It's crazy when you think about it. When the buildings fell, it wasn't just the debris. But everything in every floor that came crashing down. The chairs, the tables, the dishes, the ovens, the washers, ... printers, microwaves, computers... every small thing all came down and crushed. All that memories all came down.
Even the song the band is playing has an eerie feel. 1:15 "Please, please remember me...when I'm 6 feet in the ground". And then at the end, when the guy said "We will fade to oblivion." It's unreal knowing what happened less than a month later. Tragic.
@@axrdeardido hell is real and heaven we get signs from god in life that gives us choices sometimes music could be satans message to people who committed sins
Thank you for sharing this memory. I'm from Germany. We were on holiday in NYC from Dec 99 to Jan 2000. We went to the top of the WTC to enjoy the view over Manhattan. When I heard that the towers had collapsed, I couldn't believe it.
@@richardjones3792that guy is obviously a moron. I had the same thought about the canopy and the stage. It’s absolutely depressing and indeed chilling knowing that people would be crashing through just weeks later. May we never forget them.
+cindypltnm Even worse, that all changed just in a couple of hours, in the early morning the both huge towers were standing completely intact there and even before noon there was only dust left from them. It's still hard to believe that something like this is possible.
Lina is exactly how I wanted to look as a little girl in the early 2000’s! So pretty! I still want to attempt that style and makeup. My mom did her hair and lips the same way back then.
Seeing that concert playing on the stage in the beginning is truly eerie and extra heartbreaking. Many of the jumpers had landed on that very stage, I sadly caught one of the graphic videos that was circulating back in 2005-2006. Wish I had never seen it… one of those things that stays with you, that you can never unsee. 😢 My happy memories of the WTC… as a child growing up in NJ in the 80s & 90s, my parents would take us to visit my grandparents in the Bronx every weekend. We had a great view of the Twin Towers from the Turnpike en route to the GW Bridge. My brothers and I would yell, “Twin Towers! Twin Towers!” every time we spotted them. I remember driving over the GW bridge and staring at them out the back window. I will always remember that. I was a freshman in college when 9/11 happened, and that childhood image was shattered into oblivion for a while. I couldn’t comprehend that the twin towers would no longer be a part of the skyline anymore. To me, they WERE the skyline and the essence of NYC. We all shared a collective trauma on that day. My cousin’s wife’s brother lost his life in the North Tower, he was an employee of Cantor Fitzgerald. My dad worked in NYC, luckily his building was by Battery Park but he could see everything in real time from his office window. I’ll never forget the terror when I didn’t know if my dad was ok or his proximity to the towers. I remember in the days after, my dad helped his cousin’s family hang up missing person fliers around the city. We will never, ever forget. 🩵🗽🇺🇸
@@user-yv4mm6bx3cI’m pretty sure the video he’s speaking of is no longer on RUclips, most of that stuff got wiped off the internet when the big censorship law came into play
If you look hard enough, you can still find some of them. In the comments sections there are also links to discord servers with videos and photos that have been previously wiped, super graphic and raw
Yup binladen already had his minions here in the U.S. with hearts full of hate, just too bad we didn't have President Trump back then and maybe this wouldn't have happened. Thing that gets to me is the musical stage and canopy at 0:38, in less than a month people will be falling through that very sad.
Thanks for all your comments. We know Jose our waiter (you get to see him for about a second) worked mornings that day and he was later killed in the attack-- so it is sad. It took us 7 years to get someone to transfer the HI-8 tape to You-Tube. Whn you stood between those two magnificant buildings, they seemed to reach up
This must hit home hard, considering that if you were doing this 28 days later, this film would have ceased to exist. Life is precious. Thank you for this film, it gives me a view I'll never be able to attain otherwise.
There is actually ONE photograph from I believe the restaurant on the top of the North Tower that was taken on 9-11. It was of two guys in suits talking. The photographer snapped the photo and then hopped in an elevator back down to the lobby, a move that saved his life. It's chilling seeing that picture and knowing the fates of the guys in it, and everyone else up there was sealed minutes later.
I never got to experience that, as I was born October 29th, 2001. These videos make me yearn for a society like this. My grade level, made up majority by people born in 2001, have always been a kind of sad group. During assemblies we’re always quiet in our grade stands, and we aren’t a very motivated grade. It’s almost like the ghost of this event follows the children born that year.
Thank you for this video. I'm obsessed with the World Trade Center and how nice to just watch a video that shows the Towers in their everyday life. Not the day of 9/11 or the plethora of documentaries of the events unfolding and also the rampant conspiracies. Just showing the Towers. These buildings fascinate me.
Me too. I have gotten pretty damn tiring of all the 9/11 and conspiracy video's etc. This is just an amazing video that shows the Twin Towers and the original wtc as they truly were in their magnificent and wonderful form.
I agree. I'm in New York City right now and went to the 9/11 Memorial today. It was great! The Freedom Tower is really nice but man oh man watching this video you get to see how awesome the Twin Towers were and all the buildings aren't them that aren't there anymore. Seeing the band play in this video was also really touching. So nice to see everyone happy in this video and sad that everything changed a month later..... I was 4 in 2001 and although I did go to NYC when I was little when they were still up I never got to see them while being old enough to be aware of them :(
@@davidlackey6587 Labor Day weekend is an American holiday in September. Inaworldoflove is probably from the UK, holiday translates to vacation in American English.
i thought this restuarant was in the north tower? Also remember it was said that over the intercom they told workers in south tower to remain in the building because it was safer for them.
No one above the crash in the North Tower survived (including anybody inside Windows On The World at the time), while only very few did in the South Tower.
They probably couldn't if they had already made it to the upper floors because when the plane hit, the force of the impact wiped out all the elevators and damage to the stairwells made them literally impassable, not to mention the thick acrid black smoke pouring through the corridoors and offices, those above the impact zone stood absolutely no chance, sad but it is true 🙁
I miss those days. Aaliyah was still alive, people took themselves less seriously, life was easier, society was a bit more collective, tolerant and patient, etc... see this type of videos always soothe me.
Man does this bring back memories. I used to work down there back then, by battery park. Used to see the twin towers quite a lot but truth be told, as a New Yorker , i didn’t really pay too much attention to them as they were always there. All i knew is that they were huge, that there was a mall under them where i vividly remember a Godiva store, and that there was an observation deck. One day in Winter 2001, around January, it was snowing and I’d gone to work a few hours way early in the morning and was done by 10am when i started making my way uptown. I walked by the twins and walked in as i wanted to go up and see this observation deck everyone alway talked about. I can’t remember the price but i new it was expensive for what i was making which was peanuts so i decided to take a rain check and said to myself I’ll see them someday, that someday never came. Of course my dad took me up there when i was 9yrs old but i wanted to experience it as an adult. Hard lesson learned to never take things for granted, they may be here today but they may be gone tomorrow.
I called them the sleeping giants because they always just stood up there so tall over the rest of the city, almost like they were watching over it. When I would fly home from Europe, I would always look for the towers when I have a little more than half way across the Atlantic Ocean. Each time they would come into view...like tiny toy buildings off in the far distance...I knew I'd be home in a few hours. I miss those buildings....and I miss the innocence we lost.
im 40 now and all i can say that those years before the attack were some of the best years to live i wish i could have just stayed at that time it's not that i don't enjoy myself now but it was just different in such a way i will always remember how good it was
@@vladchiriac2101 here are couple of examples from my experience growing in the late 80's till early 2000 : when you met people their heads would be upright instead down looking at their phones equals more interaction and a better social skills and social life another example: you went to cinema and actually had hard time picking which movie you could go to because you had so many good movies to choosr from another example: when my parents worked they could actually pay for what they needed and more again this was how i life felt for me
@@vladchiriac2101 I am 40 too and I can relate so much with the comment from Josh, so I will try my best to answer your question. Well, we might had been unknowing and naive at those times, but we were happy with family, friends and nature. We were engulfed from our very surrounding and it was the way to be. Everyday was new and there was a lot of magic in the air. Warm summer nights had such a special haze and it was such a joy to spend it with your loved ones or friends. Today we know much more and we cannot feel this relaxation anymore as we did back then. We are engulfed from a thick layer of sadness and mourning by knowing those days and the energy we felt back then wont come back and we have become aware by now that we are the witness until the end of our earthly time over all the evil forces that have been unleashed upon us to give the testimony on the other side. We know that this world is not meant to be the way it is now and we know from the 80s and 90s and before how beautiful it could be.
@@vladchiriac2101No social media. That is one of the biggest differences. It's a convenience that got out of hand and ultimately has turned people against each other. An entire generation grew up never going outside or developing proper social skills. All their friends and enemies are encountered on the internet.
Lina and I got there at about 1:30pm and first stopped by the Towers to ask if there was any parking (underground) at the Towers, (like there use to be) and the cop yelled at us to "Move on, you can't stop here! (still worried that the attack would come from the ground,like last time, if there was to be one). You can park two blocks up on Murray Street". That parking location no longer exists. This new singular "Freedom Tower" will never replace the magnificant TWIN TOWERS!
I was in the WTC concourse in late August of 2001. My aunt worked a few blocks away and we met her for lunch. I remember it was such a hot day that we decided to browse in the stores at the WTC instead of waiting for the bus for an hour in the heat. It was nice there. 💔
0:10 You did good, not to stop the recording. These recordings are very valuable today, not in terms of money, but in terms of historical value. Thank you for making that video, and make the world an access to it!
I really feel this to my core. Don't know what sent us down this odd ball evil fun house version of reality, but I long for the previous timeline with a homesickness. Look up the word hiraeth
Footage like this is priceless to us now. Not in a money sense but in our hearts. Because you don’t see the twins on fire or falling or anything like that but you see the peace and amazingness the towers had. Footage like this helps us remember and never forget. For me I’m working on a tribute to the towers in Minecraft and these types of videos will help me build them as close as I can
I had lunch and drinks at Windows many times. I worked for many years on Wall St. I saw Davey Jones, Ronnie Spector and many others during the Summer concert series. This video brought back so many memories. Specially coming on Vesey St. I worked at 5 WTC for about three years and this was one of the entrances to that building. I remember the Eat and Drink, was a club/bar after work. So much fun. Unforgettable memories, friends, co-workers, love affairs. Loved it all. May they all RIP. This video is beautiful and heartbreaking all at once. Thank you for sharing.
I remember Y2K on New Years eve 1999. We all met at my moms house and was wondering if the power was going to go out at midnight. My brother kept playing the song party like it's 1999.
My wife, 2 and 4 year old children and I were on the observation deck Memorial Day weekend of 2001. So a little more than a week before. I had chills looking down over the city, could only imagine how horrible it would have been to trapped above the fire.
And then decide to jump in order to not burn to death.. it's heart crushing just to imagine how a person must have looked down that tower, the flames behind them, deciding to let go in that surreal moment.. I was just a kid as I watched all of this happening life on TV on the other side of the planet. I never managed to get over it. Not only America but the whole world has changed since 9/11 💔
@@wendybarendsma2359 Step 1 do not own a smartphone. Try it. I can do anything I really need to on a laptop. It's a start anyway and I can spend hours of the day without looking at a device if I want to, apart from watching an actual TV. My phone has no appeal for me to keep with me as it just calls and texts. It's switched off at night time so as I can sleep.
Videos like these are a real treasure. Thanks for sharing this so those of us who never got to see it have a taste of what it was like. RIP all victims of 9/11
Wow, the moment at 2:50 gives me a warm feeling. People eating while enjoying Richard Marx's song. A simple existence with each other and music and without a telephone. And unimaginable that this video was filmed a few weeks before the disaster.
I'm just constantly amazed by how much this event changed all of our lives. Things were so different, can't even explain it fully. What a mental rabbit hole. How much different would the future that we currently exist in be?
No one is constantly on their phones or laptops and actually conversing to each other. Good relaxing music instead of the headache sounds people call music currently today... MIND BLOWN!
miss those days but i was only 10 when the towers went down seen it all on tv and remember it all thinking im sure the people are out and safe but that wasn't true :(
My dad was an electric engineer for nyc authority and used to have lunch in the plaza all the time . He was devastated when the towers came down . Luckily he was in the train yard on Coney Island when the planes struck . This is my first time seeing how lively the plaza was 🕊️🙏🏽
The towers were a hub of so many things. I even voted there in the 2000 election. They had all kinds of events, from charitable runs up and down the tower stairs, to all kinds of music playing on the stage you see (Guy Davis is playing the blues in this video). There was a Woolworth drugstore and so many other shops, fast food places, and I think there was a post office. You took these enormously high escalators (like the ones you see in Russia) that took you down to the PATH trains to NJ and up to 23rd street. It was *freezing cold and windy* down there in the winter months, but spring, summer, and fall were lovely. Best wishes to your family, and I hope you are all well~
Good quality camera for the time. The lack of mobile phones is refreshing. No social media crap back then too.. refreshing.. shame I didn’t grow up in these times.
@@Wrestling316, Yeah but does anyone remember MySpace nowadays? Oh wait it wasn't a thing yet in 2001 lol. Um Friendster I guess? Wait that also wasn't going to be launched until more than two years later. What about SixDegrees? Wait no one knows what that even is. Never mind I guess that the only forms of social media existed back then were chat rooms I guess since Facebook and Twitter weren't going to be founded for another five years and wouldn't even achieve worldwide status until around the tail end of the early 2010s (2010-2013) to the start of the mid 2010s (2014-2016) or maybe even earlier if someone can tell me more about their pre-2014 experiences with it back then.
I truly believe the 1990’s were the last great decade in American history when you consider the music,television, and just the feeling in America that I felt growing up as a teenager, ever since the year 2000 it’s pretty much been downhill since then for me and it’s getting pretty bad thinking about this in 2023
Just think, older people were saying the same thing about the 1960's. Nothing has changed except you are getting older and doing the same thing that the older people do every decade, whine about the future. Of course one thing I will agree with you on is that for the first time in our history, we have an insurrectionist and individual whose supporters stormed our Capitol and tried to steal an election. That is truly a first in this nation.
I miss the emotional connection with people. I know technically is moving with the times but I would love for this young generation to experience what it was like for us. I guarantee they would have loved it too.
As a gen Y kid I would've loved the privileges gen Z get. After a crap lesson at school learning some English text from 500 years ago I could've done with a smartphone to escape the boringness. Now gen Z want to skip school for climate protests....they don't know how good they got it
To anybody like yourselves, who actually visited WTC, the sadness is magnified greatly. Unfortunately I didn't get to see these elegant structures and of course now, never will. As another commentator said, your video really captures the whole thing very well indeed. Thanks for sharing with us all.
Saudades do velho mundo! Essas Torres eram verdadeiras obra, criada pelo ser humano. Mesmo eu sendo do Brasil, eu sempre admirei elas, sempre aparece em algum filme dos anos 80 e 90. Muita nostalgia! Deus abençoe a América e o Brasil.
I was in the towers in June of 2000 with my family for a vacation trip from MA. 9/11 and the subsequent events that followed had a profound effect on me as a child and carried into my adulthood. We will never forget. RIP to all of the innocent lives that were lost that day.
Amazing video. 08/13/2001 is last then a month to that day. at that moments you can't even imagine what can go bad. beautiful view. we can see the big antenna that makes some signal interferences. thank you. priceless footage.
Jim and Lina - thank you ever so much for taking this video, and for posting it. All my life I yearned to visit the Towers and stand on the top of the world. I was from Kansas City MO and had a poster of the towers in my bedroom. On September 5th 1984 I got my wish.....It was the most beautiful sunny day and the views were magnificent. They are seared in my mind and this video helped bring them back to life. I'm so glad you got a view of the other tower and the SOL and the ESB as those are the 3 things I remember most. The other tower showed put what you were standing on in perspective and it was incredibly awe inspiring. And Liberty was so small in the bay you had to hunt in the horizon to find her! Truly, for anyone that never had the chance to visit, this video is as close to the experience as you can get! Thanks again for sharing!
It was so amazing how a place of serious, white collar business, also had this really cool, festival-like vibe to it. The Trade Center was a one-of-a-kind place in New York.
DesertDwight I was only 2 & a half. I was born in '98 & I would love to see the towers if they hadn't collapsed. I mean if 9/11 never happened. It just looks iconic & majestic. Even though the towers weren't able to withstand what happened that day they've stood the test of time in our history & legacy
Life was not simple at all by any means back then, was 24 and was working for alot less money, didn't have squat back then, barely any technology at that time, things were alot harder, people were still jerks and always will be and it was boring too, and not too mention computers and internet were very limited and not affordable back then either, not like today where everything is accessible online and the technology is much better than back then also, I thought back then sucked
Leave Smartphones alone they did not exist back then if they did people would be using them trust me Smartphones changed the world and are not going anywhere why do you think billions are on them they are so much fun
I come back to this video almost every year and think about how wonderful it would have been to actually visit the towers. Thanks for giving us this peak into a much brighter yesteryear ♥️
I miss the towers. Visited them twice only in 93 and 95. The very first site I visited when I firat arrived in the US. I still cannot believe they are gone. Thank you for sharing this video. It brings me so many dear memories.
Thanks for the kind words. I never had any idea I'd be filming one of the last videos. It's sad. You almost have to think "What is precious to all of mankind? That's where the terrorists will try to strike next". I have some ideas but I won't speak of them publically. My wife Lina thanks you for your compliment.
Damn, I just read an article yesterday about the General Manager of Windows of the World who realized that the people waving white table cloths at the top of of the building were all of his employees setting up for the day and and all he could do was watch as the building collapsed. He was driving to work when the first plane hit. 79 of his employees died that day. Seeing his employees in this video just going about their work day....I can't imagine the pain he's felt all these years.
@@danielgould9107 Not only was it open, but there were lots and lots of people up there. There was a business conference going on in addition to all the dozens of people there for breakfast and all the staff.
To the couple, I really appreciate this video. Thank you. Y’all made me feel like I was up on the South Tower. I was 21 when y’all shot this video in 2001. The Twins will forever be missed 🙏🏼
I like that no cell phones are present, everyone isn't trying to be a famous person,people just enjoying life.this is such a great video,I thought I had watched every video on RUclips twin towers related,glad I found this thanks
@topfitnessssss You meant inside the US, right? Because outside, that's what happened the most. Whether it was military coups, bombings, invasions or worse than that.
Thank you so much for providing us with this footage. Before 9/11, I had always wanted to visit the South Tower Observation deck, as well as eat at the Windows Of The World restaurant. Watching this video is the closest I'll ever get to doing that now, and for that i'm grateful.
The "Windows of the World Restaurant" was on the 101st floor! The early morning workers were trapped and all perished trying to reach the roof, where they were met with a lock door (the guard on the 22nd floor who could relay the unlocking of the door had abandoned his post), heat, smoke, fire, suffocation, and then death. Through cell phone records they were heared begging for help, begging for their lives, begging for help of any kind, but none was able to arrive.
@@bombyboo6335 access to the roof was locked. The workers had swipe cards but the doors still wouldn't budge. Down in the 22nd floor an employee at the Security Command Center had to open the roof doors by pushing a button, but the crash of Flight 11 damaged the system that morning and it was impossible to open the roof doors
This is a good piece of history of how work and life was inside the WTC, and just one month before the awful tragedy. I was always fascinated by those towers ever since I saw the 1970s King Kong movie where he stands on top of them. Also as a kid growing up in the 1970s I always thought the Towering Inferno movie was loosely based on the WTC towers (and the Sears/Willis tower in Chicago, which was also constructed the same way as the WTC towers) - though the movie is not based in NYC. I'm from the UK and in 1987 had a job in the US. I have photos from the ground area where they shot in this video, where the concert is playing. On another day me and friends went to the observation deck on the roof. I don't have the photos of that day as someone else took them and I've lost touch. So seeing this video brought back memories of a happier time. It was a shock to see those workers in the restaurant in this video, us knowing now what was to come a month later. Rest in Peace to all who died that day in all the locations affected. And thank you for this video.
FYI, when they are on the roof obersrvation deck, the buzz you hear in the audio is interference from the tv/radio transmitter(spire) mounted on the south tower.
4:50 wow you get the same audio interferences on top of the building like I did. I always thought it was because my battery was low (and it wasn't my own camera so I didn't know). But now I guess this was because of that huge antenna on the north tower. wow, mistery solved after 20 years. thank you!
Jimmy, thanks for posting this video. As a kid, my family would go to the Twin Towers, and I know we have a bunch of family videos of them somewhere. I have been looking twenty years for these VHS tapes. Until I find them, your family trip will have to do. I remember thinking then what if these Towers fall. It used to scare me. I hated being up there. I had forgotten how high up it was. Sad. This brought back a lot of memories, and I am glad that you guys are ok and had the chance to visit.
Please, if you ever find them: send them to a company that can digitise them or, when you are able to do it yourself: check them first for visible signs of wear. Check the tape visually by opening the cover. If all seems to be good, insert it into a machine but DON'T play it instantly, first forward it till the end, then rewind it fully. This rereels the tape and makes sure it doesn't damage itself. Be prepared to clean videoheads if the tape has degraded. Hope you find it, because eventhough you didn't like the experience up there, reliving experiences because you find old family-videos can be so much fun ;)
Un document exceptionnel ! un mois à peine avant l'attentat... Merci, pour cette vidéo et, paix à toutes les personnes qui sont parties ce jour là... 🙏🕊️😘
I remember eating in the restaurant and having company events there back in the late 80s. I recall one event I went to ...went to the ladies room and the building was swaying and it felt like being on a boat. (My company was next door in the WFC, but they had some temporary office space in Tower One where I spent a few months working.) So crazy to see footage like this. So sad.
Less than a month later, the world happened to see an American tragedy unfold on the grounds and streets of New York. The World Trade Center would've been one of those buildings I could've wanted to visit, but on my trips to New York (since my dad's from New Jersey), when they were there, we only visited the Empire State Building and nothing beyond- only since I was afraid of heights at a young age. It forever kills me to this day, that I never once stepped foot onto one of the original New York City buildings that once stood upon our American soil and around the streets of New York. I miss that original view, as well as all the people that have left the world, less than a month after this date.
A lot of people speculate that the falling man, from the infamous photo, worked at windows of the world. I think about that photo a lot and how he was someones world, someones baby, someones everything. He represented the 200 or so that jumped. It still rhaunts me that so many made the choice to jump instead of succumb to other option. Both unimaginable in their own right, just hard to fathom being faced with that.
@@christianriddler5063agreed. If people could only see the reality of both. Falling to your death or burning alive. If the cameras that day could have captured what was going on inside that tower, we'd have a lot less footage in the public domain. It would not be on youtube. Seeing the towers and smoke and people waving from windows is actually, dare I say it, tame in comparison to the reality experienced behind those walls. It's a little like that sub incident this year. Far better to be instantly wiped out (fall from a height or crushed) than to be slowly burned alive.
@@kevtb874 Worst part is that when you burn alive, your eyes melt out of their sockets. (I'm not joking). The ears and the nose melt as well whilst the person is still alive. It is absolutely horrific in every sense of the word. Better to just jump and close one's own eyes, get a brief dose of fresh air before the end.
I saw a video of a 911 call from somebody trap inside the tower (above the plane) and couldn’t stand the heat on the floor they say their shoes where starting to melt
Brings back memories. 3 of us after university (week after final exams June 2000) went to New York for a long weekend. A couple of 21 year old UK kids in New York. We took video and pictures of us at the top of the WTC. Still have them now. Gave them to my son who is 12 to take to school for a history project. It's surreal to me looking at the pictures now.
These videos are a real ooft for me, one moment you're filming a fun holiday video and in a short time your fun holiday video becomes a documentary of an area that is forever changed. I was only about 12 when 9/11 happened but I still remember the day very clearly and knew something not right was happening.
Thanks for posting this. I regret not making the time to visit these incredible buildings. Its a shame they weren't rebuilt and made the tallest in the world again. I will be going to one wtc once its completed. I will never forget 9/11. It was my first day in college. Ill never forget 9/11.
Thanks for this video, man. I was five months old when the tragedy happened. When I was a kid, my mom used to talk about ground zero and what the twin towers were like and how beautiful they were. This always sparked a curiosity and I always longed to get to see them despite knowing I physically couldn’t. This really gives a great view of what they were like.
I was 11 at the time of the attacks. I remember that Tuesday like it was yesterday. I had just gotten home from school, and sat down by the TV in the apartment Mom and I lived in at the time. - I live in Norway, and being 6 hours ahead of the Eastern time zone. I turned it on, as I was going to watch cartoons or something like that, but then I saw in the news that there has been an accident at the World Trade Center. I didn't realize it at first, or remember where I have seen the towers before, but then I remembered Home Alone 2, with the panning shot of Kevin standing on the observation deck of the South Tower. Moments later, the live feed caught the second plane hitting the South Tower, and I knew that this was not an accident. This had to be deliberate. I never got the chance to visit the towers, but I knew some people who did, and they were awestruck by the amazing views from the top. They even brought some souvenirs. I guess those would be worth a lot today.
Thank you for sharing this video with us. I have always been fascinated with the towers and it saddens me knowing that they are gone forever. Your video takes me there to witness their splendor and magnificence. Thank you bunches. XOXOXOXOXO
Driving on the Turnpike at night heading towards the Holland was when the towers looked their best. Lit up and massive. Watched them fall, smoke blanketed the skyline for days and New York was an empty shell of what once was. It was hard getting passed not seeing what you were used to seeing.
Yes. Sadly, maybe perhaps they thought the roof of the pavilion which was a type of tarp might catch their fall. They went straight through. Sickening how the makers of the towers didn’t have ways of escape for the people all the way on the top.
Nice video. I was in there a week before 9/11. My dad took me and my friend to the top, I was 7 years old at the time. I’m 25 now and I still remember some of the things we did that day. Can’t believe they are gone- just like that.
I like this type of footage. It makes you feel like if you are there
@MrGriff305 didn't know that the building were still standing on 9/13/01
@MrGriff305Why would you even say something stupid like that? How would you like to be there a month later? Like come on really? Just dumb
@MrGriff305 You make 0 sense, try getting a brain.
@MrGriff305 10/4
Backrooms moment
It's crazy when you think about it. When the buildings fell, it wasn't just the debris. But everything in every floor that came crashing down. The chairs, the tables, the dishes, the ovens, the washers, ... printers, microwaves, computers... every small thing all came down and crushed. All that memories all came down.
and don't forget humans, which also got vaporized along with everything else
Two story's of rumble
@@ruler255 More like pulverized. They were recovering body parts for more than a year.
All the flesh and bones came down....😢
and there was nothing, not a porclein chunk of a toilet. it all vapourised to dust. obama claims he killed osama which is b.s. he had kidney failure
"fade to oblivion" ... eerie last words
Even the song the band is playing has an eerie feel. 1:15 "Please, please remember me...when I'm 6 feet in the ground". And then at the end, when the guy said "We will fade to oblivion." It's unreal knowing what happened less than a month later. Tragic.
Yep..that's weird that he said that...very eerie.
Very haunting.
@@axrdeardido hell is real and heaven we get signs from god in life that gives us choices sometimes music could be satans message to people who committed sins
Wow so haunting , I’m in shock how foreshadowing this song and lyrics were .
MY GT PHARAOH ATEM XI #1 5DS #1 MDS #2 LOTD Could be But stop guessing so hard...
Thank you for sharing this memory. I'm from Germany. We were on holiday in NYC from Dec 99 to Jan 2000. We went to the top of the WTC to enjoy the view over Manhattan. When I heard that the towers had collapsed, I couldn't believe it.
Políticas externas errôneas levaram a esta tragédia. Espero que Deus conforte as famílias.
It's really chilling to think that less than a month later, people would be jumping through that stage canopy.
@@therealthunderbolt895Do you not understand what the word chilling means?
@@CH-em2wudo you?
@@CH-em2wuthe fuck you talking about?
@@richardjones3792that guy is obviously a moron. I had the same thought about the canopy and the stage. It’s absolutely depressing and indeed chilling knowing that people would be crashing through just weeks later. May we never forget them.
@@CH-em2wuchilling: horrifying or frightening. Do you know what it means? This person used it correctly
It's so surreal that all of this changed in one single day. The innocent lives lost. Rip to them all.
All those employees, sadly perished I assumed a month later. Just a terrible and unforgettable day for our country.
+cindypltnm Even worse, that all changed just in a couple of hours, in the early morning the both huge towers were standing completely intact there and even before noon there was only dust left from them. It's still hard to believe that something like this is possible.
rip…
You must be a paid Silverstein operative!
month*
Lina is exactly how I wanted to look as a little girl in the early 2000’s! So pretty! I still want to attempt that style and makeup. My mom did her hair and lips the same way back then.
Love the early 00s dark lipstick. Bring back dark lipstick!!!
And with that bored attitude and look in her face.
Seeing that concert playing on the stage in the beginning is truly eerie and extra heartbreaking. Many of the jumpers had landed on that very stage, I sadly caught one of the graphic videos that was circulating back in 2005-2006. Wish I had never seen it… one of those things that stays with you, that you can never unsee. 😢
My happy memories of the WTC… as a child growing up in NJ in the 80s & 90s, my parents would take us to visit my grandparents in the Bronx every weekend. We had a great view of the Twin Towers from the Turnpike en route to the GW Bridge. My brothers and I would yell, “Twin Towers! Twin Towers!” every time we spotted them. I remember driving over the GW bridge and staring at them out the back window. I will always remember that. I was a freshman in college when 9/11 happened, and that childhood image was shattered into oblivion for a while. I couldn’t comprehend that the twin towers would no longer be a part of the skyline anymore. To me, they WERE the skyline and the essence of NYC. We all shared a collective trauma on that day. My cousin’s wife’s brother lost his life in the North Tower, he was an employee of Cantor Fitzgerald. My dad worked in NYC, luckily his building was by Battery Park but he could see everything in real time from his office window. I’ll never forget the terror when I didn’t know if my dad was ok or his proximity to the towers. I remember in the days after, my dad helped his cousin’s family hang up missing person fliers around the city. We will never, ever forget. 🩵🗽🇺🇸
It's still on YT. It one of the most gut wrenching videos of that day.
@@user-yv4mm6bx3cI’m pretty sure the video he’s speaking of is no longer on RUclips, most of that stuff got wiped off the internet when the big censorship law came into play
@@meghanmarie840 Yeah, there used to be some pretty graphic stuff on RUclips, but I haven't come across any in a long time.
If you look hard enough, you can still find some of them. In the comments sections there are also links to discord servers with videos and photos that have been previously wiped, super graphic and raw
There is still videos of people falling
Little did these folks knew of what would happen in another 30 days to that place
Rohit Singh funny thing is alot of big shots did. There was already fishy things going on.
Yup binladen already had his minions here in the U.S. with hearts full of hate, just too bad we didn't have President Trump back then and maybe this wouldn't have happened. Thing that gets to me is the musical stage and canopy at 0:38, in less than a month people will be falling through that very sad.
No..really?
No... look at the date. It was 2 days later.
Rebekah Alex Whats 2 days later?
Thanks for all your comments. We know Jose our waiter (you get to see him for about a second) worked mornings that day and he was later killed in the attack--
so it is sad. It took us 7 years to get someone to transfer the HI-8 tape to You-Tube.
Whn you stood between those two magnificant buildings, they seemed to reach up
Very sad to hear it. How did you find out he had passed via the attacks?
Son Of Hibbs Was that the guy at 3:05? ☹️
@@blank.9301 yh you can see him clearly tending to his wife so incredibly sad to say but that's him, rest in peace 😞
What song is playing in the background in the restaurant? “Whatever it takes...” What song is that and who is singing that?
@@jessicanlmccoy ruclips.net/video/1gkpILaPAL4/видео.html
This must hit home hard, considering that if you were doing this 28 days later, this film would have ceased to exist. Life is precious. Thank you for this film, it gives me a view I'll never be able to attain otherwise.
There is actually ONE photograph from I believe the restaurant on the top of the North Tower that was taken on 9-11. It was of two guys in suits talking. The photographer snapped the photo and then hopped in an elevator back down to the lobby, a move that saved his life. It's chilling seeing that picture and knowing the fates of the guys in it, and everyone else up there was sealed minutes later.
@@michlo3393That’s really interesting. I’ve never heard of this photo before. Is it on the internet?
@@Greg780 It certainly is, however, I'm not sure what it's called or who the photographer was. It was shown in the book _102 Minutes_ .
Link?
28 days later its a movie in fact
Everyone was so happy in that time, I miss those days
Carlos Chulito
Nuh!!!
Not me
Carlos Chulito I feel ya. That summer was one of the best times of my life.
Carlos Chulito September 11th 2001 changed America.
I never got to experience that, as I was born October 29th, 2001. These videos make me yearn for a society like this. My grade level, made up majority by people born in 2001, have always been a kind of sad group. During assemblies we’re always quiet in our grade stands, and we aren’t a very motivated grade. It’s almost like the ghost of this event follows the children born that year.
Carlos Chulito I remember 2001, things were getting better until this happened.
Thank you for this video. I'm obsessed with the World Trade Center and how nice to just watch a video that shows the Towers in their everyday life. Not the day of 9/11 or the plethora of documentaries of the events unfolding and also the rampant conspiracies. Just showing the Towers. These buildings fascinate me.
Me too. I have gotten pretty damn tiring of all the 9/11 and conspiracy video's etc.
This is just an amazing video that shows the Twin Towers and the original wtc as they truly were in their magnificent and wonderful form.
MrDeliriaframe hear hear
I agree. I'm in New York City right now and went to the 9/11 Memorial today. It was great! The Freedom Tower is really nice but man oh man watching this video you get to see how awesome the Twin Towers were and all the buildings aren't them that aren't there anymore. Seeing the band play in this video was also really touching. So nice to see everyone happy in this video and sad that everything changed a month later..... I was 4 in 2001 and although I did go to NYC when I was little when they were still up I never got to see them while being old enough to be aware of them :(
You mean those buildings:(
More like conspiracy fact
this was the old America
your video made me feel like I was there. You captured the real chilled out, holiday feel to being there. Thank you.
Inaworldoflove it was September no holidays
@Tilly Divine summer isn't a holiday.
@Tilly Divine enjoying summer break I'd imagine
@@davidlackey6587 Labor Day weekend is an American holiday in September. Inaworldoflove is probably from the UK, holiday translates to vacation in American English.
So SAD
Probably some of the people that u see in this video died on 9/11. like the servers.
i thought this restuarant was in the north tower? Also remember it was said that over the intercom they told workers in south tower to remain in the building because it was safer for them.
***** No but i saw a vid on here of someone that filmed on the north tower roof. Only because they were with a worker.
Actally 72 employees were there when the plane crashed, so probably most of the staff that are in the video died in that day.
No one above the crash in the North Tower survived (including anybody inside Windows On The World at the time), while only very few did in the South Tower.
They probably couldn't if they had already made it to the upper floors because when the plane hit, the force of the impact wiped out all the elevators and damage to the stairwells made them literally impassable, not to mention the thick acrid black smoke pouring through the corridoors and offices, those above the impact zone stood absolutely no chance, sad but it is true 🙁
It's been 20 years and it's still hard to believe that their gone!!!
I miss those days. Aaliyah was still alive, people took themselves less seriously, life was easier, society was a bit more collective, tolerant and patient, etc... see this type of videos always soothe me.
Aaliyah😫.I still remember seeing billboards for her last album.
And Michael Jackson too.
Sad and ironic that Aaliyah, a native New Yorker, died just a couple weeks earlier in a plane crash
@@jackgrimaldi8685 I was devastated hearing the news about her death when I was a kid
Sadly, she would’ve only been alive for a few more days after this video.
Man does this bring back memories. I used to work down there back then, by battery park. Used to see the twin towers quite a lot but truth be told, as a New Yorker , i didn’t really pay too much attention to them as they were always there. All i knew is that they were huge, that there was a mall under them where i vividly remember a Godiva store, and that there was an observation deck. One day in Winter 2001, around January, it was snowing and I’d gone to work a few hours way early in the morning and was done by 10am when i started making my way uptown. I walked by the twins and walked in as i wanted to go up and see this observation deck everyone alway talked about. I can’t remember the price but i new it was expensive for what i was making which was peanuts so i decided to take a rain check and said to myself I’ll see them someday, that someday never came. Of course my dad took me up there when i was 9yrs old but i wanted to experience it as an adult. Hard lesson learned to never take things for granted, they may be here today but they may be gone tomorrow.
I think it was just over $11 to visit the observation deck. Pretty expensive back then.
I think you meant to type 2000 but 👍 get it.
@@winendesertrose? What you mean he said January 2001.. they were still there
@@winendesertroseYou do know Winter is December-March, right?
I called them the sleeping giants because they always just stood up there so tall over the rest of the city, almost like they were watching over it.
When I would fly home from Europe, I would always look for the towers when I have a little more than half way across the Atlantic Ocean. Each time they would come into view...like tiny toy buildings off in the far distance...I knew I'd be home in a few hours.
I miss those buildings....and I miss the innocence we lost.
im 40 now and all i can say that those years before the attack were some of the best years to live
i wish i could have just stayed at that time
it's not that i don't enjoy myself now
but it was just different in such a way i will always remember how good it was
Can you give some exemples of the differences and how it was back then?
@@vladchiriac2101 here are couple of examples from my experience growing in the late 80's till early 2000 : when you met people their heads would be upright instead down looking at their phones equals more interaction and a better social skills and social life
another example: you went to cinema and actually had hard time picking which movie you could go to because you had so many good movies to choosr from
another example: when my parents worked they could actually pay for what they needed and more
again this was how i life felt for me
@@vladchiriac2101 I am 40 too and I can relate so much with the comment from Josh, so I will try my best to answer your question.
Well, we might had been unknowing and naive at those times, but we were happy with family, friends and nature. We were engulfed from our very surrounding and it was the way to be. Everyday was new and there was a lot of magic in the air. Warm summer nights had such a special haze and it was such a joy to spend it with your loved ones or friends. Today we know much more and we cannot feel this relaxation anymore as we did back then. We are engulfed from a thick layer of sadness and mourning by knowing those days and the energy we felt back then wont come back and we have become aware by now that we are the witness until the end of our earthly time over all the evil forces that have been unleashed upon us to give the testimony on the other side. We know that this world is not meant to be the way it is now and we know from the 80s and 90s and before how beautiful it could be.
@@vladchiriac2101No social media. That is one of the biggest differences. It's a convenience that got out of hand and ultimately has turned people against each other. An entire generation grew up never going outside or developing proper social skills. All their friends and enemies are encountered on the internet.
Lina and I got there at about 1:30pm and first stopped by the Towers to ask if there was any parking (underground) at the Towers, (like there use to be) and the cop yelled at us to "Move on, you can't stop here! (still worried that the attack would come from the ground,like last time, if there was to be one). You can park two blocks up on Murray Street". That parking location no longer exists. This new
singular "Freedom Tower" will never replace the magnificant TWIN TOWERS!
Thanks for the upload...the 9/11 museum should sanction this video in the national archives!
did they change the parking after the 1993 bombing?
What do you know about tower 7 Jimmy?
@@Gu1d-0 Are you one of those conspiracy nuts?
Freedom tower is also great though
Amazing footage- very rare showing the restsurant and true sounds. Those fork-shaped columns are enormous!
Trident Shaped lol but they do look like forks
Pitch forks?
Tuning forks
like a tuning fork!
I was in the WTC concourse in late August of 2001. My aunt worked a few blocks away and we met her for lunch. I remember it was such a hot day that we decided to browse in the stores at the WTC instead of waiting for the bus for an hour in the heat. It was nice there. 💔
0:10 You did good, not to stop the recording. These recordings are very valuable today, not in terms of money, but in terms of historical value. Thank you for making that video, and make the world an access to it!
I agree
Back in the old reality, we shifted realities that day. These were the monuments of the old world.
Your on to something Charlie
Thank god I was part of them.. 80/90s best time of human era
I agree with you ! I envy the world that is probably still going on without us.
I really feel this to my core. Don't know what sent us down this odd ball evil fun house version of reality, but I long for the previous timeline with a homesickness. Look up the word hiraeth
Yes, Fruit of the Loom had a cornucopia then as well!
Footage like this is priceless to us now. Not in a money sense but in our hearts. Because you don’t see the twins on fire or falling or anything like that but you see the peace and amazingness the towers had. Footage like this helps us remember and never forget. For me I’m working on a tribute to the towers in Minecraft and these types of videos will help me build them as close as I can
Absolutely true. Beautiful comment ❤.
I've tried to build them myself, but the only bad thing with Minecraft is that height limit only let me get up to the 64th floor
Ooooh I wonder if you've accomplished that. Would love to see it
@@ma0491 Actually I think I might be able to now!!! To my surprise I learned there was an update where they raised the block height limit!!!
Tbh the towers were kinda ugly
I had lunch and drinks at Windows many times. I worked for many years on Wall St. I saw Davey Jones, Ronnie Spector and many others during the Summer concert series. This video brought back so many memories. Specially coming on Vesey St. I worked at 5 WTC for about three years and this was one of the entrances to that building. I remember the Eat and Drink, was a club/bar after work. So much fun. Unforgettable memories, friends, co-workers, love affairs. Loved it all. May they all RIP. This video is beautiful and heartbreaking all at once. Thank you for sharing.
The early 2000s was such a weird transition from the 1990s into a completely new tech based era.
That it was!
That was the best time to grew up in. We did have cell phones, computers, internet, MP3 and all that yet our lives weren't evolving around it.
Yes
10's and 20's To with the covid
I remember Y2K on New Years eve 1999. We all met at my moms house and was wondering if the power was going to go out at midnight. My brother kept playing the song party like it's 1999.
This is priceless. I love going back in time.
I love going back in time before the attacks.
My wife, 2 and 4 year old children and I were on the observation deck Memorial Day weekend of 2001. So a little more than a week before. I had chills looking down over the city, could only imagine how horrible it would have been to trapped above the fire.
you mean Labor day? Memorial day is in May
Wow
And then decide to jump in order to not burn to death.. it's heart crushing just to imagine how a person must have looked down that tower, the flames behind them, deciding to let go in that surreal moment.. I was just a kid as I watched all of this happening life on TV on the other side of the planet. I never managed to get over it. Not only America but the whole world has changed since 9/11 💔
@@3LFL3DAit's true, nothing can't back. Bytheway where you from?
@@user-sj7nr4ki6s I'm from Austria 🇦🇹
This guy recorded everything this is the perfect video of like in 2001 and the best video of the WTC!!
I think this was recorded from a camcorder.
Look how happy everyone was. Those were the best of times🥺
Things were probably better before internet.
Yeath everything was calm and peaceful
@@paulec2634 how do we go back to that 🥹
@@wendybarendsma2359 Step 1 do not own a smartphone. Try it. I can do anything I really need to on a laptop. It's a start anyway and I can spend hours of the day without looking at a device if I want to, apart from watching an actual TV. My phone has no appeal for me to keep with me as it just calls and texts. It's switched off at night time so as I can sleep.
@@paulec2634 🤣🤣🤣
Videos like these are a real treasure. Thanks for sharing this so those of us who never got to see it have a taste of what it was like. RIP all victims of 9/11
Fr its a real treasure to have
It was especially for me who's born years after the attacks
Wow, the moment at 2:50 gives me a warm feeling. People eating while enjoying Richard Marx's song. A simple existence with each other and music and without a telephone.
And unimaginable that this video was filmed a few weeks before the disaster.
nobody is looking at their smartphones, just eating and relaxing.
Those carpets though.
I'm just constantly amazed by how much this event changed all of our lives. Things were so different, can't even explain it fully. What a mental rabbit hole. How much different would the future that we currently exist in be?
No one is constantly on their phones or laptops and actually conversing to each other. Good relaxing music instead of the headache sounds people call music currently today... MIND BLOWN!
miss those days but i was only 10 when the towers went down seen it all on tv and remember it all thinking im sure the people are out and safe but that wasn't true :(
Lmao you must be so cool! Why are you on RUclips? If 2001 was so good why are you on a website that wasn’t around in 2001
0:28 one guy on his phone
If smart phones were around that day, imagine the photos, status updates, posts, and information that would have been shared.
Yup the 1970's, 1980's, 1990's all the way up until about 2006 was nice wit it
It would have been so cool to visit the twin towers. If only they were still around.
yay me too it would have been a blast.
Yes!!!!!!!
sarcastian yeah... just not on September the 11th, 2001.....
Amber Dickerson
Why not? Sarcasm 😀😀
Steven Jill bad word choice
My dad was an electric engineer for nyc authority and used to have lunch in the plaza all the time . He was devastated when the towers came down . Luckily he was in the train yard on Coney Island when the planes struck . This is my first time seeing how lively the plaza was 🕊️🙏🏽
The towers were a hub of so many things. I even voted there in the 2000 election. They had all kinds of events, from charitable runs up and down the tower stairs, to all kinds of music playing on the stage you see (Guy Davis is playing the blues in this video). There was a Woolworth drugstore and so many other shops, fast food places, and I think there was a post office. You took these enormously high escalators (like the ones you see in Russia) that took you down to the PATH trains to NJ and up to 23rd street.
It was *freezing cold and windy* down there in the winter months, but spring, summer, and fall were lovely.
Best wishes to your family, and I hope you are all well~
They where so tall, stunning works of art
Good quality camera for the time. The lack of mobile phones is refreshing. No social media crap back then too.. refreshing.. shame I didn’t grow up in these times.
They were the best times to grow up in that's for sure. I I wouldn't trade it for anything. I was 15 on 9/11 and can remember it like it was yesterday
I was almost 21 when the tragedy occurred. I wish I can go back to pre 9/11 life to this day.
There was social media back then to bro. Don’t be fooled by nostalgic adults. Enjoy the time your living in now and the future
@@Wrestling316, Yeah but does anyone remember MySpace nowadays? Oh wait it wasn't a thing yet in 2001 lol. Um Friendster I guess? Wait that also wasn't going to be launched until more than two years later. What about SixDegrees? Wait no one knows what that even is. Never mind I guess that the only forms of social media existed back then were chat rooms I guess since Facebook and Twitter weren't going to be founded for another five years and wouldn't even achieve worldwide status until around the tail end of the early 2010s (2010-2013) to the start of the mid 2010s (2014-2016) or maybe even earlier if someone can tell me more about their pre-2014 experiences with it back then.
@@seanvasquez523 I remember MySpace, lol, I used to have it to make me feel cool, lol
I truly believe the 1990’s were the last great decade in American history when you consider the music,television, and just the feeling in America that I felt growing up as a teenager, ever since the year 2000 it’s pretty much been downhill since then for me and it’s getting pretty bad thinking about this in 2023
Just think, older people were saying the same thing about the 1960's. Nothing has changed except you are getting older and doing the same thing that the older people do every decade, whine about the future. Of course one thing I will agree with you on is that for the first time in our history, we have an insurrectionist and individual whose supporters stormed our Capitol and tried to steal an election. That is truly a first in this nation.
I miss the emotional connection with people. I know technically is moving with the times but I would love for this young generation to experience what it was like for us. I guarantee they would have loved it too.
The same for Europe.
I couldn’t agree with you more and it kinda makes me sad just think about it.
That's what happens if you always vote for the two same parties that fool you alternatingly and don't punish them for their deeds.
A time where you had no choice but to sit with your mind and find something to do or think about it. Now we pull out our phones at any dull moment.
Bet you are on your phone or computer when you typed this comment.
It’s changed forever
Bagel durrrrrr
Yea cause this is the point of the video
As a gen Y kid I would've loved the privileges gen Z get.
After a crap lesson at school learning some English text from 500 years ago I could've done with a smartphone to escape the boringness.
Now gen Z want to skip school for climate protests....they don't know how good they got it
To anybody like yourselves, who actually visited WTC, the sadness is magnified greatly. Unfortunately I didn't get to see these elegant structures and of course now, never will. As another commentator said, your video really captures the whole thing very well indeed. Thanks for sharing with us all.
I was there 1989😢
Never say never
Saudades do velho mundo! Essas Torres eram verdadeiras obra, criada pelo ser humano. Mesmo eu sendo do Brasil, eu sempre admirei elas, sempre aparece em algum filme dos anos 80 e 90. Muita nostalgia! Deus abençoe a América e o Brasil.
Great tribute! The concert and musicians in the background playing that funky / soul music is wonderful. Twin Towers forever in our hearts.❤️
oh yeah, forever in our hearts.
I was in the towers in June of 2000 with my family for a vacation trip from MA. 9/11 and the subsequent events that followed had a profound effect on me as a child and carried into my adulthood. We will never forget. RIP to all of the innocent lives that were lost that day.
Amazing video. 08/13/2001 is last then a month to that day.
at that moments you can't even imagine what can go bad.
beautiful view. we can see the big antenna that makes some signal interferences.
thank you. priceless footage.
8:07
Jim and Lina - thank you ever so much for taking this video, and for posting it. All my life I yearned to visit the Towers and stand on the top of the world. I was from Kansas City MO and had a poster of the towers in my bedroom. On September 5th 1984 I got my wish.....It was the most beautiful sunny day and the views were magnificent. They are seared in my mind and this video helped bring them back to life. I'm so glad you got a view of the other tower and the SOL and the ESB as those are the 3 things I remember most. The other tower showed put what you were standing on in perspective and it was incredibly awe inspiring. And Liberty was so small in the bay you had to hunt in the horizon to find her! Truly, for anyone that never had the chance to visit, this video is as close to the experience as you can get! Thanks again for sharing!
Hauntingly beautiful. Nothing would ever be the same....
It was so amazing how a place of serious, white collar business, also had this really cool, festival-like vibe to it. The Trade Center was a one-of-a-kind place in New York.
Two of my favorite skyscrapers. Sucks I never got to see them in person. I was only 7 years old in 2001.
DesertDwight I was only 11 months
@@tilez273 try -6 months
I wasn’t even born
I was 6 and a half when it happened
DesertDwight I was only 2 & a half. I was born in '98 & I would love to see the towers if they hadn't collapsed. I mean if 9/11 never happened. It just looks iconic & majestic. Even though the towers weren't able to withstand what happened that day they've stood the test of time in our history & legacy
Before smartphones and wifi. I was just 9......life was simple. Great footage!!!
applebug
Not really
Life was boring back then
Life was not simple at all by any means back then, was 24 and was working for alot less money, didn't have squat back then, barely any technology at that time, things were alot harder, people were still jerks and always will be and it was boring too, and not too mention computers and internet were very limited and not affordable back then either, not like today where everything is accessible online and the technology is much better than back then also, I thought back then sucked
Viyuyinn Valar actually for me was fun I was a teenager
Leave Smartphones alone they did not exist back then if they did people would be using them trust me Smartphones changed the world and are not going anywhere why do you think billions are on them they are so much fun
It was not simple. It just seemed that way. There were plenty of problems back then.
The song Guy Davis is performing at 0:58 is called "Watch Over Me". I thought you all might enjoy pulling it up for a full listen.
Thank you! Really enjoyed it.
That's him? He never mentioned he was there a few weeks prior.
Thank you so much! I tried to shazam it but it couldn't find anything, neither could lyrics search. Good song
@@TaxingIsThieving Im sure as the day is long that its him. I had to dig for hours to find that track!!
@@TaxingIsThieving great username btw haha
I come back to this video almost every year and think about how wonderful it would have been to actually visit the towers. Thanks for giving us this peak into a much brighter yesteryear ♥️
Awesome video. So sad to think that all the beauty in this video is no more.
Like that beauty @2:42
I miss the towers. Visited them twice only in 93 and 95. The very first site I visited when I firat arrived in the US. I still cannot believe they are gone. Thank you for sharing this video. It brings me so many dear memories.
Thanks for the kind words. I never had any idea I'd be filming one of the last videos.
It's sad. You almost have to think "What is precious to all of mankind? That's where the terrorists will try to strike next". I have some ideas but I won't speak of them publically. My wife Lina thanks you for your compliment.
It’s HORRIFYING knowing that during THAT TIME, Terrorists were planning an ATTACK on The World Trade Centers, The Pentagon and The White House
I wish that day never happened....And I would ask the terrorists: what did you achieve? Absolutely nothing.
How did the plandemic work out for you.
"What is precious to mankind?" Freedom. And they certainly went for that.
Thank you for sharing. RIP Orio Palmer and all who we lost..
Orio was more than a hero because he went all the way up to the impact zone and also fixed an elevator god bless his soul......
Why the fuck do you comment this on every single twin towers video?
@@GN10Gaming Instead of paying respects to the person called Orio Palmer you write this, you should be ashamed of yourself.
Rest in Peace Orio.
The words of the song are eerie. Please remember me when im ft in the ground.
Damn, I just read an article yesterday about the General Manager of Windows of the World who realized that the people waving white table cloths at the top of of the building were all of his employees setting up for the day and and all he could do was watch as the building collapsed. He was driving to work when the first plane hit. 79 of his employees died that day. Seeing his employees in this video just going about their work day....I can't imagine the pain he's felt all these years.
Thanks for sharing.
This is just awful 😞
Wow that's really sad
God, I remember the tablecloths, they were waving them frantically.
Would definitely be feeling a huge case of survivors guilt, yes.
Its heartbreaking knowing that almost all of this restaurant workers didnt make it
Not almost. They ALL died up there.
@@wll1500 a couple of them had the day off or called in sick IIRC
@@grievous23_ everyone who was there died is what I mean
Restaurant wasn’t open when plane struck.
@@danielgould9107 Not only was it open, but there were lots and lots of people up there. There was a business conference going on in addition to all the dozens of people there for breakfast and all the staff.
To the couple, I really appreciate this video. Thank you. Y’all made me feel like I was up on the South Tower. I was 21 when y’all shot this video in 2001. The Twins will forever be missed 🙏🏼
This video is a great piece of art, thank you for making it.
I like that no cell phones are present, everyone isn't trying to be a famous person,people just enjoying life.this is such a great video,I thought I had watched every video on RUclips twin towers related,glad I found this thanks
Because we used them for calling. SMS or texting was just becoming a thing at the time.
The end of the innocence...
The US hasn’t been innocent in a very long time. Your comment is fucking stupid.
Things were NOT innocent before this and you're naive to think that
@topfitnessssss You meant inside the US, right? Because outside, that's what happened the most. Whether it was military coups, bombings, invasions or worse than that.
The more I watch this, the more sad I am that all of it is gone. These towers were so beautiful.
The lady is beautiful and they sound like they're a nice couple. I wonder how they are all these years later.
She is pretty hot 🔥
wonder what she looks like now? are they still alive?
Beauty is not a virtue, and it never lasts
@@MostlyLoveOfMusic😂
She's a beautiful lady
This was the day I visited! I was there about 10am, I don't know what time this was but watching carefully for me and my family
Thank you so much for providing us with this footage. Before 9/11, I had always wanted to visit the South Tower Observation deck, as well as eat at the Windows Of The World restaurant. Watching this video is the closest I'll ever get to doing that now, and for that i'm grateful.
The "Windows of the World Restaurant" was on the 101st floor! The early morning workers were trapped and all perished trying to reach the roof, where they were met with a lock door (the guard on the 22nd floor who could relay the unlocking of the door had abandoned his post), heat, smoke, fire, suffocation, and then death. Through cell phone records they were heared begging for help, begging for their lives, begging for help of any kind, but none was able to arrive.
What was the POS guard's name I wonder?
@@Gameboy-Unboxings He isn't a POS do you know how terrifying it was in there? Getting to the roof wouldn't have saved them.
Windows on the World was on the 107th floor, not 101.
Even if they could reach the very top,how could they escape?
@@bombyboo6335 access to the roof was locked. The workers had swipe cards but the doors still wouldn't budge. Down in the 22nd floor an employee at the Security Command Center had to open the roof doors by pushing a button, but the crash of Flight 11 damaged the system that morning and it was impossible to open the roof doors
I miss that style of makeup and hair and those clothes! So pretty!
Seeing the other tower from the observation deck takes my breath away everytime
This is a good piece of history of how work and life was inside the WTC, and just one month before the awful tragedy.
I was always fascinated by those towers ever since I saw the 1970s King Kong movie where he stands on top of them. Also as a kid growing up in the 1970s I always thought the Towering Inferno movie was loosely based on the WTC towers (and the Sears/Willis tower in Chicago, which was also constructed the same way as the WTC towers) - though the movie is not based in NYC.
I'm from the UK and in 1987 had a job in the US. I have photos from the ground area where they shot in this video, where the concert is playing. On another day me and friends went to the observation deck on the roof. I don't have the photos of that day as someone else took them and I've lost touch. So seeing this video brought back memories of a happier time.
It was a shock to see those workers in the restaurant in this video, us knowing now what was to come a month later.
Rest in Peace to all who died that day in all the locations affected.
And thank you for this video.
FYI, when they are on the roof obersrvation deck, the buzz you hear in the audio is interference from the tv/radio transmitter(spire) mounted on the south tower.
that is so interesting, i love learning about old technology
So sad to see that. Days before that horrific day. Rest In Peace to all 9/11 victims.
I got chills when they went up the ‘survivors staircase’ 😖
I saw those in the museum, it was surreal seeing them in this video.
What time stamp?
@@zacharydunaway2779 0:17 I believe the concrete (survival) staircase was next to these escalators on the left.
4:50 wow you get the same audio interferences on top of the building like I did. I always thought it was because my battery was low (and it wasn't my own camera so I didn't know). But now I guess this was because of that huge antenna on the north tower.
wow, mistery solved after 20 years. thank you!
That wouldn't happen with smartphones. Imagine being on this observation deck today with smartphones.
4:35 “fresh air and beauty”
Who else feels he is talking about the woman he is with
Jimmy, thanks for posting this video. As a kid, my family would go to the Twin Towers, and I know we have a bunch of family videos of them somewhere. I have been looking twenty years for these VHS tapes. Until I find them, your family trip will have to do. I remember thinking then what if these Towers fall. It used to scare me. I hated being up there. I had forgotten how high up it was. Sad. This brought back a lot of memories, and I am glad that you guys are ok and had the chance to visit.
Please, if you ever find them: send them to a company that can digitise them or, when you are able to do it yourself: check them first for visible signs of wear. Check the tape visually by opening the cover. If all seems to be good, insert it into a machine but DON'T play it instantly, first forward it till the end, then rewind it fully. This rereels the tape and makes sure it doesn't damage itself.
Be prepared to clean videoheads if the tape has degraded. Hope you find it, because eventhough you didn't like the experience up there, reliving experiences because you find old family-videos can be so much fun ;)
Un document exceptionnel ! un mois à peine avant l'attentat... Merci, pour cette vidéo et, paix à toutes les personnes qui sont parties ce jour là... 🙏🕊️😘
🎶Please remember me when I've got nothing, when I'm old, out, and down; please remember me when I'm six feet in the ground🎶 eerie premonition
Agree with you...
Ooh lord
That was Guy Davis singing and he is alive and well today, and still singing the blues.
I remember eating in the restaurant and having company events there back in the late 80s. I recall one event I went to ...went to the ladies room and the building was swaying and it felt like being on a boat. (My company was next door in the WFC, but they had some temporary office space in Tower One where I spent a few months working.) So crazy to see footage like this. So sad.
Was the swaying from it being windy?
And so did you see everything 9/11 working so close to the towers?
Less than a month later, the world happened to see an American tragedy unfold on the grounds and streets of New York. The World Trade Center would've been one of those buildings I could've wanted to visit, but on my trips to New York (since my dad's from New Jersey), when they were there, we only visited the Empire State Building and nothing beyond- only since I was afraid of heights at a young age.
It forever kills me to this day, that I never once stepped foot onto one of the original New York City buildings that once stood upon our American soil and around the streets of New York. I miss that original view, as well as all the people that have left the world, less than a month after this date.
That was awesome and amazing pictures of the windows of the world restaurant & rooftop observation deck, thanks for sharing!
A lot of people speculate that the falling man, from the infamous photo, worked at windows of the world. I think about that photo a lot and how he was someones world, someones baby, someones everything. He represented the 200 or so that jumped. It still rhaunts me that so many made the choice to jump instead of succumb to other option. Both unimaginable in their own right, just hard to fathom being faced with that.
Falling is waaaay better than being burned alive.
@@christianriddler5063agreed. If people could only see the reality of both. Falling to your death or burning alive.
If the cameras that day could have captured what was going on inside that tower, we'd have a lot less footage in the public domain. It would not be on youtube. Seeing the towers and smoke and people waving from windows is actually, dare I say it, tame in comparison to the reality experienced behind those walls.
It's a little like that sub incident this year. Far better to be instantly wiped out (fall from a height or crushed) than to be slowly burned alive.
@@kevtb874 Worst part is that when you burn alive, your eyes melt out of their sockets. (I'm not joking). The ears and the nose melt as well whilst the person is still alive.
It is absolutely horrific in every sense of the word. Better to just jump and close one's own eyes, get a brief dose of fresh air before the end.
I saw a video of a 911 call from somebody trap inside the tower (above the plane) and couldn’t stand the heat on the floor they say their shoes where starting to melt
@@kevtb874 one could assume that those were not easy windows to break !
Brings back memories. 3 of us after university (week after final exams June 2000) went to New York for a long weekend. A couple of 21 year old UK kids in New York. We took video and pictures of us at the top of the WTC. Still have them now. Gave them to my son who is 12 to take to school for a history project. It's surreal to me looking at the pictures now.
These videos are a real ooft for me, one moment you're filming a fun holiday video and in a short time your fun holiday video becomes a documentary of an area that is forever changed.
I was only about 12 when 9/11 happened but I still remember the day very clearly and knew something not right was happening.
_”do you have any last words to say?”_
_”b y e.”_
*”We will fade into oblivion”*
Unfortunately on September 11 2001 those predictions came true
Trippy
it's cute and innocent when you don't put it into greater context of what came later. but unfortunately memory doesn't work like that
2:43 I was watching this for the nostalgia and realized, that baby that sneezed is probably in college by now and that makes me feel super old 😂
With any luck, yes, that baby has had a healthy, wonderful life and is about to graduate from college.
I was 3, 25 now and going for a masters degree lol
Why does your comment look like "Deja Vu"...as if I saw your comment elsewhere...!?!?
That was a cough.
Thanks for posting this. I regret not making the time to visit these incredible buildings. Its a shame they weren't rebuilt and made the tallest in the world again. I will be going to one wtc once its completed. I will never forget 9/11. It was my first day in college. Ill never forget 9/11.
They should've been rebuilt. I still wish they were.
03:01 Christine Olender in the background. She was the manager of the restaurant and sadly died on 9/11.
Good eye.
It’s horrifying to see that lady on the footage, knowing that she would die in a month later…
Is she the one walking?
How do you know is she? It's no clear to see her
Thanks for this video, man. I was five months old when the tragedy happened. When I was a kid, my mom used to talk about ground zero and what the twin towers were like and how beautiful they were. This always sparked a curiosity and I always longed to get to see them despite knowing I physically couldn’t. This really gives a great view of what they were like.
I was 11 at the time of the attacks. I remember that Tuesday like it was yesterday. I had just gotten home from school, and sat down by the TV in the apartment Mom and I lived in at the time. - I live in Norway, and being 6 hours ahead of the Eastern time zone.
I turned it on, as I was going to watch cartoons or something like that, but then I saw in the news that there has been an accident at the World Trade Center. I didn't realize it at first, or remember where I have seen the towers before, but then I remembered Home Alone 2, with the panning shot of Kevin standing on the observation deck of the South Tower.
Moments later, the live feed caught the second plane hitting the South Tower, and I knew that this was not an accident. This had to be deliberate.
I never got the chance to visit the towers, but I knew some people who did, and they were awestruck by the amazing views from the top. They even brought some souvenirs. I guess those would be worth a lot today.
I was 16 in the 11th grade when this happened
what did the impact feel like to those people in that restaurant when that plane hit the building
Thank you for sharing this video with us. I have always been fascinated with the towers and it saddens me knowing that they are gone forever. Your video takes me there to witness their splendor and magnificence. Thank you bunches. XOXOXOXOXO
I feel the same way about them. 😢
Sad to see that probably quite a lot of those restaurant staff probably were killed just a month later
Yes, the gentleman you see setting an empty table is one who passed away.
Driving on the Turnpike at night heading towards the Holland was when the towers looked their best. Lit up and massive. Watched them fall, smoke blanketed the skyline for days and New York was an empty shell of what once was. It was hard getting passed not seeing what you were used to seeing.
Weren't people falling into that auditorium where the guy is singing/performing
Sadly yes
There is a video that shows that.
Jhonny Blaze YES
Yes. Gives me chills when I see this footage. A month later, ppl were falling to their deaths in that same area!
Yes. Sadly, maybe perhaps they thought the roof of the pavilion which was a type of tarp might catch their fall. They went straight through. Sickening how the makers of the towers didn’t have ways of escape for the people all the way on the top.
Nice video. I was in there a week before 9/11. My dad took me and my friend to the top, I was 7 years old at the time. I’m 25 now and I still remember some of the things we did that day. Can’t believe they are gone- just like that.
Hope Jim & Lina are alive & well and still together
NOOOOO THEY DEAD, THEY DIED ONE MONTH LATER
@@neilfontaineshorts da fuq?
A beautiful memoir to a beautiful landmark that is lost to those not able to visit!❤