This gives me such anxiety. I lived in NYC for ten years, and never once went to the top of the World Trade Center. I’m terrified of heights. I can’t imagine what those poor people went through on that tragic day. God bless their souls.
Me too I can only imagine the horror , it so disheartening and sad ! I cry sometimes thinking about it. I have been binge watching these videos for weeks
Im cant bare watch peapole falilibg of th wtc because i am affaraid of heights and i can emagine hiw the feel but if i fisit the wtc it would still be preety cool but maybe i wouldnt go to the roof
Hi from Germany I was there in April 2000, my first time in the United States to my 18 Birthday. I was with my Uncle in the Lobby of the World Trade Center: i think it was 18 Dollars to go up to the observation Platform. He asked me: „wanna go up ?“ but i said to expensive. Then he replied: „you dont know when you could come here next time“...
My heart sinks just to imagine someone falling from those heights. One can't imagine what was going through those people’s minds when they were left no choice but to make a jump to death. May they all rest in peace and never be forgotten.
Very simple, death by fire is unbearable, you can't not get away from it however you can. The toxic plumes of the fires must have killed lots of people too.
I remember eating at the "Windows on the World" restaurant in the North tower in the Mid 90's with my family. I will never forget the size of the columns that were around the center of the tower, as well as watching a storm roll in and actually being above the clouds. The is no way to convey the sheer awe of looking up at those towers from street level, and also looking down on the clouds from the top floors. I also remember always knowing when you were getting close to NYC driving in, because the towers were the first thing to come up over the horizon.
dang. be glad that u got to visit. im born 06 but my parents are born 78 and 79. they were watching the news when the attack happend and they told me it was very scary. i could imagen it was scarier for the people around the wtc. just the other day there was a big fire in a apartmentbuilding here where i live and no one got hurt. that was pretty scary for me and i just cant image 9/11....
You did the things I really wanted and didn’t and won’t ever be able to !!! WHY didn’t we protect those awesome towers better ??????? So sad even 20 yrs later and I’ll never never never FORGET 😞🇺🇸❤️🥀
Kansas Kev Logging I think the word “sacred” is appropriate considering the enormity of what happened just as the word “sacred” is appropriate in describing the grounds of the holocaust extermination’s camps. Sometimes, tragedies exceed what a rational mind is able to process such as the WTC.
As a former NYC Tour Director, I find this video so familiar - and so heartbreaking! I knew people who died on 9/11 and I never thought the Towers would not be there for decades more. This feels like I was there yesterday! RIP to all the victims of 9/11! Never forget!
33 years to the month. Much too young for such marvelous buildings to be destroyed!! 1968-2001. A free mason sacred number! Coincidence? Nope. Planned event according to David Rockefeller! The elite are taking over us small people!
You would have seen all the fire trucks and emergency vehicles, but it would have felt lonely up there. Just the sound of the wind which was strong that day despite the lack of clouds. And the sound of everyone dying around you
And looking out, maybe seeing the building you live in, etc., and knowing how close you were to safety, if only you were a bird. (That's not meant to be insensitive.)
There is a chance the employees in this video died. The first plane hit the other tower (North Tower) first. The tower on this video is the South Tower. But, the observation floor employees on this video, usually had to be at work around 8:00 AM. The first plane hit the other building at 8:30 AM. But, the building management on the South Tower announced on the speaker system to stay in their offices and that their building was ok. When the 2nd plane hit, it wiped out most of the chances of most of the people in the high floors of the South Tower to escape because the 2nd plane had exploded inside the middle of the building ripping away the staircases and elevators in its path. So, by the time the 2nd plane hit, if the employees seen on this video were already at work when the first plane hit in the other building, there is an 80 percent chance these employees seen on this video died when the 2nd tower was falling to its end. This was truly a horrific scene as if they were trapped in a nightmare bubble and all we New Yorkers could do was watch live on front of the building or as I did live on TV from my house when I lived in Brooklyn and I had just arrived from work in Manhattan crossing the river taking the last train before they shut down all trains due to this catastrophe. I was listening to the radio (Howard Stern Show) when his producer ran in and told him to put on the TV and that's how I found out and immediately turned on my TV. I remember the overwhelming sadness I felt as I saw it happen and the feeling of helplessness. When the second plane hit I really got scared and realized this wasn't an accident and I thought our whole city was going to be bombed. That's when I really broke down. RIP all who died. If any of you want to hear the actual moment Howard Stern announced what I heard of the planes hitting, which is how many New Yorkers found out, click the following link ruclips.net/video/2cL3B-iZXyc/видео.html
@@visionist7 Yes Felice. I had worked the midnight to 8:00am shift in Manhattan and crossed into Brooklyn on 14 Street just before 8:30am. Once the 1st plane hit, the police immediately got ready to shut everything down. When the second plane hit, the bridges and airspace were shut down within 15 minutes.
The twin towers did not slam to the ground. If they had slammed to the ground: 1) There would be over 1,250,000 tons of debris piled on the ground; 2) Manhattan would have been flooded; 3) The seismic recordings would have reflected two 500,000-ton buildings and one 230,000-ton building slamming to the ground. None of the three facts happened.
Naaaah...passing of time long term is daunting and shocking, not scary though...came with the territory of childhood and early adulthood..although I was 9 in '01, 28 now...just thankful for those memories for shaping me eryday tho
@@tsouth5510 The twin towers did not slam to the ground. If they had slammed to the ground: 1) There would be over 1,250,000 tons of debris piled on the ground; 2) Manhattan would have been flooded; 3) The seismic recordings would have reflected two 500,000-ton buildings and one 230,000-ton building slamming to the ground. None of the three facts happened.
It gives me goosebumps...the observation deck, seeing the "globe" in the plaza where my wife and I sat on a sunny day on our honeymoon in 1999 then going up the Empire State Building. 3 years later we went back and saw the surrounding building all black, and covered in plastic sheets a huge hole where the towers were and you could see all the seven stories that were under the ground. Including part of the train station. It's heartbreaking, and I too think the world will never be the same again. Something changed forever that day.
I remember going to the opening dedication day of the Twin Towers as a kid. I had no idea what the big deal was about it. Everyone was mocking the design, saying that it was nothing but two spaghetti boxes in the sky and wondering why the architect designed something so boring. However, as an adult I realized just how perfect their design actually was. The boldness of the towers indicated strength and power to the world. They didn’t need any Art Deco design like the Empire State Building had. They didn’t need gargoyles. Their simplicity is what I loved, and as an artist, it’s something I always try to remember while creating my own art.
Diane E the twin towers were originally considered ugly, until the antenna was put on top of 1 wtc in 1978 making them much more formidable looking, and more importantly they started to become more enmeshed in New York culture as the city rebounded from its swoon to a golden age in the 1990s and 2000s
Diane E hose buildings basically represented America, they were so iconic. I know it was unethical, but I wish they would’ve rebuilt them. I don’t really like the new WTC tower. These were simple, but like you say, majestic and like nothin else like it. They just went so perfectly with everything. 😢
Monika Thomas I agree with you to some extent. In my opinion, the Freedom Tower a.k.a. One World Trade Center is way better than the original Twin Towers. It’s just that the Freedom Tower looks more modern, stylish, while the twin towers are old looking as if they were from the 40’s. But I do get your point, they were magnificent buildings that changed NYC forever. However, in terms of modern-looking, Freedom Tower takes the stage.
@@Hrrjkf821 There's nothing dated looking about the original WTC Towers in my opinion. Sure construction has come a long way, and makes for some different looking "all-glass" buildings today, but the simplicity of the original buildings design was timeless.
@@jaconova okay well we will see... You have a point about 2020 but people always forget the bad and romanticize their memories. People have always talked shit about current times for as long as I've been alive. The older generations always something bad to say and yet with time the people claiming they wanna go back increases.
This guy recoding is a genius to capture these moments as how they were. It makes me sad to think that these people were there preparing for their day, they were all trapped. Rest In Peace to these souls
Marcin Wolczek. Can you believe it’s nearly 20 years! I live in New Zealand and this happened early morning for us on the 12th September. When I went to the top I spoke to a man who had worked there since the opening. I sometimes wonder did he make it out. I hope so. RIP all.
I remember being on the north tower in 1998, I was 10 years old, my dad took me and my sister. The twin towers were massive in width, and height. So iconic. I remember my ears popping when going up the elevator. The freedom tower will never compare, now we have a generic skyline. The view will never be the same.
I actually love both the twin towers and the current One WTC! The New One WTC is illegally underrated! The Building looks awesome the virtual elevators showing NYC from the centuries up until now is awesome!
I've been to the top of the new one multiple times and it's definitely very very high up, it's crazy to look down on buildings that are 70+ stories tall.
A few months later I did the exact same tour with my parents (I was 14 at the time), except we couldn't go on the roof due to high winds - something I still regret to this day, despite it still being the best day of my life. I was obsessed with the WTC, and seeing them come down one year later broke something inside of me. Thanks for sharing this, I still recognize all the little details after all these years. The broadway posters downstairs, the Top of the World cardboard stand in the lobby, the plastic transparent bars in between windows on the observation deck...
I went up there exactly one week before 9/11. I had a long 3 hour break between my college classes so I decided to kill some time and go up. Then 9/11 happened the next week and I had goosebumps knowing I was just standing up there a few days before.
Wow! Sounds like some place to have college ;) going up such a structure just to kill some time. I can't even imagine something like it as a Dutch guy.
@@weeardguy Oh it was great! It was a small community college located a few blocks from the Twin Towers. It's gone now since the debris from the towers when they fell crushed it but it was still one of the most surreal and heartbreaking moments of my life
I can't even watch the rest of this. What took place here is simply thee unimaginable. These people mattered. These people were murdered. The Passengers, The Employees, The Fire firefighters, , The Tourists, The Residences of the City of New York, The buildings, This City, The World Forever changed in hours. This was HELL.
My dad used to work in NYC in 99 and 2000 and everyday he went to work he walked past the WTC tower and took a moment to marvel at the architectural masterpieces and gaze up at them. He said he used to tap it with his foot and think that a creation like that would last thousands of years and it could never be destroyed... a year later...
so eerie watching this. the people in 9/11 who died were working in this building at this time, having no clue what was eventually going to happen. what beautiful buildings they were, it's so sad.
+Eric Albright What she meant by her comment was that the people were working there at this time and didn't know that two years later they'd die in that very building. This video is from 1999.
I still cannot believe people jumped from that height. I know they had no choice but still. I hope all of the "jumpers", and all of the people on the planes and those trapped in the buildings have a peaceful afterlife. These were ordinary people going about their normal day who found themselves in an unfathomable and deadly situation. RIP to all.
@@JessicaGarcia-xf9wr Have a look at Judy Wood's 2012 energy conference on RUclips, sorry I don't know how to put a link here. Or read her book called Where did the towers go? Evidence of directed free energy technology on 9/11. Empirical evidence is the truth, that theory must mimic.
Where did the towers go? Evidence of directed free energy technology on 9/11. Judy Wood. Empirical evidence is the truth, that theory must mimic. If I told you that the answer is 27, am I correct?
When you're falling that fast you usually pass out from not being able to draw enough breath because you're moving too fast. Kinda like when you're on a roller coaster and find it hard to breathe because the air slapping your face
+Carlos Torres it wouldn't have to be the closest if they rebuilt the twin towers the same way it looked back then with the exterior (NON ALL GLASS) however, the interior can be modernized
Carlos Torres Me too. New York is the one place I’ve always wanted to visit, but never got to go. Now I’m on the wrong side of 50 and my traveling days are long gone. Not seeing the World Trade Centers breaks my heart, it literally makes my soul ache. This video is so appreciated because I can experience the world trade centers through someone else’s eyes. Thank you so much for sharing this wonderful video with the world. Thank you and God bless you.
In high school I saw the 1970’s King Kong movie where he climbed to the top of the World Trade Center and I thought I would like to go see the twin towers some day. About half a decade later, they were gone and I never got to see them. My wife has pictures with her dad, step mom and brother from the observation deck in 1995.
That could easily backfire though... first they won't believe you. And then when it happens and you were right, the FBI will be on your ass for questioning on how you knew such thing would happen... Unless you have some physical proof, people are not going to believe you at all.
This footage is the closest anyone who never had the fortune to visit these miraculous buildings will ever get to doing so. God bless you for uploading this for the world to enjoy. RIP to all the victims of 9/11.
From that extreme altitude it is hard to fathom what went through the minds of those innocent victims that jumped to their fate on that fateful day. Still get goosebumps to this day. RIP the 9/11 departed.
To get away from the high intensity of heat and debris and choking smoke. The fear of burning… etc. knowing jumping would be instant. But most likely they passed out while falling before they landed. Awful stuff any way you put it.
Crazy to think the last time I was in the towers was August in 2001. My father always used to take me there because as a 5 year old I was obsessed with tall buildings and the NY Skyline. Can't wait to go to the top of the new one.
Habitant en France et n'ayant pas forcément les moyens de voyager , j'aurais tellement voulu aller voir ces 2 tours malheureusement elles ne sont plus là !! RIP aux personnes parties ce jour là ✝️❤️
Wow ! Amazing views . I live on the NJ side of the Hudson River all my life on Blvd east west new york NJ and had a perfect beautiful view from my bedroom window since I was a kid. I joined the Navy in June of 1999 and always made a trip from VA to NJ and on I-95 from the distance you can see those magestic towers . From night clubbing NYC in the 1990s I never got to go to the top of the towers except one day on one weekend in 2000 that I took the path train into lower Manhattan and my friend picked me up there to drive back down to VA . I stepped out from the path and looked up and it was the only time I came closed and personal with those towers. Growing up taking that beautiful view of the NYC skyline was and still is amazing. Sad to see them gone . RIP to all the victims . I still live near by and still have the view to the new freedom tower . Maybe I will go inside one of these days . Love my city of new York. New York Strong and resilient .🇺🇲🇺🇲🇺🇲🇺🇲🇺🇲🇺🇲🇺🇲🇺🇲🇺🇲
This was just something else, I cannot even function right now. A wonderful, very powerful trip down memory lane. Too many lives lost, all are never forgotten.
Remember that back in the 1990s the assumption was that people filming stuff are filming just for themselves and their own memories, we didn’t have so much of this feeling that strangers filming stuff were later going to put them on the internet to be watched by thousands; the internet has had an incredible impact on psychology. That’s why we were more chilled with people filming things back then.
The Twin Towers of the World Trade Center are absolutely majestic. And so were the times that this was filmed. Thank you for sharing! Cheers to those that remember the good times. Never forget.
+Keegan Gidley No, they would bring beautiful memories! Almost no one wanted a One WTC! Even survivors of 9/11 wanted them back! And let's not forget Philippe Petit...
I think it two major factors were considered: cost was number 1 (remember the twins were built in the late 60s or early 70s), and did NYC really want to have two more targets. That’s my opinion only. Not sure about the real reasons.
I thought the same thing. Study about world trade center building # 7. Never in history have 3 steel and concrete building collapsed to the ground, in free fall speed without controlled demolition from within the structure.
well that's not true at all. there's still a lot of the stuff shown in this video that remains. the towers of course aren't there anymore and that's it. you made a silly comment.
*Its so weird seeing time back then, no one is on a iphone\Android.* *(Edit: I obviously Know there was no iPhone and Androids back then, i’m just saying it’s weird seeing time back then with no one on smart phones)*
We are so fortunate streaming video did not exist then. Anybody with video cameras that day who died would have had the footage with them. We should never forget the day, but I am grateful we have no horrible videos from the inside.
@@thesniper5966 Any handheld camcorders would have been destroyed when the towers collapsed. So as far as I know, with exception of reporters in the lobby we have no video recordings of the horror that went on inside the tower. Can you imagine this happening now, it would be streamed on youtube, snapchat, instagram etc, we would have thousands of images and videos in real time. We would have a permenant record of the horror, at least since this happened before smart phones we don't.
***** I had one dream where I went to the roof of one of the towers waiting for a helicopter or to be rescued and finally I just decided to jump off the tower. The other one was really scary though. I had one nightmare that I was in one of the towers as it started to collapse, several floors just totally fell from under me, and I just fell several floors along with hundreds of other people in total darkness inside the collapsing tower and heard everyone screaming as we fell to our deaths.
Grant Gtaetz And I didn't even live in NYC at the time. We moved from NYC back in 1989, but in Kindergarten I remember we did take a field trip to the very top of the South Tower back in the mid-80s.
The first time the WTC was targeted I was only a baby, naturally I wouldn't remember a thing about it. The second time, I was 8 years old. Watching them collapse on tv, deciding to become a firefighter because of it all. Now, 14 years later I'm a volunteer firefighter with the Santa Fe County Fire Department in Santa Fe, New Mexico. Always remembering those who have fallen before their time, they're the ones I'am honoring today.
Good for you, Carla! I got 9 years in with my local VFD 1988 - 1997. I got too old to crawl in and out of deep ditches during rescues. But there will always be a special place in my heart for the ones who do. My mother-in-law and I were the first female First Responders in our county. Carry on!
Whenever I watch videos like this I don’t think about the horrible day in September 2001 but instead I think about all the good things and the happy times before the towers were gone.
in greatest of respect to all and justice 9/11 have changed us all truth will provide some comfort ruclips.net/video/zAjSL_ZXnvcr/видео.htmlichard thirkill
To me this tourist footage captures more perfectly the horror of 9/11 than the news coverage shot from the ground when it was actually happening. Random people just going about their day, relaxed, marvelling at the clear view, the height and grandeur of the buildings, approaching the windows with trepidation to then gaze at the immeasurable distance to street level far below. It's a typical day, no different from 1000 others... Fast forward a mere 2 years, and an equally random group on an equally clear, calm day, would be caught up in a nightmare. Shell-shocked, fearful, anguished, many burned and choking, some would grasp the utterly desparate nature of their situation and make the choice to jump from those very same windows - terrifying under normal circumstances, that aspect superseded by the merciful end such an act would bring under this one. Makes you think....
keymaster88uk Are you a novelist? You captured the situation in words perfectly. Regardless, it's such an uncanny thought. To be in the perspective of the civilians looking out to the city when that plane approached is a chilling notion.
Jack Gibson Indeed it is. I cannot imagine how horrendous it must have been for those people alive and aware but with absolutely nowhere to go. And no I'm not a writer but thanks for the comment.
I was in NYC in 1993. My heart is broken. I feel like a piece of me and this country is missing. It's weird kids today will never know the World Trade Center and what life was like back then. It would be so nice to go back. This building represented New York and the world. I hope someday we will build another one that looked like the old ones.
One of my relatives was about to get a job here on something like the 100th floor, but he decided not to get it. He was lucky, boy. He probably would not of been alive now if it weren't for that decision. Terrible disaster. RIP to all of those that didn't make it.
My raccoon was suppose to get a job there as a clown but he decided he didn't want to do it so he became a plastic dolly instead.. He now sits on my bed singing Christmas carols all day.. 🐨🐨🐨🐻🐻🐗🐗🐗
Then they would only make up another "terrorist attack" instead so they could make the changes they did after 911 anyway.. I am to lazy and know to little english to explain further it in detail...
One world trade center would be never existed, neither the other buildings, those people in the plane would be alive, videos like this one and movies and documentals about 9/11 would be never created. Theres a lot of consequences if 9/11 attacks had never happened
that1dude0092 The 90s held a promising future for the world and US especially, there were no real adversaries but then 9/11 occurred and it all went downhill.
When I look at the skyline, till this day, it feels like one of my arms are missing. I had moved to Florida a couple of years before the attacks and had just visited that July and ate at the terrace. The world permanently changed after that. Great video. Thank you so much for sharing.
I was 33 yrs old in September 11,2001 !!! Exact same age as the towers !!! I had booked a room in the Marriot for the beginning of November 2001 and was going to spend two days getting to know an area I dreamed of going to since I was seven!!!! My dream was crushed and my heart broke for the people and the towers !! 😞
More than 12 years later, I still can't believe people jumped out of that building from the top. The thought of it still leaves me shocked and speechless. It is just so difficult for me to fathom that one second this person is alive, healthy, falling through the air, and the next second, their body no longer exists, it is completely destroyed scattered and smashed into unrecognizable chunks.
***** I always believed a lot of them just kind of reflectively jumped out of the window. Think of it this way, have you ever gone swimming and tried to hold your breath under the water for as long as you can, and then you run out so you squirm to the surface as fast as you can for air, it was probably similar to that. With the unbearably intense heat and suffocating smoke their body just kind of took over and drove them out the window.
That's exactly the thought I had. Just looking out those windows from that height is unnerving but to be forced to jump from that height is just gut-wrenching.
What helps me is .. i say to my self. they were leaning out the window to get fresh air and to get away from the smoke and slipped. Its terrible to think that someone would be desperate enough to jump. Scary. I dont know if the did or not but believing that they slipped helps me alittle.
Yeah, that's probably the best way to think of it. The one thing I can't understand is why in the hell air traffic controllers don't have some kind of remote override in case of hijacking or some other unforeseen event so they can remotely take control of an aircraft and either keep it in a holding pattern until they figure out what to do or just land it somewhere. They've had the technology for years that planes can pretty much fly themselves, so a remote override seems like it wouldn't be difficult to implement.
I was also up there in 1999 and this brings back many memories, walking from the lift along the corridor to the windows to reveal that view was just breathtaking, thank you for posting.
I was born in 2005, visiting NY in 2012 at the age of 6, not knowing how the city once looked. Now after I have watched it on yt, I wish I could go back and see those beautiful towers
I was in one of these buildings back in the early 80's. I remember feeling dizzy looking out the top floor windows and thinking I would NEVER work in a place like this
@Dale_Junior If I can go back in time, I will kill those hijackers and prevent 9/11 from even happening. I will even assassin all of them within 2+ days before 9/11. After dat my target will be at Bin Laden and all his men. If I can somehow get nuke, I can try blew up dat whole country and prevent ISIS. The only terrorist left will be North Korea. Plus since Afghanistan are gone, our country wont need go to war and prevent depression. WTC will continue to exist and those 3000 people will live.
Thanks a lot for this fantastic video. I do remember this so well from the same year! Standing on the roof of the WTC was such an unforgettable moment for me as a tourist from Germany. These towers are still a part of New York City.
i got a really weird unexplainable feeling whilst watching this video, I always do when I watch videos about the world trade center. this is the first time I have seen a glimpse of the inside of these beautiful towers, and its hard to accept that they are now gone. when he/she was walking along the corridor and looking out of the window, who would of thought that a couple of years later there would be people standing on those window ledges having their last moments, so sad. NY is a beautiful city, such a shame these towers are not apart of it anymore. RIP to all the victims
This is a great video! Thank you! In August 1970, I went up to the roof of my dormitory at NYU and there were work lights (the ones with the greenish glow) lit on one of the towers of the World Trade Center. It seemed like you could almost reach out and touch them. My favorite city in the entire world!
@Barbara Kennedy there's also a movie but the trailers make it look really "hip" and cheesy like Oceans 11 or something... very disrespectful IMO. I won't watch it
people working all over the building didnt even know a plane hit it they were built so solid so you woud know nothing in a lift. the plane didnt make the building collapse
Saw a survivor presentation of the event. He said one of his fellow co-workers was in the elevator when the plane hit, and that the fireball spread down the elevator shaft frying him alive inside the elevator. Truly horrifying.
Well then there's afew radio tower climbing vids you def won't want to watch! I get it tho as I have that same level of fear crossing large bridges like the Mackinaw Bridge!
I can't believe the public was allowed at the very roof top, and the white railing didn't seem very high either. Perhaps in modern buildings they don't allow it for liability and safety concerns, but the views must have been amazing in person.
Even if they went over the railings there's another flat area just below. The railings weren't at the edge of the towers. Still might break your ankle though !
I went to NY back in 1986 on a class trip.I bought a tee shirt from the Trade Center gift shop that was all black and it said in fluorescent pink,I Love NY.I wish I still had it.Anyway, It was super stormy that afternoon and windy.When we got to the observation deck, it felt like the building was swaying.It was an experience I'll never forget.Rip to all affected on 9/11.
I lived in NYC for over 40 years and never ever been to the WTC. I've never seen the towers from up close. I always said one day I'll go but never got around to it. Plus I had the rest of my life to go see them one day. Now there gone and I'll never see them.
Jesse W my mom and I just went last month. It was $70 per person to go to the sky deck. Needless to say we passed. I didn’t know there was a restaurant in it.
I was a fellow NYer myself. I went a couple times as a kid. Always took them to granted. Summer of 2000 I had some buds visiting from Florida. Took them on a tour of the city. Bud tells me I wanna see the WTC, and my response was meh, the view is what you saw flying into JFK. Nothing special, and Windows On The World is ok. Better joints in town. Never took them. A year later I totally regretted my decision. Till this day I wish I would have appreciated them more.
Thanks for taking the time to record and share your visit whilst including the in transit scenes which makes it much more interesting giving a real feeling of being part of the tour.
Thank you for posting this video. I was able to show it to my kids and show them how awesome it was to go on a trip to the top of the WTC. They really appreciate it. Very sad and heartbreaking.
Great footage GarlicM8. going from the lobby, have a photo taken, thru security, the elevator ride (tummy tickle and ear pops!) out onto the observation deck, The floor space was one acre and took time to walk around, along with the height gives you an idea how huge these towers were, then up the two sets of escalators ( you had to clear two floors for machinery, A/C, hydrants etc) up out onto the viewing deck, where the view was always unsurpassed, you could hardly hear the city traffic far below, watch the planes land at La Guardia (sometimes you were above the planes!) and sometimes you had morning clouds below you with the Empire State, Chrysler and other towers poking out, it was beautiful and each time I came to NYC I would always stop by and visit the WTC. What makes it so sad and haunting (watching the footage, must have been a quiet day....) is no-one else can share our experiences, no-one of a future generation can go visit this place, and deeper this place simply doesn't exist anymore, vaporized, gone, when you walk about gaze up and everything was impossibly massive, permanent. Gone. 9/11 and the jumpers doesn't bear thinking about, but it should always be remembered. God Bless.
To think people jumped from that height. 10 seconds of free fall. Almost 20 years later and it still makes my skin crawl.
Yes same I’m still scared to jump of a pole to grab a trapeze at summer camps
Instant death versus burning alive or smoke inhalation.
It's so scary to jump to your death. There's no way you could of survived.
Yes it does! Those poor people
It was either that and go out quick or burn
This gives me such anxiety. I lived in NYC for ten years, and never once went to the top of the World Trade Center. I’m terrified of heights. I can’t imagine what those poor people went through on that tragic day. God bless their souls.
@J.E.H you’re an idiot.
Me too I can only imagine the horror , it so disheartening and sad ! I cry sometimes thinking about it. I have been binge watching these videos for weeks
Im cant bare watch peapole falilibg of th wtc because i am affaraid of heights and i can emagine hiw the feel but if i fisit the wtc it would still be preety cool but maybe i wouldnt go to the roof
My uncle called my mom on his cell phone from the 89th floor and his last words were I’m gonna jump I love you
@@Coffeeisnecessarynowpepper lol
Hi from Germany
I was there in April 2000, my first time in the United States to my 18 Birthday.
I was with my Uncle in the Lobby of the World Trade Center: i think it was 18 Dollars to go up to the observation Platform.
He asked me: „wanna go up ?“ but i said to expensive. Then he replied: „you dont know when you could come here next time“...
David C. Die milliarden, die mann in unserem scheiss flughafen versenkt hat hätte mann lieber für einen Wiederaufbau der türme benutzen sollen..
U really didnt go up because 18 bux n a once n a lifetime experience..wow..
C BREEZYWORLD i was 18 and broke. Empire State was i think 5-6 Dollars in 2000
Don't bash the guy. I had shot to go round 2 up there and passed thinking next time. Well we all know the rest. Next time won't pass up anything.
I visit in June 1999 with 14 Years age...
It’s like recording the Titanic years before the wreck, only it’s a towering building, skyscraper in New York. An absolute marvel.
Titanic was also on its way to New York
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At least people really got to enjoy The WTC they were open for 28 years the Titanic didn't make it through its first trip.
@@craigusselman546they are still both horrifying.
My heart sinks just to imagine someone falling from those heights. One can't imagine what was going through those people’s minds when they were left no choice but to make a jump to death. May they all rest in peace and never be forgotten.
true, they would have died even before they hit the ground.
Very simple, death by fire is unbearable, you can't not get away from it however you can. The toxic plumes of the fires must have killed lots of people too.
They jumped from the inside as well
It is estimated that there were over 200 people who jumped.
@@user-cf6te2ug2g indeed,i meant pray. Made a mistake.thank you.
I remember eating at the "Windows on the World" restaurant in the North tower in the Mid 90's with my family. I will never forget the size of the columns that were around the center of the tower, as well as watching a storm roll in and actually being above the clouds. The is no way to convey the sheer awe of looking up at those towers from street level, and also looking down on the clouds from the top floors. I also remember always knowing when you were getting close to NYC driving in, because the towers were the first thing to come up over the horizon.
dang. be glad that u got to visit. im born 06 but my parents are born 78 and 79. they were watching the news when the attack happend and they told me it was very scary. i could imagen it was scarier for the people around the wtc. just the other day there was a big fire in a apartmentbuilding here where i live and no one got hurt. that was pretty scary for me and i just cant image 9/11....
Wow
You did the things I really wanted and didn’t and won’t ever be able to !!! WHY didn’t we protect those awesome towers better ??????? So sad even 20 yrs later and I’ll never never never
FORGET 😞🇺🇸❤️🥀
It's eerie that they look like an eleven and they came down on nine eleven
I ws 1 in 99
This is some very, very sacred footage.
To call it sacred is a bit much I think.
Kansas Kev Logging I think the word “sacred” is appropriate considering the enormity of what happened just as the word “sacred” is appropriate in describing the grounds of the holocaust extermination’s camps. Sometimes, tragedies exceed what a rational mind is able to process such as the WTC.
@@smudge0161 thank you, those of us that knew what this country was like before 9/11 and how much we lost after 9/11 will understand.
Kansas Kev 🦅🦅🙏🏽🦅🦅
MrNitro071 in 500 years from now that’s what it will be. Just like if we had footage of every day life 500 years ago. It would be sacred and priceless
The counting of the floors in the elevator made me incredibly sad
Yes in 1999
same
Jody Neal when the elevator got to the 93rd floor, my body dropped as it was about to get impact. But this video was token January 1999.
@@thegastonsmediaworld1994 Same. I got goosebumps.
AM AFRAID OF HIGHTS, VERY SCARY
As a former NYC Tour Director, I find this video so familiar - and so heartbreaking! I knew people who died on 9/11 and I never thought the Towers would not be there for decades more. This feels like I was there yesterday! RIP to all the victims of 9/11! Never forget!
Bless you. So sorry for your heartbreak
Sorry for your loss 😟
Connie Crawford I can’t forget
33 years to the month. Much too young for such marvelous buildings to be destroyed!! 1968-2001. A free mason sacred number! Coincidence? Nope. Planned event according to David Rockefeller! The elite are taking over us small people!
Connie Crawford Amen
Imagine being in there knowing the whole world was watching you from all of those streets and tiny windows, but nobody could help.
You would have seen all the fire trucks and emergency vehicles, but it would have felt lonely up there. Just the sound of the wind which was strong that day despite the lack of clouds. And the sound of everyone dying around you
And looking out, maybe seeing the building you live in, etc., and knowing how close you were to safety, if only you were a bird. (That's not meant to be insensitive.)
U can't even make anything out from up at that height!! Just look at the footage here when they pan down with their camera!
@@visionist7 they were pretty much useless, specially police, couldn't do shit to help anyone there.
@@DavidSiciliano2100 they died trying. Show them respect
what tripped me out the most in this video was wondering if the employees I saw were in that building on 9/11/01
Bad Bowtie IKR I was thinking the same thing
Yes I was thinking the same thing 😔
There is a chance the employees in this video died. The first plane hit the other tower (North Tower) first. The tower on this video is the South Tower. But, the observation floor employees on this video, usually had to be at work around 8:00 AM. The first plane hit the other building at 8:30 AM. But, the building management on the South Tower announced on the speaker system to stay in their offices and that their building was ok. When the 2nd plane hit, it wiped out most of the chances of most of the people in the high floors of the South Tower to escape because the 2nd plane had exploded inside the middle of the building ripping away the staircases and elevators in its path. So, by the time the 2nd plane hit, if the employees seen on this video were already at work when the first plane hit in the other building, there is an 80 percent chance these employees seen on this video died when the 2nd tower was falling to its end. This was truly a horrific scene as if they were trapped in a nightmare bubble and all we New Yorkers could do was watch live on front of the building or as I did live on TV from my house when I lived in Brooklyn and I had just arrived from work in Manhattan crossing the river taking the last train before they shut down all trains due to this catastrophe. I was listening to the radio (Howard Stern Show) when his producer ran in and told him to put on the TV and that's how I found out and immediately turned on my TV. I remember the overwhelming sadness I felt as I saw it happen and the feeling of helplessness. When the second plane hit I really got scared and realized this wasn't an accident and I thought our whole city was going to be bombed. That's when I really broke down. RIP all who died. If any of you want to hear the actual moment Howard Stern announced what I heard of the planes hitting, which is how many New Yorkers found out, click the following link ruclips.net/video/2cL3B-iZXyc/видео.html
@@ExclusiveLM had you worked overnight in Manhattan before coming home that Tuesday morning?
@@visionist7 Yes Felice. I had worked the midnight to 8:00am shift in Manhattan and crossed into Brooklyn on 14 Street just before 8:30am. Once the 1st plane hit, the police immediately got ready to shut everything down. When the second plane hit, the bridges and airspace were shut down within 15 minutes.
You can’t watch this without remembering the images of these building collapsing
The twin towers did not slam to the ground.
If they had slammed to the ground:
1) There would be over 1,250,000 tons of debris piled on the ground;
2) Manhattan would have been flooded;
3) The seismic recordings would have reflected two 500,000-ton buildings and one 230,000-ton building slamming to the ground.
None of the three facts happened.
@12weasel100 ruclips.net/video/WWgZr_jredo/видео.html
@@alexadams1257 It's no use. Why bother. These type would rather live in their ignorance.
@12weasel100 whatever you say
@12weasel100 boomer lol
Thanks for these glimpses for those of us who never got to go there.
I went on this very same terrace (top of the south tower) in ~ Aug of 2000, one year before they were attacked. I was 27 at the time.
JR S. Nice. The last time I went was AUGUST 2001. I don't remember anything cause i was 7 at the time.
I got to go on December 2018 long after the towers where down
I went there in June of 1992, I was 11 years old me, my brother, and my parents went on the observation deck. Good times.
Went up there Summer of 1990 . Worked in New Brunswick , NJ for 3 months during college break .
You know what else that's scary...?
The fact that is has already been 20 years later.
Naaaah...passing of time long term is daunting and shocking, not scary though...came with the territory of childhood and early adulthood..although I was 9 in '01, 28 now...just thankful for those memories for shaping me eryday tho
@@tsouth5510 The twin towers did not slam to the ground.
If they had slammed to the ground:
1) There would be over 1,250,000 tons of debris piled on the ground;
2) Manhattan would have been flooded;
3) The seismic recordings would have reflected two 500,000-ton buildings and one 230,000-ton building slamming to the ground.
None of the three facts happened.
@@119dovesonofiniteletorriev5 ok
@@EpicVaporGodCloudMaster did you realised it or what?
@@119dovesonofiniteletorriev5 no
the last year of the 90s...i wish i could back in time
I was about to type the same, times where so much better back then
U was not even born
Regan MacBannon Mason i was like 8 and i miss too those times
@@anfamous5983 They really were.
me2!!
It gives me goosebumps...the observation deck, seeing the "globe" in the plaza where my wife and I sat on a sunny day on our honeymoon in 1999 then going up the Empire State Building. 3 years later we went back and saw the surrounding building all black, and covered in plastic sheets a huge hole where the towers were and you could see all the seven stories that were under the ground. Including part of the train station. It's heartbreaking, and I too think the world will never be the same again. Something changed forever that day.
I remember going to the opening dedication day of the Twin Towers as a kid. I had no idea what the big deal was about it. Everyone was mocking the design, saying that it was nothing but two spaghetti boxes in the sky and wondering why the architect designed something so boring. However, as an adult I realized just how perfect their design actually was. The boldness of the towers indicated strength and power to the world. They didn’t need any Art Deco design like the Empire State Building had. They didn’t need gargoyles. Their simplicity is what I loved, and as an artist, it’s something I always try to remember while creating my own art.
Diane E the twin towers were originally considered ugly, until the antenna was put on top of 1 wtc in 1978 making them much more formidable looking, and more importantly they started to become more enmeshed in New York culture as the city rebounded from its swoon to a golden age in the 1990s and 2000s
This is a great comment
Diane E hose buildings basically represented America, they were so iconic. I know it was unethical, but I wish they would’ve rebuilt them. I don’t really like the new WTC tower. These were simple, but like you say, majestic and like nothin else like it. They just went so perfectly with everything. 😢
Monika Thomas I agree with you to some extent. In my opinion, the Freedom Tower a.k.a. One World Trade Center is way better than the original Twin Towers. It’s just that the Freedom Tower looks more modern, stylish, while the twin towers are old looking as if they were from the 40’s. But I do get your point, they were magnificent buildings that changed NYC forever. However, in terms of modern-looking, Freedom Tower takes the stage.
@@Hrrjkf821 There's nothing dated looking about the original WTC Towers in my opinion. Sure construction has come a long way, and makes for some different looking "all-glass" buildings today, but the simplicity of the original buildings design was timeless.
The Manhattan skyline will never be the same without the Twin Towers.
Noah Robert Graves yee
Very true. The original WTC was iconic, the sheer size and the fact they were twins made for an almost mystic landscape.
Noah Robert Graves
for sure. the 2 brothers were so twins, so bright gray. so high...... they were seen on all sides of New York!
The monstrosity in its place makes a horrid noise in wind and rain you can search for the videos of it .. its like the "tell tale building".
Noah Robert Graves Never !!!!
When the world and life was more simpler back in the days.
I remember 1999 people saying the same thing about 1979... The world has never been simple. 20 years from now you'll say the same thing about 2020.
@R TTT your country is still better than many countries ...nothing is perfect
@@anthonyhutchins2300 hahaha that´s a strech... 2020 is a piece of shit and if globalist aren´t stopped 2040 would be even shittier.
@@jaconova okay well we will see... You have a point about 2020 but people always forget the bad and romanticize their memories. People have always talked shit about current times for as long as I've been alive. The older generations always something bad to say and yet with time the people claiming they wanna go back increases.
What about the tourists who were roaming on rooftop on 911?
This guy recoding is a genius to capture these moments as how they were. It makes me sad to think that these people were there preparing for their day, they were all trapped. Rest In Peace to these souls
My hands getting sweaty when I'm thinking of the people who had to jump from that high
Mine too!!! My heart sinks... It scares me just from this video!!!
+Krille1557 That was the first thing I thought about too. So awful:(
+Anitia Coffee me too.. I still have nightmares about that and I live in l.a.
+Nesha Davis me 2 Ya
+Nesha Davis I cant imagine what were they thinking before falling... :(
I stood on top of these in 1993. Amazing views. Breaks my heart thinking of what happened.
Baz D me cold windy winter ❄️ when my mo came to visit me I took her to that top,I got same filings my heart is bleeding when thing of that moment
Marcin Wolczek. Can you believe it’s nearly 20 years! I live in New Zealand and this happened early morning for us on the 12th September. When I went to the top I spoke to a man who had worked there since the opening. I sometimes wonder did he make it out. I hope so. RIP all.
Baz D at least it’s replaced by the glorious Freedom Tower! With a second WTC coming soon.
Do you like seagulls or something????Bazd
Rob Luciano That’s Brighton’s football crest, a team in the English footballs premier league. Selling seagulls 😭
I remember being on the north tower in 1998, I was 10 years old, my dad took me and my sister. The twin towers were massive in width, and height. So iconic. I remember my ears popping when going up the elevator. The freedom tower will never compare, now we have a generic skyline. The view will never be the same.
C M couldn’t agree more. Of course the loss of life’s was more tragic, but these buildings are irreplaceable. Nothing has been the same since :(
Um no. No the buildings def aren't as bad a loss as the human beings that were ripped away from their families that day.
@connextro And you are exactly what's wrong with the world. Plz stick to cartoons in your moms basement.
I actually love both the twin towers and the current One WTC! The New One WTC is illegally underrated! The Building looks awesome the virtual elevators showing NYC from the centuries up until now is awesome!
The skyline is really evolving now nyc is building multiple new sky scrapers that are just as tall if not taller than the twin towers.
Such a simple film of a day out in NYC turned into a video with lots to speak for itself. My heart goes out to all those who died on 9/11.
I still have my brothers world trade center ticket from his visit in the 80s
Mary Charro ❤️
@Happy Happy he said 80s
Keep them saved. In some decades they may be worth good money.
I visit Statue of Liberty in June 1999 Good Memories...
Happy Happy bruh the us goverment didn’t know any of this
Imagine jumping from that height....... absolutely terrifying
Exactly. Thats what people stuck in the buildings did in 9/11. I wish 9/11 never happened
Goodness christ imagine looking down i'd get a heart attack before i would even hit the floor (probably dying like 99 % of death)
I've been to the top of the new one multiple times and it's definitely very very high up, it's crazy to look down on buildings that are 70+ stories tall.
Sheer terror. Rest in Peace good people.
I could not imagine
I still have my World Trade Center coin from the coin bending machine, which you see in the film.
Anyone else start crying at 12:15? Something about both the Statue of Liberty and World Trade Center in the same picture, it's emotional.
1999, no one on their phones : >
+Sadox What would they be doing on their phones? Playing snake?
Indeed :3
lol
+WrestlingReview Guy But a lot of cops and bud citizens are getting caught doing bad things , thanks to the mobile phones.
Back then cell phones could only call people
A few months later I did the exact same tour with my parents (I was 14 at the time), except we couldn't go on the roof due to high winds - something I still regret to this day, despite it still being the best day of my life. I was obsessed with the WTC, and seeing them come down one year later broke something inside of me. Thanks for sharing this, I still recognize all the little details after all these years. The broadway posters downstairs, the Top of the World cardboard stand in the lobby, the plastic transparent bars in between windows on the observation deck...
At least you got to experience it, My mom almost had a job in one of the towers, but I really wish I could of seen and been inside them.
I went up there exactly one week before 9/11. I had a long 3 hour break between my college classes so I decided to kill some time and go up. Then 9/11 happened the next week and I had goosebumps knowing I was just standing up there a few days before.
That's pretty crazy
I think you had taken a look from the edge of our universe so to speak
That's crazy
Wow! Sounds like some place to have college ;) going up such a structure just to kill some time. I can't even imagine something like it as a Dutch guy.
@@weeardguy Oh it was great! It was a small community college located a few blocks from the Twin Towers. It's gone now since the debris from the towers when they fell crushed it but it was still one of the most surreal and heartbreaking moments of my life
I can't even watch the rest of this. What took place here is simply thee unimaginable. These people mattered. These people were murdered. The Passengers, The Employees, The Fire firefighters, , The Tourists, The Residences of the City of New York, The buildings, This City, The World Forever changed in hours. This was HELL.
My dad used to work in NYC in 99 and 2000 and everyday he went to work he walked past the WTC tower and took a moment to marvel at the architectural masterpieces and gaze up at them. He said he used to tap it with his foot and think that a creation like that would last thousands of years and it could never be destroyed... a year later...
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so eerie watching this. the people in 9/11 who died were working in this building at this time, having no clue what was eventually going to happen. what beautiful buildings they were, it's so sad.
Not exactly and 9/11 took place in the morning this video seems to be around noon
+Eric Albright What she meant by her comment was that the people were working there at this time and didn't know that two years later they'd die in that very building. This video is from 1999.
+Amber Welch I think he was trolling her lol
Deez Nutz no he was actually being serious therefore an idiot who doesn’t understand reading comprehension.
Kunta Kinte
Quiet.
As a native Texan. I love New York at Christmas time. We visit every other year. So beautiful. Oh, and I love the pizza.
I still cannot believe people jumped from that height. I know they had no choice but still. I hope all of the "jumpers", and all of the people on the planes and those trapped in the buildings have a peaceful afterlife. These were ordinary people going about their normal day who found themselves in an unfathomable and deadly situation. RIP to all.
I would rather jump and die watching nice view instead of burning to death
@@xalau5270 don’t forget about the ones who also survived the flames but all perished when the buildings collapsed
@@JessicaGarcia-xf9wr Have a look at Judy Wood's 2012 energy conference on RUclips, sorry I don't know how to put a link here. Or read her book called Where did the towers go? Evidence of directed free energy technology on 9/11. Empirical evidence is the truth, that theory must mimic.
Where did the towers go? Evidence of directed free energy technology on 9/11. Judy Wood. Empirical evidence is the truth, that theory must mimic. If I told you that the answer is 27, am I correct?
When you're falling that fast you usually pass out from not being able to draw enough breath because you're moving too fast. Kinda like when you're on a roller coaster and find it hard to breathe because the air slapping your face
The card board cut outs looking out the windows at 4:00 is quite eerie...
SHolland music I thought so too!
I have to agree you on this
Almost like a foreshadowing.
This video is the closet I'll get to seeing how it was to tour inside the World Trade Center... R.I.P. To those who died on 9/11/01
+Carlos Torres it wouldn't have to be the closest if they rebuilt the twin towers the same way it looked back then with the exterior (NON ALL GLASS) however, the interior can be modernized
@@ThisAccountIsNoLongerActive000 do you wanna know why the towers collapsed?
Carlos Torres
Me too. New York is the one place I’ve always wanted to visit, but never got to go. Now I’m on the wrong side of 50 and my traveling days are long gone. Not seeing the World Trade Centers breaks my heart, it literally makes my soul ache. This video is so appreciated because I can experience the world trade centers through someone else’s eyes. Thank you so much for sharing this wonderful video with the world. Thank you and God bless you.
In high school I saw the 1970’s King Kong movie where he climbed to the top of the World Trade Center and I thought I would like to go see the twin towers some day. About half a decade later, they were gone and I never got to see them. My wife has pictures with her dad, step mom and brother from the observation deck in 1995.
Ozzy Crum Gaming they collapsed because the government controlled it and the government brain washed you
wish I had a time machine to go back then and tell them the deadly nightmare that was about to come. Oh how many lives would have been saved.
ABz Tootorials they probably won’t believe you but you’d need proof
@@emmanu3l54 true but still...
"Time Heist?"
That could easily backfire though... first they won't believe you. And then when it happens and you were right, the FBI will be on your ass for questioning on how you knew such thing would happen... Unless you have some physical proof, people are not going to believe you at all.
@@gameexpert2011 yeah which really sucks
This footage is the closest anyone who never had the fortune to visit these miraculous buildings will ever get to doing so. God bless you for uploading this for the world to enjoy. RIP to all the victims of 9/11.
As a New Yorker I want to thank you for posting your footage of the WTC, it made me think of a more innocent time in my city.
New York City used to be so beautiful back in the day, but now it's just a pile of shit.
Yes, 😪😭
New York was used to be a friendly and nice seaside city; now is a shithole with crimes and rude people.
Innocent? Hahahahahahahahahaha🏥🏥🏥😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂🏃🏃🏃🏃🏃🏃🏃😂😂😂😂😂😂Hey thanks for the laugh though!
@@zixiangjiao3049 actually NYC is the safest major city in the USA so idk what ur talking about crime
finally get to see what the inside looked like!
Little did he know how treasured this video would be. I worked right across the street from the WTC. I took out of town visitors up there many times.
From that extreme altitude it is hard to fathom what went through the minds of those innocent victims that jumped to their fate on that fateful day. Still get goosebumps to this day. RIP the 9/11 departed.
To get away from the high intensity of heat and debris and choking smoke. The fear of burning… etc.
knowing jumping would be instant.
But most likely they passed out while falling before they landed.
Awful stuff any way you put it.
Crazy to think the last time I was in the towers was August in 2001. My father always used to take me there because as a 5 year old I was obsessed with tall buildings and the NY Skyline. Can't wait to go to the top of the new one.
Your not allowed to
+Epiiictroller you are, just no longer the very top
becareful of high towers
Video24Maker forget the new one
Here's a lollypop for you .. 🍭
I will get to newyork one day to pay my respects.
RIP all, from Scotland.
You humans hate one another.. GO pay your respects to the living! 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂🏥🏥🏃🏃🏃🏃🏃🏃🏃🐒🐒
Rip all from Germany
on behalf of new york, thank you
Saddo
Kunta Kinte yeh no one finds u funny
Habitant en France et n'ayant pas forcément les moyens de voyager , j'aurais tellement voulu aller voir ces 2 tours malheureusement elles ne sont plus là !! RIP aux personnes parties ce jour là ✝️❤️
Ils ont construit de nouvelles tours , un nouveau world trade center
Wow ! Amazing views . I live on the NJ side of the Hudson River all my life on Blvd east west new york NJ and had a perfect beautiful view from my bedroom window since I was a kid. I joined the Navy in June of 1999 and always made a trip from VA to NJ and on I-95 from the distance you can see those magestic towers . From night clubbing NYC in the 1990s I never got to go to the top of the towers except one day on one weekend in 2000 that I took the path train into lower Manhattan and my friend picked me up there to drive back down to VA . I stepped out from the path and looked up and it was the only time I came closed and personal with those towers. Growing up taking that beautiful view of the NYC skyline was and still is amazing. Sad to see them gone . RIP to all the victims . I still live near by and still have the view to the new freedom tower . Maybe I will go inside one of these days . Love my city of new York. New York Strong and resilient .🇺🇲🇺🇲🇺🇲🇺🇲🇺🇲🇺🇲🇺🇲🇺🇲🇺🇲
A beautiful comment. Thank you for sharing it with us.
Such beautiful buildings, so sad.
This was just something else, I cannot even function right now. A wonderful, very powerful trip down memory lane. Too many lives lost, all are never forgotten.
When people see they’re being recorded:
1990’s: Oh, are you recording? *laughs*
2010’s-2020’s: GET THAT CAMERA OFF ME *calls the police*
So tue... I hate these times! I hate to be born in 2005!
CHRIBBE I was born April of 2000, but I had to grow up quick. I have the soul of a 50 year old man.
Remember that back in the 1990s the assumption was that people filming stuff are filming just for themselves and their own memories, we didn’t have so much of this feeling that strangers filming stuff were later going to put them on the internet to be watched by thousands; the internet has had an incredible impact on psychology. That’s why we were more chilled with people filming things back then.
@@chribbe68 I WAS BORN IN 2010 THIS DECADE IS NOT FOR ME I WISH I WAS BORN IN THE 90S
@@chribbe68 same
The Twin Towers of the World Trade Center are absolutely majestic. And so were the times that this was filmed.
Thank you for sharing!
Cheers to those that remember the good times. Never forget.
so gorgeous, these towers. They should have been rebuilt exactly as they were!
Not really, it would bring back very bad memories.
+Keegan Gidley No, they would bring beautiful memories! Almost no one wanted a One WTC! Even survivors of 9/11 wanted them back! And let's not forget Philippe Petit...
I think it two major factors were considered: cost was number 1 (remember the twins were built in the late 60s or early 70s), and did NYC really want to have two more targets. That’s my opinion only. Not sure about the real reasons.
They had trouble filling both towers with tenants. I think it was more logical cost-wise to only have one tower.
I thought the same thing. Study about world trade center building # 7. Never in history have 3 steel and concrete building collapsed to the ground, in free fall speed without controlled demolition from within the structure.
Watching this it's hard to believe none of this exists anymore.
The statue of liberty is still there.
Rob Fraser my balls are still here
well that's not true at all. there's still a lot of the stuff shown in this video that remains. the towers of course aren't there anymore and that's it. you made a silly comment.
actually some stuff was retrieved from the rubble. its in the 9/11 museum. some of the stuff in there gives you mad chills. good experience tho.
A great tour of two iconic places. I couldn't help but think of all those who died on September 11, 2001. We will never forget them.
*Its so weird seeing time back then, no one is on a iphone\Android.*
*(Edit: I obviously Know there was no iPhone and Androids back then, i’m just saying it’s weird seeing time back then with no one on smart phones)*
But we sure were playing snake on our Nokias.
IDABAYAREA650I in that sense it was a much better time 20 years ago than today.
We are so fortunate streaming video did not exist then. Anybody with video cameras that day who died would have had the footage with them. We should never forget the day, but I am grateful we have no horrible videos from the inside.
@@thesniper5966 Any handheld camcorders would have been destroyed when the towers collapsed. So as far as I know, with exception of reporters in the lobby we have no video recordings of the horror that went on inside the tower. Can you imagine this happening now, it would be streamed on youtube, snapchat, instagram etc, we would have thousands of images and videos in real time. We would have a permenant record of the horror, at least since this happened before smart phones we don't.
A better world
I feel slightly eerie watching this, I must say.
Johan Karlsson me too
+The one. I've had that nightmare twice.
***** I had one dream where I went to the roof of one of the towers waiting for a helicopter or to be rescued and finally I just decided to jump off the tower. The other one was really scary though. I had one nightmare that I was in one of the towers as it started to collapse, several floors just totally fell from under me, and I just fell several floors along with hundreds of other people in total darkness inside the collapsing tower and heard everyone screaming as we fell to our deaths.
+Dathotness4ya so sad I would not sleep for a long while
Grant Gtaetz And I didn't even live in NYC at the time. We moved from NYC back in 1989, but in Kindergarten I remember we did take a field trip to the very top of the South Tower back in the mid-80s.
The first time the WTC was targeted I was only a baby, naturally I wouldn't remember a thing about it. The second time, I was 8 years old. Watching them collapse on tv, deciding to become a firefighter because of it all. Now, 14 years later I'm a volunteer firefighter with the Santa Fe County Fire Department in Santa Fe, New Mexico. Always remembering those who have fallen before their time, they're the ones I'am honoring today.
Wow, very good. Planning on visiting NYC one day!
Keep it up!
Good for you, Carla! I got 9 years in with my local VFD 1988 - 1997. I got too old to crawl in and out of deep ditches during rescues. But there will always be a special place in my heart for the ones who do. My mother-in-law and I were the first female First Responders in our county. Carry on!
@@TheKonga88 if you're 93 year old, you're be dead at that time.
@@whattheheckamidoinghere4305 My nose has fell off and some fish and frogs have taken my legs.. 👴👴👴👴👵👵🏃🏃🏃🏃🏃🐍🐍🐸🐸🐸🐸🐸🌍🌍🌍👳👳🐥🐤🐥
Whenever I watch videos like this I don’t think about the horrible day in September 2001 but instead I think about all the good things and the happy times before the towers were gone.
I wish I could go back in time and save everyone. This is Just sad..
One can only imagine what it must have been like 17 years ago..all those poor souls trapped in the towers..may they sleep peacefully for eternity.
in greatest of respect to all and justice 9/11 have changed us all truth will provide some comfort ruclips.net/video/zAjSL_ZXnvcr/видео.htmlichard thirkill
To me this tourist footage captures more perfectly the horror of 9/11 than the news coverage shot from the ground when it was actually happening.
Random people just going about their day, relaxed, marvelling at the clear view, the height and grandeur of the buildings, approaching the windows with trepidation to then gaze at the immeasurable distance to street level far below. It's a typical day, no different from 1000 others...
Fast forward a mere 2 years, and an equally random group on an equally clear, calm day, would be caught up in a nightmare. Shell-shocked, fearful, anguished, many burned and choking, some would grasp the utterly desparate nature of their situation and make the choice to jump from those very same windows - terrifying under normal circumstances, that aspect superseded by the merciful end such an act would bring under this one.
Makes you think....
keymaster88uk Are you a novelist? You captured the situation in words perfectly.
Regardless, it's such an uncanny thought. To be in the perspective of the civilians looking out to the city when that plane approached is a chilling notion.
Jack Gibson Indeed it is. I cannot imagine how horrendous it must have been for those people alive and aware but with absolutely nowhere to go. And no I'm not a writer but thanks for the comment.
Indubitably old chum
here at 9/11/19 still so sad
I was 14 when it happened. Something inside me has never been the same, just like the rest of the world has never been the same. The pain never stops
@@jflsdknf me too
I was 7 years old when it happened.
Makes me laugh hahahahaha
stirling I was 14 too and I completely agree. The world changed forever to the worse that day and it will never be as good again.
That's amazing that they captured even the mundane, i.e. the elevator ride, etc. Great memory of how it was.
It feels awful to know people actually fell from these heights
The lonely 10 second journey to the bottom…
Some didn't even fall... Some jumped out on purpose because of lack of oxygen
They jumped...
FreeBankLuring and some fell, too. they were hanging out the windows, trying to get fresh air, and fell out.
+kingkhanmsk1 Some held Hands as they jumped,others went alone.....it's so hard.
It’s now 1/2019 and I’m watching this awesome video. People will watch same video 100 years from now
I was in NYC in 1993. My heart is broken. I feel like a piece of me and this country is missing. It's weird kids today will never know the World Trade Center and what life was like back then. It would be so nice to go back. This building represented New York and the world. I hope someday we will build another one that looked like the old ones.
My parents had their honeymoon in the summer of 2000 in New York. Scary to think about it
One of my relatives was about to get a job here on something like the 100th floor, but he decided not to get it. He was lucky, boy. He probably would not of been alive now if it weren't for that decision. Terrible disaster.
RIP to all of those that didn't make it.
My raccoon was suppose to get a job there as a clown but he decided he didn't want to do it so he became a plastic dolly instead.. He now sits on my bed singing Christmas carols all day.. 🐨🐨🐨🐻🐻🐗🐗🐗
I always wondered how america (or the whole world) would be today if 9/11 never happened, its hard to imagine.
i cant imagine, crazy isn't it!
Then they would only make up another "terrorist attack" instead so they could make the changes they did after 911 anyway.. I am to lazy and know to little english to explain further it in detail...
that1dude0092 I miss the 1990s best years.
One world trade center would be never existed, neither the other buildings, those people in the plane would be alive, videos like this one and movies and documentals about 9/11 would be never created.
Theres a lot of consequences if 9/11 attacks had never happened
that1dude0092 The 90s held a promising future for the world and US especially, there were no real adversaries but then 9/11 occurred and it all went downhill.
When I look at the skyline, till this day, it feels like one of my arms are missing. I had moved to Florida a couple of years before the attacks and had just visited that July and ate at the terrace. The world permanently changed after that.
Great video. Thank you so much for sharing.
I was 33 yrs old in September 11,2001 !!! Exact same age as the towers !!! I had booked a room in the Marriot for the beginning of November 2001 and was going to spend two days getting to know an area I dreamed of going to since I was seven!!!! My dream was crushed and my heart broke for the people and the towers !! 😞
I wonder how NY would look in this modern age with the twin towers
More than 12 years later, I still can't believe people jumped out of that building from the top. The thought of it still leaves me shocked and speechless. It is just so difficult for me to fathom that one second this person is alive, healthy, falling through the air, and the next second, their body no longer exists, it is completely destroyed scattered and smashed into unrecognizable chunks.
*****
I always believed a lot of them just kind of reflectively jumped out of the window. Think of it this way, have you ever gone swimming and tried to hold your breath under the water for as long as you can, and then you run out so you squirm to the surface as fast as you can for air, it was probably similar to that. With the unbearably intense heat and suffocating smoke their body just kind of took over and drove them out the window.
Hard to imagine someone jumping . So terribly sad , there are not enough words.
That's exactly the thought I had. Just looking out those windows from that height is unnerving but to be forced to jump from that height is just gut-wrenching.
What helps me is .. i say to my self. they were leaning out the window to get fresh air and to get away from the smoke and slipped. Its terrible to think that someone would be desperate enough to jump. Scary. I dont know if the did or not but believing that they slipped helps me alittle.
Yeah, that's probably the best way to think of it. The one thing I can't understand is why in the hell air traffic controllers don't have some kind of remote override in case of hijacking or some other unforeseen event so they can remotely take control of an aircraft and either keep it in a holding pattern until they figure out what to do or just land it somewhere. They've had the technology for years that planes can pretty much fly themselves, so a remote override seems like it wouldn't be difficult to implement.
I was also up there in 1999 and this brings back many memories, walking from the lift along the corridor to the windows to reveal that view was just breathtaking, thank you for posting.
I was born in 2005, visiting NY in 2012 at the age of 6, not knowing how the city once looked. Now after I have watched it on yt, I wish I could go back and see those beautiful towers
I was in one of these buildings back in the early 80's. I remember feeling dizzy looking out the top floor windows and thinking I would NEVER work in a place like this
Imagine traveling back in time to this year, looking up at the towers with full knowledge of what was going to happen two years later. Scary.
Hey wanna know why they are gone?
Imagine putting a queen ant in your boot and she laid 2,000,000 eggs.. 🐜🐜🐜🏥🏥🏃🏃🏃🏃🏃🏃👵👵👻👻🐍🐍🐍🍭🍭🐜🐜🐜🐜🐜
What if *YOU* wanted to go to heaven, ☁☁☁🌈🌈🌍🌍 but *GOD* said:
*wibba wabba bigga nigga*
What if i told you there was a person who knew.
Shit, a lot of people knew it was gonna happen!
I would time travel back to the 90's to go in the WTC
Same I would just fly to the top
The Poor Gamer I Would, Then I would Split them apart.
JR FAN? SAME
+Dale_Junior can I come with u
@Dale_Junior If I can go back in time, I will kill those hijackers and prevent 9/11 from even happening. I will even assassin all of them within 2+ days before 9/11. After dat my target will be at Bin Laden and all his men. If I can somehow get nuke, I can try blew up dat whole country and prevent ISIS. The only terrorist left will be North Korea. Plus since Afghanistan are gone, our country wont need go to war and prevent depression. WTC will continue to exist and those 3000 people will live.
Thanks a lot for this fantastic video. I do remember this so well from the same year!
Standing on the roof of the WTC was such an unforgettable moment for me as a tourist from Germany. These towers are still a part of New York City.
Condolences to the families. 9/11 never forget.
fuck america
@@tonymemory2279 allahu akbar ~ㅗ
So funny
i got a really weird unexplainable feeling whilst watching this video, I always do when I watch videos about the world trade center. this is the first time I have seen a glimpse of the inside of these beautiful towers, and its hard to accept that they are now gone. when he/she was walking along the corridor and looking out of the window, who would of thought that a couple of years later there would be people standing on those window ledges having their last moments, so sad. NY is a beautiful city, such a shame these towers are not apart of it anymore. RIP to all the victims
This comment made me cry, your words are so beautiful.
Agreed. Also Didn’t expect to see you here, see you commenting on all the Bloodline videos and then sorta ones
they really were works of art!
vIMONST3RIv creepy but true
vIMONST3RIv I noticed the railings aren’t very high, easy to jump, if a suicidal person wanted to. I’d be afraid to look over.
It sucks that the new One WTC doesn't have a rooftop venue to marvel at the sight of Manhattan like the old one, South Tower, did.
if it did. people would jump off
Gold Coast Videography that’s why there would be security guards to stop people from doing that
Gold Coast Videography the tourists didn’t jump off the original towers.
@@TheEwing69 Because you don't go on holiday to top yourself.
My heart goes to all those who lost a family member
Oi linda!!! Me liga
@@JoaoPaulo-lf3nm usou drogas????
yes, it a sad time when people died on that horrifying day.
This is a great video! Thank you! In August 1970, I went up to the roof of my dormitory at NYU and there were work lights (the ones with the greenish glow) lit on one of the towers of the World Trade Center. It seemed like you could almost reach out and touch them. My favorite city in the entire world!
This video is a national treasure for generation to come and the remembrance of those who perished in that tragedy of 911 let's not forget...🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸
*Just imagine,,,,, someone actually walked a tightrope between the top of those two buildings* 😵
Faulty Brain check 70,s footage of a man walking on a tightrope
@Barbara Kennedy there's also a movie but the trailers make it look really "hip" and cheesy like Oceans 11 or something... very disrespectful IMO. I won't watch it
@Barbara Kennedy I meant the movie looked cheesy yeah. I think I saw most of the documentary before the movie released.
@@visionist7 I watched it and liked it very much. Must do. 👌
I didn't think the movie was cheesy at all.. I thought it was thoughtfully done and, holy crap.. the scenery from up there !!
I Visit Statue of Liberty in June 1999 Good Memories i got photos...
Just imagine being stuck in the lift when the plane hit couldn't imagine what it must ofbeen like
No I wouldn't like to imagine what it would be like all them people on 9,11 who died that day jumped to death no I wouldn't like to Imagine at all .
people working all over the building didnt even know a plane hit it they were built so solid so you woud know nothing in a lift. the plane didnt make the building collapse
@@colinscott3828 we may never what made them collapse
@@clarky2356 the fire was over 1000 degrees Fahrenheit it melted the steel within 30 minutes or so that's exactly what happened
Saw a survivor presentation of the event. He said one of his fellow co-workers was in the elevator when the plane hit, and that the fireball spread down the elevator shaft frying him alive inside the elevator. Truly horrifying.
This is so eerie... You see regular people just going about their business.. Makes you see how unfair and random reality is.
I know :(
It takes you on certain floors. It takes you to the observation floors not the work floors
I am DEATHLY afraid of heights! I'm getting vertigo just watching this video in the comfort of my living room chair!
William Burke Same
Me to
My legs are trembling and my bare feet are sweating as if I'm running with 5 pairs of socks on.
Well then there's afew radio tower climbing vids you def won't want to watch! I get it tho as I have that same level of fear crossing large bridges like the Mackinaw Bridge!
b3j8: I got airsick in the THEATER during "Superman: The Movie", back in '78!
I can't believe the public was allowed at the very roof top, and the white railing didn't seem very high either. Perhaps in modern buildings they don't allow it for liability and safety concerns, but the views must have been amazing in person.
Agree
Even if they went over the railings there's another flat area just below. The railings weren't at the edge of the towers. Still might break your ankle though !
I went to NY back in 1986 on a class trip.I bought a tee shirt from the Trade Center gift shop that was all black and it said in fluorescent pink,I Love NY.I wish I still had it.Anyway, It was super stormy that afternoon and windy.When we got to the observation deck, it felt like the building was swaying.It was an experience I'll never forget.Rip to all affected on 9/11.
I wish they were still there.
They were shit holes 🏥🏥🏃🏃🏃🏃🏃🏃😂😂😂😂👻
Kunta Kinte that’s not nice
@@darkwolf5575 THEY WERE SHIT HOLES AND WERE FALLING TO FUCKING PIECES.. 😂😂😂😂😂🏃🏃🏃🏃🏃🏃🎪🎪🏃🏃🏥🏥🏢🏢🌙🌙🌙🗽🗽🗽🗽🕛✈️🏦✈️🏦🏃🏃🏃🏃🏃🌙
Kunta Kinte what the fuck is wrong with you?
@@TheKonga88 no one likes you, ya realize that ur not a funny asshole and just an annoying asshole
my last visit was September 8, 2001 three days before. I was 5
WOW IF THAT WAS 3 DAYS LATER THEN U PROBLY WOD BE DED :(
Kaye Grove Fuck man, you know man! No common core for you
there a video of it 1 day before it, and theres proof on the camra tape
But at what time did you visit?
I born in 8 september 1999
The choice how to end your life by being burned alive or jump from this height is the most horrific thing imagenable. Holy shit
Right. I probably would of jumped too. Poor people 💔
It’s a shame that the towers cant be appreciated anymore, I wish I could’ve seen them while they were still around.
I lived in NYC for over 40 years and never ever been to the WTC. I've never seen the towers from up close. I always said one day I'll go but never got around to it. Plus I had the rest of my life to go see them one day. Now there gone and I'll never see them.
scentless apprentice
Agreed.
It’s magnificent,
yes.
Jesse W my mom and I just went last month. It was $70 per person to go to the sky deck. Needless to say we passed. I didn’t know there was a restaurant in it.
I was a fellow NYer myself. I went a couple times as a kid. Always took them to granted. Summer of 2000 I had some buds visiting from Florida. Took them on a tour of the city. Bud tells me I wanna see the WTC, and my response was meh, the view is what you saw flying into JFK. Nothing special, and Windows On The World is ok. Better joints in town. Never took them. A year later I totally regretted my decision. Till this day I wish I would have appreciated them more.
I've only been in NY for 5 days, 22 years ago, and I've been up there. Weren't able to get out though.
Thanks for taking the time to record and share your visit whilst including the in transit scenes which makes it much more interesting giving a real feeling of being part of the tour.
Thank you for posting this video. I was able to show it to my kids and show them how awesome it was to go on a trip to the top of the WTC. They really appreciate it. Very sad and heartbreaking.
Great footage GarlicM8. going from the lobby, have a photo taken, thru security, the elevator ride (tummy tickle and ear pops!) out onto the observation deck, The floor space was one acre and took time to walk around, along with the height gives you an idea how huge these towers were, then up the two sets of escalators ( you had to clear two floors for machinery, A/C, hydrants etc) up out onto the viewing deck, where the view was always unsurpassed, you could hardly hear the city traffic far below, watch the planes land at La Guardia (sometimes you were above the planes!) and sometimes you had morning clouds below you with the Empire State, Chrysler and other towers poking out, it was beautiful and each time I came to NYC I would always stop by and visit the WTC. What makes it so sad and haunting (watching the footage, must have been a quiet day....) is no-one else can share our experiences, no-one of a future generation can go visit this place, and deeper this place simply doesn't exist anymore, vaporized, gone, when you walk about gaze up and everything was impossibly massive, permanent. Gone. 9/11 and the jumpers doesn't bear thinking about, but it should always be remembered. God Bless.