These buildings look amazing at night. I remember being there back in the summer of ‘92 when I was 10 years old. I went inside the south tower to see the observation deck, and that evening I was in the north tower for dinner in windows on the world. The experience was absolutely amazing and unforgettable.
Oh Yah..OnlybTome I Was ever in tbe NORTH was MARCH, 12th 1993..the Cirst ATTACK..D.T. was still with His First Engine Co. Truck 41/Bronx..Before he Got to MIDTOWN..He and His Crew were just There Doing some Checking..I Just Stayed on tbe FIRST Floor Lobby JUST walking Around..Still KINDA Gettong Through the Attack..They WERE Basically Just Letting just Employess tbat worked in the Bldg. Gain ACCESS..Was only innghe SOUTH Sunday September 9th, 2001 When We Just Did the Tourist Thang wne Friends of one of the Guys in tbe HOUSES from FLA. Came to Visit..They Has NEVER been to N.Y. BEFORE..We Went up to the Roof/Observation Deck..Well THEN..Two Days LATER..Only My 2ND Time EVER in the SOUTH WE Went in And WITH About 15-20 Min. To Spare..Somehiw We Got Out BEFORE the South COLLAPSED😕😔
Интересно, это был дорогой ресторан по тем временам? Кто мог его посещать, абсолютно все желающие (туристы, простые нью-йоркцы, приезжие американцы из других штатов, офисный "планктон" и пр.) или же это был элитный ресторан для финансовых "воротил" с Уолл-стрит?
Such a shame my generation (90s babies) and future generations will never have the chance to see and appreciate these marvels of architecture and engineering, these buildings were so far ahead of their time
Fortunately as a "Generation X" baby this grandeur of architectural genius that was actually designed by a first generation Ninsei Asian brother Minoru Yamasaki has the pleasure of visiting on a elementary school field trip which is quite rewarding indeed and it is disgrace that this wicked Babylon corporate United $tates covet brought these great marvel symbols down with innocent 3,000 human beings with them from within and not without.
All things have an end... but so too do they have a beginning. Imagine all the great things you experience on a daily basis that people 100 years ago never dreamed of. Life is still beautiful.
Instant favorite. The night shots are strangely nostalgic, the way the light comes out from in between the columns. It's like a glimpse into a brave and confident future which never happened.
They weren’t rebuilt because of the design, it a 60’s design. And the new building has concrete and steel, the twin towers were just made out of steel, and if they rebuilt them, it would look very old and people would end up questioning why did they use a 60’s design in the 21st century.
The Twin Towers were so charming, at night they had such a cyberpunk feel, more than any other building ever built. I wish I could see them in person, but I know that is not possible and it makes me anxious.
@Regan MacBannon Mason I am very interested in your comment. I am from Russia. I read comments about WTC. you were there.....they're gone....I can't comprehend it! you probably remember all the offices and elevators and stairs in this tower?
Cyprus Kill why the frick did you put two kaabas next to each other? Are you trying to represent the Twin Towers? It was because of the religion that started in Mecca that these towers were knocked down and 3,000 people were killed. It was because of that evil man Muhammad who was born in Mecca and people still worship him at the Kaaba. Get that out of here
I remember visiting the World Trade Center in 1998, these towers were gigantic !!! They were beautiful as diamonds! When we looked at them from a distance they symbolized the Modernity, the Future, the Hope ... I cried a lot after their collapse, they represented so much the Future ... RIP from France
i am from morocco casablanca i knew the towers when i was 4 saw them on posters books and television , in 2001 i made them in lego in april 2001 i was 7 , when they were destroyed i didn't believe it was the trade center it was so unreal i am stil traumatized and can't accept this reality for me they are still standing the real new york dissapeared
Whenever I see these nightime clips of the Twin Towers, with all the ceiling lights stretching from one extremity of the floor to another, it always reminds me of either a CD tower full of CDs or a multi-storey hi-fi unit with all kinds of fancy buttons and diodes :-) May all who succumbed here on that fateful day of September 11, 2001 rest in peace...
Even if the WTC was desgined with function over form. I personally feel that it was ingenious to make it a twin. i cant imagine if it was just a single tower on it own. somehow it definately look much stronger as twins which makes the symmetrical design quite satisfying to watch.
Regan MacBannon Mason that is awesome! I visited them in 1993 as a kid and remember that they were massive in person yet sort of friendly. The observation deck was so high everything looked like toys. After 9/11 I had nightmares about being trapped in the tower, but I wanted them to be rebuilt. I’m sad this didn’t happen, maybe somewhere in New York someone will rebuild them someday, but I think the best tribute would have been to rebuild them it might have been a little traumatic for some but I think in time it would be very healing.
Regan MacBannon Mason yeah they left a lasting impression on me! I didn’t realize how many people actually worked in them until years later. We visited in July of 93. I always wanted to go back again one day. It’s the oddest thing, but in the summer of 2001, I remember randomly thinking about the twin towers again and even checked out a book about them from the library. I had this vague feeling of unease, and when school started back in September, it had been a beautiful summer, and I remember looking at the book of pictures of the towers and comparing the ones we took on our visit. But I had this strange feeling that something was wrong, I couldn’t place it it was just a vague unnerving feeling. On 9/11 I was home from college that day and was watching the Today Show. Around 8 am I stepped out on my parents’ porch and looked up at the sky it was a beautiful blue, even in Ky where I live, and thought what a beautiful morning. I stepped back inside to watch the Today Show and suddenly they cut in with the news and I watched the entire horrific thing on tv. When the second plane hit, I panicked. I called my aunt and my mom and didn’t know what was happening. I was horrified and later saw people jumping out of the north tower. I was very traumatized and I felt personally violated by what happened. Maybe because I felt the towers were a small part of me or some connection to them, but I cried, and was so upset that I shut down emotionally for years and could not express my emotions anymore. The tragedy was overwhelming. To this day I can talk about it but it’s still raw when I see the images again. And I’m still very angry about it. I don’t feel enough was done. In a strange way I feel if the towers had been rebuilt it would have healed a lot of wounds because to see them again, to touch them or to just feel their presence like I did as a kid would be really therapeutic at least for me. I like to remember them the way they were not on that day
Yeah I feel bad you experience that man, but look at the bright side a least u got to see it the twin towers in person as a kid. I’m 18 and I wish those beautiful buildings weren’t hit and still around so that I could’ve visited them but, god bless America and the people who lost their lives that day prayers for them and our American hero’s who found and saved the lives of some people after the disaster.🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🙏🏻🙏🏻 “we will never forget”
They are so beautiful, particularly at night. A futuristic vertical city. They look bold and simple at first glance but so intricate in their detail. I will certainly never forget.
I couldn't have cared less of what was happening on 9/11 the day it happened cuz I was so young and dumb when it happened. But I eventually became fascinated with these towers and the events that occurred that dreadful day. And seeing them captured like this over n over again is astonishing. The new 1WTC and it's efforts will never do these beauties justice. I almost wish they would have rebuilt them. That would have been something. Maybe that's just how I am. I also wanted my parent's to rebuild a replica of my childhood home that burnt down that was two hundred years old in which my dad restored (didn't happen). Maybe it's just me.
Very cool footage, they were definitely very proud looking buildings. What was this footage originally taken for? Some kind of movie or commercial or something along those lines?
Can't help but wonder what amazing footage would exist if they only stood a decade longer with the existence of HD digital camera's. Or for that matter, still stood here today.
I think we are very fortunate what happened at 911 happened before the smartphone. Over time, we (the world) will slowly only remember the best bits and forget the worst horrors of that day. I simply can't fathom a world were live streaming/video calls existed on that day.
I like how at night you can see people at the indoor observation center on floor 107 of #2, and the subdued lighting on the same floor inside #1 lets you know it's Windows.
@Regan MacBannon Mason i was in New York last summer i saw the 9/11 museum and the north and southpool. It was really sad to see some things of the victims. The memorial was beautiful and immpressive. I also was on top of one world trade center but this building don't deserve this name. WTC will never be the same.
AHHH YAH NIIICE..The Twins Never LOOKED So GOOD...I Do Really Miss Em Both Like CRAZZZY...I Was A VOL. FIREFIGHTER FOR ENGINE 54/TRUCK 4/BAT. 9 MIDTOWN SUMMERS: '95-'07...I'm Also a 911 Survivor..We Lost 34 Guys TOTAL in Our Whole BATTALION That DARK TRAGIC Day..22 Recovered..12 NEVER RECOVERED..If ME N MY PARTNER D.T. Spent 15-20 MIN. More in the South TOWER...I Wouldn't be Here at the Moment Sharing this...STAY SAFE EVERYONE...LONG LIVE THE TOWERS AND KEEP EM BOTH CLOSE TO YOUR HEARTS..PEACE✌✌
yes i watch it in 2008 when it was uploaded sadely its channel was closed and the video deleted fortunately i already downloaded it at the time with all my world trade center collection of photographs and videos then i uploaded it again to keep it alive , thanks !
I have never visited America, but I used to watch it on television in the past. They are two beautiful towers and an icon of New York City. We are truly losing it. I hope they are built for me. The beautiful old New York returns. The beautiful city deserves beauty with the presence of the two towers.
Along with the 110-floor Twin Towers, numerous other buildings at the World Trade Center site were destroyed or badly damaged, including WTC buildings 3 through 7 and St. Nicholas Greek Orthodox Church.The North Tower, South Tower, the Marriott Hotel and 7 WTC were destroyed. The U.S. Customs House (6 World Trade Center), 4 World Trade Center, 5 World Trade Center, and both pedestrian bridges connecting buildings were severely damaged. The Deutsche Bank Building (still popularly referred to as the Bankers Trust Building) on 130 Liberty Street was partially damaged and demolished some years later, starting in 2007.The two buildings of the World Financial Center also suffered damage.The last fires at the World Trade Center site were extinguished on December 20, exactly 100 days after the attacks.
И все это случайно произошло. Вы вообще действительно верите что макаки могут просто так захватить штурвал пассажирского лайнера, управлять им спокойно и направить идеально в здание даже если оно большое, почему бл...ять вообще не был сбит второй самолёт, если если было понятно понятно что он захвачен, и у вас такая охерительная военная авиация и пво, что вообще это нахрен были за "самолёты"? Если даже у вас устал метал в башнях 1 и 2 из-за чего они обвалились на мелкие части ещё в воздухе при падении ( что в принципе не возможно при такой конструкции), что бы просто под фундамент центральные балки все сложились, та какого хрена упало здание wtc 7, в него то вообще никакой самолёт не влетал и там конструкция здания немного другая, из-за пожара, единственный случай в истории когда металлические конструкции обваливались после пожаров был, угадайте когда, не поверите, 11 сентября 2001 года
The new building is actually smaller in Size than the Twin towers where. Smaller less floors, much smaller at the top, Freedom tower it doesn't stand out in the skyline anymore, Hudson yards and all the new glass towers with similar height, it's just another glass tower like many others in New York. Shame the true icons wasn't rebuild.
im with you, I dispise the new design, its awful looking, theyre just making it look like the rest of these buildings today, the world trade centers stood out for the simplicity they had, and i do agree with trumps purposal of rebuilding them bigger and stronger, it would have been a massive middle finger to the terrorist who did these awful attacks
I agree. It is just like another tall building like all the others that have been built. Doesn't seem to me to pay tribute to those lost that day. Even if they had done something smaller but yet the same look. I thought of maybe an outline in lights; same size and spot of the Twin Towers would symbolize them and pay tribute
@Sturm Art the towers had 100 some floors and they started the construction in the 1960's, so the building would be out of date but the new one doesn't look nice and just doesn't feel like NY but Miami, so what I'm saying is that they could've rebuilt the WTC plaza and tower's with new coding but kept the original shape and outside look
@@2500curbstomperyou're the one who's actually wrong here. This video is about the towers in 1988, 15 years after it was built in 1973. They were talking about old the towers were in 1988, not 2001 when they were destroyed you dumbf*ck.
@@2500curbstomperit makes you look stupid for saying "no idea what both of you guys are on" while the title and video is about the towers in 1988, and the people here in the comment section were just commenting about it. How about you use your goddamn brain instead of doing math on a calculator and trying to seem superior.
Soo beautifull. I never tire watching the Towers 😍sad, they are gone. Nothing can replace them or match their enchanting power on me😥 I try to get to know all the people who died through survivors stories. And send them as much love and respect as I can. I Will never forget. I hope humanity Will never allow such meaningless and destructive terror ever again. Please God🥺🙏🙏🙏 help humanity to grow up and Think about the future in a better Way No more armageddon please😔 No more fear based control Just smart and thoughtfull optimism and cooperation and responsible action ......😽
What interests me as a Brit is that we can categorically say "floors 91-97 were the impact zone in the south tower" etc but to me it is a continuous grey pattern. Is there small detail i overlook which gives away which floors are positioned where?
És dos Açores se fores sou da parte continental This buildings were the whole representation of the 80s,90s and a bit of 00s and after the atacks the world was not the same
Just subscribed to your channel. Those twin towers were absolutely beautiful! Wish I could have seen them in person. After 9/11 I had made 2 sets of twin towers out of plastic canvas
3:33 - every light represents a window behind which countless people were working, meeting one another, creating connections between each other, building relationships, many stories that could be told..... Now it is all gone. These towers should have been rebuilt - taller, stronger - as the tallest buildings in the world once again - to send a message - if you try to fight us we grow taller and stronger.
You would think that with all the effort put into getting shots of the towers from that perspective, they would have used some high quality equipment to capture the moment. Before anyone replies, there were excellent cameras available, even back then.
Basically not having the WTC in NYC is just like if San Francisco did not have the Golden Gate Bridge it just not the same city without certain city landmarks. 😥😥😥😥😰😰😰😰😭😭😭
I'm pretty sure as a 12 year old. I'm the only one in my whole class that knows what the world trade center was and used to be. Very sad that these buildings are gone.
I appreciate the younger generation who understands the importance of the World Trade Center and the tragedy of 9/11. Unfortunately, only a small percentage of people do, 9/11 is considered a meme now and the twin towers are being forgotten, only remembered as the buildings that were hit by airplanes, not what they should be remembered for.
That amazing manhattan skyline is so much missed by all new Yorkers, and me ! I'm English -born and bred.and we have some wonderful buildings here. But I still miss those twin towers, and always will.
Before there was MetroTech cause then there would have been the Chase building and the trapezoid fitted roof building (1 MetroTech Center) which had the spiky blue lights building
Absolutely should have been rebuilt in an ideal world but if you want the real reason why they weren’t just remember it always always comes down to money and return on invested capital. At the time of 9/11 business were leaving lower manhattan and the WTC was never 100% full as it stood. It wasn’t a sensible financial prospect to spend billions rebuilding two absolutely massive structures with all that office space when they were never going to fill them again, solely through the general business trend away from downtown but then couple that with the fact that no business would want office space in an exact replica of two buildings that had already been attacked twice and would inevitably carry on being a massive target for terrorism. The Twin Towers being rebuilt but sitting largely empty would have been a great visual spectacle but haunting as hell and was never going to provide a return on investment.
I have a question. If the Twin Towers were still standing today, would the observation deck platform on the South Tower's roof eventually had been closed down? The observation deck platform on the South Tower's roof was only about 300 feet away from the North Tower's antenna. They did not allow visitors to the top of the North Tower because of the antenna there. The thought was they would get too much RF expose if they were that close for too long. If you're in close enough proximity for a certain length of time to that high of wattage of TV/radio signals, it can cause health problems. Apparently, the South Tower was far enough away to safely allow visitors, hence the observation deck there. Back in the 1970s, it was deemed safe to stand on the roof of 2 WTC, but in many videos, you can clearly hear and watch the radio interference. If you look at some videos taken on the observation, you can still hear analogue TV interference in their audio. If the twin towers were built today, I don't believe that they would surely allow anyone on the roof of the South Tower because of those interferences.
My guess is that the Observation Deck would still be open. It might have to be closed down temporarily for maintenance and renovations to keep it safe. But it brought in millions and people from all over the world came to visit and go there.
These buildings look amazing at night. I remember being there back in the summer of ‘92 when I was 10 years old. I went inside the south tower to see the observation deck, and that evening I was in the north tower for dinner in windows on the world. The experience was absolutely amazing and unforgettable.
Ty W I’m booking marking this to write a reply tomorrow similar experience
Oh Yah..OnlybTome I Was ever in tbe NORTH was MARCH, 12th 1993..the Cirst ATTACK..D.T. was still with His First Engine Co. Truck 41/Bronx..Before he Got to MIDTOWN..He and His Crew were just There Doing some Checking..I Just Stayed on tbe FIRST Floor Lobby JUST walking Around..Still KINDA Gettong Through the Attack..They WERE Basically Just Letting just Employess tbat worked in the Bldg. Gain ACCESS..Was only innghe SOUTH Sunday September 9th, 2001 When We Just Did the Tourist Thang wne Friends of one of the Guys in tbe HOUSES from FLA. Came to Visit..They Has NEVER been to N.Y. BEFORE..We Went up to the Roof/Observation Deck..Well THEN..Two Days LATER..Only My 2ND Time EVER in the SOUTH WE Went in And WITH About 15-20 Min. To Spare..Somehiw We Got Out BEFORE the South COLLAPSED😕😔
i believe you man, they were beautiful
Интересно, это был дорогой ресторан по тем временам? Кто мог его посещать, абсолютно все желающие (туристы, простые нью-йоркцы, приезжие американцы из других штатов, офисный "планктон" и пр.) или же это был элитный ресторан для финансовых "воротил" с Уолл-стрит?
Such a shame my generation (90s babies) and future generations will never have the chance to see and appreciate these marvels of architecture and engineering, these buildings were so far ahead of their time
And '80s babies too!
Fortunately as a "Generation X" baby this grandeur of architectural genius that was actually designed by a first generation Ninsei Asian brother Minoru Yamasaki has the pleasure of visiting on a elementary school field trip which is quite rewarding indeed and it is disgrace that this wicked Babylon corporate United $tates covet brought these great marvel symbols down with innocent 3,000 human beings with them from within and not without.
All things have an end... but so too do they have a beginning. Imagine all the great things you experience on a daily basis that people 100 years ago never dreamed of. Life is still beautiful.
ik, *sigh*
and 2000’s babies. my mom was pregnant with me when 9/11 happened
Instant favorite. The night shots are strangely nostalgic, the way the light comes out from in between the columns. It's like a glimpse into a brave and confident future which never happened.
I can't believe these towers weren't rebuilt! The Twin Towers were so majestic! NY horizon was so iconic with them!
They weren’t rebuilt because of the design, it a 60’s design. And the new building has concrete and steel, the twin towers were just made out of steel, and if they rebuilt them, it would look very old and people would end up questioning why did they use a 60’s design in the 21st century.
@@WiardiVK They were very ahead of their time in the 70's
@@aidan1585 it's not about 60s design, that's the iconic of NYC and all of USA that's why people wants it to rebuild this Tower.
@@aidan1585 They could have rebuilt n modernized them.. You think?
@@WiardiVK lol c'mon
Hearing this classic dance tune and seeing the Twin Towers just makes me realise how much i miss the 90’s. 😢
The Twin Towers were so charming, at night they had such a cyberpunk feel, more than any other building ever built. I wish I could see them in person, but I know that is not possible and it makes me anxious.
kinda same
@WakinTheDeadFan Really looking forward to that day
Virtual Reality for now /:
Unless you had a time machine and of course they are REALLY easy to build.
The music is just so perfect for this video ; very melancholic.
Standing tall, lit up at night like a pair of giant servers. So elegant...gone, but never forgotten. 😞 🕋🕋
@Regan MacBannon Mason I wish I could have seen them
@Regan MacBannon Mason I am very interested in your comment. I am from Russia. I read comments about WTC. you were there.....they're gone....I can't comprehend it! you probably remember all the offices and elevators and stairs in this tower?
Cyprus Kill why the frick did you put two kaabas next to each other? Are you trying to represent the Twin Towers? It was because of the religion that started in Mecca that these towers were knocked down and 3,000 people were killed. It was because of that evil man Muhammad who was born in Mecca and people still worship him at the Kaaba. Get that out of here
@@GreekOrthodox7 i think he thought that that emoji was a skyscraper at night. Chill.
It breaks my heart because now everytimeI see videos/photos .I don't see buildings I think of all the lost loved ones lost
RIP Edward 1967-2001🇺🇸
18 Years... Lost over 3,000 lives and two iconic twin towers... Never Forget 💙
Inside Job 9/11
it’s not over 3000 it’s 2996, stupid
@@peterhoebarth4234 I have that feeling and it's rough to think about
@@sentientglitch if you count the people that have died from cancer because of the attacks it's over 3000
@@beachchicken6268 okay
I remember visiting the World Trade Center in 1998, these towers were gigantic !!! They were beautiful as diamonds! When we looked at them from a distance they symbolized the Modernity, the Future, the Hope ... I cried a lot after their collapse, they represented so much the Future ... RIP from France
i am from morocco casablanca i knew the towers when i was 4 saw them on posters books and television , in 2001 i made them in lego in april 2001 i was 7 , when they were destroyed i didn't believe it was the trade center it was so unreal i am stil traumatized and can't accept this reality for me they are still standing the real new york dissapeared
It does not feel like NYC without the WTC imagine Paris without the Eiffel Tower. 😓😓😓😭😭😞😞😓😢😢😢😥😰
This video proves that some memories just never fade away.
Especially when they are reinforced by technology.
unless you get Alzheimer's
@@rickhardman7376 theres remedies and medicines for that
@@mrandrossguy9871 sadly there isn't
Whenever I see these nightime clips of the Twin Towers, with all the ceiling lights stretching from one extremity of the floor to another, it always reminds me of either a CD tower full of CDs or a multi-storey hi-fi unit with all kinds of fancy buttons and diodes :-) May all who succumbed here on that fateful day of September 11, 2001 rest in peace...
Even if the WTC was desgined with function over form. I personally feel that it was ingenious to make it a twin. i cant imagine if it was just a single tower on it own. somehow it definately look much stronger as twins which makes the symmetrical design quite satisfying to watch.
No day shall erase you from the memory of time
I'm a New Yorker i miss them
Hola, Me Encantaría Conocer Nueva York, Es Tan Linda Esa Ciudad, Me Gustaría Ir Al Sitio En Donde Estuvieron Las Torres Gemelas :(
I miss the twin towers and pre-9/11 America 😪
Regan MacBannon Mason that is awesome! I visited them in 1993 as a kid and remember that they were massive in person yet sort of friendly. The observation deck was so high everything looked like toys. After 9/11 I had nightmares about being trapped in the tower, but I wanted them to be rebuilt. I’m sad this didn’t happen, maybe somewhere in New York someone will rebuild them someday, but I think the best tribute would have been to rebuild them it might have been a little traumatic for some but I think in time it would be very healing.
Regan MacBannon Mason yeah they left a lasting impression on me! I didn’t realize how many people actually worked in them until years later. We visited in July of 93. I always wanted to go back again one day. It’s the oddest thing, but in the summer of 2001, I remember randomly thinking about the twin towers again and even checked out a book about them from the library. I had this vague feeling of unease, and when school started back in September, it had been a beautiful summer, and I remember looking at the book of pictures of the towers and comparing the ones we took on our visit. But I had this strange feeling that something was wrong, I couldn’t place it it was just a vague unnerving feeling. On 9/11 I was home from college that day and was watching the Today Show. Around 8 am I stepped out on my parents’ porch and looked up at the sky it was a beautiful blue, even in Ky where I live, and thought what a beautiful morning. I stepped back inside to watch the Today Show and suddenly they cut in with the news and I watched the entire horrific thing on tv. When the second plane hit, I panicked. I called my aunt and my mom and didn’t know what was happening. I was horrified and later saw people jumping out of the north tower. I was very traumatized and I felt personally violated by what happened. Maybe because I felt the towers were a small part of me or some connection to them, but I cried, and was so upset that I shut down emotionally for years and could not express my emotions anymore. The tragedy was overwhelming. To this day I can talk about it but it’s still raw when I see the images again. And I’m still very angry about it. I don’t feel enough was done. In a strange way I feel if the towers had been rebuilt it would have healed a lot of wounds because to see them again, to touch them or to just feel their presence like I did as a kid would be really therapeutic at least for me. I like to remember them the way they were not on that day
Regan MacBannon Mason what’s the name of your book I’d like to check it out
Back then u can say bomb in airplane joke 🤔 without worrying maybe a little idk
Yeah I feel bad you experience that man, but look at the bright side a least u got to see it the twin towers in person as a kid. I’m 18 and I wish those beautiful buildings weren’t hit and still around so that I could’ve visited them but, god bless America and the people who lost their lives that day prayers for them and our American hero’s who found and saved the lives of some people after the disaster.🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🙏🏻🙏🏻 “we will never forget”
Unfortunately New York will never be the same without these buildings.
True maybe this buildings will never came back but with a little more support we can rebuild one of the greatest buildings in U.S.A
America will never be the same without these buildings. Maybe even the whole world
RIP Orio Palmer and all who we lost that day
That dude was amazing, he ran up a huge number of stairs with pounds of firefighting gear on his back.
They are so beautiful, particularly at night. A futuristic vertical city. They look bold and simple at first glance but so intricate in their detail.
I will certainly never forget.
The new one is ugly and lacks character b
Never heard this mix of Seven Cities... sounds super chill
I was born this year
We never see them again.
These were wonderful towers in the world.
This is the closest I can get to actually seeing them again
We miss you wtc and RIP to all the lives
I couldn't have cared less of what was happening on 9/11 the day it happened cuz I was so young and dumb when it happened. But I eventually became fascinated with these towers and the events that occurred that dreadful day. And seeing them captured like this over n over again is astonishing. The new 1WTC and it's efforts will never do these beauties justice. I almost wish they would have rebuilt them. That would have been something. Maybe that's just how I am. I also wanted my parent's to rebuild a replica of my childhood home that burnt down that was two hundred years old in which my dad restored (didn't happen). Maybe it's just me.
Very cool footage, they were definitely very proud looking buildings. What was this footage originally taken for? Some kind of movie or commercial or something along those lines?
Can't help but wonder what amazing footage would exist if they only stood a decade longer with the existence of HD digital camera's. Or for that matter, still stood here today.
The observation deck would have been made super modern and high tech today
I think we are very fortunate what happened at 911 happened before the smartphone. Over time, we (the world) will slowly only remember the best bits and forget the worst horrors of that day. I simply can't fathom a world were live streaming/video calls existed on that day.
I like how at night you can see people at the indoor observation center on floor 107 of #2, and the subdued lighting on the same floor inside #1 lets you know it's Windows.
YEAH! The Towers were sharing life with us!
Miss the Twin Towers. Wish they were still there. 😢😞
@Regan MacBannon Mason was you in the south Tower at 9/11?
@Regan MacBannon Mason thats very interesting i was only 2 years old, when it happen it.In wich floor you had your Office?
@Regan MacBannon Mason that is a great view. I couldn't conentrate on my work if i had a view like your describing. 😁
@Regan MacBannon Mason i was in New York last summer i saw the 9/11 museum and the north and southpool. It was really sad to see some things of the victims. The memorial was beautiful and immpressive. I also was on top of one world trade center but this building don't deserve this name. WTC will never be the same.
This was a year before I was born, unreal how that seemed like ages ago
They were so beautiful ❤️🥺
My childhood.. I miss the Twin Towers
Thank you so much for this video, the retro wave music fits perfect…like a distant memory full of nostalgia.
Eran perfectas, hermosas e imponentes, una obra maestra de la arquitectura y el simbolo de NY, sin ellas N.Y. ya no fue la misma.
music is so strong
was born in '88, & watching this 35 yrs after rec. has a weird feeling
AHHH YAH NIIICE..The Twins Never LOOKED So GOOD...I Do Really Miss Em Both Like CRAZZZY...I Was A VOL. FIREFIGHTER FOR ENGINE 54/TRUCK 4/BAT. 9 MIDTOWN SUMMERS: '95-'07...I'm Also a 911 Survivor..We Lost 34 Guys TOTAL in Our Whole BATTALION That DARK TRAGIC Day..22 Recovered..12 NEVER RECOVERED..If ME N MY PARTNER D.T. Spent 15-20 MIN. More in the South TOWER...I Wouldn't be Here at the Moment Sharing this...STAY SAFE EVERYONE...LONG LIVE THE TOWERS AND KEEP EM BOTH CLOSE TO YOUR HEARTS..PEACE✌✌
I envy those who had the luck of see those 2 in person.
Me too 😔
i was at the top of the one without the antena in may of 2001, it was the day before my 22 birthday. The most beautiful view ever imagined.
Then why is yer pfp the neW one ? :P
Pode crer! 😢
@@mrandrossguy9871 That's the hottie Hugh Dancy, not some stupid building, dk what you're taking about
Can I just thank you so much for this upload. I used to watch this video and listen to “Seven Cities” all the time when I was young.... ❤️
yes i watch it in 2008 when it was uploaded sadely its channel was closed and the video deleted fortunately i already downloaded it at the time with all my world trade center collection of photographs and videos then i uploaded it again to keep it alive , thanks !
Great song choice, I was just a year old during this footage, amazing
Life was innocent and normal back in NYC in 1988 at the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center
life was never innocent quit being so naive ... For a start New York was a hell hole before these were built ... Ever heard of the mafia
Awsome buildings but even more awesome at night so miss those Towers 😢😢😭😭
1988 i was 19 years old, i miss those towers
Love this video and I can't stoop watching it.
1988...my birth year ☺❤
I have never visited America, but I used to watch it on television in the past. They are two beautiful towers and an icon of New York City. We are truly losing it. I hope they are built for me. The beautiful old New York returns. The beautiful city deserves beauty with the presence of the two towers.
Beautiful Towers 👍👍👍
Along with the 110-floor Twin Towers, numerous other buildings at the World Trade Center site were destroyed or badly damaged, including WTC buildings 3 through 7 and St. Nicholas Greek Orthodox Church.The North Tower, South Tower, the Marriott Hotel and 7 WTC were destroyed. The U.S. Customs House (6 World Trade Center), 4 World Trade Center, 5 World Trade Center, and both pedestrian bridges connecting buildings were severely damaged. The Deutsche Bank Building (still popularly referred to as the Bankers Trust Building) on 130 Liberty Street was partially damaged and demolished some years later, starting in 2007.The two buildings of the World Financial Center also suffered damage.The last fires at the World Trade Center site were extinguished on December 20, exactly 100 days after the attacks.
И все это случайно произошло. Вы вообще действительно верите что макаки могут просто так захватить штурвал пассажирского лайнера, управлять им спокойно и направить идеально в здание даже если оно большое, почему бл...ять вообще не был сбит второй самолёт, если если было понятно понятно что он захвачен, и у вас такая охерительная военная авиация и пво, что вообще это нахрен были за "самолёты"? Если даже у вас устал метал в башнях 1 и 2 из-за чего они обвалились на мелкие части ещё в воздухе при падении
( что в принципе не возможно при такой конструкции), что бы просто под фундамент центральные балки все сложились, та какого хрена упало здание wtc 7, в него то вообще никакой самолёт не влетал и там конструкция здания немного другая, из-за пожара, единственный случай в истории когда металлические конструкции обваливались после пожаров был, угадайте когда, не поверите, 11 сентября 2001 года
What a beautiful video. The music with the amazing scenes of the Twin Towers, really is mesmerising 🙌❤️🙏
Forever iconic
The new building is actually smaller in Size than the Twin towers where. Smaller less floors, much smaller at the top, Freedom tower it doesn't stand out in the skyline anymore, Hudson yards and all the new glass towers with similar height, it's just another glass tower like many others in New York. Shame the true icons wasn't rebuild.
im with you, I dispise the new design, its awful looking, theyre just making it look like the rest of these buildings today, the world trade centers stood out for the simplicity they had, and i do agree with trumps purposal of rebuilding them bigger and stronger, it would have been a massive middle finger to the terrorist who did these awful attacks
Or it would have just been a target that they also took down.
I agree. It is just like another tall building like all the others that have been built. Doesn't seem to me to pay tribute to those lost that day. Even if they had done something smaller but yet the same look. I thought of maybe an outline in lights; same size and spot of the Twin Towers would symbolize them and pay tribute
Beautiful.
Viva America.
Love America.
I want the buildings back!
@Sturm Art the towers had 100 some floors and they started the construction in the 1960's, so the building would be out of date but the new one doesn't look nice and just doesn't feel like NY but Miami, so what I'm saying is that they could've rebuilt the WTC plaza and tower's with new coding but kept the original shape and outside look
@@yousuckballsjaja Who' want to be high up in the new rebuild after this ... The anxiety would be high
There are uploads on UA-cam saying the same. Key in Twin Towers II. I mss them so much too
Life 1988 was good in my childhood at age 9
When NYC was a SERIOUS city with law and order. God Bless The World Trade Center!
Why so many lights on at night??? .... Did they work through the night here
One world trade center is beautiful ❤️, took getting used to. The twin towers iconic. Built 1973.. Actually a young sky scraper . never forget 😭
The were only 17 years old, AMAZING!!!!!!!!
15 actually. It was built in 1973.
@@thisisgone8691 no idea what both of you guys are on, the world trade centers were only 28 years old, do some math for christ sakes 28+1973 is 2001.
@@2500curbstomperyou're the one who's actually wrong here. This video is about the towers in 1988, 15 years after it was built in 1973. They were talking about old the towers were in 1988, not 2001 when they were destroyed you dumbf*ck.
@@2500curbstomperit makes you look stupid for saying "no idea what both of you guys are on" while the title and video is about the towers in 1988, and the people here in the comment section were just commenting about it. How about you use your goddamn brain instead of doing math on a calculator and trying to seem superior.
L💜VE ....L 🙏VE. IT GOD BLESS UU ALL ...💞🙏💞
I'm crying...
A hihetetlen Iker Tornyok!!
beautiful buildings they where .
Soo beautifull. I never tire watching the Towers 😍sad, they are gone.
Nothing can replace them or match their enchanting power on me😥
I try to get to know all the people who died through survivors stories. And send them as much love and respect as I can. I Will never forget. I hope humanity Will never allow such meaningless and destructive terror ever again.
Please God🥺🙏🙏🙏 help humanity to grow up and Think about the future in a better Way
No more armageddon please😔
No more fear based control
Just smart and thoughtfull optimism and cooperation and responsible action
......😽
Absolutely beautiful
What interests me as a Brit is that we can categorically say "floors 91-97 were the impact zone in the south tower" etc but to me it is a continuous grey pattern. Is there small detail i overlook which gives away which floors are positioned where?
i mean, you can count them manually. but most people got their sources from, you know, the people inside the towers.
So innocent the early 2000s
Couldn't agree more with you
És dos Açores se fores sou da parte continental
This buildings were the whole representation of the 80s,90s and a bit of 00s and after the atacks the world was not the same
^ 70's too.. And we're being built late 60's. This footage is from 1988
Just subscribed to your channel. Those twin towers were absolutely beautiful! Wish I could have seen them in person. After 9/11 I had made 2 sets of twin towers out of plastic canvas
3:33 - every light represents a window behind which countless people were working, meeting one another, creating connections between each other, building relationships, many stories that could be told..... Now it is all gone. These towers should have been rebuilt - taller, stronger - as the tallest buildings in the world once again - to send a message - if you try to fight us we grow taller and stronger.
I love wtc
Who wouldn't?
They looked so good at night with the lights on
waste of electricity
Fotos, videos, realidad virtual por ahora, es lo más cercano que se puede estar a esas Torres, el memorial, pero el futuro esta lleno de posibilidades
"The Closest anyone of us will reach Heaven"....
-1970s World Trade center advertisement.
You would think that with all the effort put into getting shots of the towers from that perspective, they would have used some high quality equipment to capture the moment. Before anyone replies, there were excellent cameras available, even back then.
eran preciosas
Это лучшие годы в мире. 👍
What?
Basically not having the WTC in NYC is just like if San Francisco did not have the Golden Gate Bridge it just not the same city without certain city landmarks. 😥😥😥😥😰😰😰😰😭😭😭
I'm pretty sure as a 12 year old. I'm the only one in my whole class that knows what the world trade center was and used to be. Very sad that these buildings are gone.
hey man youre not alone, im 15 and 100% sure im the only one besides my teachers who knows about 9/11
I appreciate the younger generation who understands the importance of the World Trade Center and the tragedy of 9/11. Unfortunately, only a small percentage of people do, 9/11 is considered a meme now and the twin towers are being forgotten, only remembered as the buildings that were hit by airplanes, not what they should be remembered for.
Awesome video and music.
1988. Donnie Darko.
September 11th 1988 was 156 months before the event.
I still need to watch Donnie Darko. Do I need to remember this timeframe when I watch the movie?
That amazing manhattan skyline is so much missed by all new Yorkers, and me ! I'm English -born and bred.and we have some wonderful buildings here. But I still miss those twin towers, and always will.
I miss you! 😢
Eran hermosas.........
I miss them
Before there was MetroTech cause then there would have been the Chase building and the trapezoid fitted roof building (1 MetroTech Center) which had the spiky blue lights building
Nice building !🙏
They r like human to me.how beautiful
Rod Schermerhorn. YUR RIGHT.LIKE TWIN BROTHERS
@Regan MacBannon Mason beautiful, how great!only if there was at least 2 of the new ones.2 makes more of a statement.
@Regan MacBannon Mason they should of put the windows of the world in the new one,but they didn't,at least.
They look amazing 😀😀😀😀
That was the summer of 1988 LAKERS won their 11th NBA CHAMPIONSHIP; 12 years later in 2000 they won their 12th NBA CHAMPIONSHIP.
Yup, they had to wait for Jordan to retire so they could get Phil Jackson.
And when crack/coke ran wild in NYC
🌟2022🌟😀👍.
как это было давно.. красота
Life was Innocent in 1988 and I was 9 years old
And we were helping the guy who did this kill Soviets.
lifes never been innocent
There was nothing innocent about 1988
@@rickhardman7376 Nature sure isn't
@@mrandrossguy9871 yup
Absolutely should have been rebuilt in an ideal world but if you want the real reason why they weren’t just remember it always always comes down to money and return on invested capital. At the time of 9/11 business were leaving lower manhattan and the WTC was never 100% full as it stood. It wasn’t a sensible financial prospect to spend billions rebuilding two absolutely massive structures with all that office space when they were never going to fill them again, solely through the general business trend away from downtown but then couple that with the fact that no business would want office space in an exact replica of two buildings that had already been attacked twice and would inevitably carry on being a massive target for terrorism. The Twin Towers being rebuilt but sitting largely empty would have been a great visual spectacle but haunting as hell and was never going to provide a return on investment.
Best city, best country in the world! Salute!
not anymore
@@aaronlane8276 Why so?
@@kuldar. Have you never noticed the political BS that has been going on since Joe Biden became President?
I have a question. If the Twin Towers were still standing today, would the observation deck platform on the South Tower's roof eventually had been closed down?
The observation deck platform on the South Tower's roof was only about 300 feet away from the North Tower's antenna. They did not allow visitors to the top of the North Tower because of the antenna there. The thought was they would get too much RF expose if they were that close for too long. If you're in close enough proximity for a certain length of time to that high of wattage of TV/radio signals, it can cause health problems.
Apparently, the South Tower was far enough away to safely allow visitors, hence the observation deck there.
Back in the 1970s, it was deemed safe to stand on the roof of 2 WTC, but in many videos, you can clearly hear and watch the radio interference. If you look at some videos taken on the observation, you can still hear analogue TV interference in their audio.
If the twin towers were built today, I don't believe that they would surely allow anyone on the roof of the South Tower because of those interferences.
Probably would be sued for Cancer rates among visitors
My guess is that the Observation Deck would still be open. It might have to be closed down temporarily for maintenance and renovations to keep it safe. But it brought in millions and people from all over the world came to visit and go there.
Not real buildings, lights, everything, just avatars in our brains, nothing was truly lost because they weren't really there to begin with. Good luck
Amazing views
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13 years later GONE FOREVER!!!
Because the architecture who made the freedom tower doesn't have experience
so beautiful - Allah o akber
Hehe
The devil you say !
9/11 on that day 3 buildings fell.. Still can't believe it.
23 Years old 😢