These images really help me understand why people didn’t know what to do that day. These buildings were huge and a lot of areas were windowless. Just looking at the darker hallways and tiny stairwells gives me chills. They couldn’t see what we could from the outside. Climbing down those stairs was like running away completely blind. All they could do was hope they were fast enough.
There's a video i've seen on that day of someone who had escaped one of the WTC towers claiming that ''the fire escape was locked'!' He seemed real angry about it and made sure to let people know who were filming the aftermath. It felt like he was alluding to foulplay on that day with the fire escapes doors.
it was really beautiful. i visited three times first time my Mom worked on a floor before they moved into another building. second time for a family reunion my mom took us on a tour. the last time was to meet her in the city for lunch. sad
I agree the twin towers were different and had character. everything just fit together perfect the new one just looks like something completely out of place they stuck there and said ok lets throw some money away.
For some reason, I always pictured the Skylobby as a large open area surrounded by windows but these pictures really emphasise the fact that, the poor people waiting for the elevators when the second plane hit never could have seen it coming. Really helps to understand what people faced that day.
@@MBB9394No it wasn’t, and no, there weren’t. It was called the sky lobby because it was 78 floors up rather than at ground level. It was where people had to get out of one elevator and transfer to another to complete their trip up or down.
Back in 1979 my parents took me to see the twin towers. We took the elevator all the way to the top, and that’s when I noticed we were in the clouds. As a kid, that was so cool! That I never forget!
With my hearing issues i wouldn't be able to go up there. I get dizzy on a 3rd floor if i see out the windows. I now won't go past a second floor. My lung dr will come down to the lobby for me.
We were leaving on a cruise from New York harbor a week before the attack. When the ship was at a certain angle, one of the buildings appeared to disappear behind the other and my young son said that one of the buildings was gone. I told him not to worry, and that that could never happen. Little did we know that a week later they would both be gone.
I remember visiting my sister at the towers when she worked there for an accounting firm. She was out on medical leave during the time of the 93' explosion in the garage. Her husband my brother-in-law was at work on 9/11 with his company they were in the middle of a meeting that morning she didn't know what was going on when I called her and she dropped the phone. Gladly he and his co-workers survived he said that when they heard the first explosion he told his co-workers let's get out of here. I spoke to him that evening when he finally got home and he told me of seeing the people jumping out of the windows. And one of the firefighters that died in the towers was my childhood neighbor so the 20th anniversary just brought out a lot of emotions in me.
@@horsegirl2.012 Do have an example on someone or anyone who thinks literally everything is fake news? Why do you suspect me of belonging to that insane category? You want to smear me as very unusual stopid?
@@horsegirl2.012no I agree with el because i swear to god everyone got the same story “my aunt was late to the work that day” like what’s the coincidence
This is truely sad for me... I was born the day 9/11 happened in New York an hour before it happened... My mom worked their but missed work for the day because she had me. she was holding me and full of tears watching the Hostpital TV seeing this happen only to look out the widow and see it live
Emperor Sheev Palpatine Horrifying to know that. But blessed that you decided to come when you did, otherwise you wouldn't be here to tell this story. Wow.
Prior to 2001 I was always amazed by the Twin Towers and couldn't wait to see them in real life. Sadly I'll never get that chance but these pictures give me some insight into their glory. Thanks for posting!
If you would like to see a relic of the Twin Towers, take a visit to Tulsa, Oklahoma, and check out the viewing deck of the BOK (Bank of Oklahoma) Tower. It was designed by Minoru Yamasaki and is very faithful to the original Twin Towers. It is also almost exactly half the size, at 52 floors. Or you can just look it up. (don't confuse it with the BOK tower gardens)
Am I the only one that feels like they should've built the freedom tower twice? I know no one will care in the future, but I'm just so used to seeing 2 structures standing there. 15 years later the skyline still looks awkward to me with just one tower. I guess I'll get over it eventually.
SupaDupa FlyGuy They should have built two in a V shape and called it the" up yours " tower ! Sorry I'm English that's an old urban slang for saying Fuck you . Basically
true, but the twin towers were part of the skyline people all recognized from 1972-2001. Prior to 1972 their was a totally different looking skyline and now with freedom tower 1 we have yet another NY city skyline. It's awful to know what took place to shape the current skyline, however, it's not like different generations have always had different skyline pics in their heads no matter what city were talking about. NY city obviously being the most drastic, disturbing change to think about.
SupaDupa FlyGuy Yes ! I wanted them to build two towers again too ! They didn’t have to be just like the ones before but I wanted there to be two of them .
0:34-0:43 is where firefighter Chief Orio saw "numerous code 10-45's" which means "dead bodies" in firefighter code. Very eerie. That was also the last floor he was on as the tower collapsed. R.I.P.
that's correct. Orio Palmer was a marathon runner and was in great shape. he was first one up that high and radioed down everything he saw and tried to set a plan in motion. the plane smashed in through and exploded throughout sky lobby so with all the unsuspecting people standing there waiting to get an elevator out of there, naturally there would be multiple 45's. he also probably spoke to people briefly as he raced up the stairwells and I'm sure it was comforting at the time to know firemen were on their way. God Bless, Orio Palmer and the victims that day. R.I.P. hero.
I was a young sailor at the Brooklyn shipyards in the eighties. One day I went to Manhattan and got lost and ended up in the financial district and to my amazement I ended up at the Twin Towers. I was mesmerized at the beauty of these buildings. Someone told me once if you stand facing and hugging the Tower and try to look backwards you will actually fall. I did it and almost fell backwards. It was the weekend and the area almost seemed abandoned and I had the place all to myself. I was driving in Orlando on 9/11 and was in total disbelief when the news came over the radio.
@@Saboteur709 Ha! On a whole different video, I've been in a comment war... some "kids" don't believe me that there were 99 elevators in each tower...239 total elevators in all 7 WTC bldgs.
It's sad because the current one world trade center that replaced the north tower is one acre of space up until you hit around the 40th floor. At the 40th floor the tower starts to scale back space as it climbs to the top where the antenna and roof is. It's a shame. The top floors of the new 1wtc are small.
0:40 that particular area of the skylobby was the 44th floor skylobby in the north tower. There was a restaurant in that skylobby reserved specifically for employees who worked in the tower and it was called skydive. They were open 24 hours unlike windows on the world and the fast food places in the observation deck of the south tower. I know this because my aunt Linda used to work there and she told me about it. If you were working at the tower at night you could literally go to skydive at 3am and get breakfast. These towers were ahead of their time. This might be one of the worst mistakes the usa ever made by not rebuilding the twin towers. They should scrap plans to build the ugly current design of 2wtc and instead make a twin to one world trade center. A futuristic rebuild of the twin towers is still possible. Edit: my aunt survived. She wasn't there that day. She worked for Carr Futures on floor 92. Several of her co workers died because floor 92 while it wasn't directly hit by the plane it was "trapped" because the stairwells were blocked.
I worked in the WTC for 11 years until that day. During the early 90s recession the WTC was not doing well. Alexander's dept store the major tenant of the mall below closed and others also. In the late 99s until 2001 high end stores opened up such as Sephora and Tourenau and was doing very well. My office also had a major make over and we only had 6 months to enjoy our redone offices..I knew many people I saw on that Monday Sept 10 2001 and did not see them again.....
What floor where you in? I'm so happy that you are still here today 💗 I was 9 years old when it happened, and I wish I knew the inside of the WTC, I would've loved to go dine at the Windows on the World.
@@sweetpinkivette I worked on the 5th floor and was running late so I did not make it to my desk. My co workers survived but had injuries and left the hospital the same evening. Space was needed for survivors who needed to stay.
@@TheAbxgirl I'm glad to know that you and all your coworkers survived. Even though I was not born during this tragic event, it feels like a part of NYC was lost, which I really wish I could have witnessed.
God, those marble designs look so cool! I also had the pleasure of visiting the original Twin Towers/W.T.C. ten years before 9/11 took them away from us, during the summer of 91. I'll never forget the amazing view from the top, which was like none other, where people looked like ants, while cars appeared they were these toy micro-machines you could just pick up, and throw on the ground. It was magical, almost supernatural in a way. Never once did I think it would be a one shot deal that I'd never get the chance to truly experience ever again. :(
@@everardo2345 Yeah I know. But the new tower does have both an indoor observation deck, and places to eat at the top. It's still a nice place, even if it'll never be the same, nor nearly as iconic as the original W.T.C. was with that being said though.
Lol, huh? Were you born yesterday? There were some really nice cameras 20 years ago (the dark ages apparently to some of you), consumer cameras even. Photos haven't changed like video has. Cameras have though. They've added new technology to make it easier for dingleberries to take a good picture, but when it comes to exposing a photo, not much has changed. Just higher resolution, and the only thing higher resolution photos allow you to do is crop more without losing quality. Other thing is low light photos. The new sensors help with that, but that's a novelty since most people want lighting in their photos. In the right hands a disposable film camera can take a picture that's just as good as a digital picture (without filters). The reason you see more grainy photos from film cameras in the past is because all the settings had to be done on the camera. There wasn't software to do it for you, and the lighting had to be perfect. If it wasn't, it was grainy. So photographers had to master their manual settings and environment.
@@dangerous8333 in fact resolution has gone down afaik. film is almost infinitely scalable compared to digital. same signal same lens and focus will yield muuuch higher res on film. IIRC that's why hollywood still uses film when they do.
So many memories come back seeing this video. Inside of towers were so awesome. Played hide and seek with brothers and sisters in tower one all the time as a kid. Mom worked there.
Seeing the pictures after hearing all the recounts of people who were in the buildings and survived takes it to a whole other level of grief for what happened that day. It's been 20 years I can finally listen to the stories all the way through.
This feels like your looking at the titanic and to know the horror that this building went through and the people inside it went through. I cried all night last night watching all the documentaries again.
I worked in Tower 2 on 110th fl for GTE Telecom that was Verizon on 9/11. Somehow I remember skylobby being on 77th fl. I'd have to go up to 107, walk passed 107, head to freight elevator and reach 110 below the observation deck. Best group of people I ever worked with.
Back in the 70's I visited the twin towers, I admired the beautiful marble walls, the woodwork, the tiled floors, and the brass elevators. I miss the twin towers indeed. Rest in peace for those who perished, and for those who were never found, God found you and took you home. Rest in peace.
Seeing how it looked inside seems so fascinating and ghostly, especially if you try your best to imagine scenes of what could have been going on inside during the attacks at the same time. I've been thinking about it too much, suddenly makes me want to be inside one of the towers and just explore the whole building.
I am truly sorry for your loss that’s absolutely tragic and she must’ve been terrified. I am from the United Kingdom, we here in the United Kingdom stand in solidarity with America and the great people of New York. Your grandmother will never be forgotten and neither will the hundreds of people that died on that day sir September 11, 2001. May your grandmother soul rest in peace and may all these of lost family and friends on that tragic day! Xxx
I was also there about a month earlier. I was only 6 at the time but I clearly remember being in the lobby and seeing the world flags, the elevator operator in his green uniform and being on the observation deck looking through the binoculars. Luckily my grandparents still have most of the pictures from that day.
Such beautiful towers and a beautiful concept, being two identical massive towers. It is so sad to be seeing this and having that eerie feeling, knowing what happened 13 years ago.....
I remember what Wtc1&2 were like before 1993.Before the first bombing in February of that year. The absolute freedom of going in and out of those buildings pre 1993 is something I will cherish forever. There was no fear.No apprehension back then.
@@stevenedwards8353 Yes.All visitors had to check in with the security set up in each of the main lobbies in WTCs 1&2.For delivery persons, security had to call upstairs first before giving them a plastic pass with their photo on it.For unknown reasons,I held unto two such passes.All cars and delivery trucks in the loading dock were checked with a fine tooth comb.
I was only 10 in 2001 but I’ll never forget at the end of august my summer camp took us to the liberty science center in Jersey city. It was foggy as hell and you couldn’t see anything outside. But I was able to see the outline of the towers and I was pointing them out to my friends. As we were heading back home under much clearer conditions, I turned around and just stared at them smiling. Never did I think that would be the last time I saw them. Thank you for uploading this
this year has been strange for me. I was 14 years old when those towers fell. I agree with many of you. the towers were so beautiful and majestic. it would have been great to just rebuild them but I understand how that may have been painful for so many. I've literally been watching 9/11 videos this entire month. it's been 14 years but seeing all these pictures and watching all the videos makes it seem like it was just yesterday. never forget. all the souls and beautiful American lives we lost. I can never forget. I'm not a new yorker but we all felt the deep sadness on that tragic day. rip to all the lives we lost that day.
Back in the 90's when I was a small child, I had gone with my entire family on the full WTC tour -- we still have our commemorative photo of all of us standing together on South Tower observation deck framed in my grandparents' home. I only wish I had been old enough to truly appreciate the experience.
what disturbs me is knowing the panic and terror that happened in all those rooms. they look like ordinary office buildings, stylish too, but its tainted with the knowledge of what happened in them that fateful day
I stood in the plaza at WTC, and looking up it felt so unreal, so unnatural, it brought a feeling of dread. My wife wanted to go up to the observation deck, and I told her don't do it. I'm terrified of heights, I am not ashamed to admit to; I tried to reason with her, be objective, "If anything happens, there's only one door between you and the ground." She went anyway, and after walking from the elevator to where she could look straight down, she was on the next elevator going down. The $20 ticket would have lasted longer at a blackjack table in Vegas. Now, when I remember standing in the Plaza, if I had been there on that day, how far would I have gotten? I don't think far. It would have taken a second to even believe what I was thinking; another second to form the words What the Fuck; another second to say it; another second to tell myself, Run like hell. But where? Maybe three or four seconds before parts of an imaginary falling sky introduced itself to the earth below. Vanity of vanities, to think I may be secure earth.
Some of stairwell entries to certain floor were inaccessible. You had to have key. I think more lives could have been saved if there was a way to get all the way down to ground level without needing an access key. But these builders were design and built in the 1970s, so I'm sure it was for security purposes. Sadly it entrapped a lot of people on certain floors from moving forward and waiting for someone to come rescue them.
if only they had been aware that after 1993, the PA (whom I fucking despise as a govt. enterprise) restricted access to the bare minimum of workers with access keys, like you said, in order to tighten security and lesson the risk of a potential roof-invasion of the towers. I find this reasoning to be completely bizarre and bogus, but again, if these workers knew the roof was not even an option, more people would have diverted their course to the roof, instead towards a ground escape. More lives, at least in Tower 2, would have certainly been saved. Another example of how lack of communication hampered rescue efforts that day.
cindypltnm That’s not really it. In the first tower, the plane cut through all three staircases and all of the elevator shafts. For the people at or above the impact floors (which were 93-99), there was no way down. That resulted in 1,344 people dying in the collapse (or having jumped). In the South Tower, the second plane struck at an angle. Because of the fact that it dipped its wing at the last minute, it actually missed one of the Staircases: Stairwell A. However, only a little more than 10 were able to pass the impact zone, which resulted in 599 people dying. This was despite Stairwell A being intact. They either didn’t know it was there, or for some reason couldn’t get to it.
Stairway doors are always unlocked from the outside, but one can only re-enter on certain floors. This is for security, and in a normal fire evacuation, after the people evacuated from the fire floor and the floor around it, they would re-enter to safety a few floors down. And yes you could get down to ground level with the stairways.
Thunderbolt_78 yes we all know this now but at the time many people during the evacuation were trapped due to not having key access. Very poor design for buildings that high up. Very employee should have me access. Just maybe those in the south tower could have found a way to descend
1:21 this floor plan helps so much in understanding just how entrapped people were. I always thought the stairwells would have aligned the edges of the building, I didn’t realize they ran through the middle. The explosions really must have blown them up for several floors. So sad. R.I.P.
I only saw the twin towers from an airplane, flying from D.C to New England back in the late 70's. It was a spectacular view on a clear day so far above. RIP for all those lost.
I was at windows on the world in ‘97. It was great. You could feel the building sway a little in the wind all the way up top. Incomprehensible how it all ends.
I was lucky (in all senses of the word) to visit in August 1999 (just 2 years prior) and go to the "Top of the World" viewing deck. They were absolutely amazing buildings. One thing stood out to me is the sheer size of them, I saw the twin towers countless times on TV and in my favourite movie "Escape from New York", but it was only standing next to them, and even more standing on the roof that impressed me and gave me that sense of size. I am not afraid of heights, but you really felt up in the clouds up there. The other "skyscrapers" nearby looked so much shorter, including The Empire State Building way uptown. I haven't been back to Manhattan since then, but plan to visit the 9/11 memorial. RIP to all those who perished in such a grim manner.
I moved to Brooklyn March of 2001 and me my friends would walk down over the bridge to the mall downstairs. We went to the lobby of tower 2 but never upstairs. It was a beautiful building and you really felt you were in NYC with those buildings there.
At 1:48 there's a listing of the tenants on the 46th floor and you can see Vandelay Industries listed there, Art Vandelay was a successful importer/exporter.
So sad and so tragic what happened on this day, September 11, 2001. I've watched so many documentaries and conspiracy theories docs on what happened this day. I honestly don't know what to believe because there are a lot of questions that still to this day, 16yrs later, haven't been answered. But what I do know is that almost 3,000 people lost their lives that day. Many of them dying as heros. So sad
To see the door to the roof, the last image, I almost fear to acknowledge whatever horror continued to surge in those people finding that door locked... And, still, it ultimately would have made no difference. RIP, what an unimaginable tragedy, that really happened.
Me too. They were beautiful don’t get me wrong but sadly, what made them beautiful, also made them a target. There were many images and what we now know as memes portraying their demise. I wouldn’t feel comfortable working in a building like that.
I am a single south american person. I was inside the towers in 1997. July to be more accurate. The world will never see the american way of life as it was before. I was there before and i was there when it fell. I wish the best for those who lost everything during the most important day of the century. I was in america and i felt it. Best fellings for all the us persons who felt what i felt. I remember that day. And i feel sad. Love and greetings to all the families... the future will make their memories never be forgoten
Life changed after they fell. I grew up seeing skyline of NYC with the towers. I remember crying the first time I saw the skyline had changed. I became even more real even though I saw it unfold on TV live. Prayers. 🙏🏻
it has that feeling looking at the inside building of what it madness must have been like for the people in that place before it fell, kind of like looking at the Titanic ship under the sea but way worse
I got most of these pics as well when I was there in 1979 (I was on vacation, going to spend New Years at Times Square). I went through both towers, and took pics of everything. I was glad I did. RIP to the victims and the towers.
The sky lobby idea came after the designers decided it was impractical to have an elevator with 20 people stopping 20 times at 20 different floors. So there were express elevators to the sky lobby (I believe at the 44th and 78th floors) where you disembark and take a “local’ elevator up or down to your floor
Its been supposed that many people died in the South Tower 78th floor sky lobby, the area where flight 175 hit, waiting for elevators to go down after hearing news of the first attack
I certainly wouldn't have wanted to work in those two buildings. I worked in a bank tower that was almost 40 stories high and when the wind blew the building would slowly sway back and forth. It scared the daylights out of me and I was glad when our department moved to a better built lower building just across the street from the tower. I think all of these towers built in the late 60's and early 70's were built very badly. The bank tower I worked in had no sprinkler system because the codes didn't require them - can you believe that? Also just like the World Trade towers the bank tower's floors were cramped, narrow, and sometimes dark just like in the pictures in this video.
All skyscraper buildings, NEW and old sway. If they were rigid, they would snap under tremendous wind forces. Newer buildings use a Tuned Mass Damper, in the top of the building to counter the movement of the structure. Older buildings of the 60s or 70s were made thicker and used a hydraulic shock absorbing system at the base of the building, to dampen the building's movement. The twin towers had a viscous damping system in its outer walls to contend with the movement of the wind. Engineers used it in the design of these buildings at that time. This doesn't make the skyscrapers of the 60s or 70s in any way inferior. They were well made, and many still stand to this day. The Sears tower in Chicago, Empire State building, Park Avenue, and others are well made structures. As far as building codes ( no water sprinkling system ) as you mentioned, those things become revised, as needed. Technology gets better yes, however, the old buildings are still solid, and I've seen many examples of modern day cheap out on materials in things like, the average home these days are not as strong as some of the older homes. Drywall instead of plaster.
The twin towers were built just fine and so were other towers built in the 70s. All towers sway. It's required. If the tower doesn't sway there is a potential it could destabilize from high winds. It is true that many skyscrapers didn't have sprinkler systems during that time but during that time architects were still learning about things.
If the buildings stayed in their place, then they were built correctly. They just don't throw steel and concrete and expect it to stand tall. Obviously standards must change with the times.
The windows of the WTC were narrow but the floor plans were actually pretty open space. But I can understand the anxiety of working up high especially when the building sways 😬
It looks incredible but also so dominating and menacing with corridors, lobby's, elevators, miles up I the sky...I'd feel terrified being such a tiny thing in such a complex building..
I was watching a bunch of documentaries about 9/11 recently, and seeing that sky lobby was eerie after learning there were about 200 people grouped together in there when the 2nd plane hit and the bottom wing went right into that lobby and killed all those people in an instant. Sad shit.
After 9-11 there were the anthrax and bomb scares. I worked in a courthouse. We had the alarm go off, a bomb scare. We were only 190 people, and we exited and some of us had to go down five flights of stairs. That seemed to take forever. I can’t imagine trying to get down 70-80 floors with fireman going up the same stairwell, some in the dark. Terrifying.
Thank you for sharing this! What really baffles me is that hardly any of the interior of these towers were found. There just seemed to be a lot of concrete and steel, yet with everything that was inside, you'd think there'd be a lot of other things too. Such a sad day in history. RIP to all those who perished and god bless those who survived to tell the story!!!
thats because they were pulverized as 100,000+ pounds of concrete, steel, asbestos, limestone, rock and debris rained down on them, nothing survived that… and the floors were crushed under the intense pressure
It’s called controlled demolition. If the towers got really hit by a plane, which they didn’t the buildings would have never collapsed because they were built to withstand such impact.
@@JCX-9The towers were built to withstand 707 jet airliners in 1971, which is when they were finished constructing them. They were Not built to withstand 757 and 767 jumbo jet airliners which didn't yet exist in 1971, but were the airplanes in use on 9 11 2001. There's a huge difference between the airplanes in 1971 and of 2001. Not that difficult to understand Sherlock.
@@JCX-9fake news. The person's who designed this building proved your statement wrong THERE IS NO SKY SCRAPER ON EARTH WHICH WOULD SURVIVE THE SOUTH TOWER IMPACT. You braindead bonobo should be jailed. If USA wants to instigate a war, they would just start a war for no reason or merely reasons at all, which they have done prior to and after 9/11. Furthermore, if you have plans to attack your own country, nobody would come to the conclusion to fucking place AN EXTREME AMOUNT of explosives inside the twin towers and Furthermore buy hundreds of fake witnesses, IT specialists, construction workers, office worksers THEY COULD JUST BUY 5 DEGENERATE HARDCORE DEVOUT MUSLIMS AND LET THEM DRIVE THROUGH A BIG PLAZA ON 5 DIFFERENT PLACES AND YOU WILL HAVE 2000 Deaths too Please, your so dumb, everything you have done in your life could have been done by some random other person, nobody needs you for anything since you are incapable of literally every job in this world. I would not cry if your whole family tree perishes today, it will increase average IQ in the USA by at least one point.
Oh to see the lovely dining room called Windows on the 🌎 World. For my engagement my fiancé and his best friend and his wife accompanied us for dinner at this occasion. We could look right down towards the Brooklyn Bridge from being up so high. Never in my wildest dreams did I ever feel unsafe there, of course more than 20years. We were married 1997. My ❤️ heart is filled with sadness then and still today, a tragedy that should have never happened. Prior to this there was the Lockerbie 747 Pan Am Attack. This hatred has got to stop, the evil what really does it gain you if you are willing to loose your soul. Prayers for all the people who lost their lives and all the people on the ground, the police, the firefighters, all the responders who since that day developed some type of cancer and died. This tragedy will never be forgotten RIP✈️📿🙏🇺🇸❤️💐✈️
They were quite lovely buildings inside. The Observation Deck in the South Tower and Windows On The World Restaurant in the North Tower were my two favorite places at the WTC.
It's so tragic. Imagine the pain people went through. First the horror of impact. Then the terror of knowing you're going to die. Then the physical pain as building collapses and shreds you as you're falling and then the impact against the debris below. Jesus... This was pure evil. People can be so evil.
It's so good to know so many people have shared their photo and uploaded this on TH-cam, most of us was too young or either wasn't born to see these marble buildings.
0:22 It makes you wonder if thats THE floor 78 of the South tower. which is almost exactly where the plane hit that tower. just off center between 75-85
I live in north Jersey. I’d always get so excited to see the sky line because of the twin towers. My mother was in the buildings before 9/11. She said she got very sick from the swaying of the building; one of the top floors
Shot just 3 days after my 6th birthday! Cool to see my city on that particular day. My family was probably getting ready for Thanksgiving festivities when this was shot, given it would be a week away. I was probably in school that very morning at P.S. 119 in The Bronx. My first time visiting the Observation Deck wouldn't be until November 16th, 1991 on my 10th birthday. Thanks for bringing back great memories!❤
It breaks 💔 my heart 😢. I used to go there on Wednesdays to go shopping at Plymouth and Strawberrys and take my sister who worked on the 68th floor to lunch back in the late 70's/80's lunch luckily she retired in 2000. Good memories mixed with sad🥺
Thanks for the vid. I was always curious about what the sky lobbies looked like. My only experience inside 1 & 2 WTC besides the ground floor lobby and mall underneath was the observation deck. But that had a direct elevator. I had spend a good amount of time in 7 WTC, but that building didn't have sky lobbies.
Beautiful building...it's an eerie thought now looking at the stairwells and stairways, elevators, knowing that those poor souls never made it out 😢😪 Thankyou for posting ❤🙏❤
I remember going into Greenwich Village and looking down 7th ave from Greenwich Avenue.How serene they looked seemingly reflecting each other's image in the night sky.
It's amazing how much office space just one single floor of these buildings had! Remember when they were first built computers were in their infancy. They needed room for desks, file cabinets. Imagine what it would have been like to wire the phone system in these massive structures. When they were struck by the planes in 2001 you can see all the papers from all the files cabinets that were still being used during that time. No digital documents yet (we were just getting there), because we were just turning the corner with the internet, cell phones had just started to come around, and most of them were flip phones. All the videos shot of that horrible day were shot on camcorders. We wouldn't see a smartphone for about another 6 to 7 years. If they had never been destroyed they would probably be more room from file cabinets becoming obsolete going paperless, and the buildings would have way less weight in them. For their time there was nothing like them. All 7 buildings combined had 11.2-million square feet of space! Was there ever a complex that had that much space? It's crazy to think we had that in 1973. RIP to all those who lost their lives on that day, and my condolences to all their families...
These types of photos haunt me, especially the ones that show workers in their office spaces. The only memories and imagery I have of the towers have to do with 9/11, so seeing how they looked outsidse of that lens, for some reason, is grossly unsettling.
I was there a month before 9/11 on the roof of tower 2. Can’t believe it’s been 20 years!! I miss these buildings so much. Seeing the staircases shows you just how narrow they were and plus there should’ve been more but being built when they were the port authority didn’t have to have more than 3 per building. Plus the walls around the stairs and elevators were Sheetrock not masonry a new method at the time of construction.
Exactly my thought. Arenas built in the 70s had the same issue-- dark, cramped concourses. I think the WTC would have aged rather poorly in 2023. It would have needed major renovations
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These images really help me understand why people didn’t know what to do that day. These buildings were huge and a lot of areas were windowless. Just looking at the darker hallways and tiny stairwells gives me chills. They couldn’t see what we could from the outside. Climbing down those stairs was like running away completely blind. All they could do was hope they were fast enough.
The architect, Minoru Yamasaki, had a fear of heights. This is the reason why the windows were so small.
@@mkphotofilm wow interesting thanks for sharing that
There's a video i've seen on that day of someone who had escaped one of the WTC towers claiming that ''the fire escape was locked'!' He seemed real angry about it and made sure to let people know who were filming the aftermath. It felt like he was alluding to foulplay on that day with the fire escapes doors.
Thank you for that wonderful insight.
@@mkphotofilmwhere is that documented?
It was SOOO beautiful in there.I never knew what the building looked like on the inside.
Same
it was really beautiful. i visited three times first time my Mom worked on a floor before they moved into another building. second time for a family reunion my mom took us on a tour. the last time was to meet her in the city for lunch. sad
The inner structure and elevator system is very interesting too
TJJohnson me neither. I've only been to NYC in 2005. I live in the SW region of the United States.
NaturelDeese do you have pictures of the world trade center from the inside. I want to see more
It's sad to think that absolutely none of this exists anymore.
+Ark Kanine new one has zero the charm the original had
I agree the twin towers were different and had character. everything just fit together perfect the new one just looks like something completely out of place they stuck there and said ok lets throw some money away.
Larry Silverstein is more happy with the new "Freedom" cough cough tower
Chris Dans of course. He's just talking about the building because this is a video about the building...
Leo i suppose your right yes, sorry. Ill take down my comment....😉
so eerie knowing none of this exists now
Phoeny123 every atom of it still exists somewhere
mr bear Never thought about it that way.... Wow
Totally agree, specially if you imagine each space at it's lasts hours/minutes :(
@Snyder The Star Wars Fan 2008 same accept I was born in 2007
Especially the “in case of fire” sign.
For some reason, I always pictured the Skylobby as a large open area surrounded by windows but these pictures really emphasise the fact that, the poor people waiting for the elevators when the second plane hit never could have seen it coming. Really helps to understand what people faced that day.
I remember that.
that's why they say not to use elevators in cases of emergencies, you can't see and an open shaft is all there is between you and the floors below.
It's called sky lobby because there were windows and you could see outside.
@@MBB9394No it wasn’t, and no, there weren’t. It was called the sky lobby because it was 78 floors up rather than at ground level. It was where people had to get out of one elevator and transfer to another to complete their trip up or down.
0:44 This is exactly what the Skylobby was..
Back in 1979 my parents took me to see the twin towers. We took the elevator all the way to the top, and that’s when I noticed we were in the clouds. As a kid, that was so cool! That I never forget!
that sounds like an amazing memory!!
Yes a memorable time ,,,it must be a feeling of anxiety, that the buildings are simply gone..
With my hearing issues i wouldn't be able to go up there. I get dizzy on a 3rd floor if i see out the windows. I now won't go past a second floor. My lung dr will come down to the lobby for me.
We were leaving on a cruise from New York harbor a week before the attack. When the ship was at a certain angle, one of the buildings appeared to disappear behind the other and my young son said that one of the buildings was gone. I told him not to worry, and that that could never happen. Little did we know that a week later they would both be gone.
Holy crap thats blood chilling
Gut wrenching
😱
I remember visiting my sister at the towers when she worked there for an accounting firm. She was out on medical leave during the time of the 93' explosion in the garage. Her husband my brother-in-law was at work on 9/11 with his company they were in the middle of a meeting that morning she didn't know what was going on when I called her and she dropped the phone. Gladly he and his co-workers survived he said that when they heard the first explosion he told his co-workers let's get out of here. I spoke to him that evening when he finally got home and he told me of seeing the people jumping out of the windows. And one of the firefighters that died in the towers was my childhood neighbor so the 20th anniversary just brought out a lot of emotions in me.
I do not believe you.
@@elbuggo that’s the cool 😢
@@elbuggo do you think literally everything is fake news? Like nothing exists but your own reality?
@@horsegirl2.012 Do have an example on someone or anyone who thinks literally everything is fake news? Why do you suspect me of belonging to that insane category? You want to smear me as very unusual stopid?
@@horsegirl2.012no I agree with el because i swear to god everyone got the same story “my aunt was late to the work that day” like what’s the coincidence
This is truely sad for me... I was born the day 9/11 happened in New York an hour before it happened... My mom worked their but missed work for the day because she had me. she was holding me and full of tears watching the Hostpital TV seeing this happen only to look out the widow and see it live
Emperor Sheev Palpatine Horrifying to know that. But blessed that you decided to come when you did, otherwise you wouldn't be here to tell this story. Wow.
And look how you turned out.....nuff said
Amazing story😢
Emperor Sheev Palpatine oh my gosh your lucky god was on your family’s side
Amazing if true.
Prior to 2001 I was always amazed by the Twin Towers and couldn't wait to see them in real life. Sadly I'll never get that chance but these pictures give me some insight into their glory. Thanks for posting!
Same for me.
I saw them in july 2000. I took a picture from one tower to another in the 107 floor, it was very nice.
If you would like to see a relic of the Twin Towers, take a visit to Tulsa, Oklahoma, and check out the viewing deck of the BOK (Bank of Oklahoma) Tower. It was designed by Minoru Yamasaki and is very faithful to the original Twin Towers. It is also almost exactly half the size, at 52 floors. Or you can just look it up. (don't confuse it with the BOK tower gardens)
@@LauRa-re9un I did the same when I was there in 1979. (Jan Griffiths).
@@douglasgriffiths3534 So cute!! We have the memory :)
I wish the twin towers were still around
+Gamajun Same here.. :( the people who died that day too. But I guess they're in a better place now.
WryPlains12345 - Schneider Productions k
yeah we all do bro
WryPlains12345 - Schneider Productions im planning on going up there this summer and I cant wait
CountryButterfly56789 yeah they are
Still angry that they are gone.
Really wish we could have rebuilt
John Ritcher im angry. To
I am mad to
They did but it's a bad rebuild they should have built the same thing
Im a Train Fanatic is back I agree plus if they were rebuilt it'd be as if 9/11 never happened
Am I the only one that feels like they should've built the freedom tower twice? I know no one will care in the future, but I'm just so used to seeing 2 structures standing there. 15 years later the skyline still looks awkward to me with just one tower. I guess I'll get over it eventually.
SupaDupa FlyGuy yes I agree !!!!
SupaDupa FlyGuy
They should have built two in a V shape and called it the" up yours " tower !
Sorry I'm English that's an old urban slang for saying Fuck you . Basically
true, but the twin towers were part of the skyline people all recognized from 1972-2001. Prior to 1972 their was a totally different looking skyline and now with freedom tower 1 we have yet another NY city skyline. It's awful to know what took place to shape the current skyline, however, it's not like different generations have always had different skyline pics in their heads no matter what city were talking about. NY city obviously being the most drastic, disturbing change to think about.
SupaDupa FlyGuy. The fact that it's now called the ONE WORLD trade, should have tipped you off...lol
SupaDupa FlyGuy Yes ! I wanted them to build two towers again too ! They didn’t have to be just like the ones before but I wanted there to be two of them .
0:34-0:43 is where firefighter Chief Orio saw "numerous code 10-45's" which means "dead bodies" in firefighter code. Very eerie. That was also the last floor he was on as the tower collapsed. R.I.P.
No else finds that terrifying?
Creepy
oreo Palmer was his name x
that's correct. Orio Palmer was a marathon runner and was in great shape. he was first one up that high and radioed down everything he saw and tried to set a plan in motion. the plane smashed in through and exploded throughout sky lobby so with all the unsuspecting people standing there waiting to get an elevator out of there, naturally there would be multiple 45's. he also probably spoke to people briefly as he raced up the stairwells and I'm sure it was comforting at the time to know firemen were on their way. God Bless, Orio Palmer and the victims that day. R.I.P. hero.
youngadultgirl I thought chief Palmer wiz in South Tower🤔🙄
Never realized how 70s it looked inside, wish I could have seen it.
Same
@MeEncantaKiley They were built in the 1970's (well, I guess were FINISHED in 1973), that's feasibly why they look so 70's.
You just did.
@@ttocselbag5054 I think they mean they wish they could've seen them in PERSON instead of a video.
@@ericyoung1478 *hold it in. HOLD IT IN*
I was a young sailor at the Brooklyn shipyards in the eighties. One day I went to Manhattan and got lost and ended up in the financial district and to my amazement I ended up at the Twin Towers. I was mesmerized at the beauty of these buildings. Someone told me once if you stand facing and hugging the Tower and try to look backwards you will actually fall. I did it and almost fell backwards. It was the weekend and the area almost seemed abandoned and I had the place all to myself. I was driving in Orlando on 9/11 and was in total disbelief when the news came over the radio.
They weren't just tall... they were BIG!! Each floor of each tower had almost an acre of space!!
I just learned that this week, amazingly big!
The one fact that always blew my mind was that each tower had 99 elevators.
@@Saboteur709 Ha! On a whole different video, I've been in a comment war... some "kids" don't believe me that there were 99 elevators in each tower...239 total elevators in all 7 WTC bldgs.
It's sad because the current one world trade center that replaced the north tower is one acre of space up until you hit around the 40th floor. At the 40th floor the tower starts to scale back space as it climbs to the top where the antenna and roof is. It's a shame. The top floors of the new 1wtc are small.
@@eyeflaps yeah the original was unique because the top floor was the same space as the bottom floor which is unusual for a tower that high.
0:40 that particular area of the skylobby was the 44th floor skylobby in the north tower. There was a restaurant in that skylobby reserved specifically for employees who worked in the tower and it was called skydive. They were open 24 hours unlike windows on the world and the fast food places in the observation deck of the south tower. I know this because my aunt Linda used to work there and she told me about it. If you were working at the tower at night you could literally go to skydive at 3am and get breakfast.
These towers were ahead of their time. This might be one of the worst mistakes the usa ever made by not rebuilding the twin towers. They should scrap plans to build the ugly current design of 2wtc and instead make a twin to one world trade center. A futuristic rebuild of the twin towers is still possible.
Edit: my aunt survived. She wasn't there that day. She worked for Carr Futures on floor 92. Several of her co workers died because floor 92 while it wasn't directly hit by the plane it was "trapped" because the stairwells were blocked.
Was your aunt in north or south tower?
Hello Cam!!! Answer us, please!! How old your aunt had in 2001 and what is her age now?
@@coldwindblowing she was maybe 35. She's 56/57 now.
@@vexxcon8125 north is where Carr was.
Thank you for sharing. Your aunt must have so many interesting stories.
I worked in the WTC for 11 years until that day. During the early 90s recession the WTC was not doing well. Alexander's dept store the major tenant of the mall below closed and others also. In the late 99s until 2001 high end stores opened up such as Sephora and Tourenau and was doing very well. My office also had a major make over and we only had 6 months to enjoy our redone offices..I knew many people I saw on that Monday Sept 10 2001 and did not see them again.....
What floor where you in? I'm so happy that you are still here today 💗 I was 9 years old when it happened, and I wish I knew the inside of the WTC, I would've loved to go dine at the Windows on the World.
@@sweetpinkivette I worked on the 5th floor and was running late so I did not make it to my desk. My co workers survived but had injuries and left the hospital the same evening. Space was needed for survivors who needed to stay.
@@sweetpinkivette Windows of the World had Salsa Thursdays after work parities then we went to the clubs from there
@@TheAbxgirl I'm glad to know that you and all your coworkers survived. Even though I was not born during this tragic event, it feels like a part of NYC was lost, which I really wish I could have witnessed.
@@TheAbxgirl thanx for sharing yer story
God, those marble designs look so cool! I also had the pleasure of visiting the original Twin Towers/W.T.C. ten years before 9/11 took them away from us, during the summer of 91. I'll never forget the amazing view from the top, which was like none other, where people looked like ants, while cars appeared they were these toy micro-machines you could just pick up, and throw on the ground. It was magical, almost supernatural in a way. Never once did I think it would be a one shot deal that I'd never get the chance to truly experience ever again. :(
Yeah and sadly the new tower doesn’t have an observation view like the original 😭
@@everardo2345 It actually DOES, but no outdoor one though.
@@freakyfornash that’s what I meant😭😭 it ain’t the same anymore
@@everardo2345 Yeah I know. But the new tower does have both an indoor observation deck, and places to eat at the top. It's still a nice place, even if it'll never be the same, nor nearly as iconic as the original W.T.C. was with that being said though.
@@everardo2345 yes 10 floors lower too.
What’s strange is many of these photos look like they where taken within the last few years. They don’t look 20+ years old
probably somewhere from 1998-2001
Lol, huh? Were you born yesterday?
There were some really nice cameras 20 years ago (the dark ages apparently to some of you), consumer cameras even.
Photos haven't changed like video has. Cameras have though. They've added new technology to make it easier for dingleberries to take a good picture, but when it comes to exposing a photo, not much has changed. Just higher resolution, and the only thing higher resolution photos allow you to do is crop more without losing quality. Other thing is low light photos. The new sensors help with that, but that's a novelty since most people want lighting in their photos.
In the right hands a disposable film camera can take a picture that's just as good as a digital picture (without filters). The reason you see more grainy photos from film cameras in the past is because all the settings had to be done on the camera. There wasn't software to do it for you, and the lighting had to be perfect. If it wasn't, it was grainy. So photographers had to master their manual settings and environment.
Why is it "strange"? lol Great cameras have existed since the 1960's, man.
@@redadamearth That's far out man
@@dangerous8333 in fact resolution has gone down afaik. film is almost infinitely scalable compared to digital. same signal same lens and focus will yield muuuch higher res on film. IIRC that's why hollywood still uses film when they do.
So many memories come back seeing this video. Inside of towers were so awesome. Played hide and seek with brothers and sisters in tower one all the time as a kid. Mom worked there.
Seeing the pictures after hearing all the recounts of people who were in the buildings and survived takes it to a whole other level of grief for what happened that day.
It's been 20 years I can finally listen to the stories all the way through.
It's amazing to think that photos which must have seemed so mundane at the time can come to be so significant many years later
Especially when you consider: who clicks photos of stairwells, elevators and fire exit signs
I have a fear of heights, so you'd never catch me above the 3rd floor.
Same here
same her dude
@@emilianoramirez5398. That’s not what they meant, but alrighty
@@emilianoramirez5398 You decide which company you want to work for, resign
Same here. I would've choked to death or burned to death because I wouldn't even be able to jump.
God bless the people that died on that day😔♥️
This feels like your looking at the titanic and to know the horror that this building went through and the people inside it went through. I cried all night last night watching all the documentaries again.
Me too
I worked in Tower 2 on 110th fl for GTE Telecom that was Verizon on 9/11. Somehow I remember skylobby being on 77th fl. I'd have to go up to 107, walk passed 107, head to freight elevator and reach 110 below the observation deck. Best group of people I ever worked with.
BS.
@@johannesbols57 why ?
Back in the 70's I visited the twin towers, I admired the beautiful marble walls, the woodwork, the tiled floors, and the brass elevators. I miss the twin towers indeed. Rest in peace for those who perished, and for those who were never found, God found you and took you home. Rest in peace.
Seeing how it looked inside seems so fascinating and ghostly, especially if you try your best to imagine scenes of what could have been going on inside during the attacks at the same time. I've been thinking about it too much, suddenly makes me want to be inside one of the towers and just explore the whole building.
My grandma was in that building and died in the fire (she was on the second to top floor)her coffin has a picture of the twin towers 😢😭
So sorry to hear that...such a tragedy. Wishing you healing and strength.
I am truly sorry for your loss that’s absolutely tragic and she must’ve been terrified. I am from the United Kingdom, we here in the United Kingdom stand in solidarity with America and the great people of New York. Your grandmother will never be forgotten and neither will the hundreds of people that died on that day sir September 11, 2001. May your grandmother soul rest in peace and may all these of lost family and friends on that tragic day! Xxx
Wait a minute she would not have a coffin she would have a name next to the tower she is in
Nice
@Shithead Butthead i said that they are wrong
Going to New York and seeing the Twin Towers was something that was on my bucket list for years, too bad I can't go back in time and see them.
We need a time machine!
YES!
+The Darkrunner We should've rebuilt them
+Jack Unblock I Think rebuilding the exact twin towers would have been better... even taller! you're right...
i dont think that would be a good idea
I remember being on them a month before they fell. It actually sounds terrifying now that I said that...
Wow. Just wow.
Menchitah i was thier two days prior. its the only clear memory i have of being on the south tower. i miss this place.
Menchitah That's scary
I was also there about a month earlier. I was only 6 at the time but I clearly remember being in the lobby and seeing the world flags, the elevator operator in his green uniform and being on the observation deck looking through the binoculars. Luckily my grandparents still have most of the pictures from that day.
2 days prior on September 9th! Damn!
Such beautiful towers and a beautiful concept, being two identical massive towers. It is so sad to be seeing this and having that eerie feeling, knowing what happened 13 years ago.....
Its been 16 years already
And we can NEVER FORGET
Yup now it’s been 18 years
We coming up on 20 years next month.
To think what the world looks like now in 2021 versus 2001,is unimaginable.
20 years today 😞
I remember what Wtc1&2 were like before 1993.Before the first bombing in February of that year. The absolute freedom of going in and out of those buildings pre 1993 is something I will cherish forever. There was no fear.No apprehension back then.
@@stevenedwards8353 Yes.All visitors had to check in with the security set up in each of the main lobbies in WTCs 1&2.For delivery persons, security had to call upstairs first before giving them a plastic pass with their photo on it.For unknown reasons,I held unto two such passes.All cars and delivery trucks in the loading dock were checked with a fine tooth comb.
I was only 10 in 2001 but I’ll never forget at the end of august my summer camp took us to the liberty science center in Jersey city. It was foggy as hell and you couldn’t see anything outside. But I was able to see the outline of the towers and I was pointing them out to my friends. As we were heading back home under much clearer conditions, I turned around and just stared at them smiling. Never did I think that would be the last time I saw them. Thank you for uploading this
this year has been strange for me. I was 14 years old when those towers fell. I agree with many of you. the towers were so beautiful and majestic. it would have been great to just rebuild them but I understand how that may have been painful for so many. I've literally been watching 9/11 videos this entire month. it's been 14 years but seeing all these pictures and watching all the videos makes it seem like it was just yesterday. never forget. all the souls and beautiful American lives we lost. I can never forget. I'm not a new yorker but we all felt the deep sadness on that tragic day. rip to all the lives we lost that day.
the people who were in the area are dieing of aspestos
NEVER FORGET
The day that changed the world
What about the lives of the OTHER beautiful nations that were lost that day?
There was a lot from Australia, don't forget! R. I. P. To All Who Lost Their Lives. South Australia
@@irenemarlor4583 16 OF MEXICO TOO
Back in the 90's when I was a small child, I had gone with my entire family on the full WTC tour -- we still have our commemorative photo of all of us standing together on South Tower observation deck framed in my grandparents' home. I only wish I had been old enough to truly appreciate the experience.
How nearly all of this apparently turned to dust is beyond me
what disturbs me is knowing the panic and terror that happened in all those rooms. they look like ordinary office buildings, stylish too, but its tainted with the knowledge of what happened in them that fateful day
No building needs to be that tall. Even in a normal fire, just think of the chaos to get out.
I stood in the plaza at WTC, and looking up it felt so unreal, so unnatural, it brought a feeling of dread. My wife wanted to go up to the observation deck, and I told her don't do it. I'm terrified of heights, I am not ashamed to admit to; I tried to reason with her, be objective, "If anything happens, there's only one door between you and the ground." She went anyway, and after walking from the elevator to where she could look straight down, she was on the next elevator going down. The $20 ticket would have lasted longer at a blackjack table in Vegas. Now, when I remember standing in the Plaza, if I had been there on that day, how far would I have gotten? I don't think far. It would have taken a second to even believe what I was thinking; another second to form the words What the Fuck; another second to say it; another second to tell myself, Run like hell. But where? Maybe three or four seconds before parts of an imaginary falling sky introduced itself to the earth below. Vanity of vanities, to think I may be secure earth.
Never forget September 11, 2001. FDNY 343.
God bless them and us all.. God bless America
amen my cousin Lawerence virgilio was one of the REST IN PEACE ALL FIREMAN AND RESPONDERS!
Did the impact get him or the collapse of is it unclear? Interested but trying not to sound like a dick.
Absolute chills down my spine seeing those pictures.
Some of stairwell entries to certain floor were inaccessible. You had to have key. I think more lives could have been saved if there was a way to get all the way down to ground level without needing an access key. But these builders were design and built in the 1970s, so I'm sure it was for security purposes. Sadly it entrapped a lot of people on certain floors from moving forward and waiting for someone to come rescue them.
if only they had been aware that after 1993, the PA (whom I fucking despise as a govt. enterprise) restricted access to the bare minimum of workers with access keys, like you said, in order to tighten security and lesson the risk of a potential roof-invasion of the towers. I find this reasoning to be completely bizarre and bogus, but again, if these workers knew the roof was not even an option, more people would have diverted their course to the roof, instead towards a ground escape. More lives, at least in Tower 2, would have certainly been saved. Another example of how lack of communication hampered rescue efforts that day.
cindypltnm That’s not really it. In the first tower, the plane cut through all three staircases and all of the elevator shafts. For the people at or above the impact floors (which were 93-99), there was no way down. That resulted in 1,344 people dying in the collapse (or having jumped). In the South Tower, the second plane struck at an angle. Because of the fact that it dipped its wing at the last minute, it actually missed one of the Staircases: Stairwell A. However, only a little more than 10 were able to pass the impact zone, which resulted in 599 people dying. This was despite Stairwell A being intact. They either didn’t know it was there, or for some reason couldn’t get to it.
It looked like to me , when you went through a stairway door, it locked behind you , which would not be good ..
Stairway doors are always unlocked from the outside, but one can only re-enter on certain floors. This is for security, and in a normal fire evacuation, after the people evacuated from the fire floor and the floor around it, they would re-enter to safety a few floors down. And yes you could get down to ground level with the stairways.
Thunderbolt_78 yes we all know this now but at the time many people during the evacuation were trapped due to not having key access. Very poor design for buildings that high up. Very employee should have me access. Just maybe those in the south tower could have found a way to descend
I wonder how Minoru Mayasaki the architect of the Twin Towers would have felt to see them collapse. He died on 1986
he would've been beyond devastated i'd imagine
1:21 this floor plan helps so much in understanding just how entrapped people were. I always thought the stairwells would have aligned the edges of the building, I didn’t realize they ran through the middle. The explosions really must have blown them up for several floors. So sad. R.I.P.
I only saw the twin towers from an airplane, flying from D.C to New England back in the late 70's. It was a spectacular view on a clear day so far above. RIP for all those lost.
I was at windows on the world in ‘97. It was great. You could feel the building sway a little in the wind all the way up top. Incomprehensible how it all ends.
I was lucky (in all senses of the word) to visit in August 1999 (just 2 years prior) and go to the "Top of the World" viewing deck. They were absolutely amazing buildings. One thing stood out to me is the sheer size of them, I saw the twin towers countless times on TV and in my favourite movie "Escape from New York", but it was only standing next to them, and even more standing on the roof that impressed me and gave me that sense of size. I am not afraid of heights, but you really felt up in the clouds up there. The other "skyscrapers" nearby looked so much shorter, including The Empire State Building way uptown. I haven't been back to Manhattan since then, but plan to visit the 9/11 memorial. RIP to all those who perished in such a grim manner.
I moved to Brooklyn March of 2001 and me my friends would walk down over the bridge to the mall downstairs. We went to the lobby of tower 2 but never upstairs. It was a beautiful building and you really felt you were in NYC with those buildings there.
I loved those buildings. Two giant silver ingots. Stars of so many great movies...
Unfortunately, the last movie was a very sad one indeed.
bowie
I was there in May 2001... truly magnificent beauty.. never forget
At 1:48 there's a listing of the tenants on the 46th floor and you can see Vandelay Industries listed there, Art Vandelay was a successful importer/exporter.
I saw that too. I think it was Constanza's direct competitor. They imported and exported PVC though, not latex.
@@canadude6401 I knew that name sounded familiar………..
So sad and so tragic what happened on this day, September 11, 2001. I've watched so many documentaries and conspiracy theories docs on what happened this day. I honestly don't know what to believe because there are a lot of questions that still to this day, 16yrs later, haven't been answered. But what I do know is that almost 3,000 people lost their lives that day. Many of them dying as heros. So sad
I've been trying to figure for years what the sky lobbies looked like, thank you!!!
To think all that once existed is chilling and depressing.
To see the door to the roof, the last image, I almost fear to acknowledge whatever horror continued to surge in those people finding that door locked... And, still, it ultimately would have made no difference. RIP, what an unimaginable tragedy, that really happened.
Was such stunning buildings, must have been an incredible place to have gone and seen. The lobby was beautiful.
It's so eerie looking at these. Like looking at pictures of the titanic
I would be scared to work in a building with so many floors.
Me too. They were beautiful don’t get me wrong but sadly, what made them beautiful, also made them a target. There were many images and what we now know as memes portraying their demise. I wouldn’t feel comfortable working in a building like that.
I am a single south american person. I was inside the towers in 1997. July to be more accurate. The world will never see the american way of life as it was before. I was there before and i was there when it fell. I wish the best for those who lost everything during the most important day of the century. I was in america and i felt it. Best fellings for all the us persons who felt what i felt. I remember that day. And i feel sad. Love and greetings to all the families... the future will make their memories never be forgoten
Life changed after they fell. I grew up seeing skyline of NYC with the towers. I remember crying the first time I saw the skyline had changed. I became even more real even though I saw it unfold on TV live. Prayers. 🙏🏻
when I saw the in case of fire take stairs sign I just lost it!!!
I remember my ears when going up and down the elevator. I was a boy and went with my father back in the 1980s. Too bad I didn't go again.
it has that feeling looking at the inside building of what it madness must have been like for the people in that place before it fell, kind of like looking at the Titanic ship under the sea but way worse
I got most of these pics as well when I was there in 1979 (I was on vacation, going to spend New Years at Times Square). I went through both towers, and took pics of everything. I was glad I did. RIP to the victims and the towers.
(Jan Griffiths, on hubby's account).
@@douglasgriffiths3534 god bless you
@@douglasgriffiths3534 Is there any way you can upload those pics anywhere for the world to see?
To think you may have filmed someone who died on that fateful day it is heartbreaking. This. Still gets me to this day
The sky lobby idea came after the designers decided it was impractical to have an elevator with 20 people stopping 20 times at 20 different floors. So there were express elevators to the sky lobby (I believe at the 44th and 78th floors) where you disembark and take a “local’ elevator up or down to your floor
Its been supposed that many people died in the South Tower 78th floor sky lobby, the area where flight 175 hit, waiting for elevators to go down after hearing news of the first attack
What agony of thinking that people were trapped in a so spacious but so tall building !!!
Ikr
these people suffered and some broke the windows so they could jump to their death. Horrible things happened that day.
No people inside the towers were empty
There already is.
1000fantomas so what about the jumpers then? How was it empty?
I certainly wouldn't have wanted to work in those two buildings. I worked in a bank tower that was almost 40 stories high and when the wind blew the building would slowly sway back and forth. It scared the daylights out of me and I was glad when our department moved to a better built lower building just across the street from the tower. I think all of these towers built in the late 60's and early 70's were built very badly. The bank tower I worked in had no sprinkler system because the codes didn't require them - can you believe that? Also just like the World Trade towers the bank tower's floors were cramped, narrow, and sometimes dark just like in the pictures in this video.
All skyscraper buildings, NEW and old sway. If they were rigid, they would snap under tremendous wind forces. Newer buildings use a Tuned Mass Damper, in the top of the building to counter the movement of the structure. Older buildings of the 60s or 70s were made thicker and used a hydraulic shock absorbing system at the base of the building, to dampen the building's movement. The twin towers had a viscous damping system in its outer walls to contend with the movement of the wind. Engineers used it in the design of these buildings at that time. This doesn't make the skyscrapers of the 60s or 70s in any way inferior. They were well made, and many still stand to this day. The Sears tower in Chicago, Empire State building, Park Avenue, and others are well made structures. As far as building codes ( no water sprinkling system ) as you mentioned, those things become revised, as needed. Technology gets better yes, however, the old buildings are still solid, and I've seen many examples of modern day cheap out on materials in things like, the average home these days are not as strong as some of the older homes. Drywall instead of plaster.
I worked on the 37th floor of a building and we had a fire drill one day......no way i could make it down! Other fit people did ....
The twin towers were built just fine and so were other towers built in the 70s. All towers sway. It's required. If the tower doesn't sway there is a potential it could destabilize from high winds. It is true that many skyscrapers didn't have sprinkler systems during that time but during that time architects were still learning about things.
If the buildings stayed in their place, then they were built correctly. They just don't throw steel and concrete and expect it to stand tall. Obviously standards must change with the times.
The windows of the WTC were narrow but the floor plans were actually pretty open space. But I can understand the anxiety of working up high especially when the building sways 😬
😢 can’t believe it’s 20 years ago this Saturday where has the time gone ? RIP to all the people and firefighters lost in that day :(
Thanks for showing this and not adding music to it.
It looks incredible but also so dominating and menacing with corridors, lobby's, elevators, miles up I the sky...I'd feel terrified being such a tiny thing in such a complex building..
I was watching a bunch of documentaries about 9/11 recently, and seeing that sky lobby was eerie after learning there were about 200 people grouped together in there when the 2nd plane hit and the bottom wing went right into that lobby and killed all those people in an instant.
Sad shit.
Did it cut them in half? Or blow em up
@@Us3r739 you, are an ass. And I mean that in the most disrespectful way. Have a nice day!
After 9-11 there were the anthrax and bomb scares. I worked in a courthouse. We had the alarm go off, a bomb scare. We were only 190 people, and we exited and some of us had to go down five flights of stairs. That seemed to take forever. I can’t imagine trying to get down 70-80 floors with fireman going up the same stairwell, some in the dark. Terrifying.
Thank you for sharing this! What really baffles me is that hardly any of the interior of these towers were found. There just seemed to be a lot of concrete and steel, yet with everything that was inside, you'd think there'd be a lot of other things too. Such a sad day in history. RIP to all those who perished and god bless those who survived to tell the story!!!
thats because they were pulverized as 100,000+ pounds of concrete, steel, asbestos, limestone, rock and debris rained down on them, nothing survived that… and the floors were crushed under the intense pressure
It’s called controlled demolition. If the towers got really hit by a plane, which they didn’t the buildings would have never collapsed because they were built to withstand such impact.
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@@JCX-9The towers were built to withstand 707 jet airliners in 1971, which is when they were finished constructing them. They were Not built to withstand 757 and 767 jumbo jet airliners which didn't yet exist in 1971, but were the airplanes in use on 9 11 2001. There's a huge difference between the airplanes in 1971 and of 2001. Not that difficult to understand Sherlock.
@@JCX-9fake news. The person's who designed this building proved your statement wrong
THERE IS NO SKY SCRAPER ON EARTH WHICH WOULD SURVIVE THE SOUTH TOWER IMPACT.
You braindead bonobo should be jailed. If USA wants to instigate a war, they would just start a war for no reason or merely reasons at all, which they have done prior to and after 9/11.
Furthermore, if you have plans to attack your own country, nobody would come to the conclusion to fucking place AN EXTREME AMOUNT of explosives inside the twin towers and Furthermore buy hundreds of fake witnesses, IT specialists, construction workers, office worksers
THEY COULD JUST BUY 5 DEGENERATE HARDCORE DEVOUT MUSLIMS AND LET THEM DRIVE THROUGH A BIG PLAZA ON 5 DIFFERENT PLACES AND YOU WILL HAVE 2000 Deaths too
Please, your so dumb, everything you have done in your life could have been done by some random other person, nobody needs you for anything since you are incapable of literally every job in this world. I would not cry if your whole family tree perishes today, it will increase average IQ in the USA by at least one point.
Oh to see the lovely dining room called Windows on the 🌎 World. For my engagement my fiancé and his best friend and his wife accompanied us for dinner at this occasion. We could look right down towards the Brooklyn Bridge from being up so high. Never in my wildest dreams did I ever feel unsafe there, of course more than 20years. We were married 1997. My ❤️ heart is filled with sadness then and still today, a tragedy that should have never happened. Prior to this there was the Lockerbie 747 Pan Am Attack. This hatred has got to stop, the evil what really does it gain you if you are willing to loose your soul. Prayers for all the people who lost their lives and all the people on the ground, the police, the firefighters, all the responders who since that day developed some type of cancer and died. This tragedy will never be forgotten RIP✈️📿🙏🇺🇸❤️💐✈️
They were quite lovely buildings inside. The Observation Deck in the South Tower and Windows On The World Restaurant in the North Tower were my two favorite places at the WTC.
It's so tragic. Imagine the pain people went through. First the horror of impact. Then the terror of knowing you're going to die. Then the physical pain as building collapses and shreds you as you're falling and then the impact against the debris below. Jesus... This was pure evil. People can be so evil.
It's so good to know so many people have shared their photo and uploaded this on TH-cam, most of us was too young or either wasn't born to see these marble buildings.
0:22 It makes you wonder if thats THE floor 78 of the South tower. which is almost exactly where the plane hit that tower. just off center between 75-85
That is the floor 78
I live in north Jersey. I’d always get so excited to see the sky line because of the twin towers. My mother was in the buildings before 9/11. She said she got very sick from the swaying of the building; one of the top floors
I always had a picture in my mind of what it must look like in there. This is the first time I've ever seen it
Shot just 3 days after my 6th birthday! Cool to see my city on that particular day. My family was probably getting ready for Thanksgiving festivities when this was shot, given it would be a week away. I was probably in school that very morning at P.S. 119 in The Bronx.
My first time visiting the Observation Deck wouldn't be until November 16th, 1991 on my 10th birthday. Thanks for bringing back great memories!❤
It breaks 💔 my heart 😢. I used to go there on Wednesdays to go shopping at Plymouth and Strawberrys and take my sister who worked on the 68th floor to lunch back in the late 70's/80's lunch luckily she retired in 2000. Good memories mixed with sad🥺
Thanks for the vid. I was always curious about what the sky lobbies looked like. My only experience inside 1 & 2 WTC besides the ground floor lobby and mall underneath was the observation deck. But that had a direct elevator. I had spend a good amount of time in 7 WTC, but that building didn't have sky lobbies.
Beautiful building...it's an eerie thought now looking at the stairwells and stairways, elevators, knowing that those poor souls never made it out 😢😪 Thankyou for posting ❤🙏❤
I'm so proud I own a Key to the REAL World Trade Center so atleast I kinda have the Twins always at home
I remember going into Greenwich Village and looking down 7th ave from Greenwich Avenue.How serene they looked seemingly reflecting each other's image in the night sky.
They were so beautiful, rest in peace everyone that died that day. It is so eerie just knowing what happened to all of this.
Although I wasn’t alive when it happened, it’s still sad to see this and think of all of the people in those towers. May they Rest In Peace! 🙏🏻
It's amazing how much office space just one single floor of these buildings had! Remember when they were first built computers were in their infancy. They needed room for desks, file cabinets. Imagine what it would have been like to wire the phone system in these massive structures. When they were struck by the planes in 2001 you can see all the papers from all the files cabinets that were still being used during that time. No digital documents yet (we were just getting there), because we were just turning the corner with the internet, cell phones had just started to come around, and most of them were flip phones. All the videos shot of that horrible day were shot on camcorders. We wouldn't see a smartphone for about another 6 to 7 years. If they had never been destroyed they would probably be more room from file cabinets becoming obsolete going paperless, and the buildings would have way less weight in them. For their time there was nothing like them. All 7 buildings combined had 11.2-million square feet of space! Was there ever a complex that had that much space? It's crazy to think we had that in 1973. RIP to all those who lost their lives on that day, and my condolences to all their families...
This has to be the last wtc video I watch this year. This is so depressing.
So sad for the family’s who lost their loved ones. No words to explain how this memory makes me feel.😪😪🙏🏼🙏🏼❤️
These types of photos haunt me, especially the ones that show workers in their office spaces. The only memories and imagery I have of the towers have to do with 9/11, so seeing how they looked outsidse of that lens, for some reason, is grossly unsettling.
Thanks for posting, I never saw much of the WTC towers' interiors when the they were there.
I was there a month before 9/11 on the roof of tower 2. Can’t believe it’s been 20 years!! I miss these buildings so much. Seeing the staircases shows you just how narrow they were and plus there should’ve been more but being built when they were the port authority didn’t have to have more than 3 per building. Plus the walls around the stairs and elevators were Sheetrock not masonry a new method at the time of construction.
1:21 in case of fire use stairs
😢😢😢
Yeah, you can’t escape, there is only one exit
I'm amazed just how low the ceilings were, barely 8 feet?, the hallways seemed claustrophobic!
We will never forget those lost... 🙏
Exactly my thought. Arenas built in the 70s had the same issue-- dark, cramped concourses. I think the WTC would have aged rather poorly in 2023. It would have needed major renovations
I have never been to New York. Thank you sharing. It gives me an idea how it looked from the inside.