saying sorry
@@creedymarks it's arrogance disguised as trying to sound curteous imo
I really want to see photos where people were leaving the towers while the attacks were happening
Looks like the Backrooms
Спасибо большое! 👍 🇷🇺
The Twin Towers were NOT obsolete! They were gorgeous to look at, visit and sheer joy to work in. Not all floors had cubicles, but they gave you a feeling of having your own office. What's there now is far from "better" than the Twin Towers. It's unwelcoming, clinical, bland and threatening.
"It's unwelcoming, clinical, bland and threatening."
Funny. That is EXACTLY what they said about the Twin Towers in 1974. Almost word for word. Maybe you should grow up.
what do you mean by curvature? (on the windows)
Well, the first iPhone came out in 2007, but good video anyway
8:02 - the State of the stepping stone building! Thank Christ they didnt build that.
What is he doing now?
Also, how could that photo be from october 5th 2001. Towers were gone by then
10:31 if this is not 9/11, then can you explain the White bits of something outside the Windows on a clear blue sky day.? 🙏
I think it’s a drawing.
@@forresttowns4995It doesn't look like a drawing ??
The new 5 wtc will break ground and start construction next year and the stepped design 2 world trade center is not the official design as Norman Foster was renamed as architect of that tower.
You were inside the twin towers 2 weeks ago? My brain ain’t braining 🤔
05:48 what happened that time? It doesn’t seem a photo of 9/11
I don’t know Bro
I’m not sure where you uncovered this fact about New Yorkers not liking the look of the twin towers in the year 2000. It was definitely the case back in the early 1970s what are the towers were still going up, but not by the year 2000. If they were people they didn’t like the twin towers in 2000, they were in the severe minority.
Gives me liminal space vibes
Debieron reconstruirla a su forma original
Para renacer como el ave Fenix.
Estas torres eran la identidad de Nueva York como la torre Eiffel de París.
Looks like you could see the entire world from them..
I'm sorry but if you've EVER been to NYC and were alive to watch the TV back then, these pictures do not need commentary; really.
You making the old people in the comments mad 😂