@@keyshawnscott12 We thought it was another bombing. I came out of my shoes. Our building swayed violently back and forth for over a minute. Couldn't hear for several seconds, like being in a vacuum cleaner. The lights kept going on and off. Everybody was screaming. By around the 25th Floor, there were cracks in the walls and some of the steps were starting to loosen.
I grew up with the WTC. They opened shortly before I was born in 1973. I visited them multiple times as a kid (with family, friends, school field trips), I had my high school graduation celebration dinner at Windows on The World in 1991, a couple of years before the 93' bombing. I was up in Western Massachusetts in college during the 93' bombing when it occured, but my family was down in NYC. I had moved back to NYC for grad school in 1999 though, so I was unfortunately in Brooklyn for 9/11. I had instinctively AVOIDED the WTC after the 93' bombing, because they were just such OBVIOUS targets. I was uneasy because I had my suspicions about whether or not something else would occur there. A childhood friend of mine had started working on the 74th floor in the South Tower back in 1997, & I feared for her safety. She and I had lunch in March of 2001 in the underground mall and then went for a stroll in Tobin Plaza, about six months before the attacks. That's the LAST time I ever visited the WTC as it was. #NeverForget
I’ve only ever stood between them and looked up but never went in them, or any other building like Empire State or Sears Tower because I hate heights, 7 or 8 stories up is about all I can do. They were amazing buildings to look at, also you would get out of a bar or restaurant in mid Manhattan and look for them to catch your bearings and get a sense of direction which direction to walk home
@@jimbotron70 She did. She missed her early ferry in from Staten Island, otherwise, she would have been in the South Tower at her desk. After 9/11 I started to believe in a higher power in the universe like I NEVER have before.
Another thing you forgot to mention, was that the North Tower had an actual 110th floor, where as the South Tower's 110th floor was considered the outside Observation Deck.
Some building diagrams place the 110th Floor of both towers at just below the *bottom* of the sloping aluminum roof panels, where the outer columns are tapering into those roof panels above the 109th floor. The top of this 110th floor is shown just below the *top* of those roof panels. This floor height is 15 feet in each tower. And that seems consistent with photographs or just walking on the roof: If you walked on the roof, of both towers, the sloping outer panels rose to about waist height, and continued down for another 10 feet to the 109th floor. All of this is clearly visible for the North Tower's equipment attic underneath the transmitter. But I have never seen pictures of what was beneath the roof -- but above the 109th floor -- of the South Tower. There is enough vertical space for a full floor beneath the roof, just as there was in the North Tower.
I love watching your Twin Towers videos, I know more about them now than I did when they were still standing and a few years post 9/11. I always loved the Twin Towers, I was upset when the bombing of 1993 happened but was so glad that the North Tower pulled through and survived another 8 years, then 9/11 happened destroying both towers which I was so heartbroken.I'll never forget that day when I came home from work, turned on my old CRT TV and saw the Towers in a bad way before collapsing for the first time. You, many other 9/11 documentary channels, WTC Vaporwave videos and just general footage on the Twin Towers keep the memory alive on how great these towers were. Although the current One World Trade Center looks nice, I still prefer the old Twin Towers as they looked magnificent. Rest in Peace to all victims of those who died on that awful day, keep posting these lovely Twin Tower videos and most importantly, never forget 😥🏢🙏
The one and only time I visited NY was on the day of the first attack at WTC. I remember the backup on the highway lasted hours. Then the one and only time I visited D.C was on September 11 2001 at the Washington Zoo. Very strange coincidences.
i love love love the VARIETY of topics of the TWIN TOWERS that you cover... nobody else has this much informational videos, i hope you plan much much much more, if i have any ideas ill let you know.... thanks so much
there must be something floating in the air lately, it seems like i am not the only one obsessed with the twin towers as of lately. i don't know what it is, but i have been eager to learn more about what happened that day.
Yes. I remember when that day happened and I never went to research it in detail until about 3 weeks ago. Ever since, I have dug thru every clip I can find on it, like an obsession out of the blue.
@@HistoryandConspiracies29 Now I'm curious too, and it all started with a simple video I saw about a timelapse of NYC, and then a timelapse of the TT and another timelapse of the new WTC, haha. I was born 11 months after the attacks, but in a way I feel as if I had watched it on TV, and I feel the need to have knowledge about the topic
To this day, I am sad I didn’t get to see the WTC before it was destroyed. Those of you who have seen or visited them are so lucky. I have always wondered why the hijackers chose 9/11 as the date to do this horrific act…was it intentional given it’s the same numbers as our emergency phone number and the fact the ‘11’ is shaped like the towers?
That's what the next video should be about why the number 11 kept showing up. 911, flight 11, twin towers form 11, and Revelation 11:13 "tenth of the city collapsed."
The cores and stairwells being located in the middle instead of the corners like most every other building was an enormous design (safety) flaw that ended up costing the lives of probably a couple thousand. If there had been stairs in the four corners instead of three all located near the core, everyone in, say, Cantor Fitzgerald likely would have survived instead of died; among many others.
No it wasn’t, the framed tube was popularised by Faz Khan way before the towers were thought of, and the difference between the 2 was mainly that the cores were turned through 90 Dee to stop them acting in concert.
I don't know if anyone else has mentioned it yet, but there was a cafeteria on the 44th floor (the lower sky lobby) of the North Tower. I've never been able to find photos of it, but there are some photos of the menu out there. It was called Skydive.
The cores were not in the same directions, with elevators, stairwells, etc. They were rotated (90 degrees), that made a big difference interior wise. 2WTC also had the escalator access up to the roof deck.
Looking down from the South Tower observation floor windows, trucks were smaller than M&M's, and cars were the size of dots. Too high up to see any people walking on the street. The elevator took awhile to reach the top. The lobby had very wide concourses with lots of natural light. Standing at the foot of the towers made you feel small and insignificant. I have never gone back to the memorial site. I want to remember them as they were the last time I was there.
I've been in both towers (as a 6 year old) and to the memorial site (at age 24, in 2018) and made sure to touch every single engraved name, with a kiss to my hand touching every name. It was an emotional moment for me for sure. Only been to Manhattan 3 times for a total of about 7-8 weeks. Been to 48 out of 50 states, grew up in Texas and moved to Michigan in 2019 for a girl
Fact that is downright eerie: Before the severe shock the U.S. received from the destruction of the World Trade Towers, the previous shock as severe came one day in the mid 1960s when everyone in the nation's steel industry was devastated to learn that the largest building project in U.S. history would use only imported steel -- a first for the country, and a powerful blow to the confidence in places like Bethlehem, Pa., Gary, Ind, Cleveland, Bessemer, Ala. and everywhere else in the U.S. industrial belt. The decision was the death knell of the old economy and the beginning of the rust belt. That large building project that delivered the stunning decision? The World Trade Towers.
Excellent videos. Thanks for your research and attention to detail. Are there any pictures or video of the 110th floor of WTC1 that housed the television transmitters? That entire floor was nothing but facilities for NY television stations and that's where all the transmitters were located. I'd love to see a video dedicated to the detail of that particular floor, what was up there, the people who worked up there, and how they were laid out. Thanks again for your videos!
The 2015 movie "The Walk" simulates the 110th floor before it was filled with the transmitters. I have seen only a few actual photos with the equipment; that equipment obscured any view of the building walls.
The antenna on the original tower didn’t count for it’s height. Antennas never do because they’re not part of the building’s structure or design. What’s on top of the new tower is a spire, not an antenna, and those DO count towards a building’s height because they’re considered part of the building.
I knew several gentlemen from the Plasterers Union in NYC. As plastering faded out, these guys needed work, so the union went into spray fireproofing of structural steel. I saw photographs of them working on spraying the structural steel with asbestos fireproofing during the North Tower construction. They told me that by the time the South Tower was erected, asbestos fireproofing was being phased out, so the South Tower was not fireproofed with the same material as the North Tower. I assumed this was why the North Tower stood for a longer period of time than the South Tower, even though it was hit first. I'm sure this is a known fact that was considered during the investigation.
This could also be a reason for the earlier collapse of the south tower. In another video, it was assumed that the South Tower collapsed earlier than the North Tower because the plane impact in the South Tower was much deeper than the plane impact in the South Tower. And so there were many more floors at the impact site in the south tower. Which then caused it to collapse earlier.
The north tower was 6 feet taller because 2 separate buisnesses that purchased floors in WTC 1 during construction wanted more ceiling height. It's definitely interesting.
I’m newer to your videos so I’m not sure if you’ve previously covered it, but I’d be interested in your take of Philippe Petit’s tight-rope walk events!
Question: Why was the original smaller antenna on the north tower replaced by the big one in 1978 or 79? The original one wasn´t enough and they had to build something bigger? Or was the the big antenna planned since the behinning and the original was just temporary?
I always thought the south tower looked odd especially in every photo even during the attacks, it's always behind or overshadowed by the north tower but when it's in front it looks off because I had no clue really, that it's shorter somewhat
Regarding the antenna, it would be interesting to see a video just on it, because it wasn't there for quite a few years. Originally, there was a shorter, off-centre antenna on, if I'm not mistake, WTC1 as well.
I like your channel. You're dark and candid. but RUclips doesnt have as many channels like this now, this topic is literally blacklisted unless its from a "official" source basically RUclips hates this kinda channel and it's sad, all you are doing is discussing and talking about it as phenomena and it's somewhat endearing and it's nice to remember them in this way, bringing up things no one ever talks about while not exactly making any conspiracy claims. 🙏 #neverforget
I was looking for those images, awesome details of structural concepts.! Thanks! No wonder the North Tower collapsed inwardly, the core got completely devastated… the South Tower got hit sideways, the core was oriented to face the hit, that’s why the building was wounded mainly from one side as its toppling to the east demonstrated, the east row of the perimeter columns had no more lateral supports and as the steel softened, they buckled inwardly and the top of the building went eastward and gravity won… Seeing the rapidity at which the South Tower collapsed, it is frightening to think how fragile those tower were to lower high speed hits…
The north tower stood longer because of the way the tower was struck. The south tower the plane entered at a wing up level and struck further down which is why it fell first.
I went to the CN tower with the school the year after 9/11 and I was scared af because of that. Also the elevator was so fast, that I didn't want to take it to return to ground level. But I had no choice, they wouldn't let me use the emergency stairs
I love your Twin Towers videos I was just 3 years old when the tragedy of 2001 happened I’ve been fascinated with the entire Original World Trade Center since I learned about them in the 2nd grade
I was conceived in late July 1968 weeks before tower 1 began it's journey skyward and was born 3 months after tower 2 started going up and grew up with them, It was 1976 and i was 7 yrs old and off school sick and was watching a documentary on the construction and my mind was blown when i saw them on the screen. Also i'm autistic and led a lonely childhood and even tho i had a younger estranged brother and sister, i considered the towers my brother and sister and it was my dream to go by the time i'm 30. I turned 30 in 1999 and wasn't financially stable enough to go, so i made a promise to go in 3 to 5 years, and 2 years later i watched them collapse, i couldn't believe it and my heart sank because no matter how rich or successful i become i'll never ever stand on the top of the world and that makes me so sad.
I really like these World Trade Center videos They basically answer the questions I randomly think of when I hear a mention of them or see them referenced in a movie or show
Very interesting that the towers were at different angles! Also, my guess would be that all 6 of the extra feet in the north tower went to floor 107 for Windows on the World, Greatest Bar on Earth and Cellar in the Sky. This video is really cool. Nicely done! 😊
The observation deck had the same high ceilings. The differences are due to: 1. The 43rd floor of the North Tower was two feet higher. 2. The 67th floor of the North Tower was four feet higher. But building height claims are also subjective. One must define the base, and if the site is on a hill, with lobby doors and platforms at different heights, then defining the base can be tricky.
Yes, and a similar attraction was built in the Empire State Building after 9-11 using the same footage, but it ends with a new dialogue saying "This is how we will remember them as they were supposed to be" before "flying" over the towers at night.
I love the design of one World Trade Center because it kinda looks like two towers twisted in each other. Kinda like a memorial of the twin towers which vanished and eventually became this new building.
Sorry for my english, but i have question. Why twin towers have something like dark grey rings, between the floors? What this mean for these floors, there are lobys without ofices, or something for maintenance? And i also thinking, how they manage to pump water to the top of the building? Must be with very powerful pumps or?
You are correct. High rise buildings have mechanical floors dedicated to ensuring the utilities in the building operate in a standard fashion. Pumping water to such a height from the ground floor would be impractical and dangerous, so there are pumps and tanks on mechanical floors every ten stories or so. These floors also contain other equipment such as HVAC and electrical, and are operated by an engineer or a maintenance technician. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mechanical_floor
actually the buildings exterior is the exact same color, only difference being is where the mechanical floors are, there are no windows only dark vents and the facade is slightly wider there, giving the appearance of a different color
@ 9:09 in The closing shot from inside the tower, is that a mock up of what the papers in the air would’ve looked like? It would be mind blowing if that pic was actually taken on 9/11.
idk y'all, but i actually find the design of the new 1wtc appealing and pretty. however, it is also kind of bothering, as the dismond shape it has makes the outer offices have a weird shape
If anyone that sees this could help me with this question, I would really appreciate it. I have just started to watch videos on 9/11 and I'm particularly puzzled by the plaza. Apparently there was a survivor's staircase that people used to get away from the towers. Apparently it went down to street level. But when I look at pictures, the towers are already on street level. I don't really understand this. Is there a detailed 3D model that shows exactly how everything is laid out? Where exactly where the stairs? I have read about them and what street they are on but I cannot actually find pictures that are not close ups that show the whole area. I just don't understand the layout. I know that sounds like a really stupid or nerdy thing to ask but I'm very curious and I'm looking for pictures or links to help me visuslize it
I’m going off memory from visiting in 1999 but the plaza was like 2 levels up off the street. And when you walked into the south tower from the plaza you were on an upper level of the foyer that let you get to the observation deck. The main lobby was below you. You can see footage of this upper level foyer in the footage from the lobby during the event.
the "Survivor Stairs" were next to 5WTC, on street side not plaza side, and were not affected by the collapses, but they got hundreds if not thousands of people to safety from the plaza level to street level.
I have a feeling today if the twins still stood that if they really had no use of all the office space considering the stay at home work model they could possibly use some floors as residences, it would be quite interesting to live in the twin towers if I say so myself
The most f'd thing I remember about the north tower after it getting hit was WPIX going off the air shortly thereafter (as fire ripped through the electrical cables) as it was covering the event. so eeiry... another fine historical documentary. EDIT: I really want to see the transmitter room, but nobody has pics. There is public footage of the elevator machine room however where you can see the hard coax lines going to the antenna on the roof. The field strength was so strong you could hear it buzzing the camera man's microphone.....
North and south tower have completely different foundations the south tower delay and difference is caused by the extremly fragile PATH south tube and the pre exusting new tracks for the new terminal made the south tower having 5 holes in the perimeter wall . Once the old tubes were dismantled the way was concerted as a truck ramp for the garage and loading docks that are connected by the old tubes below the IRT wtc cortlandt .
It’s funny you mention the Empire State Building being able to withstand a plane strike. Because it actually was hit by a plane like way back in the day.
I watched a program with the architect and he said they wasn’t twin towers because of having some different materials used, he called them sister towers, I prefer them as twins though x
Thinking about it, you can't really call them the Twin Towers because of the Antenna and Canopy on the North and not the South Tower. In order for them to be called the Twin Towers, they would of had to be exactly the same inside and out.
I loved the Twin Towers when they stood, though I noted the criticisms of their design - too boring, too boxy, an all that - and I noted Paul Fussell's smackdown of them in his 1991 book 'BAD Or, The Dumbing of America,' in which he called their architecture "Hitler-resonant" because they looked "brutal and despotic" He also wrote, "Dull and witless, expressive only of dumb, raw power, they are widely touted as among the major achievements of the late twentieth century." Knowing what I know now about the Twin Towers - the cut corners on the fireproofing, the liberal use of drywall as if it were some building in a suburban office park, the undemocratic, authoritarian means it took to build them - I concluded after they were destroyed that the critics were right. They never should have been built. They ended up becoming twin tombs for three thousand people, and their aura of permanence and might was all a fraud.
I love the twin towers videos. I've done some research and it seems that the twin towers had a higher floor of occupied space than that of the new trade center freedom tower and even that of the sears tower.
You say the base of the north tower was reinforced, is that maybe why the firefighters were able to survive in Stairway B after the collapse of the north tower
Since you've been focused on these lost gems, here's a good topic to cover: AMERICAN FILMS WHICH UTILIZED THE TWIN TOWERS IN THEIR PLOT. -Three Days of The Condor -Super Mario Brothers -Mazes and Monsters (TV film featuring a young Tom Hanks) -Home Alone 2 -The Wiz...❤
@@drod6044 The twin towers each measured 63.4 m x 63.4 m. So, according to your information, the memorial fountains would have to measure a good 44 m x 44 m. Maybe there was no other way to do it in terms of space.
@@sportkatze123 Certainly correct, space was a problem when constructing other memorial sites around the fountains, and yeah the percentage is approximately 31% so those measurements are pretty close.
I think the towers where the exact same height to the roof line. The 2 Meter difference would have been pretty noticable. And the darker part above the 107 level is also appears to be the same height. There's no difference.
I live in New York and see the new WTC {Freedom Tower} during the week on my commute to work. I work right before the Brooklyn Bridge exit. I don’t like the look of this tower either and have no attachment to it. Don’t think I ever will. My connection was to the Twin Towers but a lot of people didn’t like the looks of them either. Can’t make everyone happy. Curious to know how many people like the new WTC and how many don’t.
the fact this video is 9 minutes 11 seconds is wild
9 minutes 10 seconds to be exact.
INTERESTINGLY enough I've noticed that too on MORE THEN ONE of his videos.
Definitely not a coincidence lol
He's been doing this. He's seeing if you're paying attention or not...🙂
The time being 9:11 means the 9/11 attacks of 2001
I worked on the 89th Floor of the South Tower from February 2000 until 9/11/01. Was on the 65th Floor in the stairwell when the second plane struck.
How did it sound did the building stairway shake and break apart a bit what was the feeling ?
@@keyshawnscott12 We thought it was another bombing. I came out of my shoes. Our building swayed violently back and forth for over a minute. Couldn't hear for several seconds, like being in a vacuum cleaner. The lights kept going on and off. Everybody was screaming. By around the 25th Floor, there were cracks in the walls and some of the steps were starting to loosen.
@@MrS98VACwym by loosen
@@keyshawnscott12 Becoming wobbly.
@@MrS98VACthe building sounded cheap tbh
I grew up with the WTC. They opened shortly before I was born in 1973. I visited them multiple times as a kid (with family, friends, school field trips), I had my high school graduation celebration dinner at Windows on The World in 1991, a couple of years before the 93' bombing. I was up in Western Massachusetts in college during the 93' bombing when it occured, but my family was down in NYC.
I had moved back to NYC for grad school in 1999 though, so I was unfortunately in Brooklyn for 9/11. I had instinctively AVOIDED the WTC after the 93' bombing, because they were just such OBVIOUS targets. I was uneasy because I had my suspicions about whether or not something else would occur there.
A childhood friend of mine had started working on the 74th floor in the South Tower back in 1997, & I feared for her safety. She and I had lunch in March of 2001 in the underground mall and then went for a stroll in Tobin Plaza, about six months before the attacks. That's the LAST time I ever visited the WTC as it was.
#NeverForget
I’ve only ever stood between them and looked up but never went in them, or any other building like Empire State or Sears Tower because I hate heights, 7 or 8 stories up is about all I can do. They were amazing buildings to look at, also you would get out of a bar or restaurant in mid Manhattan and look for them to catch your bearings and get a sense of direction which direction to walk home
Did she escape 9/11?
@@jimbotron70That id like to know
@@jimbotron70 She did. She missed her early ferry in from Staten Island, otherwise, she would have been in the South Tower at her desk. After 9/11 I started to believe in a higher power in the universe like I NEVER have before.
I grew up living in them. My home was on the 101st floor of the North Tower. We squatted there for many years.
Another thing you forgot to mention, was that the North Tower had an actual 110th floor, where as the South Tower's 110th floor was considered the outside Observation Deck.
Some building diagrams place the 110th Floor of both towers at just below the *bottom* of the sloping aluminum roof panels, where the outer columns are tapering into those roof panels above the 109th floor. The top of this 110th floor is shown just below the *top* of those roof panels. This floor height is 15 feet in each tower. And that seems consistent with photographs or just walking on the roof: If you walked on the roof, of both towers, the sloping outer panels rose to about waist height, and continued down for another 10 feet to the 109th floor.
All of this is clearly visible for the North Tower's equipment attic underneath the transmitter.
But I have never seen pictures of what was beneath the roof -- but above the 109th floor -- of the South Tower. There is enough vertical space for a full floor beneath the roof, just as there was in the North Tower.
Interesting. 🤔@@mairhart
@mairhart It was the unlisted Penthouse of a well known tycoon.
Well I guess that's how the North tower(without antenna)was 6 feet taller than the South tower
@@Onetruenugget Maybe?
I still can’t get over the fact that these two towers are gone 🤦🏾♂️😭
As an engineer, I can't get over how people cannot understand that these towers (together with WTC7) were brought down by controlled demolition.
Womp to the fucking Womp
I love watching your Twin Towers videos, I know more about them now than I did when they were still standing and a few years post 9/11. I always loved the Twin Towers, I was upset when the bombing of 1993 happened but was so glad that the North Tower pulled through and survived another 8 years, then 9/11 happened destroying both towers which I was so heartbroken.I'll never forget that day when I came home from work, turned on my old CRT TV and saw the Towers in a bad way before collapsing for the first time.
You, many other 9/11 documentary channels, WTC Vaporwave videos and just general footage on the Twin Towers keep the memory alive on how great these towers were. Although the current One World Trade Center looks nice, I still prefer the old Twin Towers as they looked magnificent. Rest in Peace to all victims of those who died on that awful day, keep posting these lovely Twin Tower videos and most importantly, never forget 😥🏢🙏
The one and only time I visited NY was on the day of the first attack at WTC. I remember the backup on the highway lasted hours. Then the one and only time I visited D.C was on September 11 2001 at the Washington Zoo. Very strange coincidences.
@@jamesjoseph5707 i was only 10 years old when the World Trade Center bombing happend. The Twin Towers will always have a place in my heart.
I really miss the towers and the people within
Same. Every single day.
cant miss people you never met
But your government does not.
i love love love the VARIETY of topics of the TWIN TOWERS that you cover... nobody else has this much informational videos, i hope you plan much much much more, if i have any ideas ill let you know.... thanks so much
A creepy one for Halloween would be covering the demonic faces seen in the smoke of the towers.
there must be something floating in the air lately, it seems like i am not the only one obsessed with the twin towers as of lately. i don't know what it is, but i have been eager to learn more about what happened that day.
Yes. I remember when that day happened and I never went to research it in detail until about 3 weeks ago. Ever since, I have dug thru every clip I can find on it, like an obsession out of the blue.
I'm now currently going through this obsession as well 😂
@@HistoryandConspiracies29 Now I'm curious too, and it all started with a simple video I saw about a timelapse of NYC, and then a timelapse of the TT and another timelapse of the new WTC, haha.
I was born 11 months after the attacks, but in a way I feel as if I had watched it on TV, and I feel the need to have knowledge about the topic
It's vintage NY skyline
@@HistoryandConspiracies29RUclips algorithm
Love your videos! Please don’t ever stop. You’re the only one that makes it kind of content.
I agree, I'm a big 9/11 nerd too and there aren't too many other people doing videos on it, unfortunately.
Love these videos, hope you never stop them. I'm a huge twin towers nerd 🤓
To this day, I am sad I didn’t get to see the WTC before it was destroyed. Those of you who have seen or visited them are so lucky. I have always wondered why the hijackers chose 9/11 as the date to do this horrific act…was it intentional given it’s the same numbers as our emergency phone number and the fact the ‘11’ is shaped like the towers?
That's what the next video should be about why the number 11 kept showing up. 911, flight 11, twin towers form 11, and Revelation 11:13 "tenth of the city collapsed."
The cores and stairwells being located in the middle instead of the corners like most every other building was an enormous design (safety) flaw that ended up costing the lives of probably a couple thousand. If there had been stairs in the four corners instead of three all located near the core, everyone in, say, Cantor Fitzgerald likely would have survived instead of died; among many others.
They were outdated death traps. The so-called state of the art design cost most of those people their lives as you stated.
No it wasn’t, the framed tube was popularised by Faz Khan way before the towers were thought of, and the difference between the 2 was mainly that the cores were turned through 90 Dee to stop them acting in concert.
I don't know if anyone else has mentioned it yet, but there was a cafeteria on the 44th floor (the lower sky lobby) of the North Tower. I've never been able to find photos of it, but there are some photos of the menu out there. It was called Skydive.
That probably accounts for the 6 foot difference in height of the two buildings.
The cores were not in the same directions, with elevators, stairwells, etc. They were rotated (90 degrees), that made a big difference interior wise. 2WTC also had the escalator access up to the roof deck.
Year older, he does not understand it !
Very grateful you continue to discuss the towers
FYI the canopy cover at the entrance of the North Tower was added on in the early 80s (around the same time the Marriot was built).
LOVE what your channel is doing! Keep up the GRET vids. Also is there ANYTHING about the towers you don't know?
Looking down from the South Tower observation floor windows, trucks were smaller than M&M's, and cars were the size of dots. Too high up to see any people walking on the street.
The elevator took awhile to reach the top. The lobby had very wide concourses with lots of natural light.
Standing at the foot of the towers made you feel small and insignificant.
I have never gone back to the memorial site. I want to remember them as they were the last time I was there.
I've been in both towers (as a 6 year old) and to the memorial site (at age 24, in 2018) and made sure to touch every single engraved name, with a kiss to my hand touching every name. It was an emotional moment for me for sure. Only been to Manhattan 3 times for a total of about 7-8 weeks. Been to 48 out of 50 states, grew up in Texas and moved to Michigan in 2019 for a girl
Fact that is downright eerie: Before the severe shock the U.S. received from the destruction of the World Trade Towers, the previous shock as severe came one day in the mid 1960s when everyone in the nation's steel industry was devastated to learn that the largest building project in U.S. history would use only imported steel -- a first for the country, and a powerful blow to the confidence in places like Bethlehem, Pa., Gary, Ind, Cleveland, Bessemer, Ala. and everywhere else in the U.S. industrial belt. The decision was the death knell of the old economy and the beginning of the rust belt.
That large building project that delivered the stunning decision? The World Trade Towers.
Excellent videos. Thanks for your research and attention to detail. Are there any pictures or video of the 110th floor of WTC1 that housed the television transmitters? That entire floor was nothing but facilities for NY television stations and that's where all the transmitters were located. I'd love to see a video dedicated to the detail of that particular floor, what was up there, the people who worked up there, and how they were laid out. Thanks again for your videos!
The 2015 movie "The Walk" simulates the 110th floor before it was filled with the transmitters. I have seen only a few actual photos with the equipment; that equipment obscured any view of the building walls.
It is weird, if you think that's freaky, look at the videos on American dollars folded
The antenna on the original tower didn’t count for it’s height. Antennas never do because they’re not part of the building’s structure or design. What’s on top of the new tower is a spire, not an antenna, and those DO count towards a building’s height because they’re considered part of the building.
Thanks for the information.
Wrong
@@johnp139He is correct, the antenna could be removed, the spire on top of the new freedom tower was attached the core of the building.
I knew several gentlemen from the Plasterers Union in NYC. As plastering faded out, these guys needed work, so the union went into spray fireproofing of structural steel. I saw photographs of them working on spraying the structural steel with asbestos fireproofing during the North Tower construction. They told me that by the time the South Tower was erected, asbestos fireproofing was being phased out, so the South Tower was not fireproofed with the same material as the North Tower. I assumed this was why the North Tower stood for a longer period of time than the South Tower, even though it was hit first. I'm sure this is a known fact that was considered during the investigation.
This could also be a reason for the earlier collapse of the south tower.
In another video, it was assumed that the South Tower collapsed earlier
than the North Tower because the plane impact in the South Tower
was much deeper than the plane impact in the South Tower.
And so there were many more floors at the impact site
in the south tower. Which then caused it to collapse earlier.
No
Love your videos, always excited to view them ❤
Not anymore there gone
@@Max-jp5dm I mean his videos
The north tower was 6 feet taller because 2 separate buisnesses that purchased floors in WTC 1 during construction wanted more ceiling height. It's definitely interesting.
thank you for these photos! inspirational and helpful for modeling making of the twin towers! :)
I’m newer to your videos so I’m not sure if you’ve previously covered it, but I’d be interested in your take of Philippe Petit’s tight-rope walk events!
And between 1980 and 1999 four people Based jumped off the tops of the Towers safely landing by Parachute.
Blud really misses the twin towers 😿
Question: Why was the original smaller antenna on the north tower replaced by the big one in 1978 or 79? The original one wasn´t enough and they had to build something bigger? Or was the the big antenna planned since the behinning and the original was just temporary?
There were some structural differences between the two towers due to the slightly different wind loads on the two.
I always thought the south tower looked odd especially in every photo even during the attacks, it's always behind or overshadowed by the north tower but when it's in front it looks off because I had no clue really, that it's shorter somewhat
I miss those buildings. They were always cool to see from a distance, and up close.
Regarding the antenna, it would be interesting to see a video just on it, because it wasn't there for quite a few years. Originally, there was a shorter, off-centre antenna on, if I'm not mistake, WTC1 as well.
I like your channel. You're dark and candid. but RUclips doesnt have as many channels like this now, this topic is literally blacklisted unless its from a "official" source basically RUclips hates this kinda channel and it's sad, all you are doing is discussing and talking about it as phenomena and it's somewhat endearing and it's nice to remember them in this way, bringing up things no one ever talks about while not exactly making any conspiracy claims. 🙏 #neverforget
Yeah! I don't get why this creator gets demonetized, but news media channels can talk about the Gaza strip and get away it. It is quite bizarre
North tower was the dominant twin.
I was looking for those images, awesome details of structural concepts.! Thanks! No wonder the North Tower collapsed inwardly, the core got completely devastated… the South Tower got hit sideways, the core was oriented to face the hit, that’s why the building was wounded mainly from one side as its toppling to the east demonstrated, the east row of the perimeter columns had no more lateral supports and as the steel softened, they buckled inwardly and the top of the building went eastward and gravity won… Seeing the rapidity at which the South Tower collapsed, it is frightening to think how fragile those tower were to lower high speed hits…
Can you do a video on how far the twin towers could be seen? I’ve always been interested in that
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Love your videos very informative ❤x
cant wait for that wtc 5 video!
You know looking at the tops of both of the towers the North Tower roof looks like it slopes up towards the antenna. Maybe that’s the extra 6 feet.
I was thinking the same thing
south tower has that too where the helicopter pad used to be
The north tower stood longer because of the way the tower was struck. The south tower the plane entered at a wing up level and struck further down which is why it fell first.
I went to the CN tower with the school the year after 9/11 and I was scared af because of that. Also the elevator was so fast, that I didn't want to take it to return to ground level. But I had no choice, they wouldn't let me use the emergency stairs
I love your Twin Towers videos I was just 3 years old when the tragedy of 2001 happened I’ve been fascinated with the entire Original World Trade Center since I learned about them in the 2nd grade
Omg same here except I was born in 2000 a year before
I was conceived in late July 1968 weeks before tower 1 began it's journey skyward and was born 3 months after tower 2 started going up and grew up with them,
It was 1976 and i was 7 yrs old and off school sick and was watching a documentary on the construction and my mind was blown when i saw them on the screen.
Also i'm autistic and led a lonely childhood and even tho i had a younger estranged brother and sister, i considered the towers my brother and sister and it was my dream to go by the time i'm 30.
I turned 30 in 1999 and wasn't financially stable enough to go, so i made a promise to go in 3 to 5 years, and 2 years later i watched them collapse, i couldn't believe it and my heart sank because no matter how rich or successful i become i'll never ever stand on the top of the world and that makes me so sad.
You answered a question I had about the observation deck having anyone up there.
I really like these World Trade Center videos
They basically answer the questions I randomly think of when I hear a mention of them or see them referenced in a movie or show
Very interesting that the towers were at different angles!
Also, my guess would be that all 6 of the extra feet in the north tower went to floor 107 for Windows on the World, Greatest Bar on Earth and Cellar in the Sky.
This video is really cool. Nicely done! 😊
The observation deck had the same high ceilings.
The differences are due to:
1. The 43rd floor of the North Tower was two feet higher.
2. The 67th floor of the North Tower was four feet higher.
But building height claims are also subjective. One must define the base, and if the site is on a hill, with lobby doors and platforms at different heights, then defining the base can be tricky.
@@mairhart
What is on the 43rd & 67th floors?
@@jennyfurr Port Authority offices, including a staff cafeteria.
@@mairhart
Ah, that makes sense.
NORTH: Big antenna
SOUTH: No big antenna
You're welcome
Love your vids
Isn’t it amazing that they were finally insured just days before the attacks? Who was the insurer?
I was 8 years old, it’s just something about seeing the old towers man 😢
Oh boy here we go 👀 🍿
South tower had a a helicopter simulator where the floor moves. It gave you a flight around New York City
Yes, and a similar attraction was built in the Empire State Building after 9-11 using the same footage, but it ends with a new dialogue saying "This is how we will remember them as they were supposed to be" before "flying" over the towers at night.
I love the design of one World Trade Center because it kinda looks like two towers twisted in each other. Kinda like a memorial of the twin towers which vanished and eventually became this new building.
Nice job. V interesting to hear. -‐ I went up Tower 2 w/ my wife( now ex) after returning from from a 4 1/2 yr tour in W Germany.
Sorry for my english, but i have question.
Why twin towers have something like dark grey rings, between the floors?
What this mean for these floors, there are lobys without ofices, or something for maintenance?
And i also thinking, how they manage to pump water to the top of the building? Must be with very powerful pumps or?
service floors, elevator motors and shit, skylobbies are right below those "rings"
You are correct. High rise buildings have mechanical floors dedicated to ensuring the utilities in the building operate in a standard fashion. Pumping water to such a height from the ground floor would be impractical and dangerous, so there are pumps and tanks on mechanical floors every ten stories or so. These floors also contain other equipment such as HVAC and electrical, and are operated by an engineer or a maintenance technician.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mechanical_floor
actually the buildings exterior is the exact same color, only difference being is where the mechanical floors are, there are no windows only dark vents and the facade is slightly wider there, giving the appearance of a different color
You could use Google Translate.
I also often use it for comments.
have you covered internet chat forums on the day of 9/11?
On the last picture, it looks like paper outside the window and smoke to the left, do you know when the last photo was taken please
@ 9:09 in The closing shot from inside the tower, is that a mock up of what the papers in the air would’ve looked like? It would be mind blowing if that pic was actually taken on 9/11.
idk y'all, but i actually find the design of the new 1wtc appealing and pretty. however, it is also kind of bothering, as the dismond shape it has makes the outer offices have a weird shape
I couldn't imagine how many more people would have been killed if the planes struck when the observation deck was opened during business hours
If anyone that sees this could help me with this question, I would really appreciate it. I have just started to watch videos on 9/11 and I'm particularly puzzled by the plaza. Apparently there was a survivor's staircase that people used to get away from the towers. Apparently it went down to street level. But when I look at pictures, the towers are already on street level. I don't really understand this. Is there a detailed 3D model that shows exactly how everything is laid out? Where exactly where the stairs? I have read about them and what street they are on but I cannot actually find pictures that are not close ups that show the whole area. I just don't understand the layout. I know that sounds like a really stupid or nerdy thing to ask but I'm very curious and I'm looking for pictures or links to help me visuslize it
I’m going off memory from visiting in 1999 but the plaza was like 2 levels up off the street. And when you walked into the south tower from the plaza you were on an upper level of the foyer that let you get to the observation deck. The main lobby was below you. You can see footage of this upper level foyer in the footage from the lobby during the event.
the "Survivor Stairs" were next to 5WTC, on street side not plaza side, and were not affected by the collapses, but they got hundreds if not thousands of people to safety from the plaza level to street level.
Lol first time I see both towers with antennas concept 😀 but only one antenna made them look stylish 👍🏻
The South Tower had an outdoor observation deck. That alone made it cooler!
I have a feeling today if the twins still stood that if they really had no use of all the office space considering the stay at home work model they could possibly use some floors as residences, it would be quite interesting to live in the twin towers if I say so myself
such a bizarre day that was
The most f'd thing I remember about the north tower after it getting hit was WPIX going off the air shortly thereafter (as fire ripped through the electrical cables) as it was covering the event. so eeiry... another fine historical documentary. EDIT: I really want to see the transmitter room, but nobody has pics. There is public footage of the elevator machine room however where you can see the hard coax lines going to the antenna on the roof. The field strength was so strong you could hear it buzzing the camera man's microphone.....
Bro knew when he said “striking” resemblance at the beginning
North and south tower have completely different foundations the south tower delay and difference is caused by the extremly fragile PATH south tube and the pre exusting new tracks for the new terminal made the south tower having 5 holes in the perimeter wall . Once the old tubes were dismantled the way was concerted as a truck ramp for the garage and loading docks that are connected by the old tubes below the IRT wtc cortlandt .
What if both Towers did not collapsed?What would happened if fire would extinguished by Fire Department and people inside towers?
I was in one of them in 78.
It’s funny you mention the Empire State Building being able to withstand a plane strike. Because it actually was hit by a plane like way back in the day.
I watched a program with the architect and he said they wasn’t twin towers because of having some different materials used, he called them sister towers, I prefer them as twins though x
Twin towers
Yes
Nah they are the brother towers obviously 🙄
Use to be
towers twin
@@Fernando-cn2xb BRO THIS WAS 5 MONTHS AGO BRUH
Thinking about it, you can't really call them the Twin Towers because of the Antenna and Canopy on the North and not the South Tower. In order for them to be called the Twin Towers, they would of had to be exactly the same inside and out.
THE VIDEO LENGTH
Did these differences have any implications for the setting of charges in the two buildings before 9/11?
I loved the Twin Towers when they stood, though I noted the criticisms of their design - too boring, too boxy, an all that - and I noted Paul Fussell's smackdown of them in his 1991 book 'BAD Or, The Dumbing of America,' in which he called their architecture "Hitler-resonant" because they looked "brutal and despotic" He also wrote, "Dull and witless, expressive only of dumb, raw power, they are widely touted as among the major achievements of the late twentieth century." Knowing what I know now about the Twin Towers - the cut corners on the fireproofing, the liberal use of drywall as if it were some building in a suburban office park, the undemocratic, authoritarian means it took to build them - I concluded after they were destroyed that the critics were right. They never should have been built. They ended up becoming twin tombs for three thousand people, and their aura of permanence and might was all a fraud.
Por qué no hacen las torres gemelas otra vez?
I was fortunate enough to go to the top of the south tower the July before as a tourist.
video idea: the day before and the day after 911. thank you so much for the great work!
The difference between north and south towers is the south tower had the observation deck. The north tower had the antenna.
I didn't click for the video. I clicked for its length.
I love the twin towers videos. I've done some research and it seems that the twin towers had a higher floor of occupied space than that of the new trade center freedom tower and even that of the sears tower.
I like the south tower because you get an outdoor check😊😊
What if the towers fell right after being hit?
My favorite is the one that looks like the building off of Home Alone
Do you make you 9/11 videos 9 minutes and 11 seconds long on purpose?
You say the base of the north tower was reinforced, is that maybe why the firefighters were able to survive in Stairway B after the collapse of the north tower
Since you've been focused on these lost gems, here's a good topic to cover:
AMERICAN FILMS WHICH UTILIZED THE TWIN TOWERS IN THEIR PLOT.
-Three Days of The Condor
-Super Mario Brothers
-Mazes and Monsters (TV film featuring a young Tom Hanks)
-Home Alone 2
-The Wiz...❤
The 10th Kingdom (1999-2000), though even though the Midtown/Central Park area was the focus, the Twin Towers were very much in it.
@@jandrew1994🙂👍
Escape from New York..
The new transformers movie.
Why is the time 9:11
Is the memorial fountains the exact same size and location where the buildings stood?
Always keep em guessing..
Just about similar location but in terms of size each plot is like 30% smaller than the original footprint of the twin towers
Thanks I was hoping to see the actual difference
@@drod6044 The twin towers each measured 63.4 m x 63.4 m.
So, according to your information, the memorial fountains
would have to measure a good 44 m x 44 m.
Maybe there was no other way to do it in terms of space.
@@sportkatze123 Certainly correct, space was a problem when constructing other memorial sites around the fountains, and yeah the percentage is approximately 31% so those measurements are pretty close.
I think the towers where the exact same height to the roof line. The 2 Meter difference would have been pretty noticable. And the darker part above the 107 level is also appears to be the same height. There's no difference.
Blueprints show that the North Tower's 43rd and 67th floors were a total of six feet higher.
You should cover a video on how 9/11 is portrayed in video games and other media. I think your take on it would be pretty cool.
The difference is the North tower has an antenna and the South tower doesn't 👌
Im glad I got to go up to the observation deck as a kid.
There's no way this one gets demonetized
RUclips: Hold my beer.... *demonetized*
I live in New York and see the new WTC {Freedom Tower} during the week on my commute to work. I work right before the Brooklyn Bridge exit. I don’t like the look of this tower either and have no attachment to it. Don’t think I ever will. My connection was to the Twin Towers but a lot of people didn’t like the looks of them either. Can’t make everyone happy. Curious to know how many people like the new WTC and how many don’t.
Tower Bros
The video length can’t be a coincidence.