@Wayne96819 You're not sorry. The steel didn't become "brittle" (and the fact that you would use that word to describe structural steel should be proof enough that you have no idea what you're talking about). Steel loses a significant amount of its strength when exposed to high temperatures. It doesn't need to "melt" to fail structurally. The structural system of the twin towers was such that the trusses underneath the floor slabs provided the lateral support for the interior and exterior columns. Those trusses were not "thick", at least not as thick as the columns. When the trusses failed, the floors no longer provided the lateral support to the columns. A column's capacity to support weight is proportional to the square of its height. When a floor support failed, a column's effective height doubled, and its ability to support a load was reduced not in half, but to one quarter of its capacity. Now imagine you are asked to hold a 100 pound bucket above your head. Maybe you could do it. Now imagine you're suddenly placed inside a sauna, and out of nowhere that 100 pound bucket turned into a 400 pound bucket. Think you'd be able to do it? You don't have to answer, because I don't care what your answer is. I'm not replying to convince you. I'm replying to dispel your myths to anyone else who is curious about the truth.
@@PaveDearce good explanation, sounds about right :D But why (not directed to you), why the f do all these guys Discuss this below such comments thats waaaaay out of scope
I was a iron worker on both of those towers for 4 years. It was unfathomable how easily and quickly they came down after all of the time we worked on them. On windy days they would sway back and forth, nothing like it being up that high to experience that feeling.
dang, how old are you? They were built in the early 70s. I could only imagine being up that high working in a building. Tallest building I did work on was 3 floors.
I’m sliding to the freedom tower next weekend and going to the 102nd floor. I wish I was able to experience the original WTC. I was only 6. Didn’t move to nyc till 10 years later
@Joseph Hinton super nano thermite was used. That's why the fires at the site lasted for months. Go on and look that up. No regular fire lasts for months. This was done by a Middle Eastern group alright, but it was not the Muslims. No planes were used. "WHAT????" No planes were used. Go on and rewatch all of the "impacts" and notice how the gray United Airlines planes are completely black, computer black. Also, while rewatching the "impacts," watch them at the slowest speed possible. CGI was at it's infancy those days.
and this goes for 1950s, 60s and so on it's due to the recording technology of each decade that strips the tiny differences that allow us to differentiate between persons
Construction is always a dangerous and physical job, Can you imagine doing this type of work 8 to 10 hours a day, 5 to 6 sometimes 7 days a week. Construction workers never get consideration and respect as they should!!
I’m just glad that I got to see them in person before they were gone. It was 1995 on a school bus trip from Atlanta to various sites in New York, Connecticut, and Massachusetts; I guess we called it a “History Trip”. We were were planning on doing our actual Manhattan visit on the way back from Boston, but we stopped, for some leg stretching, at the 'Liberty Science Center', right across the Hudson River from Lower Manhattan. It was a beautiful day and those buildings were just massive, looming overhead. They were magnificent! If we hadn’t have stopped there that day I never would have seen them, for as we came back through, for the 'New York City' leg of our journey, it was right when Category 4 Hurricane 'Opal' was creeping up the 'Gulf of Mexico' covering the entire eastern seaboard in heavy clouds. We went to the top of the 'Empire State Building' and saw absolutely nothing, it was like standing in a fog machine. So I’m grateful for that one beautiful sunny day, standing relatively close to where those towers stood, in the gleaming rays of light.
At 2:09 the name Cathy is visible. I was an iron worker apprentice with Local 580 and Cathy was my girlfriend when I painted this. Today Cathy and I have been married 45 years.
Thomas, congratulations on both you and Cathy, after so many years after you was on it constructing it , it must have been heartbreaking seeing in destroyed years later.
My father was an iron worker on the trade center. I watched this video to maybe see if he was in it somewhere. He died in 2008. I was on the phone with him when the first tower came down. He was literally speechless like all of us. I know it went beyond just the tragedy for him and all the other workers who helped build it.
True, the construction workers must have been sick to the bone when they came down. I know I would have been. It was awful enough seeing it on TV alone.
Those towers weren't only architectural and engineering masterpieces but also exquisitely beautiful in their simplicity and symmetry. I miss seeing them as part of the skyline
ROWAN VAN AS It wouldn’t be worth it. For a few reasons. The towers designs would’ve had to be severely edited. They would’ve costed more money. And NYC didn’t need two towers. It was really hard for the WTC One to find clients to rent floors in the first place , so two towers at 1,000+ would’ve costed more money than worth. NYC also didn’t have enough money to built two twin towers. And we should rebuilt differently, and change. Show the terrorists that we are strong and rebuild. And not just build the same exact buildings in the same place. Also people would be traumatized by seeing the same towers again.
@@WOWTODAZ There was a hot debate if they should be rebuilt. What they should look like. Should they be bigger? Should it be the same design? ETC They instead built just one building with a more modern design next to the original and made it the symbolic 1776 feet in height.
Vinicius Drummond yes but not with the current software now such as AutoCAD, allowing an easier way to design this entire structure 😂 this project was a milestone quit being a smartass
Two very elegant buildings. I visited the south tower in 1992 and was astonished. The turbo elevater lifted us up to the las t floor within one minute. Unbelievable! Sad what happened.
These guys were hanging off the edge and weren't even wearing any harnesses because occupational health and safety organizations weren't a thing back then. Surprised their balls didn't bend the steel beams.
I was there when the hole was being dug for the foundation. I was there when the buildings were being erected. I saw the second plane hit and I saw both buildings collapse.
@Senor Frog Now that's conspiracy.... Lmao no wonder people always telling you to go wear your tinfoil hat... Why not use science and engineering instead...
Ah, I see insanity is still upon us in society! How obscure of you to make such remarkable and impossible points to a conspiracy theory that couldn’t impossibly be real. The points are absurd, and too complicated for their time, however I respect your opinion on the matter, as we all have free will to believe what we wish,
My Grandfather helped build the North Tower he was one of many thousands of workers high in the sky. Very smart man Then he washed the windows high in the sky in the 1970’s. Then he seen 9-11-2001. Broke his heart, it broke all of are hearts. I miss him. 😢 RIP to all!
heartbreaking to watch this incredible documentary about this almost unimaginable feat of engineering.. knowing what happened in 2001. It had to have been soul crushing to every man who worked on this project seeing what became of their years of backbreaking work. God bless the construction and iron workers and every man who put his heart & soul into his work on this magnificent project.
It not a spoiler. Everyone know that World Trade Center destroy in 9/11. By looking the map in New York today, you see that people who born in 80s and 90s know that old World Trade Center have been gone and replace with new future World Trade Center.
Tues 2001...Im working in the marketing field....we were calling on an automatic dial up to business to business I clearly remember people getting upset saying why are u calling to sell us your service the wtc been attacked...well every1 at work got sent home...I and a female co worker named vanessa said let get out of here and play pool in time we ended up getting married had two children...life is wonderful people..your feelings are always considered...remember that. R.I.P WTC
My girlfriend was at work, some thirty miles south of Manhattan, for a company selling their 'service' and the manager in the office that day insisted she carry on even as the majority of their customer base either did not answer the phone or couldn't be bothered. More than a few times on September 11, 2001 she was asked, "Don't you know what's happening?" Where I was working back then we listened on the radio to the ABC TV News network feed as Peter Jennings kept us informed as to what little was then known. Our business ships auto parts in the North Eastern Zone and _nothing_ went north of New Brunswick, New Jersey, for three days after September 11, 2011.
2nd Time Around ...people had to die for your children to be born. I’m a late child. My parents decided they need a second kid. Because someone they knew has lost his only son. Someone had to die in a ski accident in Austria so that I could be born. I don’t even know his name. :/
@@papichulohoy The you tuber in question never mentioned his or her sex ,,, only one thing female co-worker,, we cannot conject anything from this,,,, It's ambiguous
One of the biggest icons of NYC, you knew what city it was when you saw those towers, beautiful buildings, providing a breathtaking view of Manhattan and the Hudson Bay, wish they were still here
I remember when I was a kid riding thru Manhattan, it's was thunderstorming and the wind was crazy, u could see the towers swaying, it's was the coolest thing, trees looked like they was gonna fall but not the towers, till this day I still remember it like it was yesterday, it was amazing, no good bastards knocked down my favorite buildings..
@@dame5079 its ok but nothing can compare to the twins, just on how massive the area was, 2 of the world's tallest buildings, identical side by side, nobody in the world was doing like that, now every country in the world has super tall buildings that look better then ours. That day hurt & broke us in so many ways
@@nothaviniteither Yup! The unimaginable beauty in two of the most simplistic looking buildings! The design inside and out was so interesting I could have spent hours just exploring the area
@@elainejones9299 Titanic sinking couldve been easily prevented if captain Smith and the crew had listened to the 20 something ice warnings... Plus they were going at full speed.
@@Gencturk92 ummm no it wasn't... The buildings were flawed. The trusses gave way and the outer perimeter columns started to bow inwards and eventually buckled starting the collapse and fell away from the building in large sections. The trusses were bolted to the perimeter walls and all that needed to happen was for those bolts to fail and break... Without the floors and outer columns the core couldnt support itself. Once the collapse started it couldnt stop.
There's something so majestic yet scary about skyscrapers. Just looking at the sheer scale of the WTC and the number of people crammed onto each floor, you cannot imagine the terror in people's minds on the day of 9/11. Imagine knowing that you're going to die and you have to pick one of two options... being burnt and crushed or jumping out of a window. Utterly horrific.
This documentary was made in 1973, the year that the towers were completed. ***Correction: This documentary was in fact made in 1983, commemorating the 10th Anniversary of the completion of the World Trade Center***
Beautiful buildings. The amount of work involved in preparation, foundations, structure, internal fitting out, telecoms, etc. is absolutely phenomenal: all whilst allowing neighbouring infrastructure to continue unaffected throughout.
All I can say is God Bless all those involved in the design and construction of these amazing feats of achievements. As a native NY'er and a former IBEW member, I can say my heart has never healed from the tragic evil that took the innocent lives and hard work of many. My solace is the fact that we as humans can persevere. Never forgotten, always in our hearts.
@@AntiMasonic93 yeah youre a off there bud, and i mean way off Those were passenger planes. 4 in total, 2 into the towers, one to the pentagon and the last near white house (i think)
@Jennifer Rissetti Really funny how Trump is blamed for everything that goes on. Even when not in office. I guess we should blame the next event on George Washington, and his "liberal" people. Grow up, get a life and deal with it. If not able to, maybe N. Korea or China has a place for you.
28 years seems so little , i'm from 1973 myself . kinda bizarre to think about it , I'm old now . soon it will be gone longer than it existed . time really flies
These guys that built this ..........They put in some back breaking hard labor imo & years of it. What a beautiful trophy of a building. Mammoth & awesome
New Yorkers hated it initially because it was a sleek modern design in a city where skyscrapers were iconic like the Chrysler Building and the Empire State. However, it wasn't long before we embraced the unique structures as our own!
Imagine seeing these amazing buildings next to the new One World Trade Center. It would be an amazing sight. Let’s have a moment of silence for the people who lost there lives in 9/11
Jonny Danger...working in the steel or construction industry wasn’t easy during that era....living in NY isn’t easy...not dramatization...with out those men the twin towers wouldn’t of existed..all the architect did was design it...but it took “LABOR” to produce it...and as most high rises, accidental deaths along with it
Jesus, I'm a structural welder and there were clips of guys pre heating some huge bevels for field welding. All done with SMAW / Stick welding, such a shame what greed, envy, money, revenge, and selfishness can do to people, the amount of mental and physical labor that goes into these buildings or any sort of tangible structure is under appreciated.
@12weasel100 I was pointing out how much labor went into the welding, and building. I was also pointing out that those buildings were toppled because of greed, envy and selfishness.
Tuesday, 9/11/2001 was the worse day for new York. Today 17 years later, Tuesday 9/11/2018. American is still and will forever remember and grieve for those lost ones that where never properly laid to rest
Melissa Goode I'm in Melbourne. I still clearly remember waking up on the morning of the 12th, getting ready for school, eating my cereal, and wondering why Cheez TV Pokemon and Dragon Ball Z wasn't on and instead watching my two favourite towers get blown to bits. Remember it like it was last week.
The admiration for the ingenuity and courage of these men from this time is obvious, but to be fair this is all modern crap. Men weren't supposed to live in such synthetic environment, no sign of nature at all, and this was in 70's, New York was already very urbanized much early. Just look at the city in general, it's fuckin ugly concrete jungle, there's no beauty in all of this, be genuine and tell that the streets of NY isn't something filthy and disgusting. Still the efforts of these men are commendable for sure.
Those killers not only killed the innocent people but also attempted to destroy the hard labor, intelligence, passion, bold spirit that went into building those incredible skyscrapers. Those buildings were iconic. They looked so unique that none of the new constructions have been able to imitate them, not a bit. No matter how tall countries tried to build new high-rises across the globe, they just don’t give the same feeling that these beautiful Twin Towers did…
@@Dreamformeable their country did crimes doesn't mean they did crime too, they are still innocent people and need respect, please try to find the differences between the citizen and the goverment
@@HeiZuKa So now you are playing the ignorant card with me? So if i give you a knife and tell you go kill this man. Who is to blame here?? Me or you? Or both? So the American soldiers who invaded countries, murderd inoocent children and women and raped women. And killed millions around the world is innocent? Because it the goverment who told them to do so right?? Its the govermnet fault only?? Its that what you saying??? Why is it you western always try to find excuse for the crimes of the west?? Why cant you jyst admit...i mean we all know what the Americans have done anyway....
@11:25 you can see the tarps used to keep the fireproofing (asbestos) overspray contained. Just imagine how much Asbestos went all over the lower east side of Manhattan from the overspray that wasn't contained. @12:32 you can see the Asbestos sprayed column on the right side of the screen.
Watching the aerial/high level pictures gave me a vertigo attack, it’s a horrible feeling, especially when you consider my military service involved flying at altitude quite a lot, but ever since retiring I can’t stand to be two feet of the ground let alone 20,000 feet. Hats of to the brave and skilled steel workers, not many could do it. Thanks for sharing this interesting and informative film 🎥. 👍
Its weird going into that museum knowing that what I am standing in was last really seen by the people who built the place and was never meant to be seen after the place was built.
Pretty amazing to see the construction of these buildings, seeing these very talented and brave workers is pretty cool. Wasn't alive to see the buildings myself but I have been to the memorial but judging by the fountains, they must've been massive buildings.
@@StocksIn60Seconds Ahhh. So we hear from another member of the truther tribe.. Tell me.... What FACTS are you using to form the opinion that I'm a ""sheep""?
I've been in Commercial construction for many years. I'm a Sprinkler Man. Not uncommon to be on same job for a year or two. I call it seeing it COME OUT OF THE GROUND. I remember every building I worked on from Ground Up. Running Standpipe, Core Drilling Ect... The best feeling is TOPPING OFF PARTIES. every construction worker at least commercial knows this. A lot of people had their hard work involved in Twin Towers building them . But they got it done. Something to be proud of. Yes they are gone but no construction worker could see that coming. I feel proud of buildings I've worked in.
I took a photo of the towers when I was visiting in the late 80’s...the photo hangs in my bedroom to this day. God bless America and all the lives and families lost on that terrible day.❤️✝️🇺🇸🙏
I took the photo while riding the ferry. The Statue of Liberty and the New York sky line is in the photo but it was cloudy that day..so I doubt it would show up clearly. There was a lot of smog around the twin towers which gave a ghostly appearance to the towers. Always love visiting New York and haven’t been back since that horrible day....
I’ve always liked the towers. I’ve stood between them looking up but never went in. I hate heights and never been up any big tower in NYC. These were elegantly designed and beautiful to look at
It’s really just cruel irony, such a huge magnificent undertaking that took decades creating one of the coolest technological marvels of the United States, only to be completely erased away. The new WTC is a sad imitation, it doesn’t even come close to capturing the grandeur of the original, just a shame the country back then would undertake these big and bold challenges and nowadays we shirk at everything like rebuilding the World Trade Center or dreaming big.
Why rebuild it? The old complex was never profitable and suffered from chronically low occupancy rates. It would be kinda silly to rebuild it exactly as it was. Not to mention the new tower has a more modern aesthetic than the aggressively 70s appearance of the old towers. And finally, the thing that made the old towers grand wasn't their own design. The design was extremely basic. No, what made the towers grand was their sheer height. At 1,400 feet, they were significantly higher than any other tower in the city. Excluding 1WTC, there are now 4 towers in Manhattan that stand as tall or taller than the old WTC towers. If they stood today, they'd be two towers in a crowd. Mega skyscrapers are often built as d-measuring contests. The US has nothing to prove. So why not build something that is actually practical and reasonable?
World Trade Center Building complex Area: 16 acres Owner: Port Authority of New York and New Jersey Groundbreaking: August 5, 1966 Destroy date: September 11, 2001 Inaugurated: April 4, 1973 Architects: Minoru Yamasaki, Emery Roth
You know a cool thing about them is that at the bottom, if you stood right on the corner stuck to the wall and then looked up, it would be as if the tower was gonna fall on you and you could se it sway a little.
@Your Daddy Slays Them To Death Haha that is your answer to all the crimes fucking America has done??? "everybody has killed" Really?? ahahah you fucking western have an excuse for everything ha.....fucking idiots
Beautiful video! I could have watched this for hours. When they came down, my wife was nearly 9 months pregnant and we held each other and watched in horror, wondering what kind of world we were about to bring our baby girl into. We didn’t share this with her until she was 5 years old, unable to find the language to explain. During that period we flew with her several times, an experience which for her was free of fear.
The foundation work for these towers was crazy let alone the entire building. I’m a trades man myself and would of loved to work on these towers, truly mind blowing when you know how much work went into the towers
For those who are wondering, the background music was written by Tony Hymas. This particular tune is called the 'outward urge' if I remember correctly. Quite fitting music to the WTC. Both products represent the ultimate expression of architectural and musical modernism.
@@Introvert_2001 no luck so far at my end, unfortunately :/ i've been digging a lot and found simmilar music, but not this specific one. it plays in my head everytime i see a big construction site :) i'll notify you if i find it, please do the same :)
I LOVE these videos!! So much better than watching them fall but makes it even more heartbreaking after seeing the work, the pride and death even of the men who built them !!! Can you imagine being one of the guys who helped build them to watch them fall within seconds ?!?!
I can't believe that the structural calculations needed for these towers where made by computers whose power was less than our cell phones. Unbelievable.
This is one of the stupidest "good ol' days" comments i've ever seen. Modern skyscrapers and buildings in general look a lot better, are more efficient to build, are more enviroment friendly, are more energy efficient, are safer in a case of an emergency and avoiding the emergency in the first place etc etc
Kanat Makhanov Well, “fun fact” the reason the one wtc is designed with 8 walls like that is cause to respect the twin towers, since each building had 4 walls.
The fact that some of these workers died during the construction process just for them to be destroyed is sad… rip to everyone who lost their lives on the tragic day of September 11, 2001. And rip to the construction works who also lost their lives.
I remember my first time on the observation deck, and the crazy fast elevator to get there! It’s still incredible to me that the footprint of each building was one acre. Hard for me to fathom they’re got at times.
Really interesting document, thank you for uploading. I see it's really hard for some people to realize, that 1983 is probably the year this document was made.
Just for clarification, this video was released in 1983, but it was shot in 1970-1973. The towers construction was completed and the buildings opened in 73.
Watching this, and watching videos on the building of 2 other twins, The 2 White Star Ocean Liners, named RMS Olympic, and RMS Titanic, followed by Britannic (which also sank) , is harrowing, both the Twin Towers, and the ships were massive for their time, and engineering masterpieces taking 1000's of men , and multi years to build, breaking new ground for size, and complexity , both would meet tragic ends, almost 90 years apart
That's life we built for years just a seconds, minutes or an hour it could be destroy. This is fallen World no permanent standing still. All are temporary things.
Imagine building these buildings for 6 years, only for it to be destroyed within one hour
@Wayne96819 exactly
Destroyed by own country u forgot to wrote.
Wayne96819 because fire is hot plus thousands of gallons of fuel means big boom boom. Which means big big fire. Which means hot hot hot
@Wayne96819 You're not sorry.
The steel didn't become "brittle" (and the fact that you would use that word to describe structural steel should be proof enough that you have no idea what you're talking about). Steel loses a significant amount of its strength when exposed to high temperatures.
It doesn't need to "melt" to fail structurally.
The structural system of the twin towers was such that the trusses underneath the floor slabs provided the lateral support for the interior and exterior columns. Those trusses were not "thick", at least not as thick as the columns.
When the trusses failed, the floors no longer provided the lateral support to the columns.
A column's capacity to support weight is proportional to the square of its height. When a floor support failed, a column's effective height doubled, and its ability to support a load was reduced not in half, but to one quarter of its capacity.
Now imagine you are asked to hold a 100 pound bucket above your head. Maybe you could do it.
Now imagine you're suddenly placed inside a sauna, and out of nowhere that 100 pound bucket turned into a 400 pound bucket.
Think you'd be able to do it?
You don't have to answer, because I don't care what your answer is. I'm not replying to convince you. I'm replying to dispel your myths to anyone else who is curious about the truth.
@@PaveDearce good explanation, sounds about right :D
But why (not directed to you), why the f do all these guys Discuss this below such comments thats waaaaay out of scope
I wonder how the surviving workers felt to see it destroyed
herobrine slenderman probably the same way every American felt. Shocked, angry, and afraid
"Damnit! My welding was really good too"
Isn’t there one of them rebuilt an another one planned ?
John Seed but not good enough.
To see greedy money hungry corrupt government destroy it? Terrified
I wish I was able to time travel back in time to see how pretty these towers were
Yeah I never got to see them 😢😢
Yeah my dad does only, not me 😭
Same
Brayan Gamez
I was fortunate enough to visit the towers in the early 80's.
The view from the top was amazing.
@@christineadams1284 Nice
I was a iron worker on both of those towers for 4 years. It was unfathomable how easily and quickly they came down after all of the time we worked on them. On windy days they would sway back and forth, nothing like it being up that high to experience that feeling.
I respect u sir
dang, how old are you? They were built in the early 70s. I could only imagine being up that high working in a building. Tallest building I did work on was 3 floors.
I’m sliding to the freedom tower next weekend and going to the 102nd floor. I wish I was able to experience the original WTC. I was only 6. Didn’t move to nyc till 10 years later
Read Dr. Judy Woods' book, "Where Did the Towers Go? Evidence of Directed Free Energy on 9/11." It might answer your question.
@Joseph Hinton super nano thermite was used. That's why the fires at the site lasted for months. Go on and look that up. No regular fire lasts for months.
This was done by a Middle Eastern group alright, but it was not the Muslims.
No planes were used. "WHAT????"
No planes were used. Go on and rewatch all of the "impacts" and notice how the gray United Airlines planes are completely black, computer black. Also, while rewatching the "impacts," watch them at the slowest speed possible.
CGI was at it's infancy those days.
I feel like every TV narrator prior to the 90s is the same person
I slhear similar voice in 70s Cadillac market
I firmly belive it WAS the exact same person, a pure flaming conspiracy, let's hear it for the tin-foil-hat brigade!!!!
9years to build......... 9 seconds to destroy.......R.I.P. ALL 911 VICTIMS, AND THEIR FAMILY'S......
and this goes for 1950s, 60s and so on
it's due to the recording technology of each decade that strips the tiny differences that allow us to differentiate between persons
GHOSTintheshell that had nothing to do with the comment you replied to
Construction is always a dangerous and physical job, Can you imagine doing this type of work 8 to 10 hours a day, 5 to 6 sometimes 7 days a week. Construction workers never get consideration and respect as they should!!
in my country, construction team worked 12-17 hour/day, 13day/2week working
Ya I just got off a 21 day shift 12h a day. Great money! Keeps you motivated
Joe Jaramillo they make great money and can say “I built that”
at the end working in the trade center turned out to be more dangerous than working on it
Hear hear!
Absolutely spot on
And the older you get the harder it gets
I’m just glad that I got to see them in person before they were gone. It was 1995 on a school bus trip from Atlanta to various sites in New York, Connecticut, and Massachusetts; I guess we called it a “History Trip”. We were were planning on doing our actual Manhattan visit on the way back from Boston, but we stopped, for some leg stretching, at the 'Liberty Science Center', right across the Hudson River from Lower Manhattan. It was a beautiful day and those buildings were just massive, looming overhead. They were magnificent! If we hadn’t have stopped there that day I never would have seen them, for as we came back through, for the 'New York City' leg of our journey, it was right when Category 4 Hurricane 'Opal' was creeping up the 'Gulf of Mexico' covering the entire eastern seaboard in heavy clouds. We went to the top of the 'Empire State Building' and saw absolutely nothing, it was like standing in a fog machine. So I’m grateful for that one beautiful sunny day, standing relatively close to where those towers stood, in the gleaming rays of light.
Does anyone else feel weird when you see them in a movie from pre-2001
A little weird
New Jack City
Very weird.
nostalgic
Customwinder 1 friends
They started planning the world trade center construction in 1943 and opened in 1973
Naww they planned it at 1939
Cookie No they planned it in the 15th century
September 19 so it was not built in 1983?
September 19 Can you BELIVE that??!?!? 30 WHOLE YEARS TO PLAN!!
No they started planning it for John f Kennedy in 1964 because he said he wanted to build a skyscraper and it was also to pay tribute to him
It took 10 years to plan and plan then build but it took 120 minutes for it all to come down
Pigo man 65 Yeah it’s just so easy for buildings to stay standing after a flying plane crashes into them
Only took 10 seconds for it to be demolished
It never even existed. Was just a hologram. Both of them.
Liam Collier I hope your joking lol.
@@wvjayy Of course I am. 🙄
At 2:09 the name Cathy is visible. I was an iron worker apprentice with Local 580 and Cathy was my girlfriend when I painted this. Today Cathy and I have been married 45 years.
Rumour mongering
Thomas, congratulations on both you and Cathy, after so many years after you was on it constructing it , it must have been heartbreaking seeing in destroyed years later.
Damn
Can’t help but feel little sad watching this knowing the final history of this amazing buildings.
My father was an iron worker on the trade center. I watched this video to maybe see if he was in it somewhere. He died in 2008. I was on the phone with him when the first tower came down. He was literally speechless like all of us. I know it went beyond just the tragedy for him and all the other workers who helped build it.
Your Dad did an amazing job !!!
Your dad was part of history. I can’t even imagine how devastated he must have felt during the 9/11😢
I just met a retired iron worker who worked on Newark Airport, among other jobs...
You meant your father passed away in 2008
Jesus, for being 70’s-80’s, they really making it feel like a 1930’s video.
True
I think these were built in the 60’s. Video came out in 80’s.
lol this looks like in the 90’s boy 😂
I was thinking the same!
@@valcc7797 1890's yeah
That’s incredibly sad, I’ve met construction workers and they take so much pride in the stuff they’ve built
I would like to be a construction worker for New York's skyscrapers but I'm afraid of heights lol.
True, the construction workers must have been sick to the bone when they came down. I know I would have been. It was awful enough seeing it on TV alone.
ah finally we built the world trade center. WHAT!!, WHAT DO YOU MEAN BY WE HAVE TO BUILD 2!?
You're so easy to punch
@mmyyaahh both of you
@@brickspace8617 I meant the old world trade centers, and how there were two of them
@@luke_is_i6392 oh. Sorry about that
“SON OF A CUSSING CUSS WORD!” Said worker 1.
Those towers weren't only architectural and engineering masterpieces but also exquisitely beautiful in their simplicity and symmetry. I miss seeing them as part of the skyline
i would have just rebuilt them if i was new york
ROWAN VAN AS It wouldn’t be worth it. For a few reasons. The towers designs would’ve had to be severely edited. They would’ve costed more money. And NYC didn’t need two towers. It was really hard for the WTC One to find clients to rent floors in the first place , so two towers at 1,000+ would’ve costed more money than worth. NYC also didn’t have enough money to built two twin towers. And we should rebuilt differently, and change. Show the terrorists that we are strong and rebuild. And not just build the same exact buildings in the same place. Also people would be traumatized by seeing the same towers again.
@@JakeT420 damn I didn’t even think bout this
@@JakeT420 Very well said
@@WOWTODAZ There was a hot debate if they should be rebuilt. What they should look like. Should they be bigger? Should it be the same design? ETC
They instead built just one building with a more modern design next to the original and made it the symbolic 1776 feet in height.
All done with paper and pencil not a computer. Amazing
That is amazing
They had computers back then.
Vinicius Drummond yes but not with the current software now such as AutoCAD, allowing an easier way to design this entire structure 😂 this project was a milestone quit being a smartass
@@pikinachu9850 He's not being a smartass there's a better chance computers were used in the maing of this building as the chance it wasn't.
In fact, the video even says CPM was used.
Two very elegant buildings. I visited the south tower in 1992 and was astonished. The turbo elevater lifted us up to the las t floor within one minute. Unbelievable! Sad what happened.
These guys were hanging off the edge and weren't even wearing any harnesses because occupational health and safety organizations weren't a thing back then.
Surprised their balls didn't bend the steel beams.
kovacs1080 Because feminists weren't retarded back then.
Only if their balls were aluminum could they damage the steel.
Vince Masuka Their balls weren’t made of jet fuel, that’s why.
Cristiano Torres Hilarious.
Alright, you dicks. 911 jokes are plane wrong.
I was there when the hole was being dug for the foundation. I was there when the buildings were being erected. I saw the second plane hit and I saw both buildings collapse.
That’s rough
@Senor Frog What do you mean, fake jumpers??
@Senor Frog Now that's conspiracy.... Lmao no wonder people always telling you to go wear your tinfoil hat... Why not use science and engineering instead...
@Senor Frog What a pity you weren't there to see the fakeness for yourself. On the 100th floor.
Ah, I see insanity is still upon us in society! How obscure of you to make such remarkable and impossible points to a conspiracy theory that couldn’t impossibly be real. The points are absurd, and too complicated for their time, however I respect your opinion on the matter, as we all have free will to believe what we wish,
My Grandfather helped build the North Tower he was one of many thousands of workers high in the sky. Very smart man Then he washed the windows high in the sky in the 1970’s. Then he seen 9-11-2001. Broke his heart, it broke all of are hearts. I miss him. 😢 RIP to all!
heartbreaking to watch this incredible documentary about this almost unimaginable feat of engineering.. knowing what happened in 2001. It had to have been soul crushing to every man who worked on this project seeing what became of their years of backbreaking work. God bless the construction and iron workers and every man who put his heart & soul into his work on this magnificent project.
R.I.P. World Trade Center (1973-2001)
G. T. Thanks for the spoiler...
It not a spoiler. Everyone know that World Trade Center destroy in 9/11. By looking the map in New York today, you see that people who born in 80s and 90s know that old World Trade Center have been gone and replace with new future World Trade Center.
That was the year I was born , odd to think I outlived her :-( such a sad tragedy
anonymous its a joke you sad sack of shit
anonymous everyone knows that you dummy boy it's a joke
Took thousand of decent men to build and a handful of lunatics to destroy.
God damn Osama and his crew eh, Tim Osman and his CIA handlers
@@johnmaclagan2263 lol. Good comment
Yes, and the question stays unanswered, because no propper research is done. Exactly which lunatics were involved.
Dont use the word lunatic, luna was derived from lunar/moon. Maybe sheeple or cockroaches, or mislims finatics,
u mean took one government to build and another to bring it down as plan
A high resolution version of this in an IMAX theater would be amazing
The great and magnificent country , Brave and hard working people .
Long live USA
With so much love .
An Iranian man ❤💝
Loamai în cârcă pe brebenel
@@accacc4816
Please write English , don't understand !!🙏
You ain't sayin that now. Are you?
@Ayad Meskin
What's different between Iranian and Persian??!!🤔😂😂
@@mr.sunrise3933
Did you understand what you said yourself??🤣🤣🤣
Tues 2001...Im working in the marketing field....we were calling on an automatic dial up to business to business I clearly remember people getting upset saying why are u calling to sell us your service the wtc been attacked...well every1 at work got sent home...I and a female co worker named vanessa said let get out of here and play pool in time we ended up getting married had two children...life is wonderful people..your feelings are always considered...remember that.
R.I.P
WTC
Nice, short but beautiful story. May God bless you an your family.
My girlfriend was at work, some thirty miles south of Manhattan, for a company selling their 'service' and the manager in the office that day insisted she carry on even as the majority of their customer base either did not answer the phone or couldn't be bothered. More than a few times on September 11, 2001 she was asked, "Don't you know what's happening?"
Where I was working back then we listened on the radio to the ABC TV News network feed as Peter Jennings kept us informed as to what little was then known. Our business ships auto parts in the North Eastern Zone and _nothing_ went north of New Brunswick, New Jersey, for three days after September 11, 2011.
2nd Time Around ...people had to die for your children to be born. I’m a late child. My parents decided they need a second kid. Because someone they knew has lost his only son. Someone had to die in a ski accident in Austria so that I could be born. I don’t even know his name. :/
You were fucking when this horrible event happened. You're a savage.
@@papichulohoy The you tuber in question never mentioned his or her sex ,,, only one thing female co-worker,, we cannot conject anything from this,,,, It's ambiguous
One of the biggest icons of NYC, you knew what city it was when you saw those towers, beautiful buildings, providing a breathtaking view of Manhattan and the Hudson Bay, wish they were still here
tbh ... whenever I saw the skyline of NYC in movies after 9/11 ... it just looked like Boston to me.
This is heartbreaking to see, when i saw the steel beams i remembered the people waving for help on 9/11. God may have them in peace.
Such iconic buildings from NYC, can't believe until this day those buildings are now gone. 911, NEVER FORGET.
What's 911?
prostratic It's called a number. Did your mummy not take you to school? Sad.
I remember when I was a kid riding thru Manhattan, it's was thunderstorming and the wind was crazy, u could see the towers swaying, it's was the coolest thing, trees looked like they was gonna fall but not the towers, till this day I still remember it like it was yesterday, it was amazing, no good bastards knocked down my favorite buildings..
@@CJn0tH3re i don't get your comment, please explain...
@@CJn0tH3re ok i get it, your an asshole, thanks for clearing that up..your dismissed, i guess that's why your dying inside...
I wasn’t lucky enough to visit the trades up close😭 I want to visit the new one soon tho!
@@dame5079 its ok but nothing can compare to the twins, just on how massive the area was, 2 of the world's tallest buildings, identical side by side, nobody in the world was doing like that, now every country in the world has super tall buildings that look better then ours. That day hurt & broke us in so many ways
@@nothaviniteither Yup! The unimaginable beauty in two of the most simplistic looking buildings! The design inside and out was so interesting I could have spent hours just exploring the area
Now there was some brave guys that built these buildings !
This is like watching the construction of the Titanic.
The titanic wasn’t intentional tho.
@@elainejones9299 no, of course not, but both share the tragic factor.
@@elainejones9299 Titanic sinking couldve been easily prevented if captain Smith and the crew had listened to the 20 something ice warnings... Plus they were going at full speed.
@@misterbuklau4053 but it wasn't done deliberately, 9/11 was done deliberately by the government false flag
@@Gencturk92 ummm no it wasn't... The buildings were flawed. The trusses gave way and the outer perimeter columns started to bow inwards and eventually buckled starting the collapse and fell away from the building in large sections. The trusses were bolted to the perimeter walls and all that needed to happen was for those bolts to fail and break... Without the floors and outer columns the core couldnt support itself.
Once the collapse started it couldnt stop.
There's something so majestic yet scary about skyscrapers. Just looking at the sheer scale of the WTC and the number of people crammed onto each floor, you cannot imagine the terror in people's minds on the day of 9/11. Imagine knowing that you're going to die and you have to pick one of two options... being burnt and crushed or jumping out of a window. Utterly horrific.
For those remarking on "1983" in the title...that's the year the documentary was made..
This documentary was made in 1973, the year that the towers were completed. ***Correction: This documentary was in fact made in 1983, commemorating the 10th Anniversary of the completion of the World Trade Center***
Paul Kersey couldn’t be, in the documentary the narrator mentions the TV tower being erected in 1978 13:31
Gold Killer it’s probably a 5 year anniversary then
aston nex well they were built in the 70s so the footage is from then. I’m assuming the documentary was made in the 80s years after completion.
@aston nex sometimes previous decades style and content blended into the new decade for the first few years then it created its own identity....
Beautiful buildings. The amount of work involved in preparation, foundations, structure, internal fitting out, telecoms, etc. is absolutely phenomenal: all whilst allowing neighbouring infrastructure to continue unaffected throughout.
The old World Trade Center were such an amazing peace of architecture and sadly there will never be buildings like them build ever again
All I can say is God Bless all those involved in the design and construction of these amazing feats of achievements. As a native NY'er and a former IBEW member, I can say my heart has never healed from the tragic evil that took the innocent lives and hard work of many. My solace is the fact that we as humans can persevere. Never forgotten, always in our hearts.
The north tower was first to be topped off 12/23/1970...and last to fall on 9/11/2001. A sobering thought
and first to be hit
There weren't any terrorists. These were military aircrafts that destroyed the buildings.
@@AntiMasonic93 Source?
@@AntiMasonic93 are you stupid?
@@AntiMasonic93 yeah youre a off there bud, and i mean way off
Those were passenger planes. 4 in total, 2 into the towers, one to the pentagon and the last near white house (i think)
I got damn angry after watching how much work it took and how it all ended.
Who ended it?
nexus
Al Qaeda crashed 2 planes into the buildings on September 11, 2001. It was a terrorist attack.
@Jennifer Rissetti Are u fuckin' serious?!? Moron!!
@Jennifer Rissetti Really funny how Trump is blamed for everything that goes on. Even when not in office. I guess we should blame the next event on George Washington, and his "liberal" people. Grow up, get a life and deal with it. If not able to, maybe N. Korea or China has a place for you.
Arthur Morgan Al Qaeda did it.. Ahahaha... Just like the Russians made Trump win.
Thank you for this video.
I didnt realise how deep the towers were or how high and the amount of work to build it. So interesting.
Apprentice Pile driver here! God bless America 🇺🇸
🇺🇸 is USA
R.I.P. World Trade Center
1973 - 2001
Gone but not forgotten.
I will never forget!!
My favorite towers
C L I C H E
28 years seems so little , i'm from 1973 myself . kinda bizarre to think about it , I'm old now . soon it will be gone longer than it existed . time really flies
And will you say RIP to the millions of people America has murderd??
These guys that built this ..........They put in some back breaking hard labor imo & years of it. What a beautiful trophy of a building. Mammoth & awesome
Then have them destroyed 30 years later!
New Yorkers hated it initially because it was a sleek modern design in a city where skyscrapers were iconic like the Chrysler Building and the Empire State. However, it wasn't long before we embraced the unique structures as our own!
Imagine seeing these amazing buildings next to the new One World Trade Center. It would be an amazing sight. Let’s have a moment of silence for the people who lost there lives in 9/11
The one world trade Center was a tribute to 9/11 if the twin towers were still here the freedom tower wouldn't exist.
My legs get weak just watching the heights of everything
Imagine having to be focused and thorough way up there with strong winds and now walls yet.
I remember those jumpers of 9/11. Can’t even imagine the feeling and how it was bad up there that they have to jumped. Rest in peace..
Good men died giving birth to the twins......and much more when the twins died....that skylines never been the same since
Worksbyisaiahc giving birth? dramatic much?
Jonny Danger...working in the steel or construction industry wasn’t easy during that era....living in NY isn’t easy...not dramatization...with out those men the twin towers wouldn’t of existed..all the architect did was design it...but it took “LABOR” to produce it...and as most high rises, accidental deaths along with it
Damn that must’ve hurt giving birth to a huge tower much less two
Magicman6000 they used an epidural
@@joea690 lmao
The before looks like the after :-(
The after looks much worse then any stage of the construction period.....
Aname What the hell is wrong with you? |:(
Emily Ustick it wasn’t a joke
I miss these beautiful towers 😢😢💔💔💔
Who’s watching this on the anniversary.. 18 years.... bless their souls!
The music of this video is so iconic because when you hear it, it reminds you of what was conpared to what is now
It feels sad and wrong what these heroes worked so hard to build this and then it was just destroyed. Very unfair. God bless these workers.
Jesus, I'm a structural welder and there were clips of guys pre heating some huge bevels for field welding. All done with SMAW / Stick welding, such a shame what greed, envy, money, revenge, and selfishness can do to people, the amount of mental and physical labor that goes into these buildings or any sort of tangible structure is under appreciated.
@12weasel100 I was pointing out how much labor went into the welding, and building. I was also pointing out that those buildings were toppled because of greed, envy and selfishness.
Tuesday, 9/11/2001 was the worse day for new York. Today 17 years later, Tuesday 9/11/2018. American is still and will forever remember and grieve for those lost ones that where never properly laid to rest
I'm Australian and I always take the time to remember and grieve.
Who's gonna grieve for hundreds of thousands of dead innocent people in Iraq and Afghanistan?
@@Streetw1s3r Same mate. I'm in Adelaide and it absolutely shocked me when I saw it happen and still is so very tragic. RIP
The fact it fell on a Tuesday again is huanting.
Melissa Goode I'm in Melbourne. I still clearly remember waking up on the morning of the 12th, getting ready for school, eating my cereal, and wondering why Cheez TV Pokemon and Dragon Ball Z wasn't on and instead watching my two favourite towers get blown to bits. Remember it like it was last week.
Rest in peace to my friend George Cock who helped build the world trade center...
He have a funny name but rip
how did he die?
EqualAmountYT probably a natural death
I see you every where you even watch cartel insights
What a name
Back when men were just men. Nothing more, nothing less. All they need was sheer courage and balls of steel. Building these massive towers.
RedWolf777SG hellyea! Lol
The admiration for the ingenuity and courage of these men from this time is obvious, but to be fair this is all modern crap. Men weren't supposed to live in such synthetic environment, no sign of nature at all, and this was in 70's, New York was already very urbanized much early. Just look at the city in general, it's fuckin ugly concrete jungle, there's no beauty in all of this, be genuine and tell that the streets of NY isn't something filthy and disgusting. Still the efforts of these men are commendable for sure.
Those killers not only killed the innocent people but also attempted to destroy the hard labor, intelligence, passion, bold spirit that went into building those incredible skyscrapers. Those buildings were iconic. They looked so unique that none of the new constructions have been able to imitate them, not a bit. No matter how tall countries tried to build new high-rises across the globe, they just don’t give the same feeling that these beautiful Twin Towers did…
Agreed. What would’ve made sense is if they just simply re built these two beauties.
9/11 18th Anniversary soon (RIP )
sean Patrick its gonna be able to shoot a porno
@@JifTSG Disrespectfull animal.
And will you say RIP to the millions of people America has murderd??
@@Dreamformeable their country did crimes doesn't mean they did crime too, they are still innocent people and need respect, please try to find the differences between the citizen and the goverment
@@HeiZuKa So now you are playing the ignorant card with me? So if i give you a knife and tell you go kill this man. Who is to blame here?? Me or you? Or both? So the American soldiers who invaded countries, murderd inoocent children and women and raped women. And killed millions around the world is innocent? Because it the goverment who told them to do so right?? Its the govermnet fault only?? Its that what you saying??? Why is it you western always try to find excuse for the crimes of the west?? Why cant you jyst admit...i mean we all know what the Americans have done anyway....
Imagine one of the builders in that project saw the building destroyed. How heart breaking would it be.
Sparkle Squad My grandfather worked on the construction of those buildings. 😢😭
Robert 😐 I’m sorry about that! Did he see it though? Like the buildings collapsing?
Sparkle Squad Yes on the tv.
Robert I’m so sorry about that!
Oh man
@11:25 you can see the tarps used to keep the fireproofing (asbestos) overspray contained. Just imagine how much Asbestos went all over the lower east side of Manhattan from the overspray that wasn't contained. @12:32 you can see the Asbestos sprayed column on the right side of the screen.
Yeah, If I owned the place and the asbestos was becoming a problem, I'd just have the buildings brought down...
@@trollovmetal2653 Except the asbestos was removed and replaced..
@@roxborotomm cool story
Why wasn't the steel covered in this stuff after the collapse?
Watching the aerial/high level pictures gave me a vertigo attack, it’s a horrible feeling, especially when you consider my military service involved flying at altitude quite a lot, but ever since retiring I can’t stand to be two feet of the ground let alone 20,000 feet. Hats of to the brave and skilled steel workers, not many could do it. Thanks for sharing this interesting and informative film 🎥. 👍
Incredible that they managed to keep the underground trains running THROUGH the site during construction!!
Its weird going into that museum knowing that what I am standing in was last really seen by the people who built the place and was never meant to be seen after the place was built.
Jarrett Shaw what wasnt meant to be seen
rip english
MAKCIK BAWANG Your grammar isn’t right either.
@@Crashoverride1234 Neither is yours lol
@@alexcurtis7320 the foundation
R.I.P world trade center
1965-2001
R.I.P to all the people who made the tower and to the people who died in the collapse
Pretty amazing to see the construction of these buildings, seeing these very talented and brave workers is pretty cool. Wasn't alive to see the buildings myself but I have been to the memorial but judging by the fountains, they must've been massive buildings.
Built with guts- destroyed by treachery!!!
Now that is horribly offensive to the people that flew those planes into the towers.Are you racist?
Yes
It's a funny old world isn't it
Joe V You are a sheep.
@@StocksIn60Seconds Ahhh. So we hear from another member of the truther tribe..
Tell me.... What FACTS are you using to form the opinion that I'm a ""sheep""?
Guts and gory.
Very very sad noooo more twin towers , very very sad R.I.P ALL THE PEOPLE WE LOST THERE !!!
I've been in Commercial construction for many years. I'm a Sprinkler Man. Not uncommon to be on same job for a year or two. I call it seeing it COME OUT OF THE GROUND. I remember every building I worked on from Ground Up. Running Standpipe, Core Drilling Ect... The best feeling is TOPPING OFF PARTIES. every construction worker at least commercial knows this. A lot of people had their hard work involved in Twin Towers building them . But they got it done. Something to be proud of. Yes they are gone but no construction worker could see that coming. I feel proud of buildings I've worked in.
These towers will always remembered in history!!!
Anyone watching on 9/11/19?
Me
Yup
Me
Me
Yep
I took a photo of the towers when I was visiting in the late 80’s...the photo hangs in my bedroom to this day.
God bless America and all the lives and families lost on that terrible day.❤️✝️🇺🇸🙏
Upload it to the internet if it looks good
I took the photo while riding the ferry. The Statue of Liberty and the New York sky line is in the photo but it was cloudy that day..so I doubt it would show up clearly.
There was a lot of smog around the twin towers which gave a ghostly appearance to the towers.
Always love visiting New York and haven’t been back since that horrible day....
Make a new photo while sitting on the same spot, and compare it to your old photo.
I don’t live in NY..I was visiting.. if I ever get back there I will do that!
i wish i were alive back then so that i could at least step into one of those towers before they collapsed
I’ve always liked the towers. I’ve stood between them looking up but never went in. I hate heights and never been up any big tower in NYC. These were elegantly designed and beautiful to look at
It’s really just cruel irony, such a huge magnificent undertaking that took decades creating one of the coolest technological marvels of the United States, only to be completely erased away. The new WTC is a sad imitation, it doesn’t even come close to capturing the grandeur of the original, just a shame the country back then would undertake these big and bold challenges and nowadays we shirk at everything like rebuilding the World Trade Center or dreaming big.
Why rebuild it? The old complex was never profitable and suffered from chronically low occupancy rates. It would be kinda silly to rebuild it exactly as it was. Not to mention the new tower has a more modern aesthetic than the aggressively 70s appearance of the old towers. And finally, the thing that made the old towers grand wasn't their own design. The design was extremely basic. No, what made the towers grand was their sheer height. At 1,400 feet, they were significantly higher than any other tower in the city. Excluding 1WTC, there are now 4 towers in Manhattan that stand as tall or taller than the old WTC towers. If they stood today, they'd be two towers in a crowd.
Mega skyscrapers are often built as d-measuring contests. The US has nothing to prove. So why not build something that is actually practical and reasonable?
World Trade Center
Building complex
Area: 16 acres
Owner: Port Authority of New York and New Jersey
Groundbreaking: August 5, 1966
Destroy date: September 11, 2001
Inaugurated: April 4, 1973
Architects: Minoru Yamasaki, Emery Roth
The world seemed so innocent then 💔
Best video I've seen showing the structural components and construction engineering techniques used.
You know a cool thing about them is that at the bottom, if you stood right on the corner stuck to the wall and then looked up, it would be as if the tower was gonna fall on you and you could se it sway a little.
rip to the people and the towers of the world trade center september 11 2001 will never forget that day. watching it in 2019
And will you say RIP to the millions of people America has murderd??
@@Dreamformeable stop replying to everyones comment, it just ruins it
Oh, I knew somebody will mention that bullshit again...
@@Dreamformeable can you shut up?
@Your Daddy Slays Them To Death Haha that is your answer to all the crimes fucking America has done??? "everybody has killed" Really?? ahahah you fucking western have an excuse for everything ha.....fucking idiots
Beautiful video! I could have watched this for hours. When they came down, my wife was nearly 9 months pregnant and we held each other and watched in horror, wondering what kind of world we were about to bring our baby girl into. We didn’t share this with her until she was 5 years old, unable to find the language to explain. During that period we flew with her several times, an experience which for her was free of fear.
all the lovely light hearted music, no mention of te 60 men who died during the building of them!
Estonian Master falls, accidents... what do you mean how could someone die while building??
@@Azteca2300 how did they die?
6 men died during construction of Empire State in 1930 when H&S was non existent.
@@rickewilde yes but that was King Kongs fault wasn't it?
@@grahamjackmacpherson6501 oh yeah how could I forget that!
The foundation work for these towers was crazy let alone the entire building. I’m a trades man myself and would of loved to work on these towers, truly mind blowing when you know how much work went into the towers
For those who are wondering, the background music was written by Tony Hymas. This particular tune is called the 'outward urge' if I remember correctly. Quite fitting music to the WTC. Both products represent the ultimate expression of architectural and musical modernism.
do you perhaps know which song is played in 5:25?
@@slovenc79 I wonder the same for years
@@Introvert_2001 no luck so far at my end, unfortunately :/ i've been digging a lot and found simmilar music, but not this specific one. it plays in my head everytime i see a big construction site :)
i'll notify you if i find it, please do the same :)
Have you found it yet?
@@OnBrandBleach unfortunately, not yet :/
Started 1966, finished 1973.
Richard Nunez
7 WTC - 84-87!
Richard Nunez No ENTIRE (old) COMPLEX 1966-2001 New complex 2006-?
Finished 1972 opened 1973
@@Jimmy_Hopkins15 No opened in 1983
@@WarthDader74 1983 TV show it is, building finished in 1972!
I LOVE these videos!! So much better than watching them fall but makes it even more heartbreaking after seeing the work, the pride and death even of the men who built them !!! Can you imagine being one of the guys who helped build them to watch them fall within seconds ?!?!
No shit it’s better then watching the buildings fall. Such an asinine comment.
I can't believe that the structural calculations needed for these towers where made by computers whose power was less than our cell phones. Unbelievable.
The classical skyscrapers of the past century look much more better than modern day glass buildings with weird design.
This is one of the stupidest "good ol' days" comments i've ever seen. Modern skyscrapers and buildings in general look a lot better, are more efficient to build, are more enviroment friendly, are more energy efficient, are safer in a case of an emergency and avoiding the emergency in the first place etc etc
Also, most past century skyscrapers were ugly grey square buildings while new skyscrapers have all kinds of beautiful patterns
Kanat Makhanov Well, “fun fact” the reason the one wtc is designed with 8 walls like that is cause to respect the twin towers, since each building had 4 walls.
Triangle in a way.
ITryToLookLikeYou ok zoomed
RIP to all the people who lost there lives 18 years ago today, my heart goes out for all the loved ones xxx
22 years ago they perished. May every soul rest in peace. Amen.
The fact that some of these workers died during the construction process just for them to be destroyed is sad… rip to everyone who lost their lives on the tragic day of September 11, 2001. And rip to the construction works who also lost their lives.
I remember my first time on the observation deck, and the crazy fast elevator to get there! It’s still incredible to me that the footprint of each building was one acre. Hard for me to fathom they’re got at times.
Really interesting document, thank you for uploading. I see it's really hard for some people to realize, that 1983 is probably the year this document was made.
One of those men was my great great grandfather, rest in piece ❤️
Just for clarification, this video was released in 1983, but it was shot in 1970-1973. The towers construction was completed and the buildings opened in 73.
Watching this, and watching videos on the building of 2 other twins, The 2 White Star Ocean Liners, named RMS Olympic, and RMS Titanic, followed by Britannic (which also sank) , is harrowing, both the Twin Towers, and the ships were massive for their time, and engineering masterpieces taking 1000's of men , and multi years to build, breaking new ground for size, and complexity , both would meet tragic ends, almost 90 years apart
R.I.P to all the ones we lost on that day and blessings to the families who are still mourning keep ya head💯
So much hard work just disappears in less than 2 hours.
More than that, years not hours lol
Lynx so it took years for the buildings to collapse after they got hit?NO THEY DIDNT please read correctly next time
Wtc was built in 1973. Not hours ago. Plus how would it be possible to build something that tall in less than 2 hours?! We need to talk
@@zuthula3847 u done bein a dick yet?
That's life we built for years just a seconds, minutes or an hour it could be destroy. This is fallen World no permanent standing still. All are temporary things.
Just to know that there were not just building one but 2 is mind blowing ,hands down to them ❤
It's amazing how the slurry wall did not fail when the towers collapsed into themselves not once but twice.
Strong
In 1973 two legend towers were born
gone forever but never forgotten R.I.P to every one that died on that day, and the towers R.I.P
Rip for everyone that died in Hiroshima terrorist attack