World Trade Center 2001 | BREATHTAKING and HISTORIC VIEW from the top of WTC South Tower. MUST SEE
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Please watch WTC to the end. This unique video shows World Trade Center from inside just 2 months before the tragic event. You can also see a historic view from the famous Observation Deck located on 107th floor of World Trade Center - South Tower.
The video was recorded on July 5th only 2 months before both WTC towers collapsed on September 11, 2001.
You can see Empire State Building, Statue of Liberty, Staten Island, Hudson River and much more.
More videos recorded in New York City over 20 years ago also available on my channel.
Thank you for watching.
My feelings on the Twin Towers have changed over the years. Always a devastating loss, always tragedy, but now, over 20 years later, they've become symbols of an entire bygone era. I don't just wish the towers were still here, I wish the world that they've come to represent in my mind were still here.
Same, there's a distinct line in my life where i can say that before it everything was different than now and it was 9/11/2001. I remember that day clearer than any other in my life and i was sat in the UK watching it unfold on the BBC. I saw the second plane hit live. Everything since that day has changed. My wife is quite a bit younger than i am and cannot remember it as a child, when i tell her that the world and my life just felt different, less doom, less fear, less oppression, better community etc i just know she'll never understand what i mean just like others who were around 20+ at the time. Before that day, things just felt more warm, more cosey... i always think i might be mad saying it, whether it was just my age at the time, or perspective.. but i see so many other people saying similar and its probably one of the hardest things to articulate to anyone who does not remember it.
We've become a divided nation starting in the election in 2000. This incident marked a line for many as another loss of inocence.
There are times throughout history where people point to and say that "innocence" ended there. I dont think there's a better example of that than 9/11/01 If you're old enough to remember that day and the reality behind it, nothing has been the same since
Have to agree, everything changed after this event. I look back and think of it as the ‘twilight years of Western civilisation’ basking in the 20th century time of plenty, free travel, innocent somehow, a far more gentler time.
it was an horrific event, so many lives lost, and 2 iconic buildings destroyed so suddenly, in hours.I still have nightmares of all the poor souls on those towers.
I worked on Wall St. I watched them being built. I ate my lunch on a bench there listening to the music in the early ‘70’s. It was a good time. No cell phones, no PC’s, no social media. People talked to each other face to face. It was a good time to be alive.
Yes indeed and no stupid miniature hand held computers that allows you see endless incredible stuff and contact with the world at the touch of a few buttons. So annoying - I just wish the 1970s were back again.
@@Mike8981 - Your sarcasm is unnecessary. Advances in technology are wonderful, but much of it has been abused.
@@Mike8981I used to read books. Now that I constantly watch and read the phone, I need glasses.
@@mchapman1928, He wasn't being sarcastic, he was agreeing with you.
@@bonniemagpie9960 - No, I don’t agree, I’ve read his post over a few times and my husband read it too, he was being sarcastic.
The saddest part of this video for me is knowing, 22 years later, that Americans are doing more to hurt each other than any outsider could ever do to hurt them.
It's not a conscious decision by everyday Americans to hate eachother. It is simply compliance with a trick to make everyone think their neighbor is their enemy. A trick played on the public by their own government that is supposed to work for them, and reinforced by the media system that was supposed to warn them about these things. People need to stop complying with this, turn off the TV and love their neighbors
Yep but rest assured I'm not one of those Americans
I strongly feel that that’s not true for most people. I still like to believe that most people are decent, peace-loving individuals.
Brown and black people have always been treated like shit because America hates us, we deserve respect and love
It's in our nature to destroy ourselves.
9:15 It's a bit creepy that there was a service where you could photoshop yourself and your friends to look like you're jumping off the towers.
Omg 😢😢😢😢😢
Wow 😮😮
Yeah...that is pretty creepy
Yeah, I noticed that too. Bizarre.
I think they foreshadowed 9/11 2 months before it happened
this needs to be archived and saved. and redistributed freely, what a golden piece of footage that is, wow !!!
Thank you. Yes. It is beautiful but sad :(
@@adamhusky its very haunting......
We need a database dedicated to footage of the Twin Towers pre-9/11. There are so many home videos of them on KZhead, that it's hard to keep track of them all.
Having never been to NYC until 2005 it really pains me to see these two icons gone. I visited the site area in 2005 while in NYC as I had visited a friend in Pittsburgh and he had encouraged me to go see NYC. I was there pretty much for an overnight stay. Loved it and want to go see NYC one day again. I really wish they'd have rebuilt both them towers exactly as they were. the NYC skyline just doesn't seem to be the same without them both. Fellow Canadian here in Vancouver. Beautiful video. Thanks so much for loading it, cheers.
@@adamhusky kzhead.info/sun/opqtY5WKa6Z_ZGg/bejne.html
I was 21 when this happened I can't believe how "old" this video looks. I don't remember 2001 feeling so long ago.
I had just turned 21 a couple weeks before that horrible day. I remember 9/11 like it was yesterday. And the fact that this footage looks like it was from the 70s or 80s is just crazy to me. 22 years doesn't seem so long ago when you are no longer a kid.
I was 19 and sitting in class in college when it happened
Да сейчас время летит быстро,вместе с технологическим прогрессом
I was 13. but I still remember. I was watching these towers were smoking from outside of WTC tour bus.
Me was 9@@MarylandGuy-ey3st
The post cards/artwork beginning at 9:19 are eerie to say the least!
Broo I see that too and said the same. Kinda creepy.
Wow. It took me two takes to fully see what I was seeing. The music singing "my life has just begun." 🎶 Really creeped me out hardcore seeing the three people falling down the side of the building. Suuuupperr creepy, fuck...
The mere idea that some of these workers of TWC took some photoshops of them jumping the towers, and their relatives have those pics it's so creepy indeed. I remember something similar with a coworker who took a photoshop of her jumping a bridge, and days later she died in train crash at a bridge.
the music is annoying in every respect. could have found better background noise.
bad take lol I'm loving the music in the background@@kimberlite_66
09:15 those pictures are haunting, considering that was going to happen in 66 days, gives me chills!!
Yes!!!And I thought I am the only one who saw that!
Omg wow 😨 that’s so creepy
Predictive programming- truth in plain sight
I thought and felt the same thing at that part 😥
Goodness Me.
At 11:20 the viewer sees the escalator ride approaching the roof of the south tower, at the time the highest open air observation platform in the world. This video brings back great memories of my childhood visit during 1981 when I visited the enclosed 107th floor observatory and the 110th floor roof, only open during good weather. The cool thing about the 107th floor was that given the building's sheer design, one could sit on a narrow metal bench (catch a glimpse at 7:23 and other moments), press your nose against the glass and peer 1,310 feet straight down to the courtyard below. I still have my ticket stub and brochure. Printed on the brochure was that years' catchphrase: "The closest some of us will ever get to heaven." Powerful statement, given the history.
9/11 was an inside job done by the US Government.
@@boogitybear2283 Dear Master Joker, What a persuasive argument from a spotty adolescent! Indeed, you are so clever that once you are released from the Reform School for Delinquent Boys, make sure to hire a literary agent who can shop around your 9/11 manifesto. That, or you can stick with your original plan to move back into mum's basement.
I wonder if that employee was there on 9/11
The Willis tower observation deck is higher @ 1353' in Chicago. It was built in 74.
@@richardmorris7063 Mr. Morris: I clearly wrote "open air platform." The Sears/Willis observatory has always been enclosed.
For someone who never was lucky enough to visit the towers, this is really awesome to see what it looked like inside. Thanks for this❤️
I second to this. Thanks very much, cause my children and I been wanting to go to New York to visit, but could never afford it. I want to visit the new tower, but now my children are much older and refuse to go because of the tragic that happened. Almost like playing with your life and taking risks cause you never know. Someone is always at America….the surrounding countries hates us.
This is really well done and very accurately documented. I lived in Manhattan for a decade before the terrorist attacks, and visited them multiple times (last time I voted there in the 2000 election). You can trust that, since they're gone now, this is a very close approximation of what visiting there would have been like.
9:15 made my heart stop. That was beyond eerie.
that was pretty creepy and music does not help
My god, those cards that kids could digitally make of themselves "falling" from the top of the building at the the 9-minute mark.... Chilling doesn't even begin to describe it, in retrospect! What a precious record of moments lost forever in time. I wish I had made the trip there in 1996 with my young nieces & nephew instead of choosing the Empire State instead.
I noticed the same thing and I’m still trying to process that. Just… wow.
Saw those too. Chilling...
Wow idk why that would even be appealing but then I remember the chicago buildings that have a device that leans you over to make it seem like you’re falling. Oh it was so eerie to see those. Couldn’t stop thinking about the people who jumped or fell out the building
That's awful
Could never work in a building like that, terrified of heights!
Same here! You couldn't pay me to even go in the building pass 20 floors.
Apparently someone who worked there asked if they could provide the workers with some parachutes for safety in case something ever happened. They got turned down and this person quit their job in June of 2001……….
The knowledge that people fell/jumped/were pushed from that height in those buildings is truly heartbreaking
I was thinking exactly the same. If you see how high it is. I can’t imagine that you make the decision to jump. 😢.
@@veroniquevanderveken8526 Yes. Its scary to imagine, what panic occured when it got hotter and hotter, and the smoke got more and more toxic. I estimate, that all the phone calls we know , are from a relative ''safe'' place mostly long before the tower collapsed. But the more time went by, i think, the more horrible the situation got. I kind of agree with AM-db6gc , that maybe a lot of people didnt jump on their own will, but were pushed from people who tried to get more air by pushing themselfs towards the windows, and then few of the people fell. Because it can be exhausting to widthstand for dozends of minutes against someone who pushes from behind. Probably no one pushed with bad intentions, but simply because of the deathfear to sufficate from the smoke. The situation must have been horrible... between suffication, panic, cryings, screamings, caughings, the unbearable heat, the smoke, the loud noises of the tower, when something collapsed partielly, and the hopeless realization that there is no escape, and it just gets worse and worse - and everyone on the ground simply just watches because no one can do anything - thats such a nightmare. Thousands of people just watching, while one after another dies - waiting until everyone dies. That conscious feeling: ''i am here in this situation... i am the one who is about to die ... its real, and its happening'' .. And i think, my words were very weak to describe what happend there. Its just pure nightmare. I cant even imagine, that the terrorists would have done that, if they really knew, how much suffering that act of terrorism means. I dont know, if dont want to humanize those terrorists. I just cant imagine, how humans can do such a thing. I often think about all of those things.
@@perthwatchgirl still better than being choked then burned alive
Someone pointed out around the 9 minute mark of people having pictures of themselves edited to look like they’re falling out of the building. It was so eerie to see
I can't comprehend it. Watching from the ground, it's easier to look up, but looking down from that height, I can't. 😢
What is most amazing about this video is that at the time it was made, there could be no idea of how historically valuable it would become. Very thoughtful and thorough: I appreciate that the stores, restaurants, and other details were filmed along with the amazing views. I was up there in the early '80s. I don't remember being able to go onto the actual roof though, so that is really cool that when this was made you could go up there. Very well done.
I was up there 1985 and we were still allowed outside. I have the pics and when I look it's so surreal
I went up there in June of 1980. It was a beautiful day and I have several photos of me outside with the Empire State building over my shoulder almost looking down on it from a distance. You just don't remember being able to go outside. I spent more time out on the roof than indoors on the floor below.
@@signs9587 I wish I would have gone out! Awesome memories nonetheless.
Yeah but the outside observation wasn't always open.
The last time That I was up there was 1999. I took a family friend up there with me who had never been there before. She died March 6th, 2001 (6 months before the attacks). She was our best friend for 15 years . When the attack on the world trade center occurred, we were still in mourning over the passing of our friend.
Truly heartbreaking to think that almost 200 people decided to jump from such a height. May all those who lost their lives on 9/11 RIP. ❤
They didn't decide. They were murdered and only had to choose which way they would be.
That view will never be seen again...this is surreal.
Those photos of people super imposing themselves to look like their falling is actually creepy af
Well the freedom tower has the exact same view, only it's enclosed and not on the roof, in the open air.
Everyone just minding their own business.. having a good time with camera and chit chat without any smartphone on their hands.. amazing classic day.
It would of been good if they would of had smartphones in 2001. We could of seen what was really going on in the buildings and the planes.
Right? It’s a warm fuzzy…until you remember.
Who cares
phone bad fire good
hay gurl @@jacob_boi91
imagine jumping from that floor down to the ground?! I JUST CAN'T imagine edna cintron waving with hopes that someone could save her life... waving at the edge of the building that high.. 😭
It's horrifying just thinking about it 😢
Me either
Think of those poor people who had to break those windows and cling for their lives before jumping, just a unfathomable thing to experience.
This makes my heart hurt. It makes me think of all those people that lost their lives and that these images from up above were some of their last. I can't imagine looking down and seeing people and chaos down below and knowing Im trapped and can't get out. The music playing in the background from the time took me right back, hard to believe that was almost 22 years ago. What an absolute tragic day. They were all strangers to me but they all feel like a part of my own family when I think of them. So much loss. I hope those beautiful souls found paradise, their suffering on that day is still with all of us and we will never forget. 🇺🇸
The view would go from beautiful to terrifying. When I think of those folks who chose to jump....just makes me sick to my stomach for them. 😞
The irony of that is staggering. You hope they found paradise? People wanting paradise is why it happened.
@@CambryBlazethey didn’t have a choice. It was either jump or be burned alive.
@@CambryBlazeI am not sure how much of a conscious choice it was given the extreme heat, suffocating smoke and pushing from behind many of them faced.
While USA leaders were getting people to chant against Commies in the 80s, they were already planning their next enemy to keep people scared and under control, by arming and training Islamic extremists in Afghanistan against Russia. Then after Russia left Afghanistan, the USA didn't care what was going on in Afghanistan all through the 90s. Such as banning females from education.
My first thought was , how amazing it is to see people looking at each other and talking. No faces down in cell phones and no one taking selfies. A time before we lost our innocence.
These towers were beautiful buildings allowing people to see an awesome view of the world. September 11th, I just stared at the news on tv in disbelief!! When the world was saddened by this evil. A memorial for the world. I’m still left speechless. Thanks for sharing this video.
Who cares
So funny. I started really noticing that lately myself.
@@debramedina9347lets be honest. They werent that beautiful. The new one id call beautiful. Still wish they were standing though
You were definitely in the moment in those times. It took a lot of work to haul around a camera or video recorder. I always went to a pharmacy to get one of those plastic disposable cameras, then head to the 24 HOUR Photo station
I was there on top of the South Tower in 2001 as well. April 2001, if I’m not mistaken. I always look for my child self as these videos surface, even though your visit was in July. This brought back so many half-remembered memories. I appreciate your posting it!
How does it feel knowing the US Government was behind the demolition of these Towers? I know many are Naive and in Denial, but now days, Truth is the New Hate Speech.
We were also there on a rainy April 2001 day. I also try to think of the people we saw that worked on the Windows of The World were able to get out that day Very sad
I'm an April 2001 visitor too - April 2nd for me - still have my ticket and a penny that I put through that machine that squashes the image of the twin towers onto it.
@@stephend😢
@michael.mckenna9491 Unfortunately if those people were working on the same day, they didn’t make it out :(
I loved Windows On The World... My heart still breaks when I remember the wonderful staff.
I still can't comprehend - and likely never will - how those people stood at those broken windows and had to decide whether to burn or jump. I just don't think I could make that choice, yet if I didn't it would be made for me. Horrific.
This is how they comprehend it. Whatever it takes, whatever it costs, no matter how many die, it must succeed.
It’s wasn’t a choice, but a reflex. For example, if you put your hand over hot flame, you don’t choose to move out away - you do it automatically. Those poor people in the windows would’ve been literally getting cooked alive from the extreme heat, so instinctively they’ll have jumped to escape it
I don't think a lot of them realised it until they were falling, I suspect some who were trapped and choking in the smoke just happened to see a bit of light and ran towards it not realising they were throwing themselves out.
I like to think alot thought there was a sliver of hope theyd survive but knew they wouldnt up there. And heat/smoke was too much. That smoke was insane
@@mikeyj990ify if they consciously jumped (without being pushed or stumbled thru darkness out the windows), then they knew there would be absolutely no hope in surviving if they jumped. It was 100 stories up. You most likely die from a 10 story fall onto concrete.
Can you imagine being on the top floor and literally watch the plane come right at you, seconds before it hits? It’s haunting and heart breaking to think about.
The most haunting thing would be: the plane hits several stories down below so you know "shit, I'm now trapped in here...". THAT must be cruel...
10:14 shows the direction from which it came. Its quite eerie.
@@ferrari2ksuch a hard thing to process. couldn’t possibly imagine 😢
Luckily the observation deck wasn't open when it happened, it was suppose to open at 9:00 or I think it was 9:30, imagine just 1 hour later, it would have been far worse.
It’s when you pan around to the second tower I get chills. I never saw the buildings in person but I have those images from the news burnt in my memory. Every time you pointed the camera to the outside of that building, so close, right at the top .. chilling. Thank you your sharing this, a part of history and a world gone forever.
Every time i watch these videos of people high up in the twin towers, i get emotional thinking about what all those poor people were thinking after those planes hit on 9/11. Knowing they were going to die and having to make the choice to burn to death or jump to their death! Absolutely horrific and heartbreaking! God bless them all! 😢
I know. It’s the hardest and last decision of life to make. Hard to fathom if I had to make that choice. I wouldn’t want that for myself. I don’t think I could do it but I know it was like a split second decision. I think as you drop at such a speed from that height, you hit the ground so quick that I hope and pray those poor souls didn’t feel any pain. It was instant death. They did not commit suicide because it wasn’t their plan. Other (evil) monsters brought that upon them. Burning to ashes- they would die just from the worst pain known. Before becoming ashes. Nobody wants to be remembered in that way. We should remember them for how they lived, and “who” they were as a human being in this life that was unfortunately cut short for them. RIP to all of them. 😢
@@JackSmith-kp2vs true. Just the thought terrifies me. 😢😟
@@RehanaF13 Absolutely no physical pain from a jump that high.
@@paiged6839you got a long 10 seconds in the air though. I hope people found peace in their mind knowing their life would be over when they hit the ground.
@@RehanaF13 I want to believe that those who jumped felt a sense of peace and euphoria jumping away from that burning hell. I'm sure they had suffered terribly in the hot, smoke filled towers all the while trying to hold on to a thread of hope that they would be rescued. Their suffering was unimaginable. I think they were the lucky ones though; as they had some control over how their lives would end. Those poor souls who were trapped in stairwells, elevators and other places had no choices. They knew they were going to burn to death or if they were lucky die of smoke inhalation. God rest their souls! I will never forget!
I was working in Jersey City, directly across the Hudson on the 11th. When I heard the north tower had been hit I went downstairs in my building and bought a Kodak disposable camera and walked to the waterfront, right by the Exchange Place PATH station. While snapping photos I saw a low flying plane and initially didn’t think anything of it until it slammed into the South Tower. Immediately I and everyone around me knew what was happening. My hands trembled and I continued to snap photos as I knew what I was seeing was history in the making. One of my colleagues tragically lost her husband in the North Tower working for Cantor Fitzgerald. Thanks for posting this video.
are your photos posted anywhere?
@@Augfordpdoggie 3 of my photos were selected to be included in the September 11 Photo Project late 2001 and into 2002 (see wiki link for general details). The photos are now at the Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Collection of the New York Public Library and are part of the permanent collection. en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/September_11_Photo_Project
My wife & I were on a week-long vacation in NYC in early July 2001 and visited the WTC around 1:30 pm on July 3, two days before you. We visited the Statue of Liberty on July 2nd and took a lot of pictures of the skyline including some focused on the WTC. One picture caught one seagull headed for the south tower and another seagull headed in the opposite direction toward the north tower. That photo later haunted me as a premonition of what was to come a little more than two months later. The scale of the seagulls flying off the shore of Ellis Island with the WTC towers as a backdrop, was close the the same scale as the planes that slammed into the towers. My memory of our time in the towers was much the same as your video captured. I was amazed by the huge scale of the towers and the fantastic views of NYC they made possible. I think the crowded elevator we rode to the top held something like 60 people and took 2 minutes to get to the 107th floor. The walkway on the roof level was amazing and the weather was perfect that day. I remember thinking if something happened while we were up there it would be beyond our control if we could make it back to the ground again. On the 4th of July the next day, went to a huge fireworks show looking east toward the east river. There was no wind at all and the smoke from the enormous number of fireworks almost totally obscured the fireworks themselves. It was such a great trip. I came back home totally energized and the smallish city I live in seemed to be at a standstill compared to bustling NYC. 911 really hit me hard thinking about all of the lives lost and the effect it had on so many people. I’m so thankful we made trip when we did and hope to get back there soon.
I was there too at the 4th of July fireworks show on July 4th, 2001 during the night. I remember walking through the streets to get to it and all the crowds of people celebrating as the fireworks popped over head. The cars couldn’t move stuck in traffic as all the crowds walked the spaces between the cars cheering for 4th of July. And on the river there were what I remember as a fleet of 4th of July floats coming down the river with lights, music, and fireworks. I believe I saw one of them in this video parked by the river from the night before when I was there. The float with the clock & the words Colgate (6:55). Was that one of the floats? Or just a random thing on the other side of the river? Not too sure anymore, it was many years ago and everything was new to me because it was my first time in New York. Either way I remember that Colgate clock, and it had been completely erased from my memory until I saw this video. Last but not least, I also was in the towers around these days of early July 2001. And this video is exactly how I remember the inside of the south tower, including the mini Manhattan maquette on the 107th floor & the Manhattan simulation ride which till this point now only existed in my memory because all these years I could never find pics or videos that depicted both the ride and the Manhattan miniature maquette, but this video shows them both. Now my memories have been confirmed… exactly as I remember. I even looked for myself in this video, if maybe possibly this was the day I was in the towers, but no, I think I was in the towers maybe like on July 2 or something. 😮I just remembered! I also have my south tower ticket stashed away in a box. The date is written on it! I’ll have to update this comment with the date some other time!
Thanks for posting. Perhaps you don't realize how rare footage from INSIDE the towers actually is. There are hundreds of videos and photos of the towers from outside, but almost nothing of life inside the building. I can't think of any other video is existence of the Observation deck. Maybe there is one? If so, I've never seen it. Never found it.
I’m here for every home movie anyone has to share with the WTC involved. Thank you for all of us! 🙏🏾❤️
They should have been rebuilt exactly as they were. Same iconic exterior design with redone structual engineering, safety measures, interior design etc. Would have been the two greatest middlefingers to the perpetrators imaginable. RIP 2977.
I thought they were going to do this as a kid in the years after 9/11. I was so sad when i realized they were not going to rebuild them
9:17 now there's a creepy ass bit of foreshadowing
After 20 years and change, this midwesterner finally made it to NYC to visit WTC last weekend. I was in NJ for work and made the trek through the Holland Tunnel into the big city. It was a bucket list item for me. Only took me 7817 days to finally make it to this sacred place. My condolences to the folks out there who are still missing their loved ones from that fateful day. NYC did the memorial just right, in my humble opinion.
ya this Florida boy wants to go so bad, this memory is so emblazon in my mind. Just once I need to go, but ya money.
This is awesome footage of 2 iconic buildings that played a role in American history on a tragic day ,May Everyone who died on 9/11/2001 R.I.P!!! 😥🤧🙏🥀🌺💐
Just the chilling thought of the poor souls up there on that very tragic day, merely sightseeing, totally unaware of what was to come 😭 May all those lost on September 11, 2001 rest in eternal peace 🙏🕯🕊 never to be forgotten
there wouldnt have been many sight seerers up there that day it opens to the public 930am was up there in 97 thank God Rip the others
@@steviejohn9502 oh, thank the Lord for that 🙏
I know there were no visitors up there, but it strikes me that in this video, where people are walking, that airspace is now completely open. That hits home if you stand at the reflecting pools and look up, that people used to work and play in that open space way up high....it makes one reflect. Yes, definitely will never forget those people who did lose their lives in those buildings - especially the ones trapped at the top of the north tower that had no opportunity to be saved.
Ik it’s so sad thinking about it 😭
The view looking down at the world from that high up can be beautiful, but that is also the last view in the lives of those poor souls that fell that day. It was a horrifying view for them. That’s not a way for life to end. It’s unfair. They say it only took about 10 seconds to the ground from up there. Like 110 mph? RIP to all of them. 😢
I never had the chance to see the towers in person. Thank you for sharing this. God bless the souls we lost that day 🙏
Me again! I commented some months back. I’m almost 63 and back in 2001 hit 40 at the peak of my career. Many my age and younger died on 9/11. And as I retire from work, I come here to reflect- where would they all be now, almost 23 years on - married? Grown up kids of their own? Maybe grandparents. The scenes in the video from 11:07 on the video are haunting. That peaceful view from the escalator became terror on those upper floors as people desperately tried to reach the rooftop seeking fresh air but couldn’t because of some auto lock system prevented it, and no-one was available to unlock the system in an office much lower down. By the way I was thankful for the accompanying music originally on the video at 11.07 - Jjos’Illusion’ because it is reminiscent of the music my generation chilled to in early 90s in our late 20s and early 30s and it adds that sort of connection to those whose lives stopped on 9/11. And music memories enhance empathy and care - and release oh so painful tears for all who died
Thank you for your comment 🙏
I started working on Wall Street before they were built. We watched them rise everyday. I remember some people were disappointed with the final result, saying they were too modern, they didn’t fit in with the elaborate buildings of the financial district. When you were at the top, the restaurant or observation deck, you could feel the building sway, like being on a ship. If you focused on the columns of the windows you could see the several inches it would move. Heartbreaking. RIP 🙏🏻 to my extended family and friends lost that day.
I remember being there and feeling that swaying sensation. It made me uncomfortable. I suppose that people get used to it.
@@mbarrett99 - Try eating dinner like that, with a couple of drinks! Then try to walk across the room to the restrooms. After my first visit to the restaurant, I took a Dramamine before we went up.
I have an appreciation for the twin towers and I am envious of the people who were able to visit them, but you not only visited them, but you saw them being built. Incredible. Thank you for your message from Spain. I hope one day to visit the memorial.
@@RescueYou247 - I hope you do get a chance.
This video was done a few weeks after I visited the WTC. I'm afraid of heights (and elevators) and I'll never forget the feeling that came over me when I was walking down the extremely narrow corridors leading to the observation windows. I even told my then husband that if there was ever an emergency, no one would be able to get out. My feelings proved prophetic mere weeks later. RIP to all who lost their lives.
So respectably said😔i watched it all on the CBS news from California and was just speechless😔. R.I.P to all who lost their lives❤
Except quite a few people did get out, the ones who didn't wasn't due to the narrow corridors it was because they were either trapped by the impact zone damage or because stupidly they were told to stay put.
@@victoriaross3263 yes because they thought stairwell A was down, there were only 20 survivors of the September 11th attacks
@@victoriaross3263 Thats exactly right unfortunately. So many people were told to stay put because the firefighters didn't expect the building to collapse.
Tara, you do realize doll that you filmed workers....I am sure some watch your video hoping to see their loved one ...a last video visual of them, you recorded a gift doll. Did you notice the photos at 09:15?? Sad to say, I am watching ghosts. The families thank you
Two beautiful buildings. Imagine how many people were visiting September 11,2001?
Luckily the observation deck was not yet open to visitors that morning
I'm so glad videos like this exist. I was there on a school trip in August 2001 but I don't have any of the pictures I took anymore. So seeing it again from right at that same time is really powerful. ❤
A classmate went there on a band trip, spring 2001. He showed me his pictures, looking up at the buildings from the ground. We had no idea....
7:45 the poor people who worked up there in that restaurant ... I can't imagine 😔
This song and scenery go so well together I’m in tears oh how can we not think of those who lost their lives 😭
I know. ❤️ it is very sad 😔
Thank you very very much for sharing that , its more than precious . Souvenir to many people . Was there on 28th of August 2001.
I worked for an American company. We were the London branch. We had a sales manager who went on top of the Trade Centre the Sunday before. We could not get any communication from him. Luckily, in time we found out he was ok. On the day, it was so scary, all communications down.
Forgive me for calling attention to it, but-if I am not mistaken-just a few seconds after the 9:11 mark (eerily enough), are there not souvenir photos depicting visitors playfully ‘falling’ from the top of the building?? Yikes. May all those who perished in the WTC during the 9/11 attacks RIP, victims of the hate that continues to break our world. 🙏🏻
Dude no your not bugging soo many programs to make it anyway u want on KZhead how sad
What the hell are y’all talking about ? Yeah sure the idiot uploader probably showed those weird souvenir photos at that time stamp. Question is why those photos are like that anyway probably because it’s just a Bad coincidence?
@@APerson-ni1gb it's possible youtube ers lately are desperate for hits soo what ever
Indeed it is very eery Bryan Thank you for calling my attention Sending positive energies from Newcastle upon Tyne ❤️
Yeah it was a Kodak photo machine like they had at theme parks. I noticed that as well, was like wtf was that?!!Had to look closely, the timing on the vid. is what did it for me.Eerie.
I was there in April 2000 on a bus trip. We ate dinner at Windows of the World. Great memories of that day
I still can't believe that over 6,000 people managed to safely escape the Twin Towers after the two planes hit before they collapsed.
A big thanks to Rick Rescorla!
In year 2000, I took a pic of the Towers from a bus when I was stuck in traffic on Bk bridge & I told myself that I was going to visit the Twin Tower deck on my next trip to NYC. I never got to visit the Tower. Its still shocking. Thanks for showing this video!
Summer '96- my first time I visited "the city" with my family. My Dad was a police officer at the time and had a concealed carry permit, thus bringing his loaded gun with him for protection for our family. He forgot that he had it with him when we all visited the observation deck. He went through the metal detector that went off and was preparing to show his badge, papers etc. when the gentleman just waved him along and told him to go. Years later as an adult he told me this and I could absolutely believe the lax security measures pre 9-11. He could have been anybody. I'm so grateful to have been able to visit the towers and the observation deck. It's a moment I'll never forget as long as I'll live.
Terrific work presenting this to the public.
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After all these years its stunning to think that these two massive buildings we see here no longer exist. Im booked for NYC in Sept and my first full day is a visit to the Museum, Memorial and 1WTC. Always wanted to visit the Twin Towers and never will so i'll pay my respects to the many, who came from all over the world, and who were killed on that tragic day. Thanks for posting this.
$44 'standard' adult admission for 1WTC observation deck. Still think it's worth it?
1:37 - anyone else feel teary when seeing the sign "Welcome to our world" when entering observation deck? And seeing the "welcome to the top of the world" sign and everything else up there as well. Just seeing all of this and knowing in two months from then, it would be tragically gone, so heartbreaking
Not really... 9/11 affected me as deeply as anybody, but it's been over 20 years. I will always remember that day, but I've mostly moved on.
@@johnbergstrom2931 I've moved on too, but it's still heartbreaking whenever seeing video like this of the place so soon before the disaster.
@@johnbergstrom2931yeah but are you really going to say that the fall of the twin towers wasn’t the end of the greatest American era?
@@terpinkov8770 It was definitely the introduction to this shit-show of a century we're in...
I'll be back in New York City in June, my 7th vacation to NYC since September 2002. I have watched the area of the WTC grow and grow, and now it's just an awesome sight and a beautiful memorial. Been to the museum 1 time, and once was enough for me, I don't see myself going down there again. And let me add that the museum is a must see, it is everything you want for a museum, and that one time will always make you remember. Thanks for posting this video. It has a very late 90's feel to it.
The sheer scale of that museum was something I'd never experienced. I was both physically and emotionally drained by the end of my visit. Definitely a one time thing for me and I imagine most people
9:16 woah... what was this?? Very eerie imagery considering what was to come.
9:15 how eerie that?! Just can't even imagine the horror so many people went through that day. RIP.
9:19 those pictures are foreshadowing creeping me out 😥
Very creepy
Wow, you aint kidding!!
Thank you so much for taking us all on a journey to the Top of the World, as it was! Your extremely comprehensive video is similar to my manner of capturing details on film, including signs, infrastructure and use of the zoom while recording views outside the windows. My opportunity to visit the top of the WTC was missed back in the 1990s when we were at the bottom, gazing upward, and pondering whether we should visit or not. Since we'd already visited the Empire State Building, we thought it would be redundant and expensive, so decided against it. As someone who likes to maximise every opportunity in this life, that was highly unusual. However, this video partially fills that gap. Many thanks again for taking what needs to be archival footage and sharing with everyone.
Thank you for your comment. This is a sad video but true.
The last time I went to NYC and visited the WTC area was in 1998. We liked to go to Century 21st and go to the stores located down the buildings - Sam Goody, Radio Schack... I had been there other times and always said "next year I'll go up to the deck"! And in 1998 I said the same thing. In 1999 we decided not to go to the US because of the winter - we had been there 3 times in a row in December, so we decided to go to the beach in Cabo Frio in Rio de Janeiro's north shore region instead. Now I finally have the opportunity to do the climb!😪 Thanks for sharing!
I was there on December 6, 1991. It's hard to forget the beauty and greatness of those buildings, the excitement I experienced going to the observation deck on 107 floor, and the sadness I experienced after their destruction and so many lives lost...
oh wow december 6 1991 was the day I was born..I wish could have seen these towers once..greetings from switzerland
I was born in December 6th, but 10 years later which was after 9/11. I wish I would have been lucky to see them.
@@Sternchen99I was born in 95 and after learning so much about the towers I wish I would’ve been able to see them. They were beautiful and so much more than just office buildings like I used to think
I was born three years after the attacks, but my memories of how the world was during my childhood are so contemporary with the world that we see here. I get a massive sense of nostalgia watching these kinds of videos, even when watching footage of September the 11th to some extent.
I'll never forget that day. It's firmly etched in my consciousness. I was a young teenager walking home from college in the UK when the news was broken to me via an old mobile (cell) phone. I ran home thinking the world was ending and I remember being glued to the news for the next week. Awful sad terrible memory. It would be all over social media now a days. I sometimes wish we didn't have the news or social media. To watch the suffering of others is something that shouldn't happen, but it does.
It's so hard to fathom, that for many people who were once on this earth, this view was the last thing they saw. I was born a few months after 9/11, but that day has instilled a fear of heights in me. I'm very scared of tall buildings for that reason. The thought of being trapped at the top, with no way to get down. It's a terrifying thought that was a reality for some people on that day. We must never forget about them.
Remember my first trip to the USA in 1984 via People's Express. Trip up the Tower and sitting in those seats that face out. The view etc and a desire to get down asap. No head for heights. Remarkable video.
Oh, wow. How sad, and prophetic that postcard is😢 9:19
Adam, thank you for sharing this video. As a child from Michigan I remember the Twin Towers being built and it was always my dream to see them. Unfortunately that dream never came about by the time I got to visit NYC in 2012, they were gone.
Why is it necessary to mention 'As a child from Michigan'
@@whyyes6428 good question. Actually it is not even necessary to comment at all.
This video is heartwarming, yet so haunting and sad at the same time… Seems so long ago now. “Return to Innocence” playing in the background feels strangely fitting seeing this now.
I had the pleasure of visiting The City for Christmas and New Year’s 1980. I toured one of the Towers and there’s a photo of my 20 year old self standing in Battery Park with the Towers in the background. The thought that one day those Towers wouldn’t exist never crossed my mind. May God continue to rest the souls who were lost on 9/11/2001 and may He continue to bless and keep their loved ones left behind. 🥀🙏🏽🥀🙏🏽
I was there just 3 days before this video was taken - July 2, 2001. My friends and I got lunch at that Sbarro. We went up on the roof and walked around, that was a better view than the observation deck. The day I was there was clear and sunny, you could see so much more. This day was gray and drizzly, and it was so humid in Manhattan this day.
Thank you for posting that! I love this old style camera videos. Instantly taking us back to 90s. Why i'm crying?
Glad you enjoyed it!
You can just tell life was so different back then. It was honestly after 911 our country and everything went down hill. It's also crazy looking at these videos. Late 90s early 2000s is 20 plus years ago already. Thank you for sharing this is truly beautiful and yet devastating. American History right here. 🇺🇸 🙏
I don’t know why people think this… our country didn’t start going downhill until smartphones and social media became mainstream. Even with the wars post 9/11, everything was fine until the first housing crash and even after that, it was recovering until Facebook changed everything as well as smartphones… Now there is a phone in everyone’s face and that phone can put you out there to the world for everyone to see and that is the dream of all these people nowadays… I’m 33 and feel like I’m ancient because I hate modern technology…
@9:18 the tourist picture card is people falling from the towers ... pretty erie & crazy
thank you to whoever is posting all these rare videos.. I love seeing other images, other than always seeing them on fire. Never, ever forget.
My wife and I went up to the observation deck in November of 2000. First time either of us had been in the WTC. 9/11 was so much more personal to us as result of having been there less than a year before. Haven't been to the new buildings yet, but maybe we'll have that opportunity later this year.
If you don't get to the new one, don't lose sleep over it. It's NOTHING compared to the Twin Towers. It's not worth what it would cost you. Remember the beauty of the REAL Twin Towers.
My best friend and I were supposed to go to New York in April 2001 to celebrate our 30th birthdays. Due to work commitments we had to reschedule for the year after. We finally took our trip in late April 2002. Even 7 months after the tragedy, the scars and devastation were still very clear to see. When we headed across to Liberty Island to view the Manhattan landscape, the reality of it suddenly hit home for us. God bless America and all those who lost their lives on that tragic day.
Keep the memory alive, the most iconic,1970's sky scrapers ever. Never forget.
Thanks for posting this! I was there doing the same tour five days after this video was filmed on July 10th, 2001.
Imagine being up on the top floors of the buildings, you look out the window and see this view of the city that seems to go on forever, so stunning, millions of people, but while its right there in front of you, you have absolutely no way to get there.
I’ve never thought of it that way. It’s true. Poetically and painfully true. I am shook.
It is so true...
Or imagine a plane coming towards the building and how shit scared you’d be!
@@startracker5895 I've thought about that, I'm sure there were people in the offices right where the nose of the plane struck, and they might not have noticed the plane until it was maybe 2 seconds away, coming literally right at them.
There not suffering anymore. Are you ?
If I ever go so far up for a job I will bring a parachute period.
The observation deck was absolutely breathtaking. Thank you for sharing.
What a gorgeous building, I’ve never had the opportunity to go see this place myself in my life but this is like a tour of the past and I appreciate this video being out there.
Rest in peace 🕊️🕊️🕊️ A beautiful tribute to ALL !
Nice footage thank you for the memories! Never made it up top but we stuck our heads into one of the lobbies early August of 2001, probably a Sunday because everything seemed closed. Oh well. Anger still swells up when I'm reminded of this, can't help it.
Thank you for posting this video. It brings back memories from about 1980, although I still have many photos that I took that day.
I will never forget being up here in 1982,when I was 12,eating at the top of the towers,being so amazed by how high up we were and that we were able to build something like this. It just gave me the feeling that absolutely anything was possible as it was intended to do. The people who knocked these buildings down could never be punished enough. We not only lost these buildings,we lost the sense of invincibility that we had as a nation,as a people. We lost the ability to continue to state that NOBODY WOULD DARE ATTACK AMERICA ON ITS OWN SOIL.
Thank Biden and the democrats for that. Bush retsliated against the terrorist declaration of war on our country by going after terrorists where they come from, to defend us against future attacks( and he’s a “war monger.” Now were more vulnerable than ever with the joke of a president we have now snd making us look so weak
Yeah, but you somehow failed to mention there were almost 3,000 lives lost, buildings are one thing, human lives are another
Look towards your government
The pentagon, our own govt and the jooze knocked the buildings down, blew em up. Planes cant knock down skyscrapers, not possible.
@@stevenmiller461 a 747 carrying 30,000 pounds of jet fuel going almost 500 miles per hour most certainly can
I feel the deepest sorrow, remembering all the lives lost on that tragic day. I watched the TV in horror, as the second plane hit the South Tower. I cannot begin to imagine those souls in the tower, watching that plane heading right for them, knowing they were going to die 😢 This historic footage needs to be archived and preserved for all eternity as a mark of respect.
Thanks for uploading as I've NEVER got to be in the WTC let alone on the observation deck!
I was there August of 2001 it was a history class field trip for NYC history and me and my classmates with our teacher and tour guide went up to the observation deck and the flight simulator and the outdoor platform. Afterwards we went down to the underground mall and were treated to the Warner Brothers Studio Store where the teacher bought us gifts for being on our best behavior I wanted a Tasmanian Devil plush so I got that and I still got it to this day. It was a day I would never forget I was only 9 at that time now being 30 today and seeing this brings back a lot of sad memories to me 😞 when I heard the news a month later I was in art class at elementary school and the PA announcement came on saying all BCPS Baltimore County Schools will be closing early due to a tragic incident taking place in Lower Manhattan, my dad was asleep in bed at home he woke as usual went to pick up me and my mom from school and McDonald's and drove us home and spend the day watching the news unfold
Thank you so much ! From all of us who didn’t get a chance to go up the towers that wanted to but didn’t get to !! Very special and awesome vlog !!!!!
I went all the way up to the 110 floor opened air in 1994 and 2000. Beautiful up there. It was a warm summer day. Then in 2018 I went to the top of the new WTC 1. Which was a totally different feeling. There’s no outside floor. I believe the new observation deck is the same height as the old tower observation deck.
Very entertaining and fun to watch. Thanks for posting this.
What a wonderful memory, I never had the chance to see the twin towers in person. Thank you for the great video
Oh my God; I had tears in my eyes. I visited the Twin Towers 40 years ago and the towers were so great and the view was so amazing. I loved it. RIP the victims of this terrible terror attack. Thank you for posting this video. Greetings from Germany ... 😞
All the other buildings look like toys from this view .
Those poor people above the crash zone could see help coming for miles but would not be saved. Ugh it breaks my heart to imagine how helpless they must have felt. Thank you for sharing this video with us. I have always wondered what it was like on the inside and from their prospective. I was in 5th grade and watched it on TV. Every year starting in September I watch 9/11 videos and videos that show or explain the buildings as they were. I can remember laying on my trampoline the night of 9/11 and looking at the night sky. Without a single plane in the air. The only other time I've ever seen anything close was during covid. Rip to all those people and those iconic buildings..💔
The observation deck was closed on 9/11💀💀💀
I love the music you used for this, Adam. I miss the Twin Towers so much. Not a day passes that I don't wish they were still here. Thanks so much for bringing me back to them.
My only trip to NYC was in Jan. 1986. I took about a dozen photo's from the top of the South Tower. It was a real cold day, but clear as a bell. I had those pictures stored in a box with other photo's and around noon that Tuesday on 9/11, I pulled them out and laid them on my coffee table. They stayed there until I moved in Sept. of 2005. I didn't want to move them then but had no choice. Not sure why I did that. I guess I just didn't want to ever forget. Thanks for your video Adam.
Beautiful, Fantastic and Historic tribute, RIP Twin Towers 🙏🏽🇺🇸 #NeverForget911
Thank you for your comment. I am glad you like it.