The open area within the WTC floors is quite extraordinary. Looking into the ground level it is quite amazing to think the metal "sticks" on the perimeter are holding much of the weight of the building. Engineering and architectural marvel but not designed for what happened on 9/11 😪
Yeah. Looking at this -- I can remember standing in that very spot looking up and trying to see the top of the buildings prior to going in and taking the elevators to the top. Never once in my wildest imaginations would I think that the tops of those buildings would come crashing down to earth.
One World Trade Center (Freedom Tower) is, in my opinion, the only good building in the complex, the rest just don’t feel “World Trade Center” enough, if you know what I mean. They just look like generic glass skyscrapers.
they think they will arise and come out of their underground citys to Rule again. hope all there Underground citys Crash in on Them and swallow them up in the Flames They All DESERVE.
What they looked like at night made me fell in love with them. Especially when I was a kid staring from my parent's apartment in Chinatown at the Twin Towers. Would have had tried or would have had worked there if they were never destroyed.
That resolution, using tape, and not Digital, previous to 2001 is amazing ! Who recorded this? I was in the World Trade Center Plaza in '84 armed with an S.L.R. camera; my stills are nothing compared to this. Whoever taped this did it correctly and it shows. WoW! I sure do miss that place / Plaza ; who wouldn't. Wonderful video; Thank you for showing us this... It really is the way it was. O.K. no more crying. Thanks. =^.^=
your horse is probably dead now...abuse of horses by their drug taking drivers in 40 degree heat, lack of water, is rife (aside from a few caring calleche drivers).... And if you do see a marginally healthy looking horse it's because they ve traded it in for the dead meat sold in restaurants to tourists. Your video is so romantic with the gentle classical music this is not the real Luxor. The situation is worse now in 2011 and you have contributed to that. Tourists really screw things up
@ExorFILMS for one i was in the midwest in 2001 and still am to much crime in new york and NO one thought that would happen so nobody seen the reason to go there i would of gone to see them if they were still there long before now good day sir
holy crap you people are stupid....these things, these horrible physical manifestations of the global elite's disdain for us commoners have been popping up all over the world. someone has been spending a lot of money to get these things built, the meaning is pretty obvious. that a newer, smaller better world will emerge from a broken one, but whose world? look up the murals at the denver airport, the georgia guidestones and freaking click on some of the links right over there ----->!!!
I love that statue but correct of I am wrong, wasn't it supposed to spin or something I read once that the Sphere was supposed to spin every hour on the hour or something, still it's a beautiful statue, broken after it survived such horrible events but still representing hope.
@ Edwin Ruskin Nordrike Parker There was a huge hydro-bearing under that SPHERE/"head", and it was ROTATING the "head' ALL the time, at a very low speed !!! It was so slow, as not noticeable to be honest - I never saw it for years from my offices above sky-lobby 78. One year I had to head a new task, w/significant numbers of employees, that would last ~ 2 years, w/possibility of extension. The only available large office space was on the 15th floor, w/some windows facing the Tobin Plaza. That's where my new office was. Glancing thru the windows occasionally as I worked, I could NOT BELIEVE that the "head" was always in a DIFFERENT position! I called my friends who remained above on my old floors (85/87th) and asked them what did they know abt this "head" moving ? NOTHING !! They invented some work related problems they had to discuss w/me on the floor 15, and, w/an unending procession, ALL had to agree that there must be some hydro-bearing underneath, providing the cheap, quiet, uniform hydro-power rotating the "head". Some days later I had to go into the WTC basement (9 floors underground) to sign the WTC documents for OT/after hours delivery of power, water, security, elevator services, etc for my group, as this was an open-ended ongoing lease. I asked the Port Authority tech mgrs I was dealing with, what was the story w/the SPHERE rotating. They confirmed there was indeed a big/quiet hydro-bearing providing for the "head's" 360 degrees so SMOOTH movement, and the soothing water flow into circular "infinity".
@@lblair1354 thanks for the detailed slice of history. I think the sphere rotated once every 24 hours to represent the "World" in World Trade Center. Hate to ask, but what happened to your colleagues on above the skylobby on 9/11?
@@visionist7 24 hr cycle is quite possible. As with other WTC companies, some people survived, some did not. I also lost quite a few neighbors. Many more are gone by now - I was one of the youngest professionals, just out of the uni when joined them some years before the attack. Chicken could not work in the WTC - the wind sway was too much for them. It was a great complex to work in. And, we've had a lot of hilarious fun, despite very demanding/hi-tech work. PA mishandled a lot of the operational/maintenance issues, the New York= cheap way. The current "new" bldg, and the entire site = ugly death trap, and the plan/grid does NOT resemble what was there before 9/11/2001, seems on purpose. Disney's vision of horror, thick layered w/propaganda. The Sphere was great, ahead of the times then and the craziness of now. Am watching russian murderers in tanks in Ukraine - it seems the Kiyiv hotel CNN reports from (next to St Sophia's Cathedral, CNN shows the domes all the time) is the same one I used to stay in during my trips. CNN excellent reporting, Clarissa Ward/Brit/ speaks very good russian. Kiyiv is a beautiful, very European city, planned and built so well before the revolution (1917, not the Maidan 2014), that the soviet communist /stalinist oppressive architecture could not mess it up too much. Long, wide boulevards lined with fantastic, huge chestnuts trees - very much like in Paris. Am not sure what's the current status of those enormous chestnut trees. Still, the genius of the Sphere wins.
