Walking Around A Mall On 9/11

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  • Опубликовано: 17 окт 2024
  • Video from a mall in Atlanta Georgia on September 11, 2001.
    Shots of various stores (Sears, FYI, Software, etc...)
    The understandably quiet mall closed at 1:00 P.M.
    This video last just a little over 2 minutes.
    #911
    #september11
    #sears
    #fyi

Комментарии • 375

  • @landmarkcreations1183
    @landmarkcreations1183 Год назад +822

    What’s crazy is I was at the mall on 9/11. Left the house, briefly saw my parents watching t.V and remember something about a plane hitting a building. I was 18 and didn’t think twice about it. Went to the mall and bought P.O.D satellite album. As we were walking through the mall an announcement came over the intercom “ ladies and gentlemen the mall is closing due to Terrorist activities” it was then we realized that something big happened and went home and saw the tragedy unfold in real time

    • @vampirerobot
      @vampirerobot  Год назад +37

      Great comment ...thanks for sharing 👍

    • @m.a.r.c.u.s8563
      @m.a.r.c.u.s8563 Год назад +26

      Good album

    • @landmarkcreations1183
      @landmarkcreations1183 Год назад +38

      @Rowdy Jr Not that I remember. It was like a slap into reality. The first time feeling vulnerable as an adult

    • @wonderful-wafwaf
      @wonderful-wafwaf Год назад +5

      Iiiiiii....iiii wish I could flyyyyyyyyyy......

    • @IAMDAVIDuRNOT
      @IAMDAVIDuRNOT Год назад +17

      I did nearly the same thing. I remember the P.O.D album was released that day and I snagged a copy after leaving school early. Not sure if our mall ended up closing early, but it was strange seeing only a handful of people there.

  • @MrAllen-fv9cj
    @MrAllen-fv9cj Год назад +943

    This is one of the most important channels on RUclips. Please never stop with the great content. It's like being in a time machine.

    • @vampirerobot
      @vampirerobot  Год назад +115

      This makes me happy 😊

    • @MissFunkyH
      @MissFunkyH Год назад +12

      @@vampirerobot It's real life!

    • @sergeybrin6701
      @sergeybrin6701 Год назад +9

      It has a lot of interesting content, but to call this "one of the most important channels on RUclips" is one hell of an overstatement.

    • @MrAllen-fv9cj
      @MrAllen-fv9cj Год назад +50

      @@sergeybrin6701 Giving a true look into the past is pretty important to a lot of people. That's my opinion at least.

    • @sergeybrin6701
      @sergeybrin6701 Год назад +1

      @@MrAllen-fv9cj Wonderful. That really isn't a response to what I said though. But whatever.

  • @WorldTradeCenterMuzakCommunity
    @WorldTradeCenterMuzakCommunity Год назад +186

    Crazy fact: the background music playing in this mall is using the exact same Muzak satellite feed that the World Trade Center Mall and Plaza was using during the attacks. Like heard in the 9/11 footage by Jack Taliercio. That's creepy...

    • @85pphoenix
      @85pphoenix Год назад +14

      That is an extremely creepy fact. You don't think it was still playing while the towers went down? 😮

    • @WorldTradeCenterMuzakCommunity
      @WorldTradeCenterMuzakCommunity Год назад +38

      @@85pphoenix It played up until the moment the South Tower went down. There are several videos of the music played in the Plaza and Mall shortly before the collapsed occurred, I'm part of a big search to find every song played.

    • @ash34005
      @ash34005 Год назад +17

      I was in college getting ready to go to class and had the TV on. I saw the 2nd plane hit in real time and I’ll never forget the people that were jumping out of the building. I called my mother crying and scared. That day will be burned in my brain forever. Also, I went to class as usual and the professor carried on as nothing was happening and made us take our scheduled exam. I never respected her after that and thought that was cruel and disrespectful then and my opinion hasn’t changed.

    • @ShadowLinkxMaster
      @ShadowLinkxMaster Год назад +4

      @@WorldTradeCenterMuzakCommunityHave they discovered what song was playing before “How Deep Is Your Love?”

    • @polotiks-w7f
      @polotiks-w7f Год назад +6

      @@ShadowLinkxMasterYes it’s WINDLESS, by Mike Strickland

  • @LifeofMarie267
    @LifeofMarie267 9 месяцев назад +63

    I remember being in college on Sept. 11, 2001 and since I commuted, I left campus early since most of the professors were canceling classes and everywhere I went, there was such shock and quiet. It is one of those things I just can't get out of my mind.

    • @ULTRAMusicMixes
      @ULTRAMusicMixes 9 месяцев назад

      I saw the towers every day of my life from my livingroom window. They were so majestic. That Monday night l had stayed up till 5am drawing a picture of Goku (don't ask why lol), so when my alarm went off at 7am that Tuesday Sep 11th morning, l overslept. Next thing l know my mom wakes me up frantic around 850am. I assume she's mad about me being late for school, but obviously that wasn't it. She said a plane hit 1 of the towers. I immediately hopped out the bed and ran to the window, and saw 1 of the towers burning with a huge trail of smoke that seemed to stretch for miles. No one knew it was terrorism at the time, so my mom left for work and l actually went back to bed. I didn't realize what had fully happened until my sister came home from work early at 12pm and told me that we were under attack, and that the towers were gone. Both of them. I ran to the window again and sure enough all there were was a huge grey dust cloud 😢😢😢

  • @michelleb7399
    @michelleb7399 10 месяцев назад +81

    I went to Walmart after work on 9/11 because I absolutely needed to purchase something for my classroom for the next day (I taught 3rd grade). My son was with me, he being in first grade. It was so surreal, when the greeter greeted us. I just didn’t even know how to respond. Everyone was in shock. But I tried to act as normal as possible for my son. One of the hardest days ever. What made it harder was that there was no one to comfort us as we were all just as sad, confused, and scared as anyone else. But that’s what also was comforting.

    • @yy17782
      @yy17782 9 месяцев назад +1

      It feels like there’s a chunk of the story missing between the greeter greeting you and that next part, I wanted to hear more

    • @michelleb7399
      @michelleb7399 9 месяцев назад +2

      @@yy17782 The greeter said something like, “Welcome to Wal-Mart. Have a good day!” I couldn’t even imagine how to respond in that moment. There was no having “a nice day” for anyone that day. I didn’t want to be rude but I also couldn’t smile and say “thanks, you too!” In my memory, I turned my head slowly and looked at the greeter. I couldn’t fake a smile and similar greeting. I just looked at them, or more like stared through them. If you’ve ever experienced shock or see someone go through it, you can imagine what I mean. Also back then Walmarts always had tv monitors on. They would show Walmart ads as well as the news or sports or whatever. Every tv monitor showed the live, ongoing news. All the networks (network tv was still dominate back then) had 9/11 live coverage at least until the next day sometime. I feel like we went more than 24 hours with constant news coverage. Could have been more like 36 hours. That was a lot.

  • @DerWutendeMetzger
    @DerWutendeMetzger Год назад +139

    I was working at a credit card manufacturing plant at the time of the attacks. After the planes hit the towers everyone was called into the cafeteria for a meeting. We were told what was happening and that we were all to go home because our building might be a target (no one knew what the hell was happening). Everyone EXCEPT for me and the two other guys in the shipping department because Capital One had to have their order out TODAY! We were expendable, apparently. So It was me (the supervisor), the other two shippers, and local police came to sit with us until we finished with Capital One's order! Then we were allowed to go home while the entire plant was sent home hours ago. Unreal.

    • @SparkleSister7
      @SparkleSister7 11 месяцев назад +15

      "What's in your wallet?" That's an interesting story. Glad your building wasn't targeted and that you made it through the capital one order. I never thought of credit cards being made in factories. It would be interesting to see how they're made.

    • @DerWutendeMetzger
      @DerWutendeMetzger 10 месяцев назад +9

      @@SparkleSister7 Yep. They are made on huge printing presses and go through several different departments before finally being shipped out. Brinks comes to pick them up while local police supervise. What you'd be surprised about are all the hidden anti counterfeit features that are on the cards that no one knows about. The place was tighter than fort Knox. The security and rules we had to follow were insane. Anyways, it was a good job at the time but had a very high turn over rate and most of the management were awful people.

    • @luigi7834
      @luigi7834 9 месяцев назад +7

      capitalist dystopia moment

  • @BWItoATXF
    @BWItoATXF Год назад +180

    This video placed me in a somber state. I was 8 and remember the feeling.
    My mom picked me up early from school. Told me we’re under attack. But we’re going to be okay.
    Turned on cable at home, and all networks were offline. I specifically remember QVC and thought this was big.
    While so young, I didn’t have a full grasp. But this video captured emotion that others were feeling that day. Being that age now, it really resonates.

    • @thecandyman9308
      @thecandyman9308 Год назад +1

      Just remember: this happened b/c Bush stole the election from Gore in 2000 and they already had those wars and PATRIIOT act lined up.
      Wishing you well.

    • @RoseAnderson-bl5uy
      @RoseAnderson-bl5uy 11 месяцев назад +3

      I was 5 and don’t remember it at all it’s weird cause other folks my age say they remember it vividly

    • @David-mc5xy
      @David-mc5xy 11 месяцев назад +5

      The day america attacked america.

    • @Brando501st
      @Brando501st 10 месяцев назад +2

      I had just turned 6 and I still remember things from that day like when my 1st grade teacher bringing the kids in early from recess and trying to read a book to us but she started to tear up when we heard the fighter jet roar by patrolling the area. I've thought of a couple of times these past couple anniversaries to go back and thank her for trying to take care of us that day but I don't know if she's still even at that school in Pasadena.

    • @anh7807
      @anh7807 10 месяцев назад +1

      I was 11, and remember everyone was terrified. Since that day, our country has changed.

  • @AdhamOhm
    @AdhamOhm Год назад +47

    My dad worked night shift at the postal facility at the airport during 9/11. I remember him leaving for work at 5 in the evening. I asked him why he was still working when everything else was shut down, he said "They still have to move the mail."
    I think the postal service was the only thing still running immediately after 9/11. Though he ended up processing ground mail for a while instead of air mail since no planes were flying.

  • @KingFahtah
    @KingFahtah Год назад +112

    This was at the very beginning of the long painful decline of America's malls. And America itself. Like a country was coming down with the buildings.

    • @jordan2695
      @jordan2695 Год назад +1

      You wish ‘fahtah’

    • @oblongfan1
      @oblongfan1 11 месяцев назад +18

      yep. i always say after 9/11 everything went to shit. i was 15 in high school when it happened but even before 9/11 happened i already started feeling something off that year. i got depressed . did bad in school , was hospitalized etc. then 9/11 happened and the world was never the same. think about pre 9/11 days very often. the 90s was a special time i wish I could go back to

    • @Novusod
      @Novusod 11 месяцев назад +11

      Does this mall still exist? A lot of malls ended up closing down in the years after 9/11 or turned into ghost malls.
      I remember pre 9/11 times well. Things were prosperous but after the attack the country never recovered. It has just been one tragedy and disaster after another since then. I am convinced there is no future at all and world is headed for Armageddon soon.

    • @disinfected85
      @disinfected85 10 месяцев назад

      Malls were already dying long before 9/11

    • @Nazizombies97
      @Nazizombies97 8 месяцев назад

      @@NovusodHistory is cyclical and predictable. I think you are right to a point, and we are already in it. But I see hope for a rebirth of Americana and society. Not for some time still. I think the energy is there. It’s easy to be negative, hard to be positive. I get it. Im right there with you.

  • @_Acala
    @_Acala Год назад +74

    1:28 "Kind of a disaster day, isn't it?" I mean yeah, that's one way to describe 9/11

    • @maxfuentes5435
      @maxfuentes5435 5 месяцев назад +1

      Reminds me of that tragedy

    • @Lochee
      @Lochee 3 месяца назад

      It's a quiet day really quiet way too quiet

    • @pinedelgado4743
      @pinedelgado4743 3 месяца назад

      Such insensitivity and ignorance!

  • @L0N3WOLF18
    @L0N3WOLF18 Год назад +111

    So interesting to see various perspectives and what was happening across the country. Thank you for uploading a piece of history!

  • @djm5k
    @djm5k Год назад +74

    I worked at a military base in Southern California at that time, and the attacks happened even before the workday started since we are three hours behind eastern time. We were not told to go home that day, although it was very difficult to concentrate. However, things changed drastically as how base security was handled after that day, as did our country.

    • @DatAnimalBlundetto
      @DatAnimalBlundetto Год назад +2

      cornado base huh

    • @KariIzumi1
      @KariIzumi1 9 месяцев назад +3

      I joined the Navy in ‘10 and the blokes who were enlisted on 9/11 told me they wear rushing to get every ship unmoored and out to sea as soon as possible. One guy told me his ship was ordered to cut the mooring lines if need be. Another was in Sydney and they had to leave port at about 1 in the morning.

  • @geddoe316
    @geddoe316 Год назад +45

    Yep, our mall closed that day very early too. I worked at a gamestop (it was still software etc at the time) and i remember it just being creepy looking out the doors into a dead mall...then security came around and said everything was shutting.

  • @jaredgraywest
    @jaredgraywest Год назад +72

    So sad. At least in my mind, the Nineties felt like they began with the release of Nevermind in September 1991 and lasted through September 11, 2001. It's been downhill ever since.

    • @hudsonvalleyvinyl3938
      @hudsonvalleyvinyl3938 Год назад +5

      That’s precisely what Chuck Klosterman said in his book from last year. “The nineties”

    • @thend4427
      @thend4427 Год назад +2

      What's nevermind? I was born 90

    • @destroymalefeminists
      @destroymalefeminists Год назад +1

      @@thend4427nirvana.

    • @1903tx
      @1903tx Год назад +3

      @@thend4427 nvmd

    • @KingOfCharlotteNC
      @KingOfCharlotteNC Год назад

      ​@@thend4427 en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nevermind

  • @Invisible_Socks
    @Invisible_Socks Год назад +48

    It was one day after my 26th birthday. I was at work but stopped by the mall to eat lunch in the food court. Walked past Sears and all the TV's had the news coverage on. I'll never forget that day.

    • @KDubb-ws9zc
      @KDubb-ws9zc Год назад +9

      I was 5 and being 27 now in a lot of ways I’m grateful I was too young to really comprehend the severity of what had taken place at that time

    • @Fritha71
      @Fritha71 Год назад +3

      It was one day before my 30th, here in Finland. I threw a small-scale party for a handful of friends that weekend but the mood was pretty somber and we talked quite a bit about the attacks in the US...

    • @A.stallion27
      @A.stallion27 Год назад +2

      ​@KDubb-ws9zc same here I was only 5 at the time but it's the years that proceeded into the 2000s with ground zero that made it all piece together. Something once symbolic gone to ashes...

    • @Super122291
      @Super122291 11 месяцев назад

      ​@@A.stallion27dumb young man

  • @nadineskye7050
    @nadineskye7050 Год назад +63

    We weren’t at the mall that day, but our local fair was going on and my mother had to water the flowers that she had on exhibit. While the fair stayed open, she said was a ghost town. The mood was very somber, far from the normal festive atmosphere. In many ways, my childhood died that day. My innocence was lost and I was made aware of the evil that exists in this world. Life has never been the same since…

    • @stevarino1989
      @stevarino1989 Год назад +9

      Yup, I was 12 and in school but I definitely agree with you about how most of our innocence died that morning and nothing would ever be the same.

  • @stephenroberts2526
    @stephenroberts2526 Год назад +32

    I started out 9/11 getting ready for class at my local community college. As I got out of the shower, my father said, "All Hell has broken loose!" I spent the next two hours glued to the TV. Then, I got a call from my boss asking me to go in to pretty much just help with shutting down the store. I obliged then, drove around for a little while. I was shocked the most by how quiet the skies were at 3 in the afternoon. Follwed closely by how long the lines had become at the gas station. It was a very surreal day. I wouldn't say it was sad (to me) yet. It was a pure auto-pilot feeling, complete shock and disbelief. Nearly everybody that knew what had happened all shared the same dead look. Anger, fear, and mourning followed in the aftermath.

    • @OscarLopez-gw3jx
      @OscarLopez-gw3jx Год назад +4

      Kind of same for me. My dad woke me up that the towers had collapsed. I had no school that day so that's all I watched and that was all they showed that day

  • @mulletover3832
    @mulletover3832 Год назад +37

    I was 26 and working at a small newspaper when it happened. All we wanted to do was leave, but we were under deadline. It was torture and such a helpless feeling. How we ever made our deadline, I will never know.

    • @SarahB1863
      @SarahB1863 Год назад +5

      I was working for a small newspaper too, and we also had a deadline. We did send someone out to the shopping mall area to take pictures, though, because for some reason the shops there spontaneously had everybody go out into the parking lot and form a human chain, holding hands. I'm not sure why. What was VERY frustrating about that day was the we wanted to go home, be with our loved ones, and watch what was happening, but deadlines don't wait for anyone and we had to stay until the paper was put to bed.

    • @kisaragistation5220
      @kisaragistation5220 9 месяцев назад +2

      Hope you're in a better job now

  • @brian8072
    @brian8072 Год назад +6

    This dudes RUclips channel is amazing and I can't stop watching it omg. I remember 9/11 like it was yesterday. I was in school

  • @mrchiledonut
    @mrchiledonut Год назад +17

    The only thing I remember on that day was my brother waking everyone up and turning the TV on to see the building burning and the second plane hit, then going to school (was in the 6th grade) and talking to a friend about it and all the teachers were huddled outside the classroom crying. I also remember that, unfortunately, my neighbors from Algeria didn't leave their house for what seemed like a month after that.

  • @magzdilluh
    @magzdilluh 9 месяцев назад +8

    I was working at a Barnes and Noble on Sept. 11th: got the call from management that all the B&Ns would be closing down at 5 pm that day. At 3 or so, a woman called up asking for a book to be held so she could pick it up that night and was surprised and angry that we'd be closed. Co-worker on the phone said to her, "Haven't you been watching the news?" The woman said no, she didn't have a TV and hadn't read the paper that day. Co-worker sighs heavily, and says "Okay. You'll want to sit down," and told her.

  • @budsunny
    @budsunny Год назад +15

    Worth noting that at 0:58 if you look at the bottom left you can see that poster of Syphon Filter 3 displaying the old cover art. Due to 9/11 the cover art had to be replaced but some copies were released with the old cover art intact. If you have that old cover art variant it’s super expensive and rare now.

    • @vampirerobot
      @vampirerobot  Год назад +3

      Interesting information Richard 👍

    • @abbycareyyy7755
      @abbycareyyy7755 Год назад

      Yeah I’m searching that bottom corner you mentioned for lots of green and a big American flag but I don’t see that poster at all?…

    • @budsunny
      @budsunny Год назад +5

      @@abbycareyyy7755 look a little to the left of the Pokémon crystal. You can barely see it since it’s in low quality but it has the PlayStation logo and the rejected cover art.

  • @visionaryjones2263
    @visionaryjones2263 Год назад +20

    Man this looks like Cumberland mall in Cobb county. Yep this was Cumberland I remember that security guard lol. And that restaurant walking out the food court. This was our mall as a teenager.

    • @willp.8120
      @willp.8120 Год назад +1

      I used to get my hair cut at Great Expectations.
      Sears is now gone, replaced in area with a Dick's Sporting Goods. JC Penney is gone, replaced with a Costco.

  • @Yogagirl9935
    @Yogagirl9935 Год назад +25

    I remember that horrible day, but then I remember how everyone came together & the country really was United, today it’s nothing like that

    • @monicavidal850
      @monicavidal850 Год назад

      Thanks to the fake media & obama among biden😡

  • @mrmikeflo11
    @mrmikeflo11 Год назад +3

    This channel is like a Time Machine thank you this is as close as we get to time travel

  • @AntonioLiberato08
    @AntonioLiberato08 Год назад +33

    These videos are timeless and important to see! Thank you so much! Can I ask; are these your recordings personally? Amazing content and how things use to be… when did it become different/nuts/just not the same? Was it 9-11, Y2K, WOMD… FEAR mongering… again thank you! Been watching videos for the last hour!

    • @TheOriginalCFA1979
      @TheOriginalCFA1979 Год назад

      It was none of these things. What caused a change was the warmongering terror state known as the United States launched a 20 year terrorist action in the Middle East, trading thousands of lives from across the globe to enrich a handful of elite rich US businessmen. Now, an entire generation has grown up living paycheque to paycheque with daily reports about financially destitute soldiers being exploded to make oil executives richer, while their countries throw money into brainwashing citizens into throwing their lives away securing Big Oil their Middle Eastern oil fields instead of doing literally anything about the home economy falling apart for anyone who isn’t in the top tax bracket and lining the politicians pockets- I mean, “donating to their campaigns.”
      9/11 had nothing to do with. Y2K had nothing to do with. The War Mongers that are the US are the sole blame for the horrible state of the world today.
      Because why do anything for the people when you can wage a multi-trillion dollar war on some cavemen in a desert?

    • @tiahnarodriguez3809
      @tiahnarodriguez3809 9 месяцев назад

      Literally right after the attack things were different. Complete attitude shift, and everyone conducted themselves differently.

  • @metalgrinch
    @metalgrinch Год назад +13

    It was just a regular Tuesday work and school day. The mall would have been very slow as it is. Although that one girl entering the mall at the end of the video, you gotta question whether she even knew what was happening. I bet a lot of these people didn't. Still by 1pm you'd think the whole world knew. Last thing I'd have on my schedule is a trip to the mall.

    • @husseinandout3867
      @husseinandout3867 Год назад +5

      What's wrong with going to the mall after the attacks? Maybe that's how some people cope with the anxiety trigged by the attacks? Or they may just feel like going to the mall. Let's say she knew what was happening. What should she have done instead? Stay home and sob?

  • @IAMTheNiteOwl
    @IAMTheNiteOwl 11 месяцев назад +13

    How do you get all this great footage? Your channel is really like taking a time machine back to whatever year we are looking at in the video.

  • @jst_TV
    @jst_TV 9 месяцев назад +4

    Who filmed these?

  • @FerrariCarr
    @FerrariCarr 9 месяцев назад +5

    I like how I was able to instantly identify which mall it was simply from the GameStop in the thumbnail 😂 This is Cumberland Mall in Atlanta, and the GameStop is one of the very few stores that still resides in the mall to this day, in the same place.

  • @thedeadzone9236
    @thedeadzone9236 11 месяцев назад +13

    I'm surprised the security guard didn't tell you anything about recording, every mall I've ever been to strictly prohibited photos and videos

    • @TrevJ91
      @TrevJ91 9 месяцев назад +9

      I presume there were more important things to be worried about than a camcorder

  • @SeventhPow3r
    @SeventhPow3r 11 месяцев назад +10

    Makes you wonder where these people are today.

    • @004SOSS
      @004SOSS 27 дней назад

      Either dead or in old age

  • @pepethepatriot7524
    @pepethepatriot7524 11 месяцев назад +12

    Was in my early 20s at that time. I started work (CST) after the first plane had hit the towers and my co-worker came running out yelling about being attacked. I thought she was making some sort of a weird joke. Went in and my small office (of 4 workers) had the TV on. Thankfully I could watch the TV while working (I was a web designer and my boss was totally cool and always left the TV on for us all day). My co-worker was freaking out the entire day and wanted to go home. I was like "What for?" we were in a secure basement that was one step away from a "bunker" out in the middle of the country. Some people just have such high anxiety 🤷‍♀ I knew we were "at war" effectively after seeing the attacks, but going home and hiding and not working isn't going to solve anything either. I was just happy we could be kept fully up to date watching the TV while working that day!

  • @hectorlopez1069
    @hectorlopez1069 Год назад +2

    Im in a time machine whenever i watch these scenes of malls in the early 2000s and 9/11.

  • @savinggrace9844
    @savinggrace9844 Год назад +9

    The content that you post is amazing! Please keep it up 😊

  • @Star_Peachy7
    @Star_Peachy7 Год назад +2

    I just love these videos wow so eerie seeing these from the past vs now

  • @nosilee2964
    @nosilee2964 Год назад +24

    I’ve been trying to talk to someone that was an adult during 9/11 because I have a ton of boring questions like “what did people do that day, did the day just go on or did people flee? Because I would have fled, wouldn’t have mattered if I was in the state where an attack was happening I would have gone home.”
    My mom doesn’t remember bc she like…. Doesn’t want to.
    Someone finally told me that people shut down for days, people emptied out of the cities all across the states and got away from anything that could be a potential target for terrorist, and in the days after people were still too scared to go back to work and send their kids back to school.
    This video helped back that, thank you.

    • @vena903
      @vena903 Год назад +5

      I was 18 and a college student and happy to answer any ‘boring’ questions. (Really, they’re the best questions.) I can’t remember if my college cancelled classes that day, but it didn’t matter, nobody really went to class anyway. The few people that did mostly went because they didn’t know what else to do with themselves and just ended up sitting in class chatting with whoever else showed up. I was at breakfast with my roommate when the first plane hit. We didn’t know what was going on when we got back to our floor and a bunch of freshmen girls all had their TV’s on to the news and their doors open before 9am. That just didn’t happen. So we got to our room and turned the TV on just in time to see the second plane hit. A lot of that day is fuzzy because to a certain extent, we really didn’t do much of anything. We spent some time keeping a friend busy while he waited to hear from his dad (who worked in the Pentagon and was ultimately fine). It also happened to be my roommates birthday, so we did make a cake and have a ‘party’ of sorts that night. I have pictures from that evening and they’re weird. We’re all smiling, bc birthday, but we all look sort of exhausted and dazed. But otherwise, we watched the news and sort of wandered around the dorm lost.
      Again, can’t remember if classes were canceled or not that week, but we had a candle light vigil one night. They also postponed what should have been our first home football game because of fears of large crowds gathering and being targets. (We then played it the first weekend in December and froze our asses off in the stands.) Life went on that week, but it all felt off.

    • @icyhotmike
      @icyhotmike Год назад +2

      I was in Boston during 8th grade and the school district basically went into lockdown and then shut down at noon time and all students were sent home. Everyone was nervous. The DC sniper attack happened soon after and everyone thought it was terrorism.

    • @vacuumblink2300
      @vacuumblink2300 11 месяцев назад +2

      @@icyhotmikeholy shit the sniper attack was horrifying. I lived in southern Maryland at the time.

    • @Andy1341000
      @Andy1341000 11 месяцев назад +4

      Thanks for being curious about how people reacted and what people did that day as it went on I was only three during 9/11 so I was clueless.

    • @12MapleLane
      @12MapleLane 10 месяцев назад +4

      No questions are boring. Your interest in history is commendable. Between phone calls to family members in other states making sure they were OK, to trying to reach two close friends who were flight attendants on major airlines (one with United) there was a weird quietness outside as I live in a flight path for two airports. No planes, not much traffic on the roads. Schools didn't get out early, but I remember meeting the school bus as I did every day and the "normalcy" of that was comforting. I grew up watching the WTC being built and couldn't fathom them no longer existing on the skyline. The loss of life was nearly incomprehensible. Citizens and first responders, people at their desks and passengers on planes. To this day it still feels raw. Never forget.

  • @laurawalker1509
    @laurawalker1509 10 месяцев назад +3

    I will never forget that day. I am from the UK. I was packing my things ready to start university (my parents were out), I had the curtains closed and was playing music loud. I was dancing around the living room. My mum rushed in and said "the cleaner from work has said that two planes have just crashed into the twin towers in America. I hope that she is wrong because this could change the world forever". I had an appointment to open a bank account. I remember driving to the bank (with mum) with the radio on loud trying to work out what was going on.
    My dad died suddenly on 19th October, 2001 it was one of the last things that we spoke about together.

  • @looneytoastywolf
    @looneytoastywolf Год назад +1

    Dang this channel documented alot omg...its just wow

    • @Ms.Delphine1204
      @Ms.Delphine1204 Год назад +1

      The content on this channel is B roll footage that news stations didn’t use.

  • @Diskoboy1974
    @Diskoboy1974 Год назад +8

    Our malls never even opened. I worked in one at the time. They called me around 8:45 and told me not to come in. We live in the central time zone, so everything began close to 8AM our time.

  • @85pphoenix
    @85pphoenix Год назад +3

    On 9/11 i skipped school. I remember watching the news at home as the 2nd plane hit. I remember people wondering what was going to happen next if more planes were going to hit important buildings around the world ☹️ I pray we never see another day like it.

    • @BritBelle89
      @BritBelle89 Год назад

      Same but I went to school was on west coast

  • @depletable
    @depletable Год назад +15

    I was working at a restaurant that morning doing prep. They had our asses work that entire day. : /

  • @Ms.Delphine1204
    @Ms.Delphine1204 Год назад +5

    I was a senior in high school and was in first period. We had a test that day and everything was postponed so we could watch the news. All afterschool activities were canceled and everyone was in shock and wanting to get home to our families.

  • @Gr8thxAlot
    @Gr8thxAlot Год назад +14

    I wasn't even aware that the event caused malls to close nationwide. I was out on the bike trails that afternoon, trying to make the best of things.

    • @ppal19812
      @ppal19812 Год назад +4

      The entire country was affected. #NeverForget911

    • @Curlyheart
      @Curlyheart Год назад

      Were you doing everything you could? Holding on to what you were?

    • @stephenroberts2526
      @stephenroberts2526 Год назад +3

      The mall where I worked closed early. If I remember correctly, they wanted everyone out by 2 PM. It was a very start contrast between the people that knew what had happened and those that were insulated from the events of the day. Watching someone go from a normal day to confused to just flat out dead inside, all within seconds, is a haunting experience. Watching someone turning another person's known existence inside out immediately after, is even more so. Getting home was a relief to only be tortured by cable news.

  • @sharkenleo
    @sharkenleo Год назад +9

    Where do you get all these videos?

  • @cj20080
    @cj20080 Год назад +6

    My girlfriend called me and said her office closed, so she went to the mall and nearly everything was closed. I was working for Wells Fargo, and had gone into the office which was like a zombie morgue except for one guy that came into my office smiling and talking about the office football pool. That was so weird. Watching people jump out of the towers, and then "Hey, the Giants really sucked last night against the Broncos" like it was just another Tuesday.

  • @razvandobos9759
    @razvandobos9759 Год назад +5

    The day America’s innocence died. I was sitting in my high chair in the kitchen when it happened.

  • @UmmYeahOk
    @UmmYeahOk 10 месяцев назад +3

    Unbelievable how much this resembles the malls of today.

  • @bellafrangipani8342
    @bellafrangipani8342 9 месяцев назад +1

    It feels so eerie watching this, just to see something that we take for granted, a leisurely trip to our local mall, now completely off limits as panic and sadness set in after the biggest terrorist attack in history. It's so strange to see store owners and security being told to remain silent as they try to process the news.

  • @thegamingchef3304
    @thegamingchef3304 Год назад +6

    I miss FYE. They always had great prices on CDs, movies etc. They had a whole section of old school HipHop CDs. In 2014 and 15 I use to go in there and buy all kinds of CDs and stuff. Then I moved to Houston Texas September of that year in 15. I moved back to my home state in 2017 and went to that mall to go back to the FYE and I walked around the corner and there was just a wall there with no remnants of there ever have being a store there. That was a let down lol.

  • @NewJerseyNets11
    @NewJerseyNets11 Год назад +28

    Back then social media/Internet wasn’t really a thing. So it was much more difficult for people to be aware of any breaking news going on around the country or world.

    • @vampirerobot
      @vampirerobot  Год назад +27

      Everybody in that mall knew exactly what had happened. Also the Internet was very much a thing in 2001.

    • @bardo0007
      @bardo0007 Год назад +4

      Not true, almost everyone was surfing the net. Including me.

    • @Fritha71
      @Fritha71 Год назад +9

      @@vampirerobot Yes, at home, on a desk. Not in your pocket.

    • @husseinandout3867
      @husseinandout3867 Год назад +1

      Even in istanbul, Turkey I literally watched the second plane hit live on tv. It was widely covered in several news channels on TV and radio. Everyone was quickly informed about what happened. Many people throughout the city was talking about it afterwards.

    • @afridgetoofar1818
      @afridgetoofar1818 Год назад +7

      Literally everyone who wasn't in a coma knew what was going on that day. You act like 2001 was the Dark Ages. We had TV's and radios, you know

  • @Kirby7601
    @Kirby7601 Год назад +4

    POV: you're buying mario kart super circuit on a tragic day

  • @rockinrachel1670
    @rockinrachel1670 Год назад +3

    This is all very errie to watch. Really spooky.
    I live in Manchester, England. I was 9 years old when 9/11 happened and I have no memory of this day whatsoever. :/ Guessing it didn't hit young UK kids as much...

  • @vlcheish
    @vlcheish Год назад +2

    who the f is going to the mall on 9/11? "bRo I nEeDs mE sOMe cINnabon"

  • @loganford3921
    @loganford3921 Год назад +5

    After a Doctor's appointment I was in a Arcade playing some games while Chris Moyles (BBC Radio 1) was reporting about what was happening with the twin towers on the Amusements Radio. Everybody I walked passed on the Street was talking about it while I was on my way back home. It hit me hard when I saw it on the TV live and I couldn't believe what was happening especially when the second plane crashed and the towers fell down.

  • @Moonlava722
    @Moonlava722 Год назад +2

    It was a beautiful day blue sky not hot or freezing. Sunny....... I got ready for work at my usual time got downtown and..... Saw the first plane hit, the smells the fear, thanking God I was ok but knew some where not 😢😢😢

  • @jasonvoigt
    @jasonvoigt 10 месяцев назад +1

    I'm like millions of others, I remember what I did that day: went to school, first class at 8am, heard about the attacks, classes were cancelled, went to a chinese buffet (the place was nearly busy but the TVs were on about the attacks) and ran a couple errands then went home. Went to work at Steak 'n Shake later that day and we stayed open

  • @LordVader89
    @LordVader89 Год назад +1

    Did anyone else see the Pokemon Crystal advertisement at 0:58? Brings back good memories with my Gameboy Color. Can't believe it's been more than 22 years at this point.

  • @awwrelic
    @awwrelic Год назад +7

    I remember I was on vacation from my job at a local department store that day...after we watched what was going on TV I called the store and heard that everyone was following it on the demo TV we had near the entrance. My sister was on a chat group online, and people were starting to perpetuate garbage like the wells were being poisoned in PA and others were panic buying at the grocery stores. She had me go on there and attempt some semblance of damage control, in an attempt to get everyone to calm down and think rationally. Don't know how well that worked, but we had to try something. Later that day I posted my weekly article on my own website, which attempted to convey the same message.

  • @neilgregory3506
    @neilgregory3506 11 месяцев назад

    Was this the actual mall below the trade centre sorry for being ignorant it's just got the same music playing as in some of the other 9, 11 videos?

    • @vampirerobot
      @vampirerobot  11 месяцев назад +3

      There is another comment about the music somewhere. This is a mall in Georgia.

  • @togek1ss
    @togek1ss 9 месяцев назад +2

    damn pokemon crystal was still the newest game at the time. really ties it all together for me for some reason how long ago this really was.

    • @koemon_exe
      @koemon_exe 6 месяцев назад

      Yeah and to think we were still a couple years away from Ruby and Sapphire.

  • @Vaushgg
    @Vaushgg 4 месяца назад

    Thank you for preserving history. 👍👍

  • @RetroFan
    @RetroFan 11 месяцев назад +2

    I was 18. Time flies.

  • @stevegarcia3174
    @stevegarcia3174 Год назад +2

    I remember the store I was working at was in az mills mall in Tempe az we closed our store 1 hour after I got to work my friends brought me home that day not a person in sight that day even the roads were empty no one even yelled or road rage it was a change in our country it shook the world and people were changed that day

  • @williammeek7218
    @williammeek7218 9 месяцев назад +1

    I was off work that day . Immediately after the first plane hit I was tapeing it on VCR cassette. The whole time.

  • @OlgaAlyce
    @OlgaAlyce 10 месяцев назад +1

    I called in sick that morning and my coworker said, turn on the tv, he was listening to the radio, I stayed on with him. I watched the 2nd plane hit and then we hung up. So I watched everything that happened that day while I was sick in bed.

  • @pistachiosandpopcorn7146
    @pistachiosandpopcorn7146 Год назад +3

    I was on AOL the whole day of 911. I really didn’t get it even though I was 22. “World trade center had a terrorist attack”. Me~”the what?”

  • @WorldTradeCenterMuzakCommunity

    Hi! Do i have permission to use a section of this video for a video about the Muzak played at the WTC?

  • @johndurrer7869
    @johndurrer7869 Год назад +2

    On 9/11 my Mom came in and woke me up and said “the twin towers were hit by a plane and collapsed”. I just remember thinking “she tripping again” and went back to sleep.

  • @hardhatjack2207
    @hardhatjack2207 9 месяцев назад

    Which mall in Atlanta is this? I should know as a native ATLien but I’m not sure

  • @seanmc7128
    @seanmc7128 Год назад +1

    I remember I had to work that day. Everyone was afraid not knowing what was going to happen next.

  • @MarkMeadows90
    @MarkMeadows90 Год назад +4

    That was a rough time right after the attack on the WTC. Truly a shocking day that was.

  • @microsoftsam_yt
    @microsoftsam_yt Год назад +4

    Crazy to think the mall closed because of a faraway event, in hindsight. At the time, I'm sure it was for security measures because nobody knew who would be hit next.

  • @ajustin614
    @ajustin614 9 месяцев назад

    Still remember that whole somber feeling 23 years later

  • @KentonMakings
    @KentonMakings 11 месяцев назад +1

    Props to this guy for being so brave, and not even giving a fuck about the news. It wasn't in your area, so, it was safe to go outside.

  • @danw1089
    @danw1089 Год назад +4

    Gwinnett place
    Mall , the good ole days

    • @willp.8120
      @willp.8120 Год назад

      That is Cumberland, not Gwinnett Place .

    • @danw1089
      @danw1089 Год назад

      @@willp.8120 forgive my ignorance, it’s been a while

  • @perfectchaos0078
    @perfectchaos0078 Год назад +1

    To employees that day "Everyone go home to be with your families"

  • @CaptDesmo
    @CaptDesmo Год назад +1

    our children's will never know what we lost....

  • @juniorchandler4669
    @juniorchandler4669 Год назад +1

    I was three when 9/11 happened just started pre K, question what mall is this? What’s the name?

  • @GG-lv3xd
    @GG-lv3xd Год назад +2

    After the attacks I went shopping at the grocery store later in the day. It was an eerie silence. no planes in the sky. things were so quiet.

  • @nerdbamarich2063
    @nerdbamarich2063 Год назад +9

    Time really does fly..

    • @hectorlopez1069
      @hectorlopez1069 Год назад

      I was 15 in 9/11, now I'm 37. I'm really old.

  • @mattherr208
    @mattherr208 Год назад

    So you recorded all of this footage and stored it for years?

  • @ComdrStew
    @ComdrStew 10 месяцев назад

    Still more people and stores open in the mall than today. Was that Gamestop or Electronics Boutique?

  • @Rissagirll
    @Rissagirll 9 месяцев назад

    I said in a previous video you posted that I was only 4 when 9/11 happened so I don’t remember anything. It’s really interesting and sad to see this a mall closing bc of the attacks… wow.

  • @isrv
    @isrv Год назад +1

    Everyone was soulless that day nation wide ,absolutely insane

  • @jesse86jesse
    @jesse86jesse Год назад +1

    I woke up at 630 am Pacific time...our tv was out alarm and it turned on to the news...I remember seeing one tower on fire...but didnt think much of it as I had to get dressed and eat breakfast and walk to school. When I got there, there was a weird vibe there...I could see lots of groups of teachers talking amongst each other. During my first period class we tuned in to CNN and that's all we did for the rest of the day in each class. None of the teachers felt like teaching that day.

  • @brianmccormick3837
    @brianmccormick3837 8 месяцев назад

    What game store was that at 0:53? Software?

  • @roccon4246
    @roccon4246 11 месяцев назад

    What mall Is this? Perimeter, Lenox, Cumberland? I am from the Atlanta area so I may have been here

    • @vampirerobot
      @vampirerobot  11 месяцев назад

      Cumberland

    • @roccon4246
      @roccon4246 11 месяцев назад

      @@vampirerobot Ok. So like the area where the Braves play now

  • @ryanhilliard1620
    @ryanhilliard1620 Год назад +2

    I walked over to Jamba Juice that afternoon to get a smoothie and there was a sign on the door that read: CLOSED DUE TO TERRORIST THREAT!😂 I didn’t know there were any plans targeting Jamba Juice, but ok…
    I love the guard in this video that won’t disclose why they’re closing the mall. Due to national emergency, perhaps? That kind of behavior is so annoying! Weird the guy hadn’t heard about the planes yet.

    • @cscms28
      @cscms28 11 месяцев назад

      I was thinking the same thing. "Mall cops are not permitted to discuss national security sir."

  • @victorwilson2255
    @victorwilson2255 Год назад +2

    What was the name of this mall?

    • @willp.8120
      @willp.8120 Год назад

      The name of that mall is Cumberland Mall. It opened in 1973 and is still in good shape as far as malls go. It isn't a dying mall.

    • @victorwilson2255
      @victorwilson2255 Год назад

      @@willp.8120 Thank you

  • @AkeoT9
    @AkeoT9 Год назад

    It's like a time traveler who knew. They knew what to film and upload for this decade. Thank you.

  • @Frankieefootballmundial
    @Frankieefootballmundial Год назад +6

    You should include any mall in nyc on 9/11

  • @christopherwatson8806
    @christopherwatson8806 9 месяцев назад

    Do u time travel to get these videos 😮

  • @zlord1199
    @zlord1199 Год назад +1

    The only Time Machine we have is the pictures we take and videos we film. So folks pull out your cameras film and take pictures of every day life! May seem boring doing it but in 10 years you will look back and smile seeing old videos and pictures.

  • @DwightLivesMatter
    @DwightLivesMatter 7 месяцев назад

    Where are all of these videos from?

  • @matthewbaduria
    @matthewbaduria Год назад +1

    It's one of the most tragic news events of all time,this one is no exception.so many people were killed in the terrorist attacks.just lost me there.

  • @albrand591
    @albrand591 9 месяцев назад

    Was this Lakeside Mall in Michigan?

  • @georgejetson1025
    @georgejetson1025 9 месяцев назад +1

    I was at a casino during 911 ( found out later ). Business as usual that whole morning , nobody announced anything

  • @jlassh
    @jlassh 10 месяцев назад +1

    I also remember how one of my teachers refused to pretend it happened and we did our regular class stuff that day (the rest we just watched on our tvs in class), it was her way of saying fuck you to the terrorists, I remember respecting that after the fact

  • @GeorgeWashingtonX
    @GeorgeWashingtonX Год назад +1

    In the late '9os, early 'oos, basically every mall interior in America looked exactly the same.
    I wonder if a single, large conglomerate was buying them all up then?