World Trade Center 107th Floor Observation Deck - Rare Footage (Part - 1)

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  • Опубликовано: 28 авг 2024
  • This Video is from one of my several visits to World Trade Center. I visited the 107th floor observation deck couple of times but only once got the chance to visit the roof top as it use to be usually closed due to high wind pressure. It was once in a life time experience as there will always be only one WTC which got lost on 9/11... #WeWillNeverForget
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  • @leanneadams2549
    @leanneadams2549 5 месяцев назад +18

    This vid IS NOT about 9/11.
    It’s about everything before that. Can’t we remember just how majestic and beautiful they were and how lucky you were to go up there to experience that ? Im very grateful that these people shot this vid when videos were in such an early stage these minutes are now priceless and they were before also !!!!

  • @jasonclarke8260
    @jasonclarke8260 Год назад +123

    I remember when I was 16, I went on holiday to New York with my best friend and her family right after we did our GCSEs and we were lucky enough to get to go up to the 107th floor observation deck while we were there. It was an amazing experience, one that I'll never forget. That was in the Summer of 1996 and we're still very close friends 26 years later. The Summer just gone she and her husband came with me and my wife on another trip to New York. It was the first time we'd been since then and while we were there we went to the 9/11 memorial. When we got there she said it was unbelievable that we went up there when we were kids and now it's gone. Love from England and thoughts to those who lost their loved ones on this tragic day. 💗

    • @ProfessionalWPNFire
      @ProfessionalWPNFire Год назад +2

      I wish i was in The World Trade Center in New York, and i was on holiday in New York 2012 and my age was 9 - 10 years old but that time in 9/11 2001 i wasn't born yet, because i was born in 2002 then this World Trade Center be destroyed but i still remember my memories, on the holiday in USA. 🤨

    • @Jeanettesboxingchannel
      @Jeanettesboxingchannel Год назад +2

      It takes balls to get that high..I love airplanes but I hate heights and outside an airplane Id never get that high!

    • @KenshinExpress
      @KenshinExpress 11 месяцев назад

      Assuming your 43 - 44 now?

    • @bigggordon1641
      @bigggordon1641 8 месяцев назад

      I give your 100 likes to this comment, definitely felt what your saying I wish the world would wake up.

    • @JamurlJames
      @JamurlJames 4 месяца назад

      😑

  • @truthmatters2020
    @truthmatters2020 11 месяцев назад +5

    I was on top of the roof of the south tower in May 2001 with my then 14 year old son. No pictures or videos do justice of the beauty and architecture of towers. God bless the USA!!

  • @claudespeed9693
    @claudespeed9693 5 лет назад +563

    simply horrific to think that people had no choice than to jump from that height.... thx for the footage of those impressive towers though

    • @xBeautifulcindy
      @xBeautifulcindy 4 года назад +71

      That's all I could think of as well.. "so that's what the jumpers saw" .. turns my stomach. I cant even begin to imagine the terror in these people to jump from that height. My heart breaks once again for all the victims of this tragedy. Whatever 9/11 was, became or should have been.. these were real people, in real terror..

    • @AnnieBrackett88
      @AnnieBrackett88 3 года назад +45

      Oh I know, I can’t even imagine having to make the decision to jump. Even though those people were surrounded by smoke and flames, to actually take that step out took great courage. Horrific way to die, nobody should have to go like that.

    • @columbusindianaphilharmoni8486
      @columbusindianaphilharmoni8486 3 года назад +25

      It’s sad that they saw people jump before them and saw what happened to them knowing they’d have to do the same

    • @AlonsoRules
      @AlonsoRules 3 года назад +15

      it's more humane to die that way that through burning alive

    • @MrClean21
      @MrClean21 3 года назад +26

      I honestly don’t think I would have been able to jump. I’m terrified of heights.

  • @julievanderleest
    @julievanderleest Год назад +33

    They were not just buildings that were destroyed. Those two buildings were full of people, loved ones, working to support their families and themselves. Thousands of people were killed and thousands more are missing them. Kids that grew up not knowing their parent that was killed. So many had to jump from these windows because it was the better alternative than being burned to death. We will never forget this horrible day.

  • @bigdmac33
    @bigdmac33 Год назад +14

    I live in Northern Ireland and was fortunate to visit the WTC back in the '70s. Now, you must understand that at that time, the tallest building in Belfast was Windsor House, 23 stories, 80m tall and I thought that that was big, but I could not take in the sheer size of the towers. From the ground, looking up I had to lie flat on the sidewalk to prevent my being dizzy. From the top looking down, I could detect the imperceptible sway of the tower. It was a magnificent experience and one that I have always treasured.

  • @twelveoaks1
    @twelveoaks1 2 года назад +16

    My husband took me up to the South Tower Observation Deck in 1980. It was an overwhelming time, and the winds were so strong, I remember that. - Continued prayers for all the people that have been impacted by that tragic day of 9/11. Rest in Peace for the departed.

  • @timothyt2141
    @timothyt2141 2 года назад +16

    I was on the 107th floor observation deck and the roof observation deck in 1998 for a class trip. I was in 7th grade. It was incredible. Truly amazing that they don’t exist anymore. Hard to believe.

  • @rico4you
    @rico4you 6 лет назад +204

    What a great video...that outdoor roof observation deck on the south tower unbelievable ..... Gives me chills in my spine what people went thru to jump from that height...what horror. RIP

    • @melvynsngltn27
      @melvynsngltn27 5 лет назад +5

      😭😭

    • @absoluteacw
      @absoluteacw 5 лет назад +4

      Heartbreaking.

    • @VirgoCatleesi
      @VirgoCatleesi 3 года назад +4

      I went to NYC for a school trip in 1982 and we went to the observation deck outside.

    • @soulfly3438
      @soulfly3438 2 года назад +7

      i was up there once. it was so high up you could see four different states on a clear day. and i was shaking on the roof holding the railing on the roof. even tho it wasnt even close to the edge. its really weird cuz i visited once and never hesitated to goto the viewing deck of wtc. but didnt even care to see the viewing deck of the empire state building. but i think wtc was a little more popular after the 93 bombings for tourists.

    • @gorfsixtyfour4030
      @gorfsixtyfour4030 2 года назад

      Their body would have shut down so they wouldn’t have felt pain thankfully.

  • @AnnieBrackett88
    @AnnieBrackett88 3 года назад +236

    Honestly, I would have been terrified being on the top floor on a normal day. I have a fear of high buildings, so I know I couldn’t have handled being up there. I just can’t imagine the people who jumped out or hung out of the window for air.

    • @mchris65
      @mchris65 2 года назад +33

      I was in the elevator about to go up with friends, and suddenly said Nope and went outside to wait for them. I couldn't do it. The waving white towel is most upsetting to see:(

    • @juanitaflorescabrera537
      @juanitaflorescabrera537 2 года назад +4

      😞

    • @brianjosef5147
      @brianjosef5147 2 года назад +16

      Me too sarah... never been on a plane either, and NEVER will!
      This footage of the road zoomed in and out really kind of made me sick to think of how dire it must have been to leap out to the ground... a LITERAL NIGHTMARE. How many nightmares have i hadnfalling out of a building only to jolt out of bed the minute i hit the ground.
      NEVERRRRR

    • @ahmadmohd1504
      @ahmadmohd1504 2 года назад +4

      @@brianjosef5147 me too never been on a plane either, just scared of heights

    • @PraveenSrJ01
      @PraveenSrJ01 2 года назад +1

      Same here!!

  • @sereneblue202
    @sereneblue202 2 года назад +98

    Rare footage! Almost unbelievable that it ever existed. If you haven’t yet gone to the 911 Memorial, add it in your must see list. We went last July and it’s a feeling like I’ve never felt before. Being there, knowing what happened, seeing all the pictures and reading about the brave women and men, it’s very impactful. A tribute, like no other. 💔💔

    • @jackiepowell7513
      @jackiepowell7513 2 года назад

      Wow!

    • @abnnuzzinicholasclay686
      @abnnuzzinicholasclay686 Год назад

      "Men and woman"

    • @abnnuzzinicholasclay686
      @abnnuzzinicholasclay686 Год назад +1

      There are way more brave men there that day than woman. Lets just be honest

    • @stuartmiller7419
      @stuartmiller7419 Год назад +3

      @@abnnuzzinicholasclay686 There are certainly more gullible people than non-gullible people on every day. Probably less mysogynists though.

    • @abnnuzzinicholasclay686
      @abnnuzzinicholasclay686 Год назад

      @@stuartmiller7419 woman are not brave just like men are not sensetive beyond reason. Only a feminist would write such comment. "Brave woman and men" feminism is made to crush woman amd destroy family . Just like the alphabet community.

  • @triple7marc
    @triple7marc 6 лет назад +196

    Imagine having to choose between burning alive or jumping out... You can clearly see in this video just how high up the people hanging onto their lives were. Just imagine sitting on a window sill, not caring if you happened to fall out...

    • @26Umut98
      @26Umut98 6 лет назад +18

      Marc Weiner that kind of perspective frightened me now.

    • @MrLiquid323
      @MrLiquid323 6 лет назад +28

      And the choking smell of the fumes and feeling high temperature

    • @brittanyhyatt3407
      @brittanyhyatt3407 4 года назад +29

      Makes me sick just thinking about it. The unimaginable horror they must have felt 🥺

    • @ryckjunior9911
      @ryckjunior9911 3 года назад +16

      The fall must've been scary as hell, but hitting the ground would be super quick and painless.

    • @triple7marc
      @triple7marc 3 года назад +2

      @Sturm Art Many did choose to die that way.

  • @susanpeak48
    @susanpeak48 6 лет назад +111

    You could never get me to work or live in a high-rise after 9/11!

    • @capalert1301
      @capalert1301 4 года назад +11

      Elaine Jones I believe there’s a higher chance now then ever for an event like this to occur.

    • @DutchDukeMan
      @DutchDukeMan 3 года назад +14

      not possible. not in new york at least, there are many hidden anti aircraft installations around new york city now

    • @phillipwilloughby5013
      @phillipwilloughby5013 3 года назад +6

      Some workers bring their own parachute now.

    • @soulassassin0g
      @soulassassin0g 3 года назад +1

      I live in Los Angeles so my reasoning is different; earthquakes.

    • @Lovinlife1234
      @Lovinlife1234 3 года назад +1

      @@phillipwilloughby5013 really?..or are you joking?

  • @alisonclarke2945
    @alisonclarke2945 2 года назад +21

    Those towers really were awesome. Can’t imagine what those poor people went through. We will remember them always. RIP all those who lost their lives then and since. Who could ever have contemplated what happened that tragic day

  • @paulineclarke5388
    @paulineclarke5388 2 года назад +19

    The height of that terrifies me as I’m scared of heights, it makes me realise even more what it took for those desperate people to jump , so terribly tragic 😥🙏

  • @triciac1019
    @triciac1019 2 года назад +21

    You don't realize while filming all this that it will one day be such a touching video. Thank you for sharing!

  • @zgrillo2004
    @zgrillo2004 3 года назад +9

    I was up at the observatory at 1999 at January. pretty cold but was clear as crystal. I can never forget those buildings.

  • @mariazapata5064
    @mariazapata5064 2 года назад +11

    Wow! Unbelievable those days of when the towers were still standing at the time! Thanks 🙏 so much for posting. Brought me the utmost nostalgia 😞

  • @bobsegers9313
    @bobsegers9313 2 года назад +11

    thanks a lot - I was there in 1984 but have no pictures as souvenir - this video helps a lot - this is how I remember it - I also remember there was a bar and I had a bourbon

  • @chuckpotockimusic2288
    @chuckpotockimusic2288 11 месяцев назад +5

    This is beautiful and breathtaking to see the World Trade Center in its' majestic glory, but now it's very surreal...
    This video and others like this are now historical documents, giving us all glimpses of a place and a time that sadly no longer exist...😞😢

  • @tracymcmanus1605
    @tracymcmanus1605 11 месяцев назад +26

    Shear fear and anxiety looking down from that building you really do realise what the choices were for all those people inside couldn't imagine being up there that high respect to all the lost and fallen 😢

    • @kerryharper5675
      @kerryharper5675 11 месяцев назад +6

      9/11, People were leaning and hanging out windows for air way up there. This perspective really does bring the reality of it for those poor souls.
      And here I am leaning away from my TV because I can't stand heights.
      RIP to the people 🙏

  • @drkatel
    @drkatel 11 месяцев назад +2

    I was there once, in 1986 but now only recall a few “snapshots” from my visit: the elevator ride; viewing the Empire State Bldg & Statue of Liberty; feeling the building sway. Seeing this video is like someone lifting a veil that was clouding my memories.

  • @choucrouteenhiver9285
    @choucrouteenhiver9285 6 лет назад +270

    The most beautiful towers in history ! So sad that ignorant bastards destroyed them

    • @dvchel
      @dvchel 6 лет назад +30

      And then ignorant bastards at home, referring to political *hacks* and greedy businessmen destroying the chance to rebuilt them. What better to honor and move on to *restore* a symbol in the name of the Twin Towers.

    • @elliswoodall407
      @elliswoodall407 5 лет назад +12

      I AGREE WITH you

    • @tropicalpalmtree
      @tropicalpalmtree 3 года назад +20

      They should have rebuilt them, the worst decision in history not to. Even architects that have been involved in the new wtc site have said they would have rebuilt the towers if it were up to them. Just a soulless monolith in their place

    • @dragonlux35
      @dragonlux35 3 года назад +3

      @@tropicalpalmtree if it were up to me, i would rebuilt the new wtc, just without the spire and the 3 rings will be the observation deck exactly like the old south tower

    • @tropicalpalmtree
      @tropicalpalmtree 3 года назад +9

      @Sturm Art The twin towers were cooler than the empire state building, and they were beautiful too.

  • @psycoticreaction9135
    @psycoticreaction9135 5 лет назад +62

    Great footage! Brings back memories! I was on the observation deck in 1976, it was just like this video, all the antenna and other structures. Looking to the other tower with its high antenna I could see the two towers moving relative to each other. In fact I later learned that they move 6 feet off center at the top of the tower. So with both towers moving I saw them moving toward and away from each other like a giant tuning fork. Quite alarming it was.

    • @mchris65
      @mchris65 2 года назад +10

      omg I'm so glad I left the elevator at ground level, I was too scared to go up. But if I knew they swayed I wouldn't have made it to the elevator!

    • @luv2luv720
      @luv2luv720 2 года назад +1

      Omg I didn't know that! It makes sense.

    • @paulbirkbeck1790
      @paulbirkbeck1790 Год назад +5

      I wonder how philippe petite the wire walker accounted for the sway of the towers?

    • @matthewclay6535
      @matthewclay6535 Год назад

      My guess is that he simply "lucked out"... and it wasn't a windy day! BTW... if you haven't already seen it, there's a movie/documentary about Phillipe Petite called... "Man On Wire" Very interesting to say the least!@@paulbirkbeck1790

    • @emello4you
      @emello4you 11 месяцев назад

      The Washington Monument in DC is so thin you can easily see it go from side to side. I go there all the time and it's kinda scary. I've been up there a couple times too and you can even feel it. Wicked!

  • @fabiwilliams4644
    @fabiwilliams4644 2 года назад +49

    The enormity of it's destruction is overwhelming. Just looking at the size of these buildings & how within 2 hours it was reduced to rubble I can't comprehend

    • @polinese7938
      @polinese7938 2 года назад +7

      as if it had been detonated with bombs placed prior to the attack, right?

    • @Airbus--pb5uy
      @Airbus--pb5uy 2 года назад +10

      @@polinese7938 No dude, leave that shot on Facebook.

    • @Toyeboy89
      @Toyeboy89 2 года назад +11

      @Polin Ese No it’s obvious how bad of shape the buildings were in after the tremendous impact of the planes full of jet fuel travelling at 550mph. Especially the south tower it was instantly apparent that it wasn’t going to survive long. No free standing man made structure is going to survive the impact of an enormous jetliner at full speed, full of fuel.

    • @Technics_Trader
      @Technics_Trader 2 года назад +8

      Anyone who actually believes those buildings came down due to the impact of planes are just as dangerous as the sick government that was running the country that day. Even the Japanese firm that built them buildings said it was made to take impacts bigger than those planes that hit that day. The firefighters who survived that day reported hearing explosives going off inside the buildings and the icing on the cake Mr Silverstein who owned those buildings took out a huge insurance policy just 6 months before. But we are all conspiracy theorists 😂

    • @terrack3005
      @terrack3005 2 года назад +4

      @@Technics_Trader Give over and move on ffs with all that boring rubbish...smh

  • @BlackWhiskeyBlaze
    @BlackWhiskeyBlaze Год назад +5

    Such an impact on history this event has made that here we are 22 years later and the comment section is still active as of this minute.

  • @andypickeringmusic
    @andypickeringmusic 2 года назад +9

    Always sad to see the plaza after some of the pics I've seen of that of people that had jumped. It genuinely haunts me every day that someone had to make a choice to burn or jump to death when maybe half hour before they were probably thinking decaf or cappuccino...

  • @MrHowzaa
    @MrHowzaa 3 года назад +11

    that buzz from the antenna is the sound of the juncture of time and space at the sight of the wtc.

  • @kdfulton3152
    @kdfulton3152 2 года назад +3

    I was never able to visit our Towers when they were standing, so THANK YOU for this fantastic and RARE footage! Beautifully haunting.

  • @adamm2837
    @adamm2837 5 лет назад +46

    I enjoy these videos of the original World Trade Center. Such a timeless silhouette those big, rectangular Twin Towers cast over the city. Its a shame that they will forever be remembered in such a horrific, tragic, sad light. Its not quite the same, but the new One World Trade Center I think honors these buildings well IMO.

  • @novice5827
    @novice5827 3 года назад +13

    I’m in chicago, and wasn’t even born at the time I’m so sad I wasn’t able to see them in person 😭, nothing will beat the Beauty of the twins 😔

    • @learner5090
      @learner5090 Год назад

      I remember being in car seeing just glimpse of the bottom of the building, it was so tall you couldn't see it out the windows

  • @georgewhiteley3653
    @georgewhiteley3653 2 года назад +4

    When i was a kid my Mother signed me up for these day trips. I believe it K&L tours out of Philadelphia. One of our trips was to New York and the World Trade Center. We all went up to the roof on the observation deck. I'll necer forget looking down on building that where considered big and very tall but looking small that day. You feel like you can see for ever up there.. Im glad i got to experience that considering what has happened to both buildings.

  • @phillipwilloughby5013
    @phillipwilloughby5013 3 года назад +17

    Looking up at the towers at the start of the video... I think of the firefighters who were there when the first tower collapsed... they heard the sound, looked up, and saw the tower coming down. Can't begin to imagine, not for one second, how it looked from their perspective and the dreadful fright they got.

    • @philbrainy2399
      @philbrainy2399 2 года назад

      No one died that day, they were all actors

    • @IbukiMiodaa24
      @IbukiMiodaa24 Год назад +2

      @@philbrainy2399 okay troll if you say so

  • @levilowell2882
    @levilowell2882 5 лет назад +25

    So sad to see this beautiful buildings knocked down by hijackers who caused 9-11. RIP to those people who their lives in those buildings

  • @emello4you
    @emello4you 11 месяцев назад +2

    Funny story. That black building at 1:50. That's the building that replaced the famous old skyscraper, The Singer Building which got demolished in 1968. It was in that exact spot right there back when 70 Pine Street, 40 Wall Street, and the Whoolworth Building ruled the southern skyline.

  • @mendamend
    @mendamend 2 года назад +20

    As a former New Yorker in the 90s i always assumed the towers would be there, so never took advantage of going to the rooftop because I thought I would get round to it one day. A friend was visiting me from France and she got to see the observation deck but I couldn't go because I was working that day. The nyc skyline was never the same after that

    • @CamillaMille1508
      @CamillaMille1508 2 года назад +5

      I worked in NYC in 1988 and 1989 and the skyline is not the same. The twins made the skyline so grand and outstanding. It was like coming to a different world on another planet like in a science fiction to see such amazing buildings

  • @melaniebrantner3871
    @melaniebrantner3871 5 лет назад +15

    Footage is excellent .
    Have never been to New York City . This was great to see. Well and everything that happen with WTC Thanks

    • @fatbottombiker3038
      @fatbottombiker3038 2 года назад

      NYC is amazing! Unfortunately when I went to NYC everything was still a mess at the site. It was so moving to be so close and to see the destruction up close.

  • @allisonjohnson6399
    @allisonjohnson6399 Год назад +1

    This just makes my stomach tingle...I have been to the Empire State Building and that elevator ride was fast, and the observation deck was exhilirating. This was even taller, faster, and I am sure scarier! What a gift you got to experience it though!

  • @ericwashington1871
    @ericwashington1871 7 лет назад +63

    you couldn't give me a million bucks to wanna go visit and explore something that high up in the air like that.. let lone talking bout going to work up there.... ld shit my pants!!!!!!

    • @nathanlopresti3679
      @nathanlopresti3679 6 лет назад +6

      Eric Washington of course this mindset is only caused by the collapse of these towers if a terrorist attack never happened involving the collapse of these buildings you'd have not mind living there

    • @briana_patrick
      @briana_patrick 5 лет назад +2

      Eric Washington i agree 100%

    • @briana_patrick
      @briana_patrick 5 лет назад +4

      @@nathanlopresti3679 nah that building is tall as HELL. thats scary

    • @adamm2837
      @adamm2837 5 лет назад +7

      @Nathan Lo Presti I'm pretty sure that prior to the 9/11 attacks, or if they didn't occur, there would still be people who wouldn't want to go up in buildings that high. Though I am sure some people, probably many people, are uneasy about going up in skyscrapers because of terrorist attacks.

    • @KnightZ1987
      @KnightZ1987 3 года назад

      I went up the new tower in 2019. I won't lie. I was nervous 😅😅😅. It's a long way up and even longer looking down!

  • @ryckjunior9911
    @ryckjunior9911 3 года назад +30

    The buzz in the video footage is most likely RF interference from the antennas on the north tower.

    • @mrandrossguy9871
      @mrandrossguy9871 3 года назад +3

      I wonder if they would interfere the same way with "smart"phones ?

  • @CulTroN
    @CulTroN 2 года назад +8

    The beginning of the video really showed the real size of those towers. Wow

  • @ToStompU
    @ToStompU 2 года назад +5

    thanks for showcasing this beautiful building

  • @beverleypearson2646
    @beverleypearson2646 Год назад +2

    Thank You so much for sharing this. It’s the first time I’ve ever noticed anyone capturing The Survivor Tree 🌳 at 05.36 secs. I purchased the beautiful book “This Very Tree” by Sean Rubin recently and will treasure it always. It’s a heartbreaking story of the tree that survived 9/11, illustrated & told in the “eyes of the Tree”.
    In memory of All the souls lost on that horrific day 💔😢🇺🇸

  • @anastege11
    @anastege11 2 года назад +40

    The fall of these magnificent buildings was the end of an era of innocence and peace.

    • @areality40
      @areality40 2 года назад +3

      There is nothing innocent or peaceful about NYC...

    • @trevor4212
      @trevor4212 2 года назад +3

      @@areality40 They're referring to the 90's as a peaceful era. The end of the Cold War had made a massive effect on America, people feared less about the reds. 9/11 made everyone fear again, and you can still feel that today.

    • @damink7497
      @damink7497 2 года назад +2

      Everyone hates us more than ever now.

  • @gbcleite11
    @gbcleite11 3 года назад +14

    Been there back in 1995. Couldn't go to the roof top because it was closed as you explained. I remember there were some shops and even some sort o cafeteria on the top floor. Just after I left the elevator I felt some dizziness because the building was moving. Spent almost two hours up there and the rest of the afternoon with a mild motion sickness.

  • @djgualtiermaldeCO
    @djgualtiermaldeCO Год назад +1

    Amazing, I did the exact same takes back in the summer of 2000 and are kept on a Vhs cassette. Last time i saw the towers with my eyes was on the 6th of sept 2001

  • @luigilongobardo3502
    @luigilongobardo3502 2 года назад +1

    These footages remind me year 1983,I was 12 and traveleled to NY,and have been in WTC at floor 112th,I remember the neverending sight all over

  • @visionist7
    @visionist7 5 лет назад +30

    Quite the tense atmosphere in that elevator till the staff member lightened the mood. I wonder if they were trained to do that

    • @mchris65
      @mchris65 2 года назад +4

      tour guides are good like that.

    • @speteydog2260
      @speteydog2260 2 года назад

      Yep she didn’t give anybody time to ask questions . She should have started her talk sooner

  • @dennishanes9728
    @dennishanes9728 2 года назад +2

    I made a trip to NYC in 1999, got a great shot of the world trade center from the observation floor of the empire state building.

  • @ziggymorris8760
    @ziggymorris8760 5 лет назад +46

    It still blows my mind 20 years later that 9/11 actually happened. First time I went to the towers was in the 5th grade for a field trip in the early 1980’s.
    On the 77th floor there were railing that if you stood on it and leaned your head on the glass you felt like you were flying. Only problem was if you slipped you fall about 20 feet and yours truly tried it and got ripped to pieces by security and my teacher. I don’t blame them, it was incredibly stupid, but I was 11 and a bit nuts lol
    I miss the towers, last time I was in those buildings was the north tower in 1999 on a date. They were something special.
    I currently work downtown on pine st in Manhattan a few blocks from the freedom tower, I haven’t gotten the nerve to step inside the building yet.

    • @mchris65
      @mchris65 2 года назад

      I can't even believe that was your 5th grade field trip, I mean that's too many little kids to be responsible for :o

    • @fannynoriega9249
      @fannynoriega9249 2 года назад +1

      i was only a few months old and it took a lot of nerves to go into the freedom tower. Just the entire downtown area doesn’t feel right to me. It doesn’t feel right the way they rebuilt everything. It’s so eerie

    • @Henry14arsenal2007
      @Henry14arsenal2007 2 года назад +1

      Thanks for your story. What were you doing on 9/11 if its ok to ask?

    • @CherryFrog321
      @CherryFrog321 2 года назад +1

      @@mchris65 I think I remember seeing an interview with a woman who was in the World Trade Center when the 1993 bombing happened. She was a kindergarten teacher and had taken her students there for a field trip (she and her students were all unharmed, luckily). As someone who's worked with 5 and 6 year olds, that sounds absolutely insane to me. 😂

  • @26Umut98
    @26Umut98 6 лет назад +39

    This rare footage is older than me. I was born on September 1998.

    • @26Umut98
      @26Umut98 6 лет назад +4

      MusicBlastingPsycho Nah i had the same childhood like the 90's kids so fuck off you dumb fuck.

    • @gabrielmiller668
      @gabrielmiller668 6 лет назад +2

      And I am even younger than you I was born in January 2000 barely a year and a half before that day

    • @marcelrodriguez2067
      @marcelrodriguez2067 5 лет назад +2

      I was born in 1992 and i remembered 911 like it was yesterday. My mom just finished dropping me off at school and about 30 mins later she comes running back to pick me up.

    • @mariekatherine5238
      @mariekatherine5238 4 года назад +2

      Umut I was 43. I walked through the PATH station and purchased a card in the mall on the afternoon of September 10, 2001.

    • @Kapojos
      @Kapojos 4 года назад

      Fuck you asshole. I know now why you cry

  • @Ebolacrash
    @Ebolacrash 5 лет назад +22

    i went up there July 2001 ( first and last time ) to the observation deck outside I'm not sure if I remembering this correctly but i recall a electric fence outside the gated perimeter and warning signs , my guess was to prevent tourist from going over the gates .

    • @619AGT
      @619AGT 4 года назад +4

      It wasn’t really an electric fence. Just a fence with barbed wire.

    • @jlbraswell5961
      @jlbraswell5961 2 года назад

      Two months later in September the towers went down.

  • @i.m.demarco2324
    @i.m.demarco2324 2 года назад +2

    Wonderful footage and zoom capabilities to show how high they were...
    Ive had difficulty "seeing" how and where people ran to, to escape the buildings. This video gives me a better perspective...
    9/11...
    ALWAYS REMEMBERED...
    NZ...💞✌🙏

  • @PraveenSrJ01
    @PraveenSrJ01 2 года назад +3

    Great video of the elevator 🛗 but really none chilling and creepy to think how many people were on the elevators on September 11th when the planes ✈️ hit the WTC. Really scary exactly how high and tall the old WTC was and that people had to jump to their deaths. Hope it was quick and not prolonged suffering. May they all Rest In Peace.

  • @jgweems
    @jgweems 11 месяцев назад +2

    I went to the top on early November of 1989. It was strange because you didn't walk on a flat roof. There was a walkway built up on the roof that you would walk around. You could feel the building sway in the wind. It was scary but very exhilarating as well. There were no metal detectors or people to check you or anything. Just went to the desk, paid $7.50, and got on the elevator. I actually thought the elevator ride was the scariest part because it took you from the ground to the top floor. (an escalator took you from the top floor to the roof) I had a fear of the elevator falling.

  • @trgoohileshea2820
    @trgoohileshea2820 3 года назад +6

    I have selfies of me and my best friend on the rooftop deck. It was my favorite part of New York.

  • @Caine462
    @Caine462 Год назад +2

    I was blessed to visit them January of 2000, And August 2001

  • @douglasschultz9808
    @douglasschultz9808 3 года назад +19

    They were beautiful buildings. Those poor people who had to choose between jumping and burning alive sticks with me the most from that horrible day.

    • @maryh9812
      @maryh9812 2 года назад

      You call that Beautiful ? Mans greedy invention more like it ! Just like the Titanic ! Where on earth was their plan for a fire escape here ? Not that it would of helped but .. Mans greed is Pathetic !

  • @jacquelinechellis4036
    @jacquelinechellis4036 2 года назад +4

    I kinda wish they would have rebuilt them the same a kind of defiance. What they did is beautiful but just my opinion

  • @stephaniewilson9551
    @stephaniewilson9551 2 года назад +1

    Omg my head went funny looking down from that height!! It amazes me how that building was as high as that was built!!!

  • @MysticMelody619
    @MysticMelody619 2 года назад +2

    God this is so heartbreaking! Everything so peaceful, the view is beautiful and people were lively, happy in this video and all that demolished in the end. 💔😭

  • @timdailey2690
    @timdailey2690 3 года назад +14

    6:29 where Pettit walked across the wire in 1974

    • @mchris65
      @mchris65 2 года назад

      good thing he didn't do it that day. but seriously that guy is nuts.

  • @scotwells7573
    @scotwells7573 2 года назад +10

    Thank God Larry had a dermatologist appointment that day!

  • @americanwriter2533
    @americanwriter2533 11 месяцев назад

    🤩🇺🇸👍🤩🇺🇸👍Good Video! I was fortunate to meet Patrick O'Kane who was a height specialist and was one of the two men, that painted the antennae! He worked as a bridge painter for Port Authority. Saw Irish Echo article about how they called him to help in trying to save people, after planes hit! Terrible😢😢😢

  • @moe9246
    @moe9246 11 месяцев назад +1

    Thank you for sharing. Your video is the only way anyone will be able to see these views ever again.

    • @sasgharalizaidiify
      @sasgharalizaidiify  11 месяцев назад +1

      You may check out the part 2, it has the complete manhattan ride which WTC offered( You wont find that footage anywhere on internet 🥲 )

    • @sasgharalizaidiify
      @sasgharalizaidiify  11 месяцев назад

      Part 2 :
      ruclips.net/video/N3HCMR182HA/видео.htmlsi=46T85UkjYdn4nwZ4
      Sub hit would be appreciated 🙂

  • @jamessiddle7389
    @jamessiddle7389 2 года назад +2

    Visited the observation deck in '98, the main reason I went to New York was to experience standing at the top, thank you for the nostalgia trip, they were truly magnificent buildings

  • @awaydeboa
    @awaydeboa Год назад +2

    I can imagine the poor ppl trapped looking down there. So high, so dangerous, so painful... some of them preferred to jump to the certain death than burn. I'm so sorry for them. May they resting in peace.

  • @theseventhgeneration6910
    @theseventhgeneration6910 2 года назад +6

    Thank You so so so so so so so so so so so much for this!

  • @evelyntelese8485
    @evelyntelese8485 11 месяцев назад +1

    I was on that roof top a long time ago. What a beautiful site it was. To see the NYC and Long Island.😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢

  • @gilligan-No.700
    @gilligan-No.700 Год назад +2

    Thanks for upload this video I like the Twin Towers and R.I.P for all victims [][]🗽🕊

  • @nordmarian9770
    @nordmarian9770 2 года назад +8

    When 140p was the best quality for cameras.

  • @andybarr2188
    @andybarr2188 2 года назад +2

    Thanks so much for posting that! I went to the top as a kid with my dad, brought back memories.

  • @jusliving7977
    @jusliving7977 3 года назад +8

    I miss the old NYC. This video brings back a flood of memories. RIP & God Bless the victims of Sept 11

  • @marooqi
    @marooqi 3 года назад +9

    those very elevators became incinerators, its so unimaginable

  • @Samantha-lp7zz
    @Samantha-lp7zz 2 года назад +2

    Amazing footage / thank you ! I too wouldn’t have even been able to look down as I don’t do heights . God bless all those brave souls who lost their lives that day - lest we forget .🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼🕯🕯

  • @kimpalmer5582
    @kimpalmer5582 2 года назад

    Thank you. I miss those buildings. I was there four months before 9-11

  • @keithc728
    @keithc728 2 года назад +2

    I never had the chance to experience wtc. Thank you.

  • @MysticMelody619
    @MysticMelody619 2 года назад +1

    Thank you for sharing this. This will be cherished and remembered forever 🙏❤

  • @briana_patrick
    @briana_patrick 5 лет назад +8

    Bro this building is so high i wouldnt have even gone in there, period. I AM SO SCARED OF HEIGHTS. Even tho i go on roller-coasters and love them lol

    • @visionist7
      @visionist7 5 лет назад +2

      Trust me you'd have gone up and you'd have loved it

    • @svenskavapes8558
      @svenskavapes8558 3 года назад +1

      Agree 👍
      Im allso affraid of hights, and this is insane 😳
      My heart nearly pop out just to see this 😟😳
      Greetings from sweden ⚘

  • @drewsquickfix
    @drewsquickfix 5 лет назад +15

    @7:25 what the F$^k.... theres a live newsfeed camera for channel 2. Where is the footage from 9-11 from that camera??? lemme guess it wasnt working that day right. Incredible I want to see that footage!!

    • @dontask6863
      @dontask6863 5 лет назад +2

      Was thinking the exact same thing...

    • @CodGeronimo
      @CodGeronimo 3 года назад +2

      There probably isn't much to see, it only seems to overlook the actual roof area right? It would probably only have video of smoke.

    • @Suzy987
      @Suzy987 3 года назад

      You did see the explosion when the plane hit the tower right? I cant imagine anything was working after that so won't have been much recording happening

    • @drewsquickfix
      @drewsquickfix 3 года назад

      @@Suzy987 it was on the opposite tower

    • @Suzy987
      @Suzy987 3 года назад +2

      @@drewsquickfix then it would have been recording black smoke for 15 mins until the second plane hit I imagine

  • @paulbirkbeck1790
    @paulbirkbeck1790 Год назад +1

    I love these videos a window into the past. Thankyou love from the uk💚

    • @sasgharalizaidiify
      @sasgharalizaidiify  Год назад +1

      Relatable emotion ❤️ you can check out more classic NYC stuff on my channel

    • @paulbirkbeck1790
      @paulbirkbeck1790 Год назад +1

      @@sasgharalizaidiify im subbing bro

  • @Cupidstuntfc
    @Cupidstuntfc 11 месяцев назад +3

    Being from the UK, I always dreamed of going to New York and on my first visit with my girlfriend she gave me the choice of going up the Empire State building or the twin towers but not both as she wanted to shop. I chose the twin towers and was amazed at what a beautiful buildings they were and when at the top, how little wind there seem to be. I went back in 2016 and paid my respects. As someone who grew up in London in the 70s when bombs were going off due to the IRA I can relate to how New Yorkers feel about them not being there anymore. All terrorism brings is pain and sadness and never achieves its goal.

  • @haroldlipschitz9301
    @haroldlipschitz9301 11 месяцев назад +1

    There's always buzzing in these WTC videos from all the interference by the structural steel and the TV mast on Tower 1

  • @PDWEDD
    @PDWEDD 2 года назад +2

    There was a CBS camera attached in the roof. Did anyone see any footage from 2001.09.11 from that camera?

  • @brettroberts990
    @brettroberts990 2 года назад +1

    Never seen this part of the Trade Centers.. This is so cool.

  • @dustyflair
    @dustyflair 11 месяцев назад

    The view form outside at the top really was fab!!!!

  • @sw6065
    @sw6065 2 года назад +1

    I'm one of the few people who has had the opportunity to walk outside on the top of the building 6x I've been to the observation deck 14x in 8 visits we couldn't go outside due to high winds. I'm lucky to be 400 feet from 2nd tower on 911 when the 2nd plane hit.

  • @MM-qg9fq
    @MM-qg9fq 2 года назад

    Stood from that view as a Tourist 2 weeks before 9/11. Still what makes it so tangilble for me 9\11. RIP to all those souls lost

  • @joshuacruz4244
    @joshuacruz4244 2 года назад

    Im from NY and I saw the world trade center up close and personal from the ground level years ago when I was younger i never ascended though. I was looking it at from outside on the street. It was a mighty site that's for sure.

  • @tera4603
    @tera4603 3 года назад +9

    When he zoomed in all the way to the bottom 😖😖

  • @rodneybuffee4400
    @rodneybuffee4400 2 года назад +1

    And to think a guy walked a wire between those two towers. Amazing.

  • @an0n71
    @an0n71 Год назад +2

    Only the bravest spirit would possess a courage to build towers so tall as these unbelievable

  • @Tee19691
    @Tee19691 Год назад +1

    You can see and hear the static interference from the antennas on top of the building.

  • @kodydasavage5336
    @kodydasavage5336 5 лет назад +10

    Just imagine looking out that window hopelessly watching that plane getting closer than feeling the build shake and explode :(

  • @tonyliveproduction9162
    @tonyliveproduction9162 3 года назад +10

    Those towers were beautiful too bad there not there anymore 😔

    • @ProfessionalWPNFire
      @ProfessionalWPNFire 3 года назад +2

      I miss them and I wasen't born yet beacuse this Happened in 2001 but I was born in 2002 and sometimes the world will be changed in they next years it's good and bad sometimes 😏😒

    • @xcarraskii
      @xcarraskii 2 года назад +1

      @@ProfessionalWPNFire I was born August 2nd 2001 so 40 days before the disaster 🤧

    • @ProfessionalWPNFire
      @ProfessionalWPNFire 2 года назад +1

      @@xcarraskii this happened in 11 September 2001 this was before me and it was in 24 July 2002 i was born.

    • @xcarraskii
      @xcarraskii 2 года назад +1

      @@ProfessionalWPNFire Its scary i was only 40 days old put in a world full with evil 😳

    • @ProfessionalWPNFire
      @ProfessionalWPNFire 2 года назад +1

      @@xcarraskii that happened very quick and that was bad 😕

  • @TheSteveSteele
    @TheSteveSteele 11 месяцев назад

    Imagine Philippe Petit rope walking between the towers several times and even laying down and looking up. That’s one brave soul. And so are the men and woman that had to jump. They were brave Americans.

  • @elevatoralarmcoasterandarc1214
    @elevatoralarmcoasterandarc1214 Год назад +1

    What year did you film this?

  • @Cubfanjill
    @Cubfanjill 2 года назад +2

    Awesome video, really sad to see it after the attack, I only have one problem it was my understanding that you couldn’t go from the ground to the top on one elevator, you had to change on the 78th floor and that was the floor hit by the second plane

  • @Kurokyura
    @Kurokyura Год назад +1

    I was there august 16th 2001 with my family.

  • @user-kp8sx1nh1c
    @user-kp8sx1nh1c Год назад +1

    Thank you. These are the REAL World Trade Center.