Building The World Trade Center 1970s Stock Footage
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The World Trade Center starting out as an ambitious construction project to becoming a New York City icon of economic prosperity.
Scenes Include Mid-1970’s aerial view New York City, World Trade Center, WTC, twin towers, 9/11, New York City, building demolition, excavation, cranes, crane operator, steelworkers, ironworkers, welders, construction equipment operator, subway, subway station, businessmen, businesswomen, escalators, office workers, office equipment.
Unless you saw them in person, it’s hard to realize how massive these two structures were. A true engineering marvel!
And looking down from them were simply amazing.
@@traindude432 got something on your mind irl bro? it’s okay, you can let it out
I completely agree when I saw them as a young teenager on a school trip to NYC I thought they were pretty amazing. I remember the buildings were so tall that the clouds covered the tops of the North and South Towers respectively. God bless to the victims of the shitty events of 9/11.
but people believe these 2 towers crumbled by a crash from an airliner as if these buildings were made of crumbly stone
@@notthatdigusted7468 You agreed to me?
I remember dating a girl who lived in an apt building in Jersey City. From her bedroom there was a crystal clear view of the towers. I always remember thinking how big and clear that view was. Like you could reach out and touch it. I can't even imagine what that view was like the morning of September 11th 2001. 😪
I dated the same girl
It's 11.09. today
@@TheoHuxtible same
Terrible
@@TheoHuxtible Me 2
It always amazes me that the towers were finished in the 70’s, like, they look like the most modern buildings ever despite not existing anymore. They also gave New York a good feel. I’m just sad I missed them and how many lives we lost
Yeb Julian inside job makes me sick in the gutt in not American 🇺🇸 in Italian in Melbourne peace ☮️ out 🇺🇸
Well, Americans actually hated them at first. They made jokes and insults about them such as, “welcome to New York, the home of the Empire State Building, Chrysler Building and the packages they came in!” and critics referred to them as “giant packs of staples”
@@CoolCademMAnimates-fz1ui People usually are very critical of new designs. Clothes, cars etc.
After a few years your eyes get used to it and you even start to like it :P
I think they looked amazingly powerful because the shape was so simple.
@@jojoe469 fell down within 2 hours. I'm not really Biden it.
They don't exactly look state of the art in today's terms tbh.
The background music and narrative reminds me of those old science reels they used to show us in school back in the 1980's.
I love you RJ
Same to me.
The old McGraw Hill films remember them well
The narrator has that relaxed voice too. Like an ASMR video. No wonder kids were calmer then
It reminds me of Sponge Bob.
Strange feeling that the ground zero level visible in 1969 was visible again in Sept 2001.
I had the privilege to stand on top of one of the towers in 1993. Quite an experience for a Dutchman who grew up in a flat country!
Dutch are the original new yorkers :lol:
lucky man, I wasn't even born
@@alb12345672 uh, that would be the Lenape tribe I think...
My dad's friend had dinner on the top floor the night before 9/11. Crazy.
@Matthew J on 11th September they happened... yes.
Man, these 1970s info videos have such a relaxing vibe ....
The calming music, the gentle voice overs, the grainy footage that has a strange dream-like quality.
It all comes together to just make me feel totally chilled ... for some reason.
My grandfather was part of the construction crew who helped finish the north tower. I was born in 1982, I remember both attacks. The first in the 1990’s is hazy, but I was in my sophomore year of college when the towers fell and will never forget it
Props to your grandfather and his hard work
I love documentaries from the 70s like this one. They have a special tone & appearance. They make me feel like a child again. As a plumber I would've loved to have been a part of those buildings. Sad they are gone but with footage like this they will always remain just as the memory of those who were lost that tragic day.🙏
Si steven.eso es por que se destruyo en 2001 y ahora está el ground zero en Manhattan sobre el distrito financiero
Это не теракт, а снос
I was there few days before looking up at the towers, went inside and saw the beautiful staircase and elevators. We didn't go up because it was too long of a line. Outside looking up at the towers made it seem like they reached the heavens. Family took the flight back to Houston. Sitting in 10th grade English class watching the news unfolding on the TV. I will never forget that day.
My dad used to play on the construction site when they were kids, lived in NY too.
I was in the 9th grade when it happened
Went to new York in 1982 up the twin towers several times that summer and was breathtaking view to see from afar ,close up , inside and on the top ,still have brochure saying close to heaven .R.i.p
Same here. 10th grade and English class had just started when our teacher told us the news!
Why did 3 buildings fall that day?
@@Trillion_Dollar_Extreme quite a few building were heavily damaged that day because of the collapse
The background music is awesome.
Indeed! The music is so beautiful and appropriate!
Yea 1967 just called me to say they want their music back
It sounds like something you’d hear in a Hanna Barbera cartoon from the 60s
@@stoolsample4431 It reminds me of Mork and Mindy and all those happy sitcoms of those decades.
WHY DONT YOU SOMETHING ABOUT IT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! 😡
These buildings look really cool. I'm going to have to visit them the next time I'm in New York.
Их нет
Boy do I have news for you
they got demmolished the 9.11 2001 because of terrorist attack
I was 13 when they finished the second tower. I watched them being built all throughout the late 60s and early 70s. I miss their iconic view.
I do too. I got to see them too when I was also 13 and went on a middle school school trip to NYC. Didn't you think it was cool how on a cloudy day the buildings were so tall that the cloud covered the tops of the towers so the buildings appeared to look like an infinite tall structure going up into the clouds.
I was born near Boston in '64, and moved out West in '75, and as a kid I watched the towers being built too, saw them every time we went by on the highway to visit relatives. I lived near Cleveland Hopkins Airport/NASA and watched it all live on TV from mere minutes after the first plane hit, saw the second plane hit, and watched Flight 93 make that u-turn basically over my house before it crashed in PA. RIP victims.
Hard to believe it was 20 years ago that they were brought down. And remembering how united we were
I always say that too….there was this unspoken pride in America especially in the tri-state area we all took it personal and we all stood together. Today unfortunately people will walk right over you if anyone was on fire. I have never seen such a sweeping change in personal moral in just a few years. We are so far apart today you can put one side on the moon and I don’t think the distance would be enough.
Too bad we were United for such a short while
@@joeyvatz2243 joey I remember Trump calling into FOX claiming he now owned the tallest building in Manhattan. No concern for the dead, just me me me.
Oh yeah I remember I think he also called it 711
@@joeyvatz2243 BiDem by the #’s🤦🏽♂️🤷🏽♂️
I'm an engineer, and thoroughly enjoyed the fact that the hope was to build a structure that brought people together. My take-away is that the loss of the towers wasn't simply America's loss, but a loss for all the nations that wanted to improve themselves by talking to each other. It may have been the start of what divides the world today.
The start?
I agree!! As a Dutch citizen myself, I've lived in the US for over 5 years. I know people who went to the US before 9/11, and visited afterwards and they said afterwards was surreal. It was almost as if America wasn't as open as it once was. America became defense towards anyone visiting, whereas before 9/11 America would welcome everyone, especially citizens from other western countries. Unfortunately that's what is still going on today. Maybe more so than ever before!!
Omg stop with the revisionists bs. Problems been around forever
It was the first attack from abroad on the U.S.A. in the history of the U.S.A. How many attacks by Islamists have there been around the world since ? Bataclan, Manchester, and that is just concerts. I was at a festival a year after Manchester and it was actually reassuring that there were some Policemen walking around with Machine guns in full view, while the normally fun compere Dave Benson gave everyone instructions on what to do in case of an "emergency".
Racism has never been more stronger
0:29 gotta love how old promo films justify 1960s "urban renewal" projects by referring to perfectly functioning areas as blighted, slums or outdated.
The WTC was a success but the area it replaced had character and history.
The only good thing to come out of the WTC was a great news broadcast.
Good grief. NOTHING new would have been built across the core cities of the world then...
@billhosko7723 who says new stuff had to be built in the city cores only?
Is there like an imaginary boundary that limits them to certain areas.
Oh wait strict zoning codes.
These towers were a symbol of NYC and America as a whole. Every single movie prior to 9/11 based in New York - and I mean, EVERY SINGLE MOVIE - had at least one cutaway shot of the towers. The Statue of Liberty and the Empire State Building always had 2nd and 3rd billings accordingly.
I remember being in class as a 12 year old and not being able to comprehend why my 400lb 6’7 French teacher was breaking down crying like a small boy in front of everyone as he explained what was happening. The fact that such an event could shatter such a giant was far more unnerving then the news he was sharing with us. It was only as time went on that I truly understood the magnitude and gravity of the entire ordeal.
From my point of view (born in 1981, English) I think I was vaguely aware of the World Trade Center before the attack, but the Empire State Building was always the most famous building in New York, and of course the Statue of Liberty at least equalling it as the most famous structure. I think you are right that it was often featured in a brief skyline shot of New York (naturally; it was relatively new and so much taller than any other building, how could it not be) but I don't remember it being the focus of any movies that I saw (unlike the Empire State Building, before and after the WTC was built). That's not to do-down the WTC, it was remarkable for its impact on the skyline and the more I discover about the design and features of the site as a whole the more interesting it is to me. I have the vaguest of memories that I might have bought a series of 'bookazines' as a young boy featuring notable buildings such as this, I think it may have featured a pop-up cardboard model of the Manhattan skyline. I fondly remember those sorts of products, informative publications that told little boys like me and my brother about cool things like massive buildings, aircraft and cars :) Some people say the WTC was criticised at the time for the plain appearance of the buildings compared to the classic skyscrapers of New York, and certainly one can appreciate that, but they were of their time, functional and in their own way make a positive statement, their simple appearance mirrored by one another, two twin beacons of engineering advancement. They are far more acceptable as part of the skyline than the chaotic jumble of peculiarities that make up the modern London skyline, the Gherkin and Cheesegrater looking not stylish or quintessentially typical of any time period other than that they are obviously trying to look unique but do so in an ugly way.
This place must have been a marvel to look and work at, I really wished I had a chance to see it in person. My parents did many times and actually had friends that worked at the WTC. Sadly two days shy of my second birthday, everything changed for everybody. RIP to the victims of 9/11.
My uncle 9/11 had his 2nd birthday 😓
By 2001 the towers where nothing more than white elephants, crippled by debt. Why do you think the government blew them up with explosives anyway?
a marvel to look at? no.
Happy birthday
@@maur23100 Well actually it's on the 13th but thanks !
Complete respect to those that died and survived 9/11 on this anniversary. As a Brit, life never seemed the same after the dreadful attacks.
Pay respects for 70-80 million south asians death under your imperial colonial rule , god knows how many more on other continents ☮️☮️☮️☮️
@@user-hx6kn1xq3e we didn't do that. do you honestly think the people of any country are in favour of the violent marauding that has gone over the last 50-100 years?
do some research, most of the death, destruction and profiteering has been the same groups of organised criminals.
after the dreadful attacks by our own Government.
Jet fuel. cannot melt steel beams!
Wink, wink!
There nut jobs, don't listen to them walt.
I lived and worked in the ‘Heights’ just across the East river from ‘71-73’. Although the steel framework was already up, I have vivid memories of tracking the multi-story sleeves of weather protection wrapping shimmying up as the interior was being progressively completed. Wow! Still an impression…and then, watching live as it vanished within two hours. So sad.
I recall at the time someone said it was like New York's two front teeth were punched out. I went up to the outdoor viewing area of WRC South Tower, January 1999, and while out there it started to snow. I'm English and while I was awe struck by the sheer size of the Twin Towers, they scared me. There was something innately terrifying about structures that immense - they are not on a human scale!
9-11 was surely the 21st Century Titanic - man tempting fate by creating artificial wonders of the world, far too grand and proud to avoid hubris and punishment. Of course the irony is Titanic was a natural disaster in which man took on the might of the ocean - and lost. 9-11 was a man made disaster, civil war, man turning on his brother, and creating destruction and human misery on a scale to match the Towers.
To think there was hate and ignorance out there that wilful, was desperately depressing.
My mama used to call the WTC the boxes that the city came in.
fun fact in 1 WTC you could fit like 6 Titanics volume wise, 4 up until 270 feet, and 2 squashed at the rest at the top. so like 12 titanics in 2 twin towers. On a serious note. For me the rubble or debris left was infinitely too small for the size of those buildings.
@@arncj18 gotta consider most of the concrete turned to pulverized dust as the towers collapsed, thus the massive cloud of fallout.
@@arncj18 the concrete floors and windows turned to dust plus you have to remember that a lot of rubble went below ground too, so it looked less.
The energy released during the collapse rivaled the atomic bomb that was dropped of Hiroshima. Next morning the dust blanketed the New York skyline heading north.
I remember going to the beach in Jersey as a little girl and looking across the ocean to spot these magnificent buildings.
It's not an ocean, it's a bay.
@@dirtypricetag yes. I was still able to look across the ocean and see them.
@@GarretGrayCamera yup!
@@mander1n693 From where on that beach can i see those beautiful towers ?
@@walterthecat2145 wtf
I was born in 1970 and remember as a child everytime I was close to the building I was amazed. I remember taking school trips to the building in elementary and high school. It's a tremendous loss for everyone especially those who lost their lives. May you all R.I.P (New York Strong ).
I hope this music score got an Emmy award, what a beauty…
My sixth-grade class trip (I'm 50 yrs. old now) was a trip to New York. We visited the Statue of Liberty and The Rockefeller Center, which at that age I thought was a pretty cool thing. However, when we visited the World Trade Center on that part of our day long trip...There was something so "surreal" about it. I'm not sure which tower it was because we only toured the one building, but I do believe it was the North Tower. I remember visiting the restaurant that was at the top of the building. I don't even remember eating a thing, because I was so mesmerized by the view as I stared out the window. As a young gal, that was the first time I had ever experienced such a beautiful landscape and horizon. I couldn't hear the horns, sirens, construction or people. Just in awe at the beauty in front of me. I'll never forget that experience. I can say once I looked down and saw the cars and people look like teeny tiny little ants it kinda gave me a sick feel in my stomach. However, I wouldn't have traded that day for the world. I'm happy that I had the pleasure of visiting The World Trade Center, but I feel sad that my youngest child and grandchildren will never have the opportunity to visit.
It was truly a wonderful experience that I will never forget. 🕯🗽
My uncle worked at WTC. Visited him several times in the 1970s. Still can't believe the towers are gone.
Zzzzzzzz
@@jimmycricketlopez2746 idiot.
@@jimmycricketlopez2746 😑
Why cant you believe?
@@robertomoi2044shut up
Refreshing to see people walking around with their heads not buried in their phones.
I miss my rotary dial wall phone with no answering machine, seriously. Have a flip phone but pretty much use it as a wall phone, I leave it on the table...
Hey Rob just curious what are you watching this on? Probably your phone. Times change man.
I miss the days when people wouldn’t speak and contacted through primitive methods 😞 we need to go back
Они были прекрасны. Прекрасны во всем: вид, размеры, инженерный подход. Чудеса возводят люди. Я мечтал там побывать и своими глазами увидеть их. Но увы. Привет из России. Мы скорбим по вам.
These things must have looked unbelievably modern in 1970.
There’s so many layers to this video. The joyous music invoking hope for the future surrounding the Twin Towers, seeing the older construction equipment and era-dressed workers used to build such a modern marvel, seeing just how huge in scale it was for the era, seeing how rundown the area was at the time as well as just taking in what stood there prior, considering what that area might’ve looked like if those buildings stood today and were repurposed like a lot of older areas have been, seeing the Twin Towers in the 1970s instead of the 90s beginning of the 00s when most people associate it from today, realizing the tragedy that would come to the world just 30 years later, how much that small area changed so much about the entire world. I could honestly come up with more if I really wanted to sit here and think about it, but there’s so much going on in this simple, 7 1/2 minute video. It’s so much to comprehend at once.
Very eloquently put my friend...
I went up the South Tower at the top floor viewing deck in 1978 ☺️
A city unto itself. A living, breathing organism. Totally unique and sorely missed.
Not 'breathing' anymore...
Could not have said it better.
Have you been there?
Well said
@@Dinco422 Yeah. Thanks to the U.S. Government for blowing these towers up just to start a war.
I love this style of music in these old 70's clips.
It is still amazing that people believe that these massive strong buildings were brought down by a couple of airplanes. :D :D :D
If they stop believing, their world will crumble. They can't handle that.
Two airplanes traveling at an average of 500 mph. So yes they did.
The way they stood over the horizon was so beautiful. They were simple rectangles but were so monumental. Now, we see buildings like that and they all tell the story. the story of when many lost loved ones and many lost lives.
I had the privilege of attending a class on export operations at the World Trade Institute in the Towers in the 90s. It was a superb learning experience.
I remember being 9 yrs old and going to the top of the towers during a summer vacation (1986). I can still remember how many workers there were up there at the top floors. They had restaurants and shops and what not. And at the bottom when you approached the glass doors you could see the Statue of Liberty clear as day.
Recuerdos valiosos amigo 🇨🇴
RIP the almost 100 men who died building it, massive respect for the all the other workers who build it as well. It's incredibly unfair how highly educated people and others are looking down on them even though all the lower schooled men are doing literally the most important work on earth like construction workers, carpenters, plumbers, welders, electricians, factory workers I could go on. We were nothing without them
That is not just true
@@jimmycricketlopez2746 yes it is
I didn't know 100 men died
@@kenweis7913 yeah ..men
@@kenweis7913 more than 100 actually
Those towers were beautiful and so unique.
@Blob B lol
Sad that's it's not there anymore
Those buildings were simply iconic, like omg.
My mom, me and my brother moved to Jersey City from the South Bronx in 1969. At 7yrs old, I remember clearly the construction of the Twin Towers and traveling on the NJ Path trains to the WTC station when they were completed. What a great time it was.
Is anyone else feeling emotional while watching this?
So much has changed since then. I remember being in school and feeling like we were about to be attacked countrywide. It was a really creepy feeling watching teachers freak out and knowing no one knew what was happening.
Are you talking about the fear of an attack by the USSR?
@@altf4120 No, he's talking about the threat from Al Quaida in the 90's.
@@krashd Al CIAda
You Never,Never know what's around the corner! Rip Every single person, who perished in such devastating circumstances
⭐♥️⭐
They look better demolished.
except you do know. The CIA knew...the feds knew... Bush probably knew. Larry Silverstein DEFINITELY knew!
Looking at this takes me back to that horrible day & breaks my heart all over again.
We been there inside and on the very top of one of them open to the public, in 1992 at 9.00am on top viewing the foggy panorama of New York City. !!
Born 1995, I’m a part of the last generation that remembers the twin towers and 9/11. 20 years later and I feel we’ve completely forgotten what brought us together as a nation the days that followed.
A hatred of Middle Easterners? No, I.. I don’t think anyone’s forgotten that.. 😒
@@Davanthall a love for country over politics. Seems you have forgotten.
isn’t it sad that it took such devastation to unite us?🥺
And here we are a couple decades later still dealing with countries that had nothing to do with 9/11😂
@@Davanthall Hatred from middle easterners, not hatred of! Get it straight!!!
I remember watching this film in school in the 70's.
Then why are you watching TH-cam old man!
@@jbones_youtube23 Old man? Lol if this guy who's a Gen X a old man you must be a little boy in mummy's basement trolling
Nope I’m 23.
@@m42037 And yes I’m actually in my own home with my wife. So I’m not in my mom’s basement.
@@jbones_youtube23 Hey little boy, go stand in the corner while the grown ups talk.
I live in a smaller city in Western Canada and I've always just marveled at New York City and how that city was constructed over the decades. Just absolute marvels on engineering. Wouldn't want to live there with how big it is and how crammed it seems but jeez I'd like to go there one day.
I remember watching them go up as a kid riding my motorcycle in the meadowlands near the Hackensack River in NJ. I had cousins in Kentucky and I used to brag to them about the towers, how majestic and beautiful they were. You’d have thought I had built them myself the way I gloated over them. Cried like a baby when they fell. For months.
Back in a time when people actually tolerated and enjoyed each other's company! 👍now, not so much!
Racism and homophobia was also a serious thing
Now everyone is at each other's throats for any comment deemed even slightly offensive
@@clement010200 Still is. People just know how to hide it better today. 😒
It was a great time back than before there was such a thing as social media.
@@clement010200 Sounds like a personal problem.
I went up the towers in 2001.
I was also on the beach in Phuket in 2004.
I thankfully keep missing these disasters by a matter of months…
Lucky!
interesting karma you have, or your LUCIFERIAN ELITE
Two massive rectangular slabs managed to somehow look great next to the older art deco buildings. I love the older New York art deco buildings, so pulling that off is just as much of a marvel as the engineering feats imo.
If anyone is wondering, the first song is call Status Cymbal and the second one is called Specification. Both beautiful pieces by Ernest Copley 😊
Love the Dramatic music to filmstrips of the day played in my history class...
They are movies, not filmstrips.
@@johnp139 They are called what I said in the 1970’s FILMSTRIPS!
I remember that! I was a senior in high school when these magnificent buildings were built!
@@susie154 I was a senior in High School in 1979... Remember seeing Films on them being built through my school years...
The funky O'l 1970s I can smell it now....
Ralph Lauren Polo Green, Azzaro, Givenchy Gentleman...
The view from the restaurant at the top was breathtaking. The towers were amazing both inside and out.
Yea you’re not convincing me an aluminum plane took these down
No chance.
My school always took field trips to the city from New Jersey. One year, our teacher gave us the option to climb the stairs to the observation deck in the WTC. We had to all meet back at the bus at a certain time. So me and my buddy decided to do it. Two hours after we were supposed to be back at the bus we had made it to the top with rubber legs. Our teacher assumed we ditched and they left without us. We had to take a train back to NJ. Our parents were furious with that guy. Those were the days.
It felt like when those towers fell, it was the beginning to the end of prosperity and human kindness. I wish I don’t feel this way but I do. Maybe it’s because I’ve gotten older. I was in my twenties then, young and naive. now I’m in my forties.
Yeah, It is what it is. This world is now built on greed
I’m 25 and I envy you being part of the last generations who aren’t addicted to their cellphones and screens.
Human kindness? What do multinational corporations have to do with "human kindness"? You are foolish. God is great. Not buildings.
What a beautiful design, so simple yet amazing
My uncle worked at the wtc. Luckily he was retired long before 9/11. I remember I went to NY back in 95 and he took us to lunch under the World Trade Center at a restaurant. I remember having a lot of fun
These construction workers are standing & walking on beams thousands of feet i the air without any safety harnesses. Immense bravery at a time when health & safety legislation wasn't a thing.
I remember as a child in Bloomfield New Jersey I was able to go in my grandmother's second floor bedroom as I was told later in life I would just sit there and watch the towers being built it's now 2021 I still have not been back since the towers fell just can't bring myself to look at it my thoughts and prayers still go out to the over 3,400 people lost in that horrible tragedy
I was born in 2008, I never knew about the twin tower until I learned about the terrorist atack, but I didnt see actual footege of the incident. It wasnt until I visited the 9/11 memorial and museum, that this wasnt just a tiny little incident. I was shocked to my core, I never felt such grief in my life, the vídeos are stuning, and I thought they only atacked the towers, I was clueless at the fact that they atacked other buildings. It is such a shame that I had to learn and see the twin towers, not in their full glory, but in a memory that is tragic and sad, although I didnt witness them in person nor in the tv, I will keep remebering the inocent people who lost their lives, their workplace, and for most people off New York an icon of the skyline, many people worked hard on these buildings, and they will never be forgoten. I think that we should remember 9/11 to know the context and story of these buildings, but what I think is the most important thing to remember, is the people whose lives were affected by these buildings(Their job, a father working for their family, part of their everyday life, and the victims and their relatives)and the shear beauty of this built and how it was a place of peace, reunion, and a place where people from all a round the world to come and see the beauty of the towers. These people will never be forgotten and the relatives of said people wont be forgotten either.
Shut up zoomer
@@xJavier009 🤡🤡🤡
@@thegoat2959 simp
@@xJavier009 no need was there
You have a lot of heart. Many much older people have little appreciation for great works of humankind. Don't despair, instead visit sites such as Hoover Dam, Brooklyn Bridge, learn about the Apollo program. I myself am simultaneously fascinated with great achievements of Humankind, but also of the great failures.
Contrary to popular belief post 2001, the core of the World Trade Center was not hollow. Central core steel columns were completely pulverized on September 11, 2001 in both towers, and dust flowed through the streets of lower Manhattan. It has never happened before or after, despite multiple skyscrapers around the world suffering more severe fire situations.
@O Indeed, tard. There were also molten metal flows below the complex. All the evidence shipped off to China ASAP, decades later the entire thing stinks to high heaven.
@@user-rr4fr8pf3j Karen gettagrip.
My dad used to work in the World Trade Centre while doing business in the United States, he was having breakfast that morning the planes crashed so luckily he wasn't inside it. Though my prayers are with those who lost their lives that day
I stayed there for 5 years and would go to the site occasionally and as you approach where they once stood it felt eerie. Seeing those 2 big giant holes in the ground was horrible! Etched with the names of the victims along the boarders ppl would stick flowers or whatever they could in them. Really really huge! Each year when 9\11 came around there would be ceremonies, families etc. I would usually take the High st route or Fulton st on foot and you could see when the color of the ground changed. Ash grey or something as if the soot of that day were imbedded in the concert. Idk it was very weird! The 20th anniversary is approaching in a couple of days and I hope they go on high alert and everyone is safe.
I went to New York almost two years after it happened. The eeriest memory I have is of looking down into those holes and remembering watching the 2nd plane hit on the news.
Its a ugly bildning...
@@AB-le2bx looks like your mom
It's quite simple :I love it. Great archive video ❤️
At 10yrs old I was standing on top in 1998. A truly magical experience, from the lobby to the elevators to the roof.
So optimistic of the future, everyone looking forward to the bright opportunities yet to come. Another building to show New York's never-ending attempts to reach higher than those previous, always trying to outdo themselves and prosper furthermore.
So much willpower torched on September 11th, making an enthusiastic, excited nation cold and vengeful. I never got to know a world or an America before September 11th. I hope that the American generation after mine returns to that optimism and idealism that was last experienced on September 10th.
Ditto!!!
Well said my friend. It starts with oneself and with people like you we as a people are off to a good start with the optimism! Keep up the good!
@@mustashman260 you guy's are the people that give's me hope in humanity, i've seen too much political shit's here.
Thanks for sharing so much stock video from back then for this. Always wanted to visit but never got a chance to (had two choices on that possible summer between NYC and another destination and chose the other at the time which was also memorable). But loving skyscrapers, I had researched these towers exceptionally well and knew so much about them. RIP to all those we have lost and shall forever remember.
Счастливое время для всей планеты! Простые люди никогда не хотели войны, но политики заставили нас думать что без этого не возможно обойтись.
This video is an absolute treasure, thank you.. a wonderful historical documentary...this was a magnificent place and when a French wire walker put a cable between the two towers and walk across them they became an icon....
I still find it so sad seeing the beginning and then the end they were beautiful. The New York skyline was never the same again.
Videos like this should be preserved & saved for the history books. Thanks for sharing.
I wish these buildings were still there in the 2020s they made NYC feel more complete.
Me too
So sad they didn't rebuild them, with an extra 50 floors. They were magic.
world trade is only good for the rich
@@BIKEMAN21 Sure bike. Living in Pyongyang must be such a paradise. 🙄🥴
@@BIKEMAN21 shut.
@@SharePat what im saying is world trade has only created poverty around the world. Only a handful of greedy billionaires actually profit from it.
Yes wtc was only for business rich persons btw both towers were very cool
All those years it took to build these two magnificent buildings, destroyed in the space of 2 hours.
Thermite will do that
@@CHINZIG_UK Don't be so stupid and get off CNN. There was no motivation to bring them down.
That transition at 2:40 was kinda lit. 😂
Ate dinner at Windows on the World once in 1999. Remarkable experience. I have some photos of the experience that I will cherish for the rest of my life.
Oh boy what beautiful buildings! I would love to go see then someday!!!
Fun fact: Each building had its own zip code.
It was the complex not just the towers
The World Trade Center is the financial hub of the United States and the World 🌎 too. I miss the twin towers hate that they were destroyed by evil terrorists. Never been to New York City before.
Everything in NYC is also very close together so you would probably walk through multiple zip codes in Times Square alone.
@@pigramgregory2 it was done by bush to have excuse to go in war against Iraq
@@wake_up_samurai77 also to divide the people and cripple the population with fear.
It always amazed me how they build 2.
It's fascinating to see what kind of old building or former site was there before the two towers built.
I was 19 and in college on 9/11 - was a truly terrifying day as no one felt safe. The world literally stopped - all businesses shut down, all of my classes were canceled (for a few days they were canceled) and for once, we all came together as one.
Not competing here, but I am from the UK and I too was at college and the same age when the atrocities took place. Can’t believe that it’s almost 20 years.
My friend was driving me home from college that day and we heard on the radio that a plane had hit one of the twin towers!
Living in London at the time, Wembley Stadium was often referred to as the twin towers. I had no idea of the WTC, but that all changed once I got home and switched on the news.
Sad times but I have visited the site twice since then and can’t imagine the horror of that day.
Jamie, was this before racist demoncrats was teaching whites to hate themselves for being born white?
Larry Silverstein must be shedding a tear watching this...
Don’t worry, he’s gonna be wiping his tears with his huge insurance check for the rest of his life.
@@inheavenandinhell luckily he had the foresight to insure himself, one could call it an epiphany!
I remember back in 1972-73 when I was going to High School I use to look down 8th ave and I could see the WTC going up with the orange and white crane on the top , Amazing
I miss the WTC. Wish they were still around. Wish the people that we lost on 9/11 were still here too! RIP WTC.
So much skill went into building those towers absolutely incredible
and fell within 2 hours after impact. You Biden it?
Quite disturbing watching this knowing how many life’s were lost when 9/11 happened. What beautiful buildings they were.
My cousin jumped and ibwent inside when the top fell I had to get out when they were collapse. I saw both planes and other people jumping and I heard the last fire com building 7
@@Itsjust66053 so you should be in your 30s and yet you watch vanoss?
Eh... more lives, kids lives were lost in the invasion of another country for oil profit. I'd say that's waaaaaaaaaaay fucking worse.
@@johnnygarcia7269 31 actually
Thank Afghanistan and its wonderful peaceful muslim religion!
I was there at the beginning just after have done the engineering check on the Manhattan pier of the Varezano Narrows bridge many of the construction workers wherein things where much discussed and analyzed, so I can say that one really relevant features that was only touched in one quick glimpse during this report was the interwoven external structure supports that would have ripped the wings off
either one of the New York planes including the massive cancer deaths of the first responders as opposed to people whom worked in the same location for over 20 years.
It did not happen as touted and I would be glad to discuss it in depth,
I miss those buildings. New York City just isn't the same without them.
The year before they came down I visited NY with some friends after my freshman year of college on a long road trip from Florida. It was truly breathtaking getting to visit the observation deck at the top. I can now only describe it to my children through memory and pictures. So very sad and still painful 20 years later.
the atmosphere of the working there must have been amazing. those 2 building were filled with people that wanted to increase communication and trade between countries
It’s profound and unbelievable how much our world has changed since that morning of September 11th. The beginning of each school year will never be the same. I was a Freshman that year. I will be 35 in only 2 months, I remember that day very well. I was 14, just wow!
I was lucky enough to take a tour of New York in nineteen seventy seven. My father’s sister lived in Booten New Jersey. When we visited her, we went to New York and took the tour. We visited the Statue of Liberty, the Empire State Building, and the World Trade Center. As well as the museums that I can’t remember at this time. But I remember the Trade Center buildings we didn’t go to the top, but I did see them. I’m from Pittsburgh, and seeing a city the size of New York was impressive.
We as New Yorkers were and are so proud of these two beautiful buildings
They should have been rebuilt
You New Yorkers are some of the biggest to forget this day. You vote demoncrat constantly. Joe Biden and his fellow racist demoncrats are letting million of illegals into this once great country. New York Mayor Adams and his predecessor was a total joke. Unreal!
My grandfather was a dump truck driver in fact he had one of the contracts to remove the debris from the Empire State building foundation but in the late 60s and 70s he was working at the trade center and he would take me there with him to work . I was a little boy but I went everywhere he went . Later in life I worked at the towers and I was also there the day they came crashing down , it was very upsetting to watch so many people that you loved Cantor Fitzgerald mostly the people I knew worked there. I still see some of their faces . cant believe its been 20 years . Preacher PaulD 🙏✝️❤️😢
Thank you for sharing.
Omg I would lie to hear your story
Awesome buildings. Can’t wait to visit!
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I was fifteen years old when a high school friend dared me to go with him to one of the towers as it was nearing completion. We sneaked past a sleepy security guard and hopped on an elevator and were able to get to the top floor. From there we found an unlocked door to the roof. What an intense thrill: so far up, and able to feel the tower swaying a bit in the wind.
About a decade later, my sister treated me to a birthday dinner at Windows on the World / Cellar in the Sky. What a memorable dinner. Sad to think about those chefs and wait staff and others (not to mention office workers, firefighters, etc.) who perished on that terrible day.
amazing!!❤
@@lunam7249 Bunk
Many of the iron workers who built the towers returned decades later to work recovery at the pile.
Imagine how saddened they were to have something they built turn into a pile of nothing
I didn’t know this, they probably were broken on the inside to see something they built turn into ruins.
Being a son of a factory auto worker who retired after 36 years that tugged at my heart strings.