JIM AND LINA ALLEN TAKE TIME OUT ON AUGUST 13, 2001 TO VISIT THE WORLD TRADE CENTER AND ITS "WINDOWS OF THE WORLD" AND ITS "OBSERVATION DECK" FOR ONE LAST TIME.
Even the song the band is playing has an eerie feel. 1:15 "Please, please remember me...when I'm 6 feet in the ground". And then at the end, when the guy said "We will fade to oblivion." It's unreal knowing what happened less than a month later. Tragic.
@@axrpad1228 hell is real and heaven we get signs from god in life that gives us choices sometimes music could be satans message to people who committed sins
It's crazy when you think about it. When the buildings fell, it wasn't just the debris. But everything in every floor that came crashing down. The chairs, the tables, the dishes, the ovens, the washers, ... printers, microwaves, computers... every small thing all came down and crushed. All that memories all came down.
I truly believe the 1990’s were the last great decade in American history when you consider the music,television, and just the feeling in America that I felt growing up as a teenager, ever since the year 2000 it’s pretty much been downhill since then for me and it’s getting pretty bad thinking about this in 2023
Just think, older people were saying the same thing about the 1960's. Nothing has changed except you are getting older and doing the same thing that the older people do every decade, whine about the future. Of course one thing I will agree with you on is that for the first time in our history, we have an insurrectionist and individual whose supporters stormed our Capitol and tried to steal an election. That is truly a first in this nation.
I miss the emotional connection with people. I know technically is moving with the times but I would love for this young generation to experience what it was like for us. I guarantee they would have loved it too.
+cindypltnm Even worse, that all changed just in a couple of hours, in the early morning the both huge towers were standing completely intact there and even before noon there was only dust left from them. It's still hard to believe that something like this is possible.
Yup binladen already had his minions here in the U.S. with hearts full of hate, just too bad we didn't have President Trump back then and maybe this wouldn't have happened. Thing that gets to me is the musical stage and canopy at 0:38, in less than a month people will be falling through that very sad.
i thought this restuarant was in the north tower? Also remember it was said that over the intercom they told workers in south tower to remain in the building because it was safer for them.
No one above the crash in the North Tower survived (including anybody inside Windows On The World at the time), while only very few did in the South Tower.
They probably couldn't if they had already made it to the upper floors because when the plane hit, the force of the impact wiped out all the elevators and damage to the stairwells made them literally impassable, not to mention the thick acrid black smoke pouring through the corridoors and offices, those above the impact zone stood absolutely no chance, sad but it is true 🙁
I never got to experience that, as I was born October 29th, 2001. These videos make me yearn for a society like this. My grade level, made up majority by people born in 2001, have always been a kind of sad group. During assemblies we’re always quiet in our grade stands, and we aren’t a very motivated grade. It’s almost like the ghost of this event follows the children born that year.
@@wendybarendsma2359 Step 1 do not own a smartphone. Try it. I can do anything I really need to on a laptop. It's a start anyway and I can spend hours of the day without looking at a device if I want to, apart from watching an actual TV. My phone has no appeal for me to keep with me as it just calls and texts. It's switched off at night time so as I can sleep.
Seeing that concert playing on the stage in the beginning is truly eerie and extra heartbreaking. Many of the jumpers had landed on that very stage, I sadly caught one of the graphic videos that was circulating back in 2005-2006. Wish I had never seen it… one of those things that stays with you, that you can never unsee. 😢 My happy memories of the WTC… as a child growing up in NJ in the 80s & 90s, my parents would take us to visit my grandparents in the Bronx every weekend. We had a great view of the Twin Towers from the Turnpike en route to the GW Bridge. My brothers and I would yell, “Twin Towers! Twin Towers!” every time we spotted them. I remember driving over the GW bridge and staring at them out the back window. I will always remember that. I was a freshman in college when 9/11 happened, and that childhood image was shattered into oblivion for a while. I couldn’t comprehend that the twin towers would no longer be a part of the skyline anymore. To me, they WERE the skyline and the essence of NYC. We all shared a collective trauma on that day. My cousin’s wife’s brother lost his life in the North Tower, he was an employee of Cantor Fitzgerald. My dad worked in NYC, luckily his building was by Battery Park but he could see everything in real time from his office window. I’ll never forget the terror when I didn’t know if my dad was ok or his proximity to the towers. I remember in the days after, my dad helped his cousin’s family hang up missing person fliers around the city. We will never, ever forget. 🩵🗽🇺🇸
@@user-yv4mm6bx3cI’m pretty sure the video he’s speaking of is no longer on UA-cam, most of that stuff got wiped off the internet when the big censorship law came into play
If you look hard enough, you can still find some of them. In the comments sections there are also links to discord servers with videos and photos that have been previously wiped, super graphic and raw
Thanks for all your comments. We know Jose our waiter (you get to see him for about a second) worked mornings that day and he was later killed in the attack-- so it is sad. It took us 7 years to get someone to transfer the HI-8 tape to You-Tube. Whn you stood between those two magnificant buildings, they seemed to reach up
Thank you for this video. I'm obsessed with the World Trade Center and how nice to just watch a video that shows the Towers in their everyday life. Not the day of 9/11 or the plethora of documentaries of the events unfolding and also the rampant conspiracies. Just showing the Towers. These buildings fascinate me.
Me too. I have gotten pretty damn tiring of all the 9/11 and conspiracy video's etc. This is just an amazing video that shows the Twin Towers and the original wtc as they truly were in their magnificent and wonderful form.
I agree. I'm in New York City right now and went to the 9/11 Memorial today. It was great! The Freedom Tower is really nice but man oh man watching this video you get to see how awesome the Twin Towers were and all the buildings aren't them that aren't there anymore. Seeing the band play in this video was also really touching. So nice to see everyone happy in this video and sad that everything changed a month later..... I was 4 in 2001 and although I did go to NYC when I was little when they were still up I never got to see them while being old enough to be aware of them :(
im 40 now and all i can say that those years before the attack were some of the best years to live i wish i could have just stayed at that time it's not that i don't enjoy myself now but it was just different in such a way i will always remember how good it was
I remember Y2K on New Years eve 1999. We all met at my moms house and was wondering if the power was going to go out at midnight. My brother kept playing the song party like it's 1999.
I miss those days. Aaliyah was still alive, people took themselves less seriously, life was easier, society was a bit more collective, tolerant and patient, etc... see this type of videos always soothe me.
This must hit home hard, considering that if you were doing this 28 days later, this film would have ceased to exist. Life is precious. Thank you for this film, it gives me a view I'll never be able to attain otherwise.
There is actually ONE photograph from I believe the restaurant on the top of the North Tower that was taken on 9-11. It was of two guys in suits talking. The photographer snapped the photo and then hopped in an elevator back down to the lobby, a move that saved his life. It's chilling seeing that picture and knowing the fates of the guys in it, and everyone else up there was sealed minutes later.
Lina and I got there at about 1:30pm and first stopped by the Towers to ask if there was any parking (underground) at the Towers, (like there use to be) and the cop yelled at us to "Move on, you can't stop here! (still worried that the attack would come from the ground,like last time, if there was to be one). You can park two blocks up on Murray Street". That parking location no longer exists. This new singular "Freedom Tower" will never replace the magnificant TWIN TOWERS!
My wife, 2 and 4 year old children and I were on the observation deck Memorial Day weekend of 2001. So a little more than a week before. I had chills looking down over the city, could only imagine how horrible it would have been to trapped above the fire.
And then decide to jump in order to not burn to death.. it's heart crushing just to imagine how a person must have looked down that tower, the flames behind them, deciding to let go in that surreal moment.. I was just a kid as I watched all of this happening life on TV on the other side of the planet. I never managed to get over it. Not only America but the whole world has changed since 9/11 💔
I really feel this to my core. Don't know what sent us down this odd ball evil fun house version of reality, but I long for the previous timeline with a homesickness. Look up the word hiraeth
Man does this bring back memories. I used to work down there back then, by battery park. Used to see the twin towers quite a lot but truth be told, as a New Yorker , i didn’t really pay too much attention to them as they were always there. All i knew is that they were huge, that there was a mall under them where i vividly remember a Godiva store, and that there was an observation deck. One day in Winter 2001, around January, it was snowing and I’d gone to work a few hours way early in the morning and was done by 10am when i started making my way uptown. I walked by the twins and walked in as i wanted to go up and see this observation deck everyone alway talked about. I can’t remember the price but i new it was expensive for what i was making which was peanuts so i decided to take a rain check and said to myself I’ll see them someday, that someday never came. Of course my dad took me up there when i was 9yrs old but i wanted to experience it as an adult. Hard lesson learned to never take things for granted, they may be here today but they may be gone tomorrow.
I called them the sleeping giants because they always just stood up there so tall over the rest of the city, almost like they were watching over it. When I would fly home from Europe, I would always look for the towers when I have a little more than half way across the Atlantic Ocean. Each time they would come into view...like tiny toy buildings off in the far distance...I knew I'd be home in a few hours. I miss those buildings....and I miss the innocence we lost.
@@davidlackey6587 Labor Day weekend is an American holiday in September. Inaworldoflove is probably from the UK, holiday translates to vacation in American English.
As a gen Y kid I would've loved the privileges gen Z get. After a crap lesson at school learning some English text from 500 years ago I could've done with a smartphone to escape the boringness. Now gen Z want to skip school for climate protests....they don't know how good they got it
0:10 You did good, not to stop the recording. These recordings are very valuable today, not in terms of money, but in terms of historical value. Thank you for making that video, and make the world an access to it!
Wow, the moment at 2:50 gives me a warm feeling. People eating while enjoying Richard Marx's song. A simple existence with each other and music and without a telephone. And unimaginable that this video was filmed a few weeks before the disaster.
Good quality camera for the time. The lack of mobile phones is refreshing. No social media crap back then too.. refreshing.. shame I didn’t grow up in these times.
@@Wrestling316, Yeah but does anyone remember MySpace nowadays? Oh wait it wasn't a thing yet in 2001 lol. Um Friendster I guess? Wait that also wasn't going to be launched until more than two years later. What about SixDegrees? Wait no one knows what that even is. Never mind I guess that the only forms of social media existed back then were chat rooms I guess since Facebook and Twitter weren't going to be founded for another five years and wouldn't even achieve worldwide status until around the tail end of the early 2010s (2010-2013) to the start of the mid 2010s (2014-2016) or maybe even earlier if someone can tell me more about their pre-2014 experiences with it back then.
Footage like this is priceless to us now. Not in a money sense but in our hearts. Because you don’t see the twins on fire or falling or anything like that but you see the peace and amazingness the towers had. Footage like this helps us remember and never forget. For me I’m working on a tribute to the towers in Minecraft and these types of videos will help me build them as close as I can
No one is constantly on their phones or laptops and actually conversing to each other. Good relaxing music instead of the headache sounds people call music currently today... MIND BLOWN!
miss those days but i was only 10 when the towers went down seen it all on tv and remember it all thinking im sure the people are out and safe but that wasn't true :(
I was in the WTC concourse in late August of 2001. My aunt worked a few blocks away and we met her for lunch. I remember it was such a hot day that we decided to browse in the stores at the WTC instead of waiting for the bus for an hour in the heat. It was nice there. 💔
Damn, I just read an article yesterday about the General Manager of Windows of the World who realized that the people waving white table cloths at the top of of the building were all of his employees setting up for the day and and all he could do was watch as the building collapsed. He was driving to work when the first plane hit. 79 of his employees died that day. Seeing his employees in this video just going about their work day....I can't imagine the pain he's felt all these years.
Life was not simple at all by any means back then, was 24 and was working for alot less money, didn't have squat back then, barely any technology at that time, things were alot harder, people were still jerks and always will be and it was boring too, and not too mention computers and internet were very limited and not affordable back then either, not like today where everything is accessible online and the technology is much better than back then also, I thought back then sucked
Leave Smartphones alone they did not exist back then if they did people would be using them trust me Smartphones changed the world and are not going anywhere why do you think billions are on them they are so much fun
My dad was an electric engineer for nyc authority and used to have lunch in the plaza all the time . He was devastated when the towers came down . Luckily he was in the train yard on Coney Island when the planes struck . This is my first time seeing how lively the plaza was 🕊️🙏🏽
The towers were a hub of so many things. I even voted there in the 2000 election. They had all kinds of events, from charitable runs up and down the tower stairs, to all kinds of music playing on the stage you see (Guy Davis is playing the blues in this video). There was a Woolworth drugstore and so many other shops, fast food places, and I think there was a post office. You took these enormously high escalators (like the ones you see in Russia) that took you down to the PATH trains to NJ and up to 23rd street. It was *freezing cold and windy* down there in the winter months, but spring, summer, and fall were lovely. Best wishes to your family, and I hope you are all well~
I had lunch and drinks at Windows many times. I worked for many years on Wall St. I saw Davey Jones, Ronnie Spector and many others during the Summer concert series. This video brought back so many memories. Specially coming on Vesey St. I worked at 5 WTC for about three years and this was one of the entrances to that building. I remember the Eat and Drink, was a club/bar after work. So much fun. Unforgettable memories, friends, co-workers, love affairs. Loved it all. May they all RIP. This video is beautiful and heartbreaking all at once. Thank you for sharing.
A lot of people speculate that the falling man, from the infamous photo, worked at windows of the world. I think about that photo a lot and how he was someones world, someones baby, someones everything. He represented the 200 or so that jumped. It still rhaunts me that so many made the choice to jump instead of succumb to other option. Both unimaginable in their own right, just hard to fathom being faced with that.
@@christianriddler5063agreed. If people could only see the reality of both. Falling to your death or burning alive. If the cameras that day could have captured what was going on inside that tower, we'd have a lot less footage in the public domain. It would not be on youtube. Seeing the towers and smoke and people waving from windows is actually, dare I say it, tame in comparison to the reality experienced behind those walls. It's a little like that sub incident this year. Far better to be instantly wiped out (fall from a height or crushed) than to be slowly burned alive.
@@kevtb874 Worst part is that when you burn alive, your eyes melt out of their sockets. (I'm not joking). The ears and the nose melt as well whilst the person is still alive. It is absolutely horrific in every sense of the word. Better to just jump and close one's own eyes, get a brief dose of fresh air before the end.
I saw a video of a 911 call from somebody trap inside the tower (above the plane) and couldn’t stand the heat on the floor they say their shoes where starting to melt
I was in the towers in June of 2000 with my family for a vacation trip from MA. 9/11 and the subsequent events that followed had a profound effect on me as a child and carried into my adulthood. We will never forget. RIP to all of the innocent lives that were lost that day.
Thanks for the kind words. I never had any idea I'd be filming one of the last videos. It's sad. You almost have to think "What is precious to all of mankind? That's where the terrorists will try to strike next". I have some ideas but I won't speak of them publically. My wife Lina thanks you for your compliment.
Videos like these are a real treasure. Thanks for sharing this so those of us who never got to see it have a taste of what it was like. RIP all victims of 9/11
It was so amazing how a place of serious, white collar business, also had this really cool, festival-like vibe to it. The Trade Center was a one-of-a-kind place in New York.
YES, THE WHOLE THING HAS MADE US VERY SAD, AND DOES SO TODAY. AND YES THE GENERAOR NOISE INTERFERED A LITTLE WITH THE RECORDING. BUT CONSIDERING I WAS WASN'T EVEN PLANNING ON RECORDING.......................JIM AND LINA
DesertDwight I was only 2 & a half. I was born in '98 & I would love to see the towers if they hadn't collapsed. I mean if 9/11 never happened. It just looks iconic & majestic. Even though the towers weren't able to withstand what happened that day they've stood the test of time in our history & legacy
I remember eating in the restaurant and having company events there back in the late 80s. I recall one event I went to ...went to the ladies room and the building was swaying and it felt like being on a boat. (My company was next door in the WFC, but they had some temporary office space in Tower One where I spent a few months working.) So crazy to see footage like this. So sad.
Amazing video. 08/13/2001 is last then a month to that day. at that moments you can't even imagine what can go bad. beautiful view. we can see the big antenna that makes some signal interferences. thank you. priceless footage.
The "Windows of the World Restaurant" was on the 101st floor! The early morning workers were trapped and all perished trying to reach the roof, where they were met with a lock door (the guard on the 22nd floor who could relay the unlocking of the door had abandoned his post), heat, smoke, fire, suffocation, and then death. Through cell phone records they were heared begging for help, begging for their lives, begging for help of any kind, but none was able to arrive.
@@bombyboo6335 access to the roof was locked. The workers had swipe cards but the doors still wouldn't budge. Down in the 22nd floor an employee at the Security Command Center had to open the roof doors by pushing a button, but the crash of Flight 11 damaged the system that morning and it was impossible to open the roof doors
I was on top of the WTC a few months before they fell. I remember a very long line waiting to go to the top because the tourists had their own line to not interfere with the businessmen. I remember the huge lobby and I was absorbed in reading Jon Krakauer's Into Thin Air as I waited in line. I can't remember why I was in NYC.
Jim and Lina - thank you ever so much for taking this video, and for posting it. All my life I yearned to visit the Towers and stand on the top of the world. I was from Kansas City MO and had a poster of the towers in my bedroom. On September 5th 1984 I got my wish.....It was the most beautiful sunny day and the views were magnificent. They are seared in my mind and this video helped bring them back to life. I'm so glad you got a view of the other tower and the SOL and the ESB as those are the 3 things I remember most. The other tower showed put what you were standing on in perspective and it was incredibly awe inspiring. And Liberty was so small in the bay you had to hunt in the horizon to find her! Truly, for anyone that never had the chance to visit, this video is as close to the experience as you can get! Thanks again for sharing!
I never got to see them in person. The highest building I've ever been in was the Renaissance Center in Detroit. I believe it is 100 floors at the top. I recall having such vertigo looking out and down. It wasn't even outside deck it was through heavy glass windows. Also an incredible view but visiting the twin towers would have been really great.
To anybody like yourselves, who actually visited WTC, the sadness is magnified greatly. Unfortunately I didn't get to see these elegant structures and of course now, never will. As another commentator said, your video really captures the whole thing very well indeed. Thanks for sharing with us all.
Sad, that a hundred people were probably eating bacon and eggs and reading the new york times when the tower was hit not knowing their lives would be over in a matter of minutes. Very sad.
@Jon Luci I don't think they were. It was the 107th floor. The impact zone only up to the 90-somethingth floor (?). Plus there were several calls to emergency services made from the people attending the conference after the plane hit.
@@thomasnew8606 oh don't be a baby. welcome to the internet. the key is to ignore people like that because they will always keep coming and the more you let them upset you, the more they get exactly what they set out to do. plus that's not even close to how repulsive people can be about 9/11. that's fairly mild.
Yes. Sadly, maybe perhaps they thought the roof of the pavilion which was a type of tarp might catch their fall. They went straight through. Sickening how the makers of the towers didn’t have ways of escape for the people all the way on the top.
They can't. Those towers were constructed while us humans were just walking on the moon for the first time. Rebuilding them exactly the same would never adhere to modern building standards.
Why not? Maybe interior wise there would definitely be some upgrades--but they should have rebuilt the TWINS. They were grand and very majestic looking. This new Freedom Tower is a boring monstrosity.
I come back to this video almost every year and think about how wonderful it would have been to actually visit the towers. Thanks for giving us this peak into a much brighter yesteryear ♥️
I was 12 years old on 9/11, in my first or second week of middle school in Orange County, NY. My dad used to take me down to Shea or Yankee Stadium, and every time we’d go over the Tappan Zee Bridge, my dad would point downstream and have us look for the Twin Towers. I so vividly remember looking at them from the bridge. Will never forget the last time dad took me before 9/11, it was a foggy, dark, rainy day. But we could still see the towers. In the years since I’ve revisited the events of this day and as I’ve aged I’ve been able to feel and understand more every time. How awful. I can’t even imagine what people went through.
That's heartbreaking. I think it probably affects me now even more than it did at the time. You're exactly right. We'll never know what those people went through.
I'm just constantly amazed by how much this event changed all of our lives. Things were so different, can't even explain it fully. What a mental rabbit hole. How much different would the future that we currently exist in be?
Disturbing to realize while looking at that stage, that a short month later, a 9/11 jumper would rip through the roof and die right on the stage itself... If you've seen it, you know what I'm talking about. Very sad and unsettling video of a jumper.
Yeah I know the one. Was filmed by a couple across the street from a hotel window. Terrible, those people were just going about their lives. Didn't deserve that.
Psychedelic Gaming Yes I know it has been brought to my attention before However I will die too and no matter if anybody comes up with somthing good or bad to say about it It wont change the fact the I will be dead So what is a beautiful way to die? if me or you or anybody else dies in the worst and most violent way and if even someone could come up with somthing ""nice "" to say about it Would it be able to change even if a tiny bit the grusomeness of such violent death?
Psychedelic Gaming Get it now? It does not matter what you or me or the whole world says about how these people died Pretty or nasty it DOESNT CHANGE ANYTHING
This is so insane I'm literally looking for myself in these videos we were there also right around mid August as well 2001. On the roof and the weather looked identical to the overcast skies in this video. Kind of crazy to think we may have brushed shoulders 20+ years ago on the roof of arguably the most historically significant place in the nation.
Thank you for sharing this memory. I'm from Germany. We were on holiday in NYC from Dec 99 to Jan 2000. We went to the top of the WTC to enjoy the view over Manhattan. When I heard that the towers had collapsed, I couldn't believe it.
Less than a month later, the world happened to see an American tragedy unfold on the grounds and streets of New York. The World Trade Center would've been one of those buildings I could've wanted to visit, but on my trips to New York (since my dad's from New Jersey), when they were there, we only visited the Empire State Building and nothing beyond- only since I was afraid of heights at a young age. It forever kills me to this day, that I never once stepped foot onto one of the original New York City buildings that once stood upon our American soil and around the streets of New York. I miss that original view, as well as all the people that have left the world, less than a month after this date.
I was married at the city clerk's office in October of 2000. My friends took home videos of the areas around lower Manhattan, including a beautiful shot of the Towers from City Hall Park. I thought that on my anniversary the following year I'd make another video from the same locations. Little did I know a year later everything would change and life in lower Manhattan would never be the same again. How bittersweet watching this feels.
The Towers will always remain majestic and unique because they were built symmetrically from top to bottom-- most skyscrapers, if you notice, get smaller and smaller at they reach the top because the strength of the steel and masonry can't support an equal weight at top as it has on the bottom. The World Trade Center Towers managed to pull it off.
4:50 wow you get the same audio interferences on top of the building like I did. I always thought it was because my battery was low (and it wasn't my own camera so I didn't know). But now I guess this was because of that huge antenna on the north tower. wow, mistery solved after 20 years. thank you!
Happier times, could not imagine the thoughts of people standing in that exact spot watching a plane coming towards them beautiful souls now in peace xxx
Even the song the band is playing has an eerie feel. 1:15 "Please, please remember me...when I'm 6 feet in the ground". And then at the end, when the guy said "We will fade to oblivion." It's unreal knowing what happened less than a month later. Tragic.
Yep..that's weird that he said that...very eerie.
Very haunting.
@@axrpad1228 hell is real and heaven we get signs from god in life that gives us choices sometimes music could be satans message to people who committed sins
Wow so haunting , I’m in shock how foreshadowing this song and lyrics were .
MY GT PHARAOH ATEM XI #1 5DS #1 MDS #2 LOTD Could be But stop guessing so hard...
It's crazy when you think about it. When the buildings fell, it wasn't just the debris. But everything in every floor that came crashing down. The chairs, the tables, the dishes, the ovens, the washers, ... printers, microwaves, computers... every small thing all came down and crushed. All that memories all came down.
and don't forget humans, which also got vaporized along with everything else
Two story's of rumble
@@ruler255 More like pulverized. They were recovering body parts for more than a year.
All the flesh and bones came down....😢
and there was nothing, not a porclein chunk of a toilet. it all vapourised to dust. obama claims he killed osama which is b.s. he had kidney failure
I like this type of footage. It makes you feel like if you are there
Would you have liked being there a month later?
@@MrGriff305 didn't know that the building were still standing on 9/13/01
@@dex.9122 That's the entire point. Why else would I say that?
@@MrGriff305Why would you even say something stupid like that? How would you like to be there a month later? Like come on really? Just dumb
@@Mrd9960 So I see you understood my obvious point. Thanks for thinking.
I truly believe the 1990’s were the last great decade in American history when you consider the music,television, and just the feeling in America that I felt growing up as a teenager, ever since the year 2000 it’s pretty much been downhill since then for me and it’s getting pretty bad thinking about this in 2023
Just think, older people were saying the same thing about the 1960's. Nothing has changed except you are getting older and doing the same thing that the older people do every decade, whine about the future. Of course one thing I will agree with you on is that for the first time in our history, we have an insurrectionist and individual whose supporters stormed our Capitol and tried to steal an election. That is truly a first in this nation.
I miss the emotional connection with people. I know technically is moving with the times but I would love for this young generation to experience what it was like for us. I guarantee they would have loved it too.
The same for Europe.
It's so surreal that all of this changed in one single day. The innocent lives lost. Rip to them all.
All those employees, sadly perished I assumed a month later. Just a terrible and unforgettable day for our country.
+cindypltnm Even worse, that all changed just in a couple of hours, in the early morning the both huge towers were standing completely intact there and even before noon there was only dust left from them. It's still hard to believe that something like this is possible.
rip…
You must be a paid Silverstein operative!
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Little did these folks knew of what would happen in another 30 days to that place
Rohit Singh funny thing is alot of big shots did. There was already fishy things going on.
Yup binladen already had his minions here in the U.S. with hearts full of hate, just too bad we didn't have President Trump back then and maybe this wouldn't have happened. Thing that gets to me is the musical stage and canopy at 0:38, in less than a month people will be falling through that very sad.
No..really?
No... look at the date. It was 2 days later.
Rebekah Alex Whats 2 days later?
The lady is beautiful and they sound like they're a nice couple. I wonder how they are all these years later.
She is pretty hot 🔥
wonder what she looks like now? are they still alive?
Beauty is not a virtue, and it never lasts
@@MostlyLoveOfMusic😂
She's a beautiful lady
2:43 I was watching this for the nostalgia and realized, that baby that sneezed is probably in college by now and that makes me feel super old 😂
With any luck, yes, that baby has had a healthy, wonderful life and is about to graduate from college.
I was 3, 25 now and going for a masters degree lol
Probably some of the people that u see in this video died on 9/11. like the servers.
i thought this restuarant was in the north tower? Also remember it was said that over the intercom they told workers in south tower to remain in the building because it was safer for them.
***** No but i saw a vid on here of someone that filmed on the north tower roof. Only because they were with a worker.
Actally 72 employees were there when the plane crashed, so probably most of the staff that are in the video died in that day.
No one above the crash in the North Tower survived (including anybody inside Windows On The World at the time), while only very few did in the South Tower.
They probably couldn't if they had already made it to the upper floors because when the plane hit, the force of the impact wiped out all the elevators and damage to the stairwells made them literally impassable, not to mention the thick acrid black smoke pouring through the corridoors and offices, those above the impact zone stood absolutely no chance, sad but it is true 🙁
Everyone was so happy in that time, I miss those days
Carlos Chulito
Nuh!!!
Not me
Carlos Chulito I feel ya. That summer was one of the best times of my life.
Carlos Chulito September 11th 2001 changed America.
I never got to experience that, as I was born October 29th, 2001. These videos make me yearn for a society like this. My grade level, made up majority by people born in 2001, have always been a kind of sad group. During assemblies we’re always quiet in our grade stands, and we aren’t a very motivated grade. It’s almost like the ghost of this event follows the children born that year.
Carlos Chulito I remember 2001, things were getting better until this happened.
Look how happy everyone was. Those were the best of times🥺
Things were probably better before internet.
Yeath everything was calm and peaceful
@@paulec2634 how do we go back to that 🥹
@@wendybarendsma2359 Step 1 do not own a smartphone. Try it. I can do anything I really need to on a laptop. It's a start anyway and I can spend hours of the day without looking at a device if I want to, apart from watching an actual TV. My phone has no appeal for me to keep with me as it just calls and texts. It's switched off at night time so as I can sleep.
@@paulec2634 🤣🤣🤣
Seeing that concert playing on the stage in the beginning is truly eerie and extra heartbreaking. Many of the jumpers had landed on that very stage, I sadly caught one of the graphic videos that was circulating back in 2005-2006. Wish I had never seen it… one of those things that stays with you, that you can never unsee. 😢
My happy memories of the WTC… as a child growing up in NJ in the 80s & 90s, my parents would take us to visit my grandparents in the Bronx every weekend. We had a great view of the Twin Towers from the Turnpike en route to the GW Bridge. My brothers and I would yell, “Twin Towers! Twin Towers!” every time we spotted them. I remember driving over the GW bridge and staring at them out the back window. I will always remember that. I was a freshman in college when 9/11 happened, and that childhood image was shattered into oblivion for a while. I couldn’t comprehend that the twin towers would no longer be a part of the skyline anymore. To me, they WERE the skyline and the essence of NYC. We all shared a collective trauma on that day. My cousin’s wife’s brother lost his life in the North Tower, he was an employee of Cantor Fitzgerald. My dad worked in NYC, luckily his building was by Battery Park but he could see everything in real time from his office window. I’ll never forget the terror when I didn’t know if my dad was ok or his proximity to the towers. I remember in the days after, my dad helped his cousin’s family hang up missing person fliers around the city. We will never, ever forget. 🩵🗽🇺🇸
It's still on YT. It one of the most gut wrenching videos of that day.
@@user-yv4mm6bx3cI’m pretty sure the video he’s speaking of is no longer on UA-cam, most of that stuff got wiped off the internet when the big censorship law came into play
@@meghanmarie840 Yeah, there used to be some pretty graphic stuff on UA-cam, but I haven't come across any in a long time.
If you look hard enough, you can still find some of them. In the comments sections there are also links to discord servers with videos and photos that have been previously wiped, super graphic and raw
There is still videos of people falling
Thanks for all your comments. We know Jose our waiter (you get to see him for about a second) worked mornings that day and he was later killed in the attack--
so it is sad. It took us 7 years to get someone to transfer the HI-8 tape to You-Tube.
Whn you stood between those two magnificant buildings, they seemed to reach up
Very sad to hear it. How did you find out he had passed via the attacks?
Son Of Hibbs Was that the guy at 3:05? ☹️
@@blank.9301 yh you can see him clearly tending to his wife so incredibly sad to say but that's him, rest in peace 😞
What song is playing in the background in the restaurant? “Whatever it takes...” What song is that and who is singing that?
@@jessicanlmccoy ua-cam.com/video/1gkpILaPAL4/v-deo.html
Thank you for this video. I'm obsessed with the World Trade Center and how nice to just watch a video that shows the Towers in their everyday life. Not the day of 9/11 or the plethora of documentaries of the events unfolding and also the rampant conspiracies. Just showing the Towers. These buildings fascinate me.
Me too. I have gotten pretty damn tiring of all the 9/11 and conspiracy video's etc.
This is just an amazing video that shows the Twin Towers and the original wtc as they truly were in their magnificent and wonderful form.
MrDeliriaframe hear hear
I agree. I'm in New York City right now and went to the 9/11 Memorial today. It was great! The Freedom Tower is really nice but man oh man watching this video you get to see how awesome the Twin Towers were and all the buildings aren't them that aren't there anymore. Seeing the band play in this video was also really touching. So nice to see everyone happy in this video and sad that everything changed a month later..... I was 4 in 2001 and although I did go to NYC when I was little when they were still up I never got to see them while being old enough to be aware of them :(
You mean those buildings:(
More like conspiracy fact
Its heartbreaking knowing that almost all of this restaurant workers didnt make it
im 40 now and all i can say that those years before the attack were some of the best years to live
i wish i could have just stayed at that time
it's not that i don't enjoy myself now
but it was just different in such a way i will always remember how good it was
The early 2000s was such a weird transition from the 1990s into a completely new tech based era.
That it was!
That was the best time to grew up in. We did have cell phones, computers, internet, MP3 and all that yet our lives weren't evolving around it.
Yes
10's and 20's To with the covid
I remember Y2K on New Years eve 1999. We all met at my moms house and was wondering if the power was going to go out at midnight. My brother kept playing the song party like it's 1999.
I miss those days. Aaliyah was still alive, people took themselves less seriously, life was easier, society was a bit more collective, tolerant and patient, etc... see this type of videos always soothe me.
Aaliyah😫.I still remember seeing billboards for her last album.
And Michael Jackson too.
Sad and ironic that Aaliyah, a native New Yorker, died just a couple weeks earlier in a plane crash
@@jackgrimaldi8685 I was devastated hearing the news about her death when I was a kid
Sadly, she would’ve only been alive for a few more days after this video.
This must hit home hard, considering that if you were doing this 28 days later, this film would have ceased to exist. Life is precious. Thank you for this film, it gives me a view I'll never be able to attain otherwise.
There is actually ONE photograph from I believe the restaurant on the top of the North Tower that was taken on 9-11. It was of two guys in suits talking. The photographer snapped the photo and then hopped in an elevator back down to the lobby, a move that saved his life. It's chilling seeing that picture and knowing the fates of the guys in it, and everyone else up there was sealed minutes later.
@@michlo3393That’s really interesting. I’ve never heard of this photo before. Is it on the internet?
@@Greg780 It certainly is, however, I'm not sure what it's called or who the photographer was. It was shown in the book _102 Minutes_ .
Link?
28 days later its a movie in fact
It's really chilling to think that less than a month later, people would be jumping through that stage canopy.
@@therealthunderboltDo you not understand what the word chilling means?
@@CH-em2wudo you?
@@CH-em2wuthe fuck you talking about?
It would have been so cool to visit the twin towers. If only they were still around.
yay me too it would have been a blast.
Yes!!!!!!!
sarcastian yeah... just not on September the 11th, 2001.....
Amber Dickerson
Why not? Sarcasm 😀😀
Steven Jill bad word choice
Lina and I got there at about 1:30pm and first stopped by the Towers to ask if there was any parking (underground) at the Towers, (like there use to be) and the cop yelled at us to "Move on, you can't stop here! (still worried that the attack would come from the ground,like last time, if there was to be one). You can park two blocks up on Murray Street". That parking location no longer exists. This new
singular "Freedom Tower" will never replace the magnificant TWIN TOWERS!
Thanks for the upload...the 9/11 museum should sanction this video in the national archives!
did they change the parking after the 1993 bombing?
What do you know about tower 7 Jimmy?
@@naylik2562 Are you one of those conspiracy nuts?
Freedom tower is also great though
Ominous song.
"Please remember me when I'm six feet under ground"
My wife, 2 and 4 year old children and I were on the observation deck Memorial Day weekend of 2001. So a little more than a week before. I had chills looking down over the city, could only imagine how horrible it would have been to trapped above the fire.
you mean Labor day? Memorial day is in May
Wow
@@amdaringchristmas day is in december
And then decide to jump in order to not burn to death.. it's heart crushing just to imagine how a person must have looked down that tower, the flames behind them, deciding to let go in that surreal moment.. I was just a kid as I watched all of this happening life on TV on the other side of the planet. I never managed to get over it. Not only America but the whole world has changed since 9/11 💔
@@3LFL3DAit's true, nothing can't back. Bytheway where you from?
4:35 “fresh air and beauty”
Who else feels he is talking about the woman he is with
Back in the old reality, we shifted realities that day. These were the monuments of the old world.
Your on to something Charlie
Thank god I was part of them.. 80/90s best time of human era
I agree with you ! I envy the world that is probably still going on without us.
I really feel this to my core. Don't know what sent us down this odd ball evil fun house version of reality, but I long for the previous timeline with a homesickness. Look up the word hiraeth
It's been 20 years and it's still hard to believe that their gone!!!
Man does this bring back memories. I used to work down there back then, by battery park. Used to see the twin towers quite a lot but truth be told, as a New Yorker , i didn’t really pay too much attention to them as they were always there. All i knew is that they were huge, that there was a mall under them where i vividly remember a Godiva store, and that there was an observation deck. One day in Winter 2001, around January, it was snowing and I’d gone to work a few hours way early in the morning and was done by 10am when i started making my way uptown. I walked by the twins and walked in as i wanted to go up and see this observation deck everyone alway talked about. I can’t remember the price but i new it was expensive for what i was making which was peanuts so i decided to take a rain check and said to myself I’ll see them someday, that someday never came. Of course my dad took me up there when i was 9yrs old but i wanted to experience it as an adult. Hard lesson learned to never take things for granted, they may be here today but they may be gone tomorrow.
I think it was just over $11 to visit the observation deck. Pretty expensive back then.
I think you meant to type 2000 but 👍 get it.
@@winendesertrose? What you mean he said January 2001.. they were still there
@@winendesertroseYou do know Winter is December-March, right?
I called them the sleeping giants because they always just stood up there so tall over the rest of the city, almost like they were watching over it.
When I would fly home from Europe, I would always look for the towers when I have a little more than half way across the Atlantic Ocean. Each time they would come into view...like tiny toy buildings off in the far distance...I knew I'd be home in a few hours.
I miss those buildings....and I miss the innocence we lost.
your video made me feel like I was there. You captured the real chilled out, holiday feel to being there. Thank you.
Inaworldoflove it was September no holidays
@Tilly Divine summer isn't a holiday.
@Tilly Divine enjoying summer break I'd imagine
@@davidlackey6587 Labor Day weekend is an American holiday in September. Inaworldoflove is probably from the UK, holiday translates to vacation in American English.
So SAD
A time where you had no choice but to sit with your mind and find something to do or think about it. Now we pull out our phones at any dull moment.
Bet you are on your phone or computer when you typed this comment.
It’s changed forever
Bagel durrrrrr
Yea cause this is the point of the video
As a gen Y kid I would've loved the privileges gen Z get.
After a crap lesson at school learning some English text from 500 years ago I could've done with a smartphone to escape the boringness.
Now gen Z want to skip school for climate protests....they don't know how good they got it
0:10 You did good, not to stop the recording. These recordings are very valuable today, not in terms of money, but in terms of historical value. Thank you for making that video, and make the world an access to it!
I agree
Wow, the moment at 2:50 gives me a warm feeling. People eating while enjoying Richard Marx's song. A simple existence with each other and music and without a telephone.
And unimaginable that this video was filmed a few weeks before the disaster.
nobody is looking at their smartphones, just eating and relaxing.
Those carpets though.
Amazing footage- very rare showing the restsurant and true sounds. Those fork-shaped columns are enormous!
Trident Shaped lol but they do look like forks
Pitch forks?
Tuning forks
like a tuning fork!
Good quality camera for the time. The lack of mobile phones is refreshing. No social media crap back then too.. refreshing.. shame I didn’t grow up in these times.
They were the best times to grow up in that's for sure. I I wouldn't trade it for anything. I was 15 on 9/11 and can remember it like it was yesterday
I was almost 21 when the tragedy occurred. I wish I can go back to pre 9/11 life to this day.
There was social media back then to bro. Don’t be fooled by nostalgic adults. Enjoy the time your living in now and the future
@@Wrestling316, Yeah but does anyone remember MySpace nowadays? Oh wait it wasn't a thing yet in 2001 lol. Um Friendster I guess? Wait that also wasn't going to be launched until more than two years later. What about SixDegrees? Wait no one knows what that even is. Never mind I guess that the only forms of social media existed back then were chat rooms I guess since Facebook and Twitter weren't going to be founded for another five years and wouldn't even achieve worldwide status until around the tail end of the early 2010s (2010-2013) to the start of the mid 2010s (2014-2016) or maybe even earlier if someone can tell me more about their pre-2014 experiences with it back then.
@@seanvasquez523 I remember MySpace, lol, I used to have it to make me feel cool, lol
Footage like this is priceless to us now. Not in a money sense but in our hearts. Because you don’t see the twins on fire or falling or anything like that but you see the peace and amazingness the towers had. Footage like this helps us remember and never forget. For me I’m working on a tribute to the towers in Minecraft and these types of videos will help me build them as close as I can
Absolutely true. Beautiful comment ❤.
I've tried to build them myself, but the only bad thing with Minecraft is that height limit only let me get up to the 64th floor
Ooooh I wonder if you've accomplished that. Would love to see it
@@ma0491 Actually I think I might be able to now!!! To my surprise I learned there was an update where they raised the block height limit!!!
Tbh the towers were kinda ugly
_”do you have any last words to say?”_
_”b y e.”_
*”We will fade into oblivion”*
Unfortunately on September 11 2001 those predictions came true
Trippy
it's cute and innocent when you don't put it into greater context of what came later. but unfortunately memory doesn't work like that
Lina and everyone else aren't glued to their phones. How refreshing 😊
No one is constantly on their phones or laptops and actually conversing to each other. Good relaxing music instead of the headache sounds people call music currently today... MIND BLOWN!
miss those days but i was only 10 when the towers went down seen it all on tv and remember it all thinking im sure the people are out and safe but that wasn't true :(
Lmao you must be so cool! Why are you on UA-cam? If 2001 was so good why are you on a website that wasn’t around in 2001
0:28 one guy on his phone
If smart phones were around that day, imagine the photos, status updates, posts, and information that would have been shared.
Yup the 1970's, 1980's, 1990's all the way up until about 2006 was nice wit it
I was in the WTC concourse in late August of 2001. My aunt worked a few blocks away and we met her for lunch. I remember it was such a hot day that we decided to browse in the stores at the WTC instead of waiting for the bus for an hour in the heat. It was nice there. 💔
Damn, I just read an article yesterday about the General Manager of Windows of the World who realized that the people waving white table cloths at the top of of the building were all of his employees setting up for the day and and all he could do was watch as the building collapsed. He was driving to work when the first plane hit. 79 of his employees died that day. Seeing his employees in this video just going about their work day....I can't imagine the pain he's felt all these years.
Thanks for sharing.
This is just awful 😞
Wow that's really sad
God, I remember the tablecloths, they were waving them frantically.
Would definitely be feeling a huge case of survivors guilt, yes.
Before smartphones and wifi. I was just 9......life was simple. Great footage!!!
applebug
Not really
Life was boring back then
Life was not simple at all by any means back then, was 24 and was working for alot less money, didn't have squat back then, barely any technology at that time, things were alot harder, people were still jerks and always will be and it was boring too, and not too mention computers and internet were very limited and not affordable back then either, not like today where everything is accessible online and the technology is much better than back then also, I thought back then sucked
Viyuyinn Valar actually for me was fun I was a teenager
Leave Smartphones alone they did not exist back then if they did people would be using them trust me Smartphones changed the world and are not going anywhere why do you think billions are on them they are so much fun
It was not simple. It just seemed that way. There were plenty of problems back then.
My dad was an electric engineer for nyc authority and used to have lunch in the plaza all the time . He was devastated when the towers came down . Luckily he was in the train yard on Coney Island when the planes struck . This is my first time seeing how lively the plaza was 🕊️🙏🏽
The towers were a hub of so many things. I even voted there in the 2000 election. They had all kinds of events, from charitable runs up and down the tower stairs, to all kinds of music playing on the stage you see (Guy Davis is playing the blues in this video). There was a Woolworth drugstore and so many other shops, fast food places, and I think there was a post office. You took these enormously high escalators (like the ones you see in Russia) that took you down to the PATH trains to NJ and up to 23rd street.
It was *freezing cold and windy* down there in the winter months, but spring, summer, and fall were lovely.
Best wishes to your family, and I hope you are all well~
The end of the innocence...
The US hasn’t been innocent in a very long time. Your comment is fucking stupid.
Things were NOT innocent before this and you're naive to think that
@@CATSWITHKYLA➡️ There was. We were less preoccupied by terrorisim
This was still America. A very special time. Things have changed and these days are gone. Sadly it won't be coming back. Not ever. . 😔
🎶Please remember me when I've got nothing, when I'm old, out, and down; please remember me when I'm six feet in the ground🎶 eerie premonition
Agree with you...
Ooh lord
That was Guy Davis singing and he is alive and well today, and still singing the blues.
I had lunch and drinks at Windows many times. I worked for many years on Wall St. I saw Davey Jones, Ronnie Spector and many others during the Summer concert series. This video brought back so many memories. Specially coming on Vesey St. I worked at 5 WTC for about three years and this was one of the entrances to that building. I remember the Eat and Drink, was a club/bar after work. So much fun. Unforgettable memories, friends, co-workers, love affairs. Loved it all. May they all RIP. This video is beautiful and heartbreaking all at once. Thank you for sharing.
"fade to oblivion" ... eerie last words
This is the first time I've ever seen a video from inside Windows on The World.
This guy recorded everything this is the perfect video of like in 2001 and the best video of the WTC!!
I think this was recorded from a camcorder.
A lot of people speculate that the falling man, from the infamous photo, worked at windows of the world. I think about that photo a lot and how he was someones world, someones baby, someones everything. He represented the 200 or so that jumped. It still rhaunts me that so many made the choice to jump instead of succumb to other option. Both unimaginable in their own right, just hard to fathom being faced with that.
Falling is waaaay better than being burned alive.
@@christianriddler5063agreed. If people could only see the reality of both. Falling to your death or burning alive.
If the cameras that day could have captured what was going on inside that tower, we'd have a lot less footage in the public domain. It would not be on youtube. Seeing the towers and smoke and people waving from windows is actually, dare I say it, tame in comparison to the reality experienced behind those walls.
It's a little like that sub incident this year. Far better to be instantly wiped out (fall from a height or crushed) than to be slowly burned alive.
@@kevtb874 Worst part is that when you burn alive, your eyes melt out of their sockets. (I'm not joking). The ears and the nose melt as well whilst the person is still alive.
It is absolutely horrific in every sense of the word. Better to just jump and close one's own eyes, get a brief dose of fresh air before the end.
I saw a video of a 911 call from somebody trap inside the tower (above the plane) and couldn’t stand the heat on the floor they say their shoes where starting to melt
@@kevtb874 one could assume that those were not easy windows to break !
Sad to see that probably quite a lot of those restaurant staff probably were killed just a month later
Yes, the gentleman you see setting an empty table is one who passed away.
This is priceless. I love going back in time.
I love going back in time before the attacks.
They where so tall, stunning works of art
I got chills when they went up the ‘survivors staircase’ 😖
I saw those in the museum, it was surreal seeing them in this video.
What time stamp?
@@zacharydunaway2779 0:17 I believe the concrete (survival) staircase was next to these escalators on the left.
Hope Jim & Lina are alive & well and still together
NOOOOO THEY DEAD, THEY DIED ONE MONTH LATER
@@neilfontaineshorts da fuq?
I was in the towers in June of 2000 with my family for a vacation trip from MA. 9/11 and the subsequent events that followed had a profound effect on me as a child and carried into my adulthood. We will never forget. RIP to all of the innocent lives that were lost that day.
Thanks for the kind words. I never had any idea I'd be filming one of the last videos.
It's sad. You almost have to think "What is precious to all of mankind? That's where the terrorists will try to strike next". I have some ideas but I won't speak of them publically. My wife Lina thanks you for your compliment.
It’s HORRIFYING knowing that during THAT TIME, Terrorists were planning an ATTACK on The World Trade Centers, The Pentagon and The White House
I wish that day never happened....And I would ask the terrorists: what did you achieve? Absolutely nothing.
How did the plandemic work out for you.
"What is precious to mankind?" Freedom. And they certainly went for that.
Videos like these are a real treasure. Thanks for sharing this so those of us who never got to see it have a taste of what it was like. RIP all victims of 9/11
Fr its a real treasure to have
It was especially for me who's born years after the attacks
It was so amazing how a place of serious, white collar business, also had this really cool, festival-like vibe to it. The Trade Center was a one-of-a-kind place in New York.
The song Guy Davis is performing at 0:58 is called "Watch Over Me". I thought you all might enjoy pulling it up for a full listen.
Thank you! Really enjoyed it.
That's him? He never mentioned he was there a few weeks prior.
Thank you so much! I tried to shazam it but it couldn't find anything, neither could lyrics search. Good song
YES, THE WHOLE THING HAS MADE US VERY SAD, AND DOES SO TODAY. AND YES THE GENERAOR NOISE INTERFERED A LITTLE WITH THE RECORDING. BUT CONSIDERING I WAS WASN'T EVEN PLANNING ON RECORDING.......................JIM AND LINA
TheJimmyAllen have you visited the new 1 WTC
+TheJimmyAllen thanks so much Jim. glad u and lina are safe
Lisa Shetler
It's the TV antenna on the north tower it always caused interference with video recorders.
TheJimmyAllen AS USUAL TEARS ARE FALLING.THANKS JIMMY
Were you shocked that a month after visiting that it got hit? Like what was your reaction?
Two of my favorite skyscrapers. Sucks I never got to see them in person. I was only 7 years old in 2001.
DesertDwight I was only 11 months
@@tilez273 try -6 months
I wasn’t even born
I was 6 and a half when it happened
DesertDwight I was only 2 & a half. I was born in '98 & I would love to see the towers if they hadn't collapsed. I mean if 9/11 never happened. It just looks iconic & majestic. Even though the towers weren't able to withstand what happened that day they've stood the test of time in our history & legacy
I remember eating in the restaurant and having company events there back in the late 80s. I recall one event I went to ...went to the ladies room and the building was swaying and it felt like being on a boat. (My company was next door in the WFC, but they had some temporary office space in Tower One where I spent a few months working.) So crazy to see footage like this. So sad.
Amazing video. 08/13/2001 is last then a month to that day.
at that moments you can't even imagine what can go bad.
beautiful view. we can see the big antenna that makes some signal interferences.
thank you. priceless footage.
8:07
The "Windows of the World Restaurant" was on the 101st floor! The early morning workers were trapped and all perished trying to reach the roof, where they were met with a lock door (the guard on the 22nd floor who could relay the unlocking of the door had abandoned his post), heat, smoke, fire, suffocation, and then death. Through cell phone records they were heared begging for help, begging for their lives, begging for help of any kind, but none was able to arrive.
What was the POS guard's name I wonder?
@@Gameboy-Unboxings He isn't a POS do you know how terrifying it was in there? Getting to the roof wouldn't have saved them.
Windows on the World was on the 107th floor, not 101.
Even if they could reach the very top,how could they escape?
@@bombyboo6335 access to the roof was locked. The workers had swipe cards but the doors still wouldn't budge. Down in the 22nd floor an employee at the Security Command Center had to open the roof doors by pushing a button, but the crash of Flight 11 damaged the system that morning and it was impossible to open the roof doors
It fell a month later eerie.
rectorman1 2 and half weeks later*
And it's so depressing to think that some of the people you see in the background of the video may have died :(
Its crazy to think explosives were being planted during the nighttime hours when hardly anyone would notice
Shellyman Vol.2 29 days actually
It did not fall. If it fell it implies structural issue and the towers fell they didnt fall they were brought down
So sad to see that. Days before that horrific day. Rest In Peace to all 9/11 victims.
I was on top of the WTC a few months before they fell. I remember a very long line waiting to go to the top because the tourists had their own line to not interfere with the businessmen. I remember the huge lobby and I was absorbed in reading Jon Krakauer's Into Thin Air as I waited in line. I can't remember why I was in NYC.
Great tribute! The concert and musicians in the background playing that funky / soul music is wonderful. Twin Towers forever in our hearts.❤️
oh yeah, forever in our hearts.
Seeing the other tower from the observation deck takes my breath away everytime
Jim and Lina - thank you ever so much for taking this video, and for posting it. All my life I yearned to visit the Towers and stand on the top of the world. I was from Kansas City MO and had a poster of the towers in my bedroom. On September 5th 1984 I got my wish.....It was the most beautiful sunny day and the views were magnificent. They are seared in my mind and this video helped bring them back to life. I'm so glad you got a view of the other tower and the SOL and the ESB as those are the 3 things I remember most. The other tower showed put what you were standing on in perspective and it was incredibly awe inspiring. And Liberty was so small in the bay you had to hunt in the horizon to find her! Truly, for anyone that never had the chance to visit, this video is as close to the experience as you can get! Thanks again for sharing!
I never got to see them in person. The highest building I've ever been in was the Renaissance Center in Detroit. I believe it is 100 floors at the top. I recall having such vertigo looking out and down. It wasn't even outside deck it was through heavy glass windows. Also an incredible view but visiting the twin towers would have been really great.
The more I watch this, the more sad I am that all of it is gone. These towers were so beautiful.
To anybody like yourselves, who actually visited WTC, the sadness is magnified greatly. Unfortunately I didn't get to see these elegant structures and of course now, never will. As another commentator said, your video really captures the whole thing very well indeed. Thanks for sharing with us all.
I was there 1989😢
Never say never
Sad, that a hundred people were probably eating bacon and eggs and reading the new york times when the tower was hit not knowing their lives would be over in a matter of minutes. Very sad.
Was the Windows On The World restaurant open that time of the day?
There were a few breakfast patrons but mostly there were hundreds of people attending a Risk Waters conference that morning. All were killed.
Thomas New Tells someone else to grow up while only caring about people’s subscriber count. 😂🤡🤡
@Jon Luci I don't think they were. It was the 107th floor. The impact zone only up to the 90-somethingth floor (?). Plus there were several calls to emergency services made from the people attending the conference after the plane hit.
@@thomasnew8606 oh don't be a baby. welcome to the internet. the key is to ignore people like that because they will always keep coming and the more you let them upset you, the more they get exactly what they set out to do. plus that's not even close to how repulsive people can be about 9/11. that's fairly mild.
Wow it’s crazy how beautiful it was and so sad because nobody had a clue what’s about to happen next month 🥺😭
This was the day I visited! I was there about 10am, I don't know what time this was but watching carefully for me and my family
Weren't people falling into that auditorium where the guy is singing/performing
Sadly yes
There is a video that shows that.
Jhonny Blaze YES
Yes. Gives me chills when I see this footage. A month later, ppl were falling to their deaths in that same area!
Yes. Sadly, maybe perhaps they thought the roof of the pavilion which was a type of tarp might catch their fall. They went straight through. Sickening how the makers of the towers didn’t have ways of escape for the people all the way on the top.
Wish they would have just rebuilt the towers exactly as they were.
They can't. Those towers were constructed while us humans were just walking on the moon for the first time. Rebuilding them exactly the same would never adhere to modern building standards.
Why not? Maybe interior wise there would definitely be some upgrades--but they should have rebuilt the TWINS. They were grand and very majestic looking. This new Freedom Tower is a boring monstrosity.
xygomorphic44 They could have made the towers look the same on the outside while being built with modern building standards on the inside.
My point exactly!
Tsehai Hiwot Good point.
I come back to this video almost every year and think about how wonderful it would have been to actually visit the towers. Thanks for giving us this peak into a much brighter yesteryear ♥️
these buildings are disturbingly big
Go to Shanghai. Several buildings are quite a bit bigger. New York itself has one or two taller now. And don't forget about the Burj
03:01 Christine Olender in the background. She was the manager of the restaurant and sadly died on 9/11.
Good eye.
It’s horrifying to see that lady on the footage, knowing that she would die in a month later…
Is she the one walking?
“We will fade into oblivion” he had NO idea of how right he would be in a months time...
I was 12 years old on 9/11, in my first or second week of middle school in Orange County, NY. My dad used to take me down to Shea or Yankee Stadium, and every time we’d go over the Tappan Zee Bridge, my dad would point downstream and have us look for the Twin Towers. I so vividly remember looking at them from the bridge. Will never forget the last time dad took me before 9/11, it was a foggy, dark, rainy day. But we could still see the towers. In the years since I’ve revisited the events of this day and as I’ve aged I’ve been able to feel and understand more every time. How awful. I can’t even imagine what people went through.
That's heartbreaking. I think it probably affects me now even more than it did at the time. You're exactly right. We'll never know what those people went through.
I'm just constantly amazed by how much this event changed all of our lives. Things were so different, can't even explain it fully. What a mental rabbit hole. How much different would the future that we currently exist in be?
Disturbing to realize while looking at that stage, that a short month later, a 9/11 jumper would rip through the roof and die right on the stage itself... If you've seen it, you know what I'm talking about. Very sad and unsettling video of a jumper.
Yeah I know the one. Was filmed by a couple across the street from a hotel window. Terrible, those people were just going about their lives. Didn't deserve that.
Viyuyinn Valar You're just sad wastless internet troll.
Your view on this persons death is very awful.
Psychedelic Gaming
Yes I know
it has been brought to my attention before
However I will die too
and no matter if anybody comes up with somthing good or bad to say about it
It wont change the fact the I will be dead
So what is a beautiful way to die?
if me or you or anybody else dies in the worst and most violent way and if even someone could come up with somthing ""nice "" to say about it
Would it be able to change even if a tiny bit
the grusomeness of such violent death?
Psychedelic Gaming
Get it now?
It does not matter what you or me or the whole world says about how these people died
Pretty or nasty it DOESNT CHANGE ANYTHING
This is so insane I'm literally looking for myself in these videos we were there also right around mid August as well 2001. On the roof and the weather looked identical to the overcast skies in this video. Kind of crazy to think we may have brushed shoulders 20+ years ago on the roof of arguably the most historically significant place in the nation.
Thank you for sharing this memory. I'm from Germany. We were on holiday in NYC from Dec 99 to Jan 2000. We went to the top of the WTC to enjoy the view over Manhattan. When I heard that the towers had collapsed, I couldn't believe it.
Less than a month later, the world happened to see an American tragedy unfold on the grounds and streets of New York. The World Trade Center would've been one of those buildings I could've wanted to visit, but on my trips to New York (since my dad's from New Jersey), when they were there, we only visited the Empire State Building and nothing beyond- only since I was afraid of heights at a young age.
It forever kills me to this day, that I never once stepped foot onto one of the original New York City buildings that once stood upon our American soil and around the streets of New York. I miss that original view, as well as all the people that have left the world, less than a month after this date.
It is impossible to describe the awe one felt when looking up at the Twin Towers. Whoever was not there will never know that feeling.
Awesome video. So sad to think that all the beauty in this video is no more.
Like that beauty @2:42
A beautiful memoir to a beautiful landmark that is lost to those not able to visit!❤
I was married at the city clerk's office in October of 2000. My friends took home videos of the areas around lower Manhattan, including a beautiful shot of the Towers from City Hall Park. I thought that on my anniversary the following year I'd make another video from the same locations. Little did I know a year later everything would change and life in lower Manhattan would never be the same again. How bittersweet watching this feels.
Wow 😢
The Towers will always remain majestic and unique because they were built symmetrically from top to bottom-- most skyscrapers, if you notice, get smaller and smaller at they reach the top because the strength of the steel and masonry can't support an equal weight at top as it has on the bottom. The World Trade Center Towers managed to pull it off.
Hauntingly beautiful. Nothing would ever be the same....
Watching this on The Ides of March 2021. 20 years later. Anybody else?
4:50 wow you get the same audio interferences on top of the building like I did. I always thought it was because my battery was low (and it wasn't my own camera so I didn't know). But now I guess this was because of that huge antenna on the north tower.
wow, mistery solved after 20 years. thank you!
That wouldn't happen with smartphones. Imagine being on this observation deck today with smartphones.
Thank you for sharing. RIP Orio Palmer and all who we lost..
Orio was more than a hero because he went all the way up to the impact zone and also fixed an elevator god bless his soul......
Why the fuck do you comment this on every single twin towers video?
@@GN10Gaming Instead of paying respects to the person called Orio Palmer you write this, you should be ashamed of yourself.
Rest in Peace Orio.
Happier times, could not imagine the thoughts of people standing in that exact spot watching a plane coming towards them beautiful souls now in peace xxx
Fascinating and chilling. Thank you for sharing your memories with us all.
I miss that style of makeup and hair and those clothes! So pretty!