What’s crazy is I was at the mall on 9/11. Left the house, briefly saw my parents watching t.V and remember something about a plane hitting a building. I was 18 and didn’t think twice about it. Went to the mall and bought P.O.D satellite album. As we were walking through the mall an announcement came over the intercom “ ladies and gentlemen the mall is closing due to Terrorist activities” it was then we realized that something big happened and went home and saw the tragedy unfold in real time
I did nearly the same thing. I remember the P.O.D album was released that day and I snagged a copy after leaving school early. Not sure if our mall ended up closing early, but it was strange seeing only a handful of people there.
Crazy fact: the background music playing in this mall is using the exact same Muzak satellite feed that the World Trade Center Mall and Plaza was using during the attacks. Like heard in the 9/11 footage by Jack Taliercio. That's creepy...
@@85pphoenix It played up until the moment the South Tower went down. There are several videos of the music played in the Plaza and Mall shortly before the collapsed occurred, I'm part of a big search to find every song played.
I was in college getting ready to go to class and had the TV on. I saw the 2nd plane hit in real time and I’ll never forget the people that were jumping out of the building. I called my mother crying and scared. That day will be burned in my brain forever. Also, I went to class as usual and the professor carried on as nothing was happening and made us take our scheduled exam. I never respected her after that and thought that was cruel and disrespectful then and my opinion hasn’t changed.
I remember being in college on Sept. 11, 2001 and since I commuted, I left campus early since most of the professors were canceling classes and everywhere I went, there was such shock and quiet. It is one of those things I just can't get out of my mind.
I saw the towers every day of my life from my livingroom window. They were so majestic. That Monday night l had stayed up till 5am drawing a picture of Goku (don't ask why lol), so when my alarm went off at 7am that Tuesday Sep 11th morning, l overslept. Next thing l know my mom wakes me up frantic around 850am. I assume she's mad about me being late for school, but obviously that wasn't it. She said a plane hit 1 of the towers. I immediately hopped out the bed and ran to the window, and saw 1 of the towers burning with a huge trail of smoke that seemed to stretch for miles. No one knew it was terrorism at the time, so my mom left for work and l actually went back to bed. I didn't realize what had fully happened until my sister came home from work early at 12pm and told me that we were under attack, and that the towers were gone. Both of them. I ran to the window again and sure enough all there were was a huge grey dust cloud 😢😢😢
I went to Walmart after work on 9/11 because I absolutely needed to purchase something for my classroom for the next day (I taught 3rd grade). My son was with me, he being in first grade. It was so surreal, when the greeter greeted us. I just didn’t even know how to respond. Everyone was in shock. But I tried to act as normal as possible for my son. One of the hardest days ever. What made it harder was that there was no one to comfort us as we were all just as sad, confused, and scared as anyone else. But that’s what also was comforting.
@@yy17782 The greeter said something like, “Welcome to Wal-Mart. Have a good day!” I couldn’t even imagine how to respond in that moment. There was no having “a nice day” for anyone that day. I didn’t want to be rude but I also couldn’t smile and say “thanks, you too!” In my memory, I turned my head slowly and looked at the greeter. I couldn’t fake a smile and similar greeting. I just looked at them, or more like stared through them. If you’ve ever experienced shock or see someone go through it, you can imagine what I mean. Also back then Walmarts always had tv monitors on. They would show Walmart ads as well as the news or sports or whatever. Every tv monitor showed the live, ongoing news. All the networks (network tv was still dominate back then) had 9/11 live coverage at least until the next day sometime. I feel like we went more than 24 hours with constant news coverage. Could have been more like 36 hours. That was a lot.
I was working at a credit card manufacturing plant at the time of the attacks. After the planes hit the towers everyone was called into the cafeteria for a meeting. We were told what was happening and that we were all to go home because our building might be a target (no one knew what the hell was happening). Everyone EXCEPT for me and the two other guys in the shipping department because Capital One had to have their order out TODAY! We were expendable, apparently. So It was me (the supervisor), the other two shippers, and local police came to sit with us until we finished with Capital One's order! Then we were allowed to go home while the entire plant was sent home hours ago. Unreal.
"What's in your wallet?" That's an interesting story. Glad your building wasn't targeted and that you made it through the capital one order. I never thought of credit cards being made in factories. It would be interesting to see how they're made.
@@SparkleSister7 Yep. They are made on huge printing presses and go through several different departments before finally being shipped out. Brinks comes to pick them up while local police supervise. What you'd be surprised about are all the hidden anti counterfeit features that are on the cards that no one knows about. The place was tighter than fort Knox. The security and rules we had to follow were insane. Anyways, it was a good job at the time but had a very high turn over rate and most of the management were awful people.
My dad worked night shift at the postal facility at the airport during 9/11. I remember him leaving for work at 5 in the evening. I asked him why he was still working when everything else was shut down, he said "They still have to move the mail." I think the postal service was the only thing still running immediately after 9/11. Though he ended up processing ground mail for a while instead of air mail since no planes were flying.
yep. i always say after 9/11 everything went to shit. i was 15 in high school when it happened but even before 9/11 happened i already started feeling something off that year. i got depressed . did bad in school , was hospitalized etc. then 9/11 happened and the world was never the same. think about pre 9/11 days very often. the 90s was a special time i wish I could go back to
Does this mall still exist? A lot of malls ended up closing down in the years after 9/11 or turned into ghost malls. I remember pre 9/11 times well. Things were prosperous but after the attack the country never recovered. It has just been one tragedy and disaster after another since then. I am convinced there is no future at all and world is headed for Armageddon soon.
@@NovusodHistory is cyclical and predictable. I think you are right to a point, and we are already in it. But I see hope for a rebirth of Americana and society. Not for some time still. I think the energy is there. It’s easy to be negative, hard to be positive. I get it. Im right there with you.
This video placed me in a somber state. I was 8 and remember the feeling. My mom picked me up early from school. Told me we’re under attack. But we’re going to be okay. Turned on cable at home, and all networks were offline. I specifically remember QVC and thought this was big. While so young, I didn’t have a full grasp. But this video captured emotion that others were feeling that day. Being that age now, it really resonates.
Just remember: this happened b/c Bush stole the election from Gore in 2000 and they already had those wars and PATRIIOT act lined up. Wishing you well.
I had just turned 6 and I still remember things from that day like when my 1st grade teacher bringing the kids in early from recess and trying to read a book to us but she started to tear up when we heard the fighter jet roar by patrolling the area. I've thought of a couple of times these past couple anniversaries to go back and thank her for trying to take care of us that day but I don't know if she's still even at that school in Pasadena.
I worked at a military base in Southern California at that time, and the attacks happened even before the workday started since we are three hours behind eastern time. We were not told to go home that day, although it was very difficult to concentrate. However, things changed drastically as how base security was handled after that day, as did our country.
I joined the Navy in ‘10 and the blokes who were enlisted on 9/11 told me they wear rushing to get every ship unmoored and out to sea as soon as possible. One guy told me his ship was ordered to cut the mooring lines if need be. Another was in Sydney and they had to leave port at about 1 in the morning.
Yep, our mall closed that day very early too. I worked at a gamestop (it was still software etc at the time) and i remember it just being creepy looking out the doors into a dead mall...then security came around and said everything was shutting.
So sad. At least in my mind, the Nineties felt like they began with the release of Nevermind in September 1991 and lasted through September 11, 2001. It's been downhill ever since.
It was one day after my 26th birthday. I was at work but stopped by the mall to eat lunch in the food court. Walked past Sears and all the TV's had the news coverage on. I'll never forget that day.
It was one day before my 30th, here in Finland. I threw a small-scale party for a handful of friends that weekend but the mood was pretty somber and we talked quite a bit about the attacks in the US...
@KDubb-ws9zc same here I was only 5 at the time but it's the years that proceeded into the 2000s with ground zero that made it all piece together. Something once symbolic gone to ashes...
I started out 9/11 getting ready for class at my local community college. As I got out of the shower, my father said, "All Hell has broken loose!" I spent the next two hours glued to the TV. Then, I got a call from my boss asking me to go in to pretty much just help with shutting down the store. I obliged then, drove around for a little while. I was shocked the most by how quiet the skies were at 3 in the afternoon. Follwed closely by how long the lines had become at the gas station. It was a very surreal day. I wouldn't say it was sad (to me) yet. It was a pure auto-pilot feeling, complete shock and disbelief. Nearly everybody that knew what had happened all shared the same dead look. Anger, fear, and mourning followed in the aftermath.
Kind of same for me. My dad woke me up that the towers had collapsed. I had no school that day so that's all I watched and that was all they showed that day
I was 26 and working at a small newspaper when it happened. All we wanted to do was leave, but we were under deadline. It was torture and such a helpless feeling. How we ever made our deadline, I will never know.
I was working for a small newspaper too, and we also had a deadline. We did send someone out to the shopping mall area to take pictures, though, because for some reason the shops there spontaneously had everybody go out into the parking lot and form a human chain, holding hands. I'm not sure why. What was VERY frustrating about that day was the we wanted to go home, be with our loved ones, and watch what was happening, but deadlines don't wait for anyone and we had to stay until the paper was put to bed.
We weren’t at the mall that day, but our local fair was going on and my mother had to water the flowers that she had on exhibit. While the fair stayed open, she said was a ghost town. The mood was very somber, far from the normal festive atmosphere. In many ways, my childhood died that day. My innocence was lost and I was made aware of the evil that exists in this world. Life has never been the same since…
Man this looks like Cumberland mall in Cobb county. Yep this was Cumberland I remember that security guard lol. And that restaurant walking out the food court. This was our mall as a teenager.
I used to get my hair cut at Great Expectations. Sears is now gone, replaced in area with a Dick's Sporting Goods. JC Penney is gone, replaced with a Costco.
Worth noting that at 0:58 if you look at the bottom left you can see that poster of Syphon Filter 3 displaying the old cover art. Due to 9/11 the cover art had to be replaced but some copies were released with the old cover art intact. If you have that old cover art variant it’s super expensive and rare now.
@@abbycareyyy7755 look a little to the left of the Pokémon crystal. You can barely see it since it’s in low quality but it has the PlayStation logo and the rejected cover art.
I was working at a Barnes and Noble on Sept. 11th: got the call from management that all the B&Ns would be closing down at 5 pm that day. At 3 or so, a woman called up asking for a book to be held so she could pick it up that night and was surprised and angry that we'd be closed. Co-worker on the phone said to her, "Haven't you been watching the news?" The woman said no, she didn't have a TV and hadn't read the paper that day. Co-worker sighs heavily, and says "Okay. You'll want to sit down," and told her.
I like how I was able to instantly identify which mall it was simply from the GameStop in the thumbnail 😂 This is Cumberland Mall in Atlanta, and the GameStop is one of the very few stores that still resides in the mall to this day, in the same place.
The only thing I remember on that day was my brother waking everyone up and turning the TV on to see the building burning and the second plane hit, then going to school (was in the 6th grade) and talking to a friend about it and all the teachers were huddled outside the classroom crying. I also remember that, unfortunately, my neighbors from Algeria didn't leave their house for what seemed like a month after that.
It was just a regular Tuesday work and school day. The mall would have been very slow as it is. Although that one girl entering the mall at the end of the video, you gotta question whether she even knew what was happening. I bet a lot of these people didn't. Still by 1pm you'd think the whole world knew. Last thing I'd have on my schedule is a trip to the mall.
What's wrong with going to the mall after the attacks? Maybe that's how some people cope with the anxiety trigged by the attacks? Or they may just feel like going to the mall. Let's say she knew what was happening. What should she have done instead? Stay home and sob?
Our malls never even opened. I worked in one at the time. They called me around 8:45 and told me not to come in. We live in the central time zone, so everything began close to 8AM our time.
These videos are timeless and important to see! Thank you so much! Can I ask; are these your recordings personally? Amazing content and how things use to be… when did it become different/nuts/just not the same? Was it 9-11, Y2K, WOMD… FEAR mongering… again thank you! Been watching videos for the last hour!
It was none of these things. What caused a change was the warmongering terror state known as the United States launched a 20 year terrorist action in the Middle East, trading thousands of lives from across the globe to enrich a handful of elite rich US businessmen. Now, an entire generation has grown up living paycheque to paycheque with daily reports about financially destitute soldiers being exploded to make oil executives richer, while their countries throw money into brainwashing citizens into throwing their lives away securing Big Oil their Middle Eastern oil fields instead of doing literally anything about the home economy falling apart for anyone who isn’t in the top tax bracket and lining the politicians pockets- I mean, “donating to their campaigns.” 9/11 had nothing to do with. Y2K had nothing to do with. The War Mongers that are the US are the sole blame for the horrible state of the world today. Because why do anything for the people when you can wage a multi-trillion dollar war on some cavemen in a desert?
The mall where I worked closed early. If I remember correctly, they wanted everyone out by 2 PM. It was a very start contrast between the people that knew what had happened and those that were insulated from the events of the day. Watching someone go from a normal day to confused to just flat out dead inside, all within seconds, is a haunting experience. Watching someone turning another person's known existence inside out immediately after, is even more so. Getting home was a relief to only be tortured by cable news.
I will never forget that day. I am from the UK. I was packing my things ready to start university (my parents were out), I had the curtains closed and was playing music loud. I was dancing around the living room. My mum rushed in and said "the cleaner from work has said that two planes have just crashed into the twin towers in America. I hope that she is wrong because this could change the world forever". I had an appointment to open a bank account. I remember driving to the bank (with mum) with the radio on loud trying to work out what was going on. My dad died suddenly on 19th October, 2001 it was one of the last things that we spoke about together.
Was in my early 20s at that time. I started work (CST) after the first plane had hit the towers and my co-worker came running out yelling about being attacked. I thought she was making some sort of a weird joke. Went in and my small office (of 4 workers) had the TV on. Thankfully I could watch the TV while working (I was a web designer and my boss was totally cool and always left the TV on for us all day). My co-worker was freaking out the entire day and wanted to go home. I was like "What for?" we were in a secure basement that was one step away from a "bunker" out in the middle of the country. Some people just have such high anxiety 🤷♀ I knew we were "at war" effectively after seeing the attacks, but going home and hiding and not working isn't going to solve anything either. I was just happy we could be kept fully up to date watching the TV while working that day!
I was a senior in high school and was in first period. We had a test that day and everything was postponed so we could watch the news. All afterschool activities were canceled and everyone was in shock and wanting to get home to our families.
My girlfriend called me and said her office closed, so she went to the mall and nearly everything was closed. I was working for Wells Fargo, and had gone into the office which was like a zombie morgue except for one guy that came into my office smiling and talking about the office football pool. That was so weird. Watching people jump out of the towers, and then "Hey, the Giants really sucked last night against the Broncos" like it was just another Tuesday.
On 9/11 i skipped school. I remember watching the news at home as the 2nd plane hit. I remember people wondering what was going to happen next if more planes were going to hit important buildings around the world ☹️ I pray we never see another day like it.
I’ve been trying to talk to someone that was an adult during 9/11 because I have a ton of boring questions like “what did people do that day, did the day just go on or did people flee? Because I would have fled, wouldn’t have mattered if I was in the state where an attack was happening I would have gone home.” My mom doesn’t remember bc she like…. Doesn’t want to. Someone finally told me that people shut down for days, people emptied out of the cities all across the states and got away from anything that could be a potential target for terrorist, and in the days after people were still too scared to go back to work and send their kids back to school. This video helped back that, thank you.
I was 18 and a college student and happy to answer any ‘boring’ questions. (Really, they’re the best questions.) I can’t remember if my college cancelled classes that day, but it didn’t matter, nobody really went to class anyway. The few people that did mostly went because they didn’t know what else to do with themselves and just ended up sitting in class chatting with whoever else showed up. I was at breakfast with my roommate when the first plane hit. We didn’t know what was going on when we got back to our floor and a bunch of freshmen girls all had their TV’s on to the news and their doors open before 9am. That just didn’t happen. So we got to our room and turned the TV on just in time to see the second plane hit. A lot of that day is fuzzy because to a certain extent, we really didn’t do much of anything. We spent some time keeping a friend busy while he waited to hear from his dad (who worked in the Pentagon and was ultimately fine). It also happened to be my roommates birthday, so we did make a cake and have a ‘party’ of sorts that night. I have pictures from that evening and they’re weird. We’re all smiling, bc birthday, but we all look sort of exhausted and dazed. But otherwise, we watched the news and sort of wandered around the dorm lost. Again, can’t remember if classes were canceled or not that week, but we had a candle light vigil one night. They also postponed what should have been our first home football game because of fears of large crowds gathering and being targets. (We then played it the first weekend in December and froze our asses off in the stands.) Life went on that week, but it all felt off.
I was in Boston during 8th grade and the school district basically went into lockdown and then shut down at noon time and all students were sent home. Everyone was nervous. The DC sniper attack happened soon after and everyone thought it was terrorism.
No questions are boring. Your interest in history is commendable. Between phone calls to family members in other states making sure they were OK, to trying to reach two close friends who were flight attendants on major airlines (one with United) there was a weird quietness outside as I live in a flight path for two airports. No planes, not much traffic on the roads. Schools didn't get out early, but I remember meeting the school bus as I did every day and the "normalcy" of that was comforting. I grew up watching the WTC being built and couldn't fathom them no longer existing on the skyline. The loss of life was nearly incomprehensible. Citizens and first responders, people at their desks and passengers on planes. To this day it still feels raw. Never forget.
I miss FYE. They always had great prices on CDs, movies etc. They had a whole section of old school HipHop CDs. In 2014 and 15 I use to go in there and buy all kinds of CDs and stuff. Then I moved to Houston Texas September of that year in 15. I moved back to my home state in 2017 and went to that mall to go back to the FYE and I walked around the corner and there was just a wall there with no remnants of there ever have being a store there. That was a let down lol.
This is all very errie to watch. Really spooky. I live in Manchester, England. I was 9 years old when 9/11 happened and I have no memory of this day whatsoever. :/ Guessing it didn't hit young UK kids as much...
Back then social media/Internet wasn’t really a thing. So it was much more difficult for people to be aware of any breaking news going on around the country or world.
Even in istanbul, Turkey I literally watched the second plane hit live on tv. It was widely covered in several news channels on TV and radio. Everyone was quickly informed about what happened. Many people throughout the city was talking about it afterwards.
I'm like millions of others, I remember what I did that day: went to school, first class at 8am, heard about the attacks, classes were cancelled, went to a chinese buffet (the place was nearly busy but the TVs were on about the attacks) and ran a couple errands then went home. Went to work at Steak 'n Shake later that day and we stayed open
It feels so eerie watching this, just to see something that we take for granted, a leisurely trip to our local mall, now completely off limits as panic and sadness set in after the biggest terrorist attack in history. It's so strange to see store owners and security being told to remain silent as they try to process the news.
After a Doctor's appointment I was in a Arcade playing some games while Chris Moyles (BBC Radio 1) was reporting about what was happening with the twin towers on the Amusements Radio. Everybody I walked passed on the Street was talking about it while I was on my way back home. It hit me hard when I saw it on the TV live and I couldn't believe what was happening especially when the second plane crashed and the towers fell down.
Did anyone else see the Pokemon Crystal advertisement at 0:58? Brings back good memories with my Gameboy Color. Can't believe it's been more than 22 years at this point.
It was a beautiful day blue sky not hot or freezing. Sunny....... I got ready for work at my usual time got downtown and..... Saw the first plane hit, the smells the fear, thanking God I was ok but knew some where not 😢😢😢
I called in sick that morning and my coworker said, turn on the tv, he was listening to the radio, I stayed on with him. I watched the 2nd plane hit and then we hung up. So I watched everything that happened that day while I was sick in bed.
On 9/11 my Mom came in and woke me up and said “the twin towers were hit by a plane and collapsed”. I just remember thinking “she tripping again” and went back to sleep.
I remember the store I was working at was in az mills mall in Tempe az we closed our store 1 hour after I got to work my friends brought me home that day not a person in sight that day even the roads were empty no one even yelled or road rage it was a change in our country it shook the world and people were changed that day
The only Time Machine we have is the pictures we take and videos we film. So folks pull out your cameras film and take pictures of every day life! May seem boring doing it but in 10 years you will look back and smile seeing old videos and pictures.
I remember I was on vacation from my job at a local department store that day...after we watched what was going on TV I called the store and heard that everyone was following it on the demo TV we had near the entrance. My sister was on a chat group online, and people were starting to perpetuate garbage like the wells were being poisoned in PA and others were panic buying at the grocery stores. She had me go on there and attempt some semblance of damage control, in an attempt to get everyone to calm down and think rationally. Don't know how well that worked, but we had to try something. Later that day I posted my weekly article on my own website, which attempted to convey the same message.
I walked over to Jamba Juice that afternoon to get a smoothie and there was a sign on the door that read: CLOSED DUE TO TERRORIST THREAT!😂 I didn’t know there were any plans targeting Jamba Juice, but ok… I love the guard in this video that won’t disclose why they’re closing the mall. Due to national emergency, perhaps? That kind of behavior is so annoying! Weird the guy hadn’t heard about the planes yet.
I said in a previous video you posted that I was only 4 when 9/11 happened so I don’t remember anything. It’s really interesting and sad to see this a mall closing bc of the attacks… wow.
In the late '9os, early 'oos, basically every mall interior in America looked exactly the same. I wonder if a single, large conglomerate was buying them all up then?
I woke up at 630 am Pacific time...our tv was out alarm and it turned on to the news...I remember seeing one tower on fire...but didnt think much of it as I had to get dressed and eat breakfast and walk to school. When I got there, there was a weird vibe there...I could see lots of groups of teachers talking amongst each other. During my first period class we tuned in to CNN and that's all we did for the rest of the day in each class. None of the teachers felt like teaching that day.
I was in a mall on the evening of 9/11. I was a dead mall, even in 2001 but I was there to kill time. I had an appointment in the area but wasn't sure if it was cancelled and I couldn't call because in the northeast, you couldn't get through anywhere on the phone for about 2 days. So I went out there to find out it was cancelled. I was waiting for the bus to go home and I went into an Osco drugstore and bought a Maybelline lip gloss because I wanted the glossy lips Alicia Keys had in the video for Falling. I also still remember how perfect the weather was that day.
And those of us who were too young to understand that America was under attack were happy to go home early that day. I was in Kindergarten and the adults didn't tell us what was going on. The teacher greeted us with tears in her eyes that morning and we didn't know why. As the kids waited for their parents to come pick them up, patriotic music played over the elementary school speakers and we goofed around and pretended to wave lighters in the air like in the SpongeBob episode "Band Geeks" football stadium scene. When I got home and flipped through the news channels, in my innocent mind, I thought maybe some airshow planes accidentally crashed into the buildings and everyone inside the towers miraculously survived the impact and escaped to safety when the buildings collapsed. Just some insight on 9/11 from a 5 year old's perspective. I didn't learn the *whole* truth about 9/11 until 2007 on the 6th anniversary when my 6th Grade teacher brought in a Naudet Brothers home-recording on VHS for the class to watch. I've been obsessed with 9/11, the old WTC and conspiracy-talk ever since. And since then, I swore off flying on an airplane and I was paranoid that another t3€rr0r¡$t attack would happen around the 10th or 20th anniversary... Fortunately, it didn't happen. Instead, a pandemic was the next monumental catastrophe. I knew something big was bound to happen at the start of this decade, but I wasn't expecting a virus.
I also remember how one of my teachers refused to pretend it happened and we did our regular class stuff that day (the rest we just watched on our tvs in class), it was her way of saying fuck you to the terrorists, I remember respecting that after the fact
The video takes on a whole other meaning with that title underneath it. If it weren't for that, and all the context behind it, this could've been another Dead Mall type of video from the last days of a once thriving shopping center. Seeing standees for Pokemon Crystal, Mario Kart Super Circuit, a poster for Star Wars: Episode 1, the fronts of stores that only exist in memory now. Recognized, tangible elements from a period in time I cannot walk in the size 11 shoes that the 6 year old me would have thought belonged to a clown from the future from their size. The 6 year old who went home to his mother trying to hold back tears as my frightened nana quaivered on the other end of the landline phone. Less than a year later, my dad would be carried off to fight in the resulting war. Just when we thought he wouldn't come back, he did. Just when we thought he would stay, he didn't. Sure, he still somehow made it back. But he didn't stay. What would have happened if it was any other day? What if this were just the fleeting memories of a defunct mall, the "disaster day" the disgruntled woman spoke of simply being a bout of bad business? The woman who came in the door looking for something that could've been nothing more than a bite to eat, or a wedding ring she dreamed may be on her finger one day? No word of falling buildings. No mention of terrorism on American soil. The security guard wasn't allowed to speak on why the mall had to close that day. But evidently, did he really need to? It was any other day in anyone's life. Before that, it was a week anybody could assume would be like any other. Still further back, it was nothing more than the start of school and the end of summer break for any kid like I was. If it had truly been any other day, or, like any other day that had come before, what would change? Sure, I'd still have my copy of Pokemon Crystal, my Mario Kart Super Circuit. I still would have seen Star Wars: Episode 1 half a dozen times. Would dad had stayed with mom? Would we have ever had our second dog, Wyatt, who had such a happy life with us? Would we then had gotten Bruce, a third dog, and given him such happy days? Maybe that woman would have had a bite to eat, or found a dress she liked. Maybe the jewelery store would have moved into the Eddie Bauer and made so many more weddings happen. A disaster day could have been nothing more than an excuse for someone to go home early and give another kiss to a lover, or shared a hug with a parent or friend. A quarter of a million people could, and should, have found out. Millions more can only guess.
Crazy to think the mall closed because of a faraway event, in hindsight. At the time, I'm sure it was for security measures because nobody knew who would be hit next.
This must have been during the second hour. I was running late for school and my friends told me that a plane hit the World Trade Center. What was different is that they were all waiting for me to tell me. My best friend at the time and I had plans to go to the mall after school to pick up Slayer's latest album, which coincidentally was officially released on that day, despite the majority of retailers being closed early because of the attacks. What will stick with me the most is the silence of the day without any planes flying above.
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What’s crazy is I was at the mall on 9/11. Left the house, briefly saw my parents watching t.V and remember something about a plane hitting a building. I was 18 and didn’t think twice about it. Went to the mall and bought P.O.D satellite album. As we were walking through the mall an announcement came over the intercom “ ladies and gentlemen the mall is closing due to Terrorist activities” it was then we realized that something big happened and went home and saw the tragedy unfold in real time
Great comment ...thanks for sharing 👍
Good album
@Rowdy Jr Not that I remember. It was like a slap into reality. The first time feeling vulnerable as an adult
Iiiiiii....iiii wish I could flyyyyyyyyyy......
I did nearly the same thing. I remember the P.O.D album was released that day and I snagged a copy after leaving school early. Not sure if our mall ended up closing early, but it was strange seeing only a handful of people there.
This is one of the most important channels on TH-cam. Please never stop with the great content. It's like being in a time machine.
This makes me happy 😊
@@vampirerobot It's real life!
It has a lot of interesting content, but to call this "one of the most important channels on TH-cam" is one hell of an overstatement.
@@sergeybrin6701 Giving a true look into the past is pretty important to a lot of people. That's my opinion at least.
@@MrAllen-fv9cj Wonderful. That really isn't a response to what I said though. But whatever.
Crazy fact: the background music playing in this mall is using the exact same Muzak satellite feed that the World Trade Center Mall and Plaza was using during the attacks. Like heard in the 9/11 footage by Jack Taliercio. That's creepy...
That is an extremely creepy fact. You don't think it was still playing while the towers went down? 😮
@@85pphoenix It played up until the moment the South Tower went down. There are several videos of the music played in the Plaza and Mall shortly before the collapsed occurred, I'm part of a big search to find every song played.
I was in college getting ready to go to class and had the TV on. I saw the 2nd plane hit in real time and I’ll never forget the people that were jumping out of the building. I called my mother crying and scared. That day will be burned in my brain forever. Also, I went to class as usual and the professor carried on as nothing was happening and made us take our scheduled exam. I never respected her after that and thought that was cruel and disrespectful then and my opinion hasn’t changed.
@@WorldTradeCenterMuzakCommunityHave they discovered what song was playing before “How Deep Is Your Love?”
@@ShadowLinkxMasterYes it’s WINDLESS, by Mike Strickland
I remember being in college on Sept. 11, 2001 and since I commuted, I left campus early since most of the professors were canceling classes and everywhere I went, there was such shock and quiet. It is one of those things I just can't get out of my mind.
I saw the towers every day of my life from my livingroom window. They were so majestic. That Monday night l had stayed up till 5am drawing a picture of Goku (don't ask why lol), so when my alarm went off at 7am that Tuesday Sep 11th morning, l overslept. Next thing l know my mom wakes me up frantic around 850am. I assume she's mad about me being late for school, but obviously that wasn't it. She said a plane hit 1 of the towers. I immediately hopped out the bed and ran to the window, and saw 1 of the towers burning with a huge trail of smoke that seemed to stretch for miles. No one knew it was terrorism at the time, so my mom left for work and l actually went back to bed. I didn't realize what had fully happened until my sister came home from work early at 12pm and told me that we were under attack, and that the towers were gone. Both of them. I ran to the window again and sure enough all there were was a huge grey dust cloud 😢😢😢
I went to Walmart after work on 9/11 because I absolutely needed to purchase something for my classroom for the next day (I taught 3rd grade). My son was with me, he being in first grade. It was so surreal, when the greeter greeted us. I just didn’t even know how to respond. Everyone was in shock. But I tried to act as normal as possible for my son. One of the hardest days ever. What made it harder was that there was no one to comfort us as we were all just as sad, confused, and scared as anyone else. But that’s what also was comforting.
It feels like there’s a chunk of the story missing between the greeter greeting you and that next part, I wanted to hear more
@@yy17782 The greeter said something like, “Welcome to Wal-Mart. Have a good day!” I couldn’t even imagine how to respond in that moment. There was no having “a nice day” for anyone that day. I didn’t want to be rude but I also couldn’t smile and say “thanks, you too!” In my memory, I turned my head slowly and looked at the greeter. I couldn’t fake a smile and similar greeting. I just looked at them, or more like stared through them. If you’ve ever experienced shock or see someone go through it, you can imagine what I mean. Also back then Walmarts always had tv monitors on. They would show Walmart ads as well as the news or sports or whatever. Every tv monitor showed the live, ongoing news. All the networks (network tv was still dominate back then) had 9/11 live coverage at least until the next day sometime. I feel like we went more than 24 hours with constant news coverage. Could have been more like 36 hours. That was a lot.
So interesting to see various perspectives and what was happening across the country. Thank you for uploading a piece of history!
1:28 "Kind of a disaster day, isn't it?" I mean yeah, that's one way to describe 9/11
Reminds me of that tragedy
It's a quiet day really quiet way too quiet
Such insensitivity and ignorance!
I was working at a credit card manufacturing plant at the time of the attacks. After the planes hit the towers everyone was called into the cafeteria for a meeting. We were told what was happening and that we were all to go home because our building might be a target (no one knew what the hell was happening). Everyone EXCEPT for me and the two other guys in the shipping department because Capital One had to have their order out TODAY! We were expendable, apparently. So It was me (the supervisor), the other two shippers, and local police came to sit with us until we finished with Capital One's order! Then we were allowed to go home while the entire plant was sent home hours ago. Unreal.
"What's in your wallet?" That's an interesting story. Glad your building wasn't targeted and that you made it through the capital one order. I never thought of credit cards being made in factories. It would be interesting to see how they're made.
@@SparkleSister7 Yep. They are made on huge printing presses and go through several different departments before finally being shipped out. Brinks comes to pick them up while local police supervise. What you'd be surprised about are all the hidden anti counterfeit features that are on the cards that no one knows about. The place was tighter than fort Knox. The security and rules we had to follow were insane. Anyways, it was a good job at the time but had a very high turn over rate and most of the management were awful people.
capitalist dystopia moment
My dad worked night shift at the postal facility at the airport during 9/11. I remember him leaving for work at 5 in the evening. I asked him why he was still working when everything else was shut down, he said "They still have to move the mail."
I think the postal service was the only thing still running immediately after 9/11. Though he ended up processing ground mail for a while instead of air mail since no planes were flying.
This was at the very beginning of the long painful decline of America's malls. And America itself. Like a country was coming down with the buildings.
You wish ‘fahtah’
yep. i always say after 9/11 everything went to shit. i was 15 in high school when it happened but even before 9/11 happened i already started feeling something off that year. i got depressed . did bad in school , was hospitalized etc. then 9/11 happened and the world was never the same. think about pre 9/11 days very often. the 90s was a special time i wish I could go back to
Does this mall still exist? A lot of malls ended up closing down in the years after 9/11 or turned into ghost malls.
I remember pre 9/11 times well. Things were prosperous but after the attack the country never recovered. It has just been one tragedy and disaster after another since then. I am convinced there is no future at all and world is headed for Armageddon soon.
Malls were already dying long before 9/11
@@NovusodHistory is cyclical and predictable. I think you are right to a point, and we are already in it. But I see hope for a rebirth of Americana and society. Not for some time still. I think the energy is there. It’s easy to be negative, hard to be positive. I get it. Im right there with you.
This video placed me in a somber state. I was 8 and remember the feeling.
My mom picked me up early from school. Told me we’re under attack. But we’re going to be okay.
Turned on cable at home, and all networks were offline. I specifically remember QVC and thought this was big.
While so young, I didn’t have a full grasp. But this video captured emotion that others were feeling that day. Being that age now, it really resonates.
Just remember: this happened b/c Bush stole the election from Gore in 2000 and they already had those wars and PATRIIOT act lined up.
Wishing you well.
I was 5 and don’t remember it at all it’s weird cause other folks my age say they remember it vividly
The day america attacked america.
I had just turned 6 and I still remember things from that day like when my 1st grade teacher bringing the kids in early from recess and trying to read a book to us but she started to tear up when we heard the fighter jet roar by patrolling the area. I've thought of a couple of times these past couple anniversaries to go back and thank her for trying to take care of us that day but I don't know if she's still even at that school in Pasadena.
I was 11, and remember everyone was terrified. Since that day, our country has changed.
I worked at a military base in Southern California at that time, and the attacks happened even before the workday started since we are three hours behind eastern time. We were not told to go home that day, although it was very difficult to concentrate. However, things changed drastically as how base security was handled after that day, as did our country.
cornado base huh
I joined the Navy in ‘10 and the blokes who were enlisted on 9/11 told me they wear rushing to get every ship unmoored and out to sea as soon as possible. One guy told me his ship was ordered to cut the mooring lines if need be. Another was in Sydney and they had to leave port at about 1 in the morning.
Yep, our mall closed that day very early too. I worked at a gamestop (it was still software etc at the time) and i remember it just being creepy looking out the doors into a dead mall...then security came around and said everything was shutting.
So sad. At least in my mind, the Nineties felt like they began with the release of Nevermind in September 1991 and lasted through September 11, 2001. It's been downhill ever since.
That’s precisely what Chuck Klosterman said in his book from last year. “The nineties”
What's nevermind? I was born 90
@@thend4427nirvana.
@@thend4427 nvmd
@@thend4427 en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nevermind
It was one day after my 26th birthday. I was at work but stopped by the mall to eat lunch in the food court. Walked past Sears and all the TV's had the news coverage on. I'll never forget that day.
I was 5 and being 27 now in a lot of ways I’m grateful I was too young to really comprehend the severity of what had taken place at that time
It was one day before my 30th, here in Finland. I threw a small-scale party for a handful of friends that weekend but the mood was pretty somber and we talked quite a bit about the attacks in the US...
@KDubb-ws9zc same here I was only 5 at the time but it's the years that proceeded into the 2000s with ground zero that made it all piece together. Something once symbolic gone to ashes...
@@A.stallion27dumb young man
I started out 9/11 getting ready for class at my local community college. As I got out of the shower, my father said, "All Hell has broken loose!" I spent the next two hours glued to the TV. Then, I got a call from my boss asking me to go in to pretty much just help with shutting down the store. I obliged then, drove around for a little while. I was shocked the most by how quiet the skies were at 3 in the afternoon. Follwed closely by how long the lines had become at the gas station. It was a very surreal day. I wouldn't say it was sad (to me) yet. It was a pure auto-pilot feeling, complete shock and disbelief. Nearly everybody that knew what had happened all shared the same dead look. Anger, fear, and mourning followed in the aftermath.
Kind of same for me. My dad woke me up that the towers had collapsed. I had no school that day so that's all I watched and that was all they showed that day
I was 26 and working at a small newspaper when it happened. All we wanted to do was leave, but we were under deadline. It was torture and such a helpless feeling. How we ever made our deadline, I will never know.
I was working for a small newspaper too, and we also had a deadline. We did send someone out to the shopping mall area to take pictures, though, because for some reason the shops there spontaneously had everybody go out into the parking lot and form a human chain, holding hands. I'm not sure why. What was VERY frustrating about that day was the we wanted to go home, be with our loved ones, and watch what was happening, but deadlines don't wait for anyone and we had to stay until the paper was put to bed.
Hope you're in a better job now
We weren’t at the mall that day, but our local fair was going on and my mother had to water the flowers that she had on exhibit. While the fair stayed open, she said was a ghost town. The mood was very somber, far from the normal festive atmosphere. In many ways, my childhood died that day. My innocence was lost and I was made aware of the evil that exists in this world. Life has never been the same since…
Yup, I was 12 and in school but I definitely agree with you about how most of our innocence died that morning and nothing would ever be the same.
This dudes TH-cam channel is amazing and I can't stop watching it omg. I remember 9/11 like it was yesterday. I was in school
Man this looks like Cumberland mall in Cobb county. Yep this was Cumberland I remember that security guard lol. And that restaurant walking out the food court. This was our mall as a teenager.
I used to get my hair cut at Great Expectations.
Sears is now gone, replaced in area with a Dick's Sporting Goods. JC Penney is gone, replaced with a Costco.
Worth noting that at 0:58 if you look at the bottom left you can see that poster of Syphon Filter 3 displaying the old cover art. Due to 9/11 the cover art had to be replaced but some copies were released with the old cover art intact. If you have that old cover art variant it’s super expensive and rare now.
Interesting information Richard 👍
Yeah I’m searching that bottom corner you mentioned for lots of green and a big American flag but I don’t see that poster at all?…
@@abbycareyyy7755 look a little to the left of the Pokémon crystal. You can barely see it since it’s in low quality but it has the PlayStation logo and the rejected cover art.
I remember that horrible day, but then I remember how everyone came together & the country really was United, today it’s nothing like that
Thanks to the fake media & obama among biden😡
I was working at a Barnes and Noble on Sept. 11th: got the call from management that all the B&Ns would be closing down at 5 pm that day. At 3 or so, a woman called up asking for a book to be held so she could pick it up that night and was surprised and angry that we'd be closed. Co-worker on the phone said to her, "Haven't you been watching the news?" The woman said no, she didn't have a TV and hadn't read the paper that day. Co-worker sighs heavily, and says "Okay. You'll want to sit down," and told her.
Karen mode was shut down
This channel is like a Time Machine thank you this is as close as we get to time travel
Makes you wonder where these people are today.
Either dead or in old age
I like how I was able to instantly identify which mall it was simply from the GameStop in the thumbnail 😂 This is Cumberland Mall in Atlanta, and the GameStop is one of the very few stores that still resides in the mall to this day, in the same place.
The only thing I remember on that day was my brother waking everyone up and turning the TV on to see the building burning and the second plane hit, then going to school (was in the 6th grade) and talking to a friend about it and all the teachers were huddled outside the classroom crying. I also remember that, unfortunately, my neighbors from Algeria didn't leave their house for what seemed like a month after that.
Your neighbors were scared of being targeted
@@tokidefresa3113 Yes.
I'm surprised the security guard didn't tell you anything about recording, every mall I've ever been to strictly prohibited photos and videos
I presume there were more important things to be worried about than a camcorder
It was just a regular Tuesday work and school day. The mall would have been very slow as it is. Although that one girl entering the mall at the end of the video, you gotta question whether she even knew what was happening. I bet a lot of these people didn't. Still by 1pm you'd think the whole world knew. Last thing I'd have on my schedule is a trip to the mall.
What's wrong with going to the mall after the attacks? Maybe that's how some people cope with the anxiety trigged by the attacks? Or they may just feel like going to the mall. Let's say she knew what was happening. What should she have done instead? Stay home and sob?
Im in a time machine whenever i watch these scenes of malls in the early 2000s and 9/11.
The content that you post is amazing! Please keep it up 😊
Our malls never even opened. I worked in one at the time. They called me around 8:45 and told me not to come in. We live in the central time zone, so everything began close to 8AM our time.
I was working at a restaurant that morning doing prep. They had our asses work that entire day. : /
That is disrespectful as fxck
These videos are timeless and important to see! Thank you so much! Can I ask; are these your recordings personally? Amazing content and how things use to be… when did it become different/nuts/just not the same? Was it 9-11, Y2K, WOMD… FEAR mongering… again thank you! Been watching videos for the last hour!
It was none of these things. What caused a change was the warmongering terror state known as the United States launched a 20 year terrorist action in the Middle East, trading thousands of lives from across the globe to enrich a handful of elite rich US businessmen. Now, an entire generation has grown up living paycheque to paycheque with daily reports about financially destitute soldiers being exploded to make oil executives richer, while their countries throw money into brainwashing citizens into throwing their lives away securing Big Oil their Middle Eastern oil fields instead of doing literally anything about the home economy falling apart for anyone who isn’t in the top tax bracket and lining the politicians pockets- I mean, “donating to their campaigns.”
9/11 had nothing to do with. Y2K had nothing to do with. The War Mongers that are the US are the sole blame for the horrible state of the world today.
Because why do anything for the people when you can wage a multi-trillion dollar war on some cavemen in a desert?
Literally right after the attack things were different. Complete attitude shift, and everyone conducted themselves differently.
I just love these videos wow so eerie seeing these from the past vs now
The day America’s innocence died. I was sitting in my high chair in the kitchen when it happened.
I wasn't even aware that the event caused malls to close nationwide. I was out on the bike trails that afternoon, trying to make the best of things.
The entire country was affected. #NeverForget911
Were you doing everything you could? Holding on to what you were?
The mall where I worked closed early. If I remember correctly, they wanted everyone out by 2 PM. It was a very start contrast between the people that knew what had happened and those that were insulated from the events of the day. Watching someone go from a normal day to confused to just flat out dead inside, all within seconds, is a haunting experience. Watching someone turning another person's known existence inside out immediately after, is even more so. Getting home was a relief to only be tortured by cable news.
I will never forget that day. I am from the UK. I was packing my things ready to start university (my parents were out), I had the curtains closed and was playing music loud. I was dancing around the living room. My mum rushed in and said "the cleaner from work has said that two planes have just crashed into the twin towers in America. I hope that she is wrong because this could change the world forever". I had an appointment to open a bank account. I remember driving to the bank (with mum) with the radio on loud trying to work out what was going on.
My dad died suddenly on 19th October, 2001 it was one of the last things that we spoke about together.
Who filmed these?
Was in my early 20s at that time. I started work (CST) after the first plane had hit the towers and my co-worker came running out yelling about being attacked. I thought she was making some sort of a weird joke. Went in and my small office (of 4 workers) had the TV on. Thankfully I could watch the TV while working (I was a web designer and my boss was totally cool and always left the TV on for us all day). My co-worker was freaking out the entire day and wanted to go home. I was like "What for?" we were in a secure basement that was one step away from a "bunker" out in the middle of the country. Some people just have such high anxiety 🤷♀ I knew we were "at war" effectively after seeing the attacks, but going home and hiding and not working isn't going to solve anything either. I was just happy we could be kept fully up to date watching the TV while working that day!
What a horrible way to handle someones anxiety
I was a senior in high school and was in first period. We had a test that day and everything was postponed so we could watch the news. All afterschool activities were canceled and everyone was in shock and wanting to get home to our families.
Unbelievable how much this resembles the malls of today.
How do you get all this great footage? Your channel is really like taking a time machine back to whatever year we are looking at in the video.
POV: you're buying mario kart super circuit on a tragic day
My girlfriend called me and said her office closed, so she went to the mall and nearly everything was closed. I was working for Wells Fargo, and had gone into the office which was like a zombie morgue except for one guy that came into my office smiling and talking about the office football pool. That was so weird. Watching people jump out of the towers, and then "Hey, the Giants really sucked last night against the Broncos" like it was just another Tuesday.
On 9/11 i skipped school. I remember watching the news at home as the 2nd plane hit. I remember people wondering what was going to happen next if more planes were going to hit important buildings around the world ☹️ I pray we never see another day like it.
Same but I went to school was on west coast
I’ve been trying to talk to someone that was an adult during 9/11 because I have a ton of boring questions like “what did people do that day, did the day just go on or did people flee? Because I would have fled, wouldn’t have mattered if I was in the state where an attack was happening I would have gone home.”
My mom doesn’t remember bc she like…. Doesn’t want to.
Someone finally told me that people shut down for days, people emptied out of the cities all across the states and got away from anything that could be a potential target for terrorist, and in the days after people were still too scared to go back to work and send their kids back to school.
This video helped back that, thank you.
I was 18 and a college student and happy to answer any ‘boring’ questions. (Really, they’re the best questions.) I can’t remember if my college cancelled classes that day, but it didn’t matter, nobody really went to class anyway. The few people that did mostly went because they didn’t know what else to do with themselves and just ended up sitting in class chatting with whoever else showed up. I was at breakfast with my roommate when the first plane hit. We didn’t know what was going on when we got back to our floor and a bunch of freshmen girls all had their TV’s on to the news and their doors open before 9am. That just didn’t happen. So we got to our room and turned the TV on just in time to see the second plane hit. A lot of that day is fuzzy because to a certain extent, we really didn’t do much of anything. We spent some time keeping a friend busy while he waited to hear from his dad (who worked in the Pentagon and was ultimately fine). It also happened to be my roommates birthday, so we did make a cake and have a ‘party’ of sorts that night. I have pictures from that evening and they’re weird. We’re all smiling, bc birthday, but we all look sort of exhausted and dazed. But otherwise, we watched the news and sort of wandered around the dorm lost.
Again, can’t remember if classes were canceled or not that week, but we had a candle light vigil one night. They also postponed what should have been our first home football game because of fears of large crowds gathering and being targets. (We then played it the first weekend in December and froze our asses off in the stands.) Life went on that week, but it all felt off.
I was in Boston during 8th grade and the school district basically went into lockdown and then shut down at noon time and all students were sent home. Everyone was nervous. The DC sniper attack happened soon after and everyone thought it was terrorism.
@@icyhotmikeholy shit the sniper attack was horrifying. I lived in southern Maryland at the time.
Thanks for being curious about how people reacted and what people did that day as it went on I was only three during 9/11 so I was clueless.
No questions are boring. Your interest in history is commendable. Between phone calls to family members in other states making sure they were OK, to trying to reach two close friends who were flight attendants on major airlines (one with United) there was a weird quietness outside as I live in a flight path for two airports. No planes, not much traffic on the roads. Schools didn't get out early, but I remember meeting the school bus as I did every day and the "normalcy" of that was comforting. I grew up watching the WTC being built and couldn't fathom them no longer existing on the skyline. The loss of life was nearly incomprehensible. Citizens and first responders, people at their desks and passengers on planes. To this day it still feels raw. Never forget.
I miss FYE. They always had great prices on CDs, movies etc. They had a whole section of old school HipHop CDs. In 2014 and 15 I use to go in there and buy all kinds of CDs and stuff. Then I moved to Houston Texas September of that year in 15. I moved back to my home state in 2017 and went to that mall to go back to the FYE and I walked around the corner and there was just a wall there with no remnants of there ever have being a store there. That was a let down lol.
My new favorite TH-cam channel! 👍👍
Dang this channel documented alot omg...its just wow
The content on this channel is B roll footage that news stations didn’t use.
This is all very errie to watch. Really spooky.
I live in Manchester, England. I was 9 years old when 9/11 happened and I have no memory of this day whatsoever. :/ Guessing it didn't hit young UK kids as much...
Back then social media/Internet wasn’t really a thing. So it was much more difficult for people to be aware of any breaking news going on around the country or world.
Everybody in that mall knew exactly what had happened. Also the Internet was very much a thing in 2001.
Not true, almost everyone was surfing the net. Including me.
@@vampirerobot Yes, at home, on a desk. Not in your pocket.
Even in istanbul, Turkey I literally watched the second plane hit live on tv. It was widely covered in several news channels on TV and radio. Everyone was quickly informed about what happened. Many people throughout the city was talking about it afterwards.
Literally everyone who wasn't in a coma knew what was going on that day. You act like 2001 was the Dark Ages. We had TV's and radios, you know
I'm like millions of others, I remember what I did that day: went to school, first class at 8am, heard about the attacks, classes were cancelled, went to a chinese buffet (the place was nearly busy but the TVs were on about the attacks) and ran a couple errands then went home. Went to work at Steak 'n Shake later that day and we stayed open
I was 18. Time flies.
It feels so eerie watching this, just to see something that we take for granted, a leisurely trip to our local mall, now completely off limits as panic and sadness set in after the biggest terrorist attack in history. It's so strange to see store owners and security being told to remain silent as they try to process the news.
After a Doctor's appointment I was in a Arcade playing some games while Chris Moyles (BBC Radio 1) was reporting about what was happening with the twin towers on the Amusements Radio. Everybody I walked passed on the Street was talking about it while I was on my way back home. It hit me hard when I saw it on the TV live and I couldn't believe what was happening especially when the second plane crashed and the towers fell down.
Did anyone else see the Pokemon Crystal advertisement at 0:58? Brings back good memories with my Gameboy Color. Can't believe it's been more than 22 years at this point.
It was a beautiful day blue sky not hot or freezing. Sunny....... I got ready for work at my usual time got downtown and..... Saw the first plane hit, the smells the fear, thanking God I was ok but knew some where not 😢😢😢
Where do you get all these videos?
who the f is going to the mall on 9/11? "bRo I nEeDs mE sOMe cINnabon"
I called in sick that morning and my coworker said, turn on the tv, he was listening to the radio, I stayed on with him. I watched the 2nd plane hit and then we hung up. So I watched everything that happened that day while I was sick in bed.
Thank you for preserving history. 👍👍
On 9/11 my Mom came in and woke me up and said “the twin towers were hit by a plane and collapsed”. I just remember thinking “she tripping again” and went back to sleep.
damn pokemon crystal was still the newest game at the time. really ties it all together for me for some reason how long ago this really was.
Yeah and to think we were still a couple years away from Ruby and Sapphire.
I remember I had to work that day. Everyone was afraid not knowing what was going to happen next.
our children's will never know what we lost....
I was off work that day . Immediately after the first plane hit I was tapeing it on VCR cassette. The whole time.
That was a rough time right after the attack on the WTC. Truly a shocking day that was.
I was on AOL the whole day of 911. I really didn’t get it even though I was 22. “World trade center had a terrorist attack”. Me~”the what?”
To employees that day "Everyone go home to be with your families"
Props to this guy for being so brave, and not even giving a fuck about the news. It wasn't in your area, so, it was safe to go outside.
After the attacks I went shopping at the grocery store later in the day. It was an eerie silence. no planes in the sky. things were so quiet.
Still remember that whole somber feeling 23 years later
You should include any mall in nyc on 9/11
I remember the store I was working at was in az mills mall in Tempe az we closed our store 1 hour after I got to work my friends brought me home that day not a person in sight that day even the roads were empty no one even yelled or road rage it was a change in our country it shook the world and people were changed that day
Gwinnett place
Mall , the good ole days
That is Cumberland, not Gwinnett Place .
@@willp.8120 forgive my ignorance, it’s been a while
Everyone was soulless that day nation wide ,absolutely insane
The only Time Machine we have is the pictures we take and videos we film. So folks pull out your cameras film and take pictures of every day life! May seem boring doing it but in 10 years you will look back and smile seeing old videos and pictures.
I remember I was on vacation from my job at a local department store that day...after we watched what was going on TV I called the store and heard that everyone was following it on the demo TV we had near the entrance. My sister was on a chat group online, and people were starting to perpetuate garbage like the wells were being poisoned in PA and others were panic buying at the grocery stores. She had me go on there and attempt some semblance of damage control, in an attempt to get everyone to calm down and think rationally. Don't know how well that worked, but we had to try something. Later that day I posted my weekly article on my own website, which attempted to convey the same message.
I walked over to Jamba Juice that afternoon to get a smoothie and there was a sign on the door that read: CLOSED DUE TO TERRORIST THREAT!😂 I didn’t know there were any plans targeting Jamba Juice, but ok…
I love the guard in this video that won’t disclose why they’re closing the mall. Due to national emergency, perhaps? That kind of behavior is so annoying! Weird the guy hadn’t heard about the planes yet.
I was thinking the same thing. "Mall cops are not permitted to discuss national security sir."
I said in a previous video you posted that I was only 4 when 9/11 happened so I don’t remember anything. It’s really interesting and sad to see this a mall closing bc of the attacks… wow.
Time really does fly..
I was 15 in 9/11, now I'm 37. I'm really old.
In the late '9os, early 'oos, basically every mall interior in America looked exactly the same.
I wonder if a single, large conglomerate was buying them all up then?
I was at a casino during 911 ( found out later ). Business as usual that whole morning , nobody announced anything
It's one of the most tragic news events of all time,this one is no exception.so many people were killed in the terrorist attacks.just lost me there.
I woke up at 630 am Pacific time...our tv was out alarm and it turned on to the news...I remember seeing one tower on fire...but didnt think much of it as I had to get dressed and eat breakfast and walk to school. When I got there, there was a weird vibe there...I could see lots of groups of teachers talking amongst each other. During my first period class we tuned in to CNN and that's all we did for the rest of the day in each class. None of the teachers felt like teaching that day.
I was in a mall on the evening of 9/11. I was a dead mall, even in 2001 but I was there to kill time. I had an appointment in the area but wasn't sure if it was cancelled and I couldn't call because in the northeast, you couldn't get through anywhere on the phone for about 2 days. So I went out there to find out it was cancelled. I was waiting for the bus to go home and I went into an Osco drugstore and bought a Maybelline lip gloss because I wanted the glossy lips Alicia Keys had in the video for Falling. I also still remember how perfect the weather was that day.
I remember friends telling me that malls were closed. Fye hadn't bought Sam Goody and Camelot music yet, so our mall still had those.
At least they got to go home early.
And got to go home.
And those of us who were too young to understand that America was under attack were happy to go home early that day. I was in Kindergarten and the adults didn't tell us what was going on. The teacher greeted us with tears in her eyes that morning and we didn't know why. As the kids waited for their parents to come pick them up, patriotic music played over the elementary school speakers and we goofed around and pretended to wave lighters in the air like in the SpongeBob episode "Band Geeks" football stadium scene.
When I got home and flipped through the news channels, in my innocent mind, I thought maybe some airshow planes accidentally crashed into the buildings and everyone inside the towers miraculously survived the impact and escaped to safety when the buildings collapsed. Just some insight on 9/11 from a 5 year old's perspective.
I didn't learn the *whole* truth about 9/11 until 2007 on the 6th anniversary when my 6th Grade teacher brought in a Naudet Brothers home-recording on VHS for the class to watch. I've been obsessed with 9/11, the old WTC and conspiracy-talk ever since. And since then, I swore off flying on an airplane and I was paranoid that another t3€rr0r¡$t attack would happen around the 10th or 20th anniversary... Fortunately, it didn't happen. Instead, a pandemic was the next monumental catastrophe. I knew something big was bound to happen at the start of this decade, but I wasn't expecting a virus.
I also remember how one of my teachers refused to pretend it happened and we did our regular class stuff that day (the rest we just watched on our tvs in class), it was her way of saying fuck you to the terrorists, I remember respecting that after the fact
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Great comment! 👍Thx
1:28 That lady with the understatement of the century.
The video takes on a whole other meaning with that title underneath it. If it weren't for that, and all the context behind it, this could've been another Dead Mall type of video from the last days of a once thriving shopping center.
Seeing standees for Pokemon Crystal, Mario Kart Super Circuit, a poster for Star Wars: Episode 1, the fronts of stores that only exist in memory now. Recognized, tangible elements from a period in time I cannot walk in the size 11 shoes that the 6 year old me would have thought belonged to a clown from the future from their size. The 6 year old who went home to his mother trying to hold back tears as my frightened nana quaivered on the other end of the landline phone. Less than a year later, my dad would be carried off to fight in the resulting war. Just when we thought he wouldn't come back, he did. Just when we thought he would stay, he didn't. Sure, he still somehow made it back. But he didn't stay.
What would have happened if it was any other day? What if this were just the fleeting memories of a defunct mall, the "disaster day" the disgruntled woman spoke of simply being a bout of bad business? The woman who came in the door looking for something that could've been nothing more than a bite to eat, or a wedding ring she dreamed may be on her finger one day? No word of falling buildings. No mention of terrorism on American soil. The security guard wasn't allowed to speak on why the mall had to close that day. But evidently, did he really need to?
It was any other day in anyone's life. Before that, it was a week anybody could assume would be like any other. Still further back, it was nothing more than the start of school and the end of summer break for any kid like I was. If it had truly been any other day, or, like any other day that had come before, what would change? Sure, I'd still have my copy of Pokemon Crystal, my Mario Kart Super Circuit. I still would have seen Star Wars: Episode 1 half a dozen times.
Would dad had stayed with mom? Would we have ever had our second dog, Wyatt, who had such a happy life with us? Would we then had gotten Bruce, a third dog, and given him such happy days? Maybe that woman would have had a bite to eat, or found a dress she liked. Maybe the jewelery store would have moved into the Eddie Bauer and made so many more weddings happen. A disaster day could have been nothing more than an excuse for someone to go home early and give another kiss to a lover, or shared a hug with a parent or friend. A quarter of a million people could, and should, have found out. Millions more can only guess.
No one said Hey let’s go shopping!
Sadly the emergency closures and vacancy caused by 9/11 is what malls look like on a regular basis today 😞
Crazy to think the mall closed because of a faraway event, in hindsight. At the time, I'm sure it was for security measures because nobody knew who would be hit next.
I ll have to catch this later
Nobody was quite sure what to do next that day... including TV reporters, apparently.
I get it. Although, the cameraman was there to film and just to film. He knew what was going on. Just waiting for reactions and interactions.
@@vampirerobot Are you the cameraman? Can you talk about your source of videos at all?
@@vampirerobot yes to above comment give us a backstory on these videos!!
This must have been during the second hour. I was running late for school and my friends told me that a plane hit the World Trade Center. What was different is that they were all waiting for me to tell me. My best friend at the time and I had plans to go to the mall after school to pick up Slayer's latest album, which coincidentally was officially released on that day, despite the majority of retailers being closed early because of the attacks. What will stick with me the most is the silence of the day without any planes flying above.
I recall on this day 9 11 2001 I had went to pic n save and I got a scanner for my pc I had at the time