Texaco - "World Trade Center" (Commercial, 1980)
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- Опубліковано 30 вер 2024
- Here's a now haunting commercial for Texaco that features someone running up the stairs of the World Trade Center to get to the roof. You also get to see some shots of the exterior.
I wonder if the guy who was in this commercial thought about it on that date 21 years later.
"Working to keep your trust"
This aired on local Chicago TV on Sunday, February 3rd 1980 at a little past 7pm.
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I remember both before and after 9/11, there was this sort of trend to be critical of the design of the World Trade Center. Like, the critical consensus was that it was boring and clinical and the height of the "less is bore" era of architecture - I would agree back then with that assessment. Having nearly 20 years to reflect...it's impossible not to let the tragedy color how you look at the towers...but I think I finally see what was beautiful about them.
So, I did the math. 15 World Trade Centers is 105 buildings. 15 North Towers combined is 20,520 feet. For the South Tower, it's 20,430 feet. For the Marriott, it's 3,630 feet. For 4 WTC, it's 1,770 feet. 5 WTC is the same. 6 is 1,575 feet. And for 7, it's 2,775 feet. Altogether, that's 54,270 feet!
Now, we count floors. For the twins, both each being 110, we add them to get 220, so we multiply that by 15, we get 3,300 floors. For the Marriott, it's 330. 4 and 5 WTC are both 135 floors. 6 is 105 floors. And 7 is 705 floors. Now, we add that up. And we get 4,710 floors and that's not counting sub-basement levels.
How I miss those buildings. My dream was to see these towers when I'd had chance to go to NYC someday.
Now it's over.
Well you can still see the Freedom Tower. Which I honestly like better
@@vibes8930 I would like it more if it had a twin
@@nordiccombatant2167 they're working on it
@@vibes8930 No they are not, the design they picked for WTC 2 is ugly. Looks like a stack of shoe boxes about to collapse from what I last saw of the planned design
You can still Experience them with VR and Virtual Models etc. !
Saying that you don’t like these towers is saying you don’t like architecture.
Or you don’t like America or care about the Victims and Heroes of the Attacks ?
Πριν συμβεί η 11η Σεπτεμβρίου πολλοί άνθρωποι θεωρούσαν τους δίδυμους πύργους ως ένα κακό γιγαντιαίο τσιμεντένιο τετράγωνο που κατέστρεφε τη θέα της Νέας Υόρκης, πολλοί αρχιτέκτονες μισούσαν το μινιμαλιστικό κτίριο επειδή ήταν πολύ βαρετό ή άψυχο.
Μετά την 11η Σεπτεμβρίου αυτά τα κτίρια έγιναν θρύλοι.
Παρεμπιπτόντως, δεν ντροπιάζω τα θύματα της τραγωδίας της 11ης Σεπτεμβρίου, αλλά το Empire State Building είναι καλύτερο από τους δίδυμους πύργους.
We Will Never Forget.
Those Towers were brand new
I worked there. They looked "brand new" every day
The day before the attack, there was a TV promo for some baywatch parody show. One of the characters noted that the world trade center towers were too close together.
Son of the Beach, I think that's the name of the show you're talking about. I know, random reply and whatnot...
@@KyosukeShigeru Yes! Son of the Beach. One of the girls on the show was a giant walking through New York and couldn't fit between the world trade center towers. She said, "They're too close together." Literally the day before on TV.
I know this is an old comment, but I cant find anything of this online, but im really curious. I guess its just another piece of lost media sadly :(
@@generalofg3377The commercial is now available on UA-cam
I remember The World Trade Center from the February 26, 1993 bombing.
It’s not 1980s because the tv antenna on one of the towers wasn’t installed
The commercial was filmed in 1977, shelved for three years and released in 1980
@@AluminumOxide I've seen a copy dated October 1978. So I think it ran for a few years.
January 23, 2023 9:46 pm
Yeah seemed like Early to Mid 70s as it’s talking about Oil Drilling, and Early seventies was an Oil Crises 🤷♂️
@@APerson-ni1gb There were two oil crises, one around 1973-1974 and the second in 1979-1981. And even in the period between the crises, oil prices were still somewhat elevated and oil drilling a popular topic. Oil wouldn’t go back to it’s pre-1973 prices and supply until after 1981, so from 1973-1982 or so we were still in the conditions that brought us this ad: yes, oil is expensive and scarcer than normal, but we’re doing our best to get it to you economically. This was the era when economical, high MPG cars were very popular; after the broader gas crisis era ended in 1981-1982, people went back to big cars more and ads like this faded away.
February 14, 2023 10:21 pm
My mom still worked at the those towers before I was even born at the time this commercial came out.
This classic comercial is very nostalgic... The twin towers...!!!
U no I think maybe my dads station was a Texaco. Way back long time ago in Chicago. I wish he was still around I got so many questions no one to give me answers.
Let's never forget 9/11 guys no matter how many years it has been since the event happened
I LOVE classic commercials.
Although this commercial certainly has not aged well.
I LOVE THIS IT WASN'T LONG ENOUGH THANK YOU
Press F for the Twin Towers
F
F
My teacher was on the south tower
Was that Ronald Reagan 's voice?
This made me sad
so many etc videos ive never seen... it should all be uploaded to see because the building aren't there anymore
In Africa, Asia, Australia, known as Caltex.
My uncle always wondered if a plane could take down a skyscraper in the 1980s . It might have been what he was talking about as some kind of premonition or something.🧐🤔😳🤯😤⁉️ I'll never see it. ☹️
My dad was an engineer who worked in the Towers in the 70s. A Venezuelan plane almost hit it one night. He said a plane is just a cigar tube with no chance of damaging a building like his. Unfortunately, he was remembering the plane that hit the Empire State Building during WW2. That plane was going slow, almost out of gas, and much smaller than the jets in 2001.
He loved the building. He told me that some days you could look down and see rain but the sky was blue above you. And in high winds the towers would whip like a fishing rod. He thought it was exciting but he said some people quit because of it. Plus there was no shopping or restaurants when it was first built. The City of NY took over empty, unwanted, office space to help it out financially and forced employees to be pioneers in that neighborhood.
@@danshustack2710 21 years after this commercial, your dad would forever change.
@@danshustack2710actually, when Yamasaki designed the towers, he designed it with a lot of redundancies in the structure, and also made it somewhat plane resistant. However something he forgot about was fire. Fire weakened the beams that day.
엄청난 안식처와 상처가 있습니다.
A fund raiser? You are full of lies. You want money for you. Not the cause
Texaco - Drilling for oil to fuel the commercial jetliners that will crash into these buildings and destroy them in 2001.
Reminds me of that tragedy…
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Uh huh......