Installing the Phone System of the World Trade Center (Bonus Edition) - AT&T Archives 

I thought the same thing.

gave me the willies😁

same. Some of those things are now part of 9/11 memorials in various places in the surrounding towns. I remember as a kid seeing the towers under construction. I remember seeing them fall from across the river that day.

Yeah, it's fucked to think that we can recognize pieces of this building being put together because we saw it blown apart...

Yeah I saw those and just thought it was very creepy and thinking of those collapsed all over NY

@TheBigHase @TheBigHase So you're implying that because his channel has no content its an indicator of him lying? So if their channels content was as random and baseless as your own in respect to this context, would he still be a liar? Neat story OP. I hope its your gramps.. That'd be cool

@TheBigHase You're a mongoloid. Go back to watching nascar and uploading creepy videos

@TheBigHase Pathetic.

@TheBigHase You are real loser. Get a life and stop playing video games. Big world out there.

You have any stories you could tell? I would love to hear anything about it.

less drugs back then it shows

America don't seem to be as diverse as that anymore

5:26 someone is trying to speak Polish but he really can`t.

Mr. HAHN I’d unfortunately disagree. Myself and it appears you haven’t forgotten however as a society we certainly have. And it’s a damned shame to be honest. 😕

It was CIA and MOSAD.

i all ready forgot

✡ Israel did 9/11 ✡ *GO AHEAD AND DELETE IT AGAIN, I'LL JUST POST IT AGAIN, MEANWHILE YOU'LL BE PAYING ME MORE HOMAGE ;)*

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The music is from a Thomas Valentino production music distribution and was delivered on their Major Records label. A production company would purchase the library and then pay Valentino a fee per "needle drop" for the use. I recognized it immediately because I used that cut so often on shows I did in the mid 70s.

He was referring to having to dig deep into bed rock to make an underground foundation to support the massive buildings.

dude that was 3 years before you were even born

i love the background music, don't know any similar sounding things tho :(

R. I know right, the music, filming style, everything is so nostalgic yet sad because we’ll never go back to a time like that

There's a big difference in the towers and Notre-Dame , over 3000 people died at the WTC and even more in Washington and here in Pennsylvania where i live , it would be incredibly disrespectful to rebuild two new towers after 3000 of our fellow Americans tragically lost their lives at the place.

But they did rebuild them they just didn't rebuild them the same way. Just hopefully with less deaths from the original construction.

It could be ll6?

116.

No such thing as coincidences. Is it a coincidence AT&T came out with the 911 call in 1968, the same year the World Trade was built?

@@kevikella221 it is 116 not 911... either way it might be an inside job

@@stevegallant3395 116 flipped is 911

They're called Bathtubs in the skyscraper business, old school.

well, they own the jail, so...

Please elaborate.

They found the causer 10 years later and shot him to death right away. Or you are into conspiracies?

@@Engineer9736 Who Dick C and John R you do realize this was another Black Flag operation.

Well-maintained copper can be left in place changing out end points only. That is until you need other services ethernet data fiber cable etc.

@@imark7777777 oh ok.

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But WTC was made on american capitalistic technology, which always looks better then perform :)) So americans blown it because it would be collapse otherwiseafter some period of usable time, and a lot of asbesthos was inside (economically too big costs).. American technology always SUX...

When american blow it 10,000 new yorkers died by cancer caused by asbesthos in the air. Your gov hide it.

@@zawir_usaodpowiadausa3354 uhhh

This is something that boggles my mind. However it is true for almost any interconnected system. Think about a street for a second. I can pull out of my drive way into a local street. To that street I go on to a local main artery. From that I pull onto a high way that could take me anywhere in the US. After I exit the highway, I am back down to a major street, on to local street and into an other drive way.

What aa waste of time lol. They fell down lol

@@simon_1987 man that’s not funny at all

@@TheBuckTussa but it's true they did fall down

@@simon_1987 Stop it bro. The twin towers were the best so why don't you just be quiet??

I can't imagine being on a project of that scale. Amazing work.

I'm surprised they didn't try to get them on a C-5 or C-17 for the trip. Something that important...

@jason9022 a guy shares a story and you come in an act the asshole. Amazing.

HI Dave. Don't devalue your part in support of communications.

@Lewis Samuel it sure sounds like a trusting relationship

I'd love to see it. Have you ever listened to Evan Doorbell's recordings? I love anything about the "old" telephone network (cordboard, mechanical switching, but even digital switching is cool)

I too would love to see this if you have it still

Please share it!

share it

Much wow

Totally!

1973

As one who experienced them in person by working there, they were the best part of my life. No day passes that I don't miss them. Not the same without them.

Nice, although of course it must have been devastating for him to see them come down.

Cincinnati is a good city.

@@lance8080 Seconded!

Yeah I thought the same thing

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yep...outsources everything to Indians...and not woo woo woo Indians !

I’ve been a data/telecom subbie or 23 of the last 26 years here in the UK, Dad worked for British Telecoms and GPO (when govt owned)for 30 years and my Grandad did 29 years with the GPO (General Post Office) telecommunications From my experience it’s the same here in the UK now, all has to be completed yesterday at half the cost..push push push. Long gone has the pride in workmanship, gone partly because of that rush to push push push, cheap untrained labour.

@@redroutemaster Profit over people/pride! That's the mentality now a days

That's the name of the game today.... Push out all of the mundane jobs and labor to unskilled workers for the least amount of money possible, but demand that the work be done better and faster than if it were done by skilled workers. Literal slave drivers. Why do you think they love bringing people in from third world countries?

@@ronsmith4325 sadly so. I worked for T Mobile in the UK in 1999, the mobile exchange was expanding at a rate that could hardly be kept up with. We had Ericsson switch gear going in with thousands of miles of coax 2meg cabling. All the looms were made off site, no doubt where made by cheaper eastern Asian labour and Ericsson brought in dozens of engineers from the Philippines. Minimum outlay, maximum profiteering.

Health and safety is for British properties......

@Norm T - Yes health & safety comes with an annoying bureaucracy and can be exploited to hassle workers. Overall though, it does prevent deadly accidents. Look at accident reports. Look at stories from developing countries where no regulations exist. One hundred workers burned to death in an Indian textile factory. Texas oil rig workers burned to death because no emergency exit was required. That type of thing. These would happen a lot more if some greedy employers where allowed to do whatever is most profitable, without regard to safety.

@@steve1978ger it happened in the US and in a textiles factory the employer was annoyed with the employees leaving through the exit so the exits were chained. That fire changed New York City fire code.

ye they could say that again 😂

yeah this was my thought..

Yeah that kind of spooked me

And down it went, and up it goes… Again..

1973

Was there any electromechanical telephone equipment installed in the World Trade Center towers? Or just the #1AESS ?

I hate New York I only go there cause of trade shows , I don't understand the attraction of New York

@@colgatetoothpaste4865 Dont go there then... and stop telling RU-vid that because nobody cares!

@@dylancruz1131 most of the systems installed in Tower 1 and 2 with number one ESS I work for AT&T 36 years Number for ESS was installed after number ones for long distance digital switching

Thankyou for your contribution. Im a former NYker and ill forever miss the twins!!!

There was one that got interviewed and he was heartbroken by all of the hard work being ruined

Nothing is truly wireless, a building of this size would still be fitted with hundreds of miles of telephone cable and networking now. The only thing wireless would be a WiFi point good for a small area of one floor and it still has both network and power going to it. Nothing really to grasp

@@adamt3800 . There’s arguably more wires now than before, because like you said, there’s networking lines now. I failed to realize that. I suppose what I meant by grasp was that regardless of the tower, it’s age, or location, it’s crazy how much wire goes into them

@@adamt3800 Well, now you'd have fibre going up which makes it considerably easier. Most likely you wouldn't have traditional telephone lines at all, the vast majority of phones would be VoIP.

@@TheWaveBloke yes, there's fiber, which can carry a lot more traffic, but there's way more traffic they need to carry. so in the end there really isn't any space saving.

@@bobsmithinson2050 Negative, the network cables of today replace all the telecoms cables before them. Where previously you may have even had several phones on a single desk, every phone would need a dedicated line, and a line for every single desk. Today it's a maximum of 1 RJ45 per desk which carries all communications, phone and internet, plus WiFi throughout giving way to collaboration spaces which have no phones or network ports at all, you just show up with your laptop. Further, all you need going to each office now are one or two leased lines per office, whereas back then every single phone you had, had to have a dedicated line as far as the switching equipment, which also needed as many lines going out of the building as would ever be in use at one time (so say you had 20,000 phones in the building, assuming no more than 5,000 people would be on the phone at any one point that's as many trunks as you'd actually need leaving the building, but all 20,000 lines would actually have to run as far as the switching floors before they're consolidated, and each company would pay for their own dedicated trunks).

"Works"

It's funny. I walked a building today in Atlanta, and saw a wall full of Western Electric terminals from the late 60's, I had never seen that style before. Then of course.... the internet serves me up this video. And who says phones aren't listening to what we are saying....

Oh how sad :( And all it took to prevent it was not to bomb civilians in the East.

LMB222 go eat some pork

Crazy to think about... Just looking at this video after the fact is crazy....

That is very true. Thinking of their individual telephone circuit active upto the end, carrying some last words to a distant person.

@@LMB222 that's pretty rich. Can you be more specific?

wouldn't take up 4 floors, but would be cool

@@Tangobaldy That comment was meant to be a compliment. Im sorry you feel that way.

@@Tangobaldy team·work noun The combined action of a group of people, especially when effective and efficient.

@@Tangobaldy when we installed number one and number for TSS it took teamwork to get those systems in and work properly I apologize for voice recognition hope you understand

Nik the equipment bring many floors below grown level, they did not collapse. This, the equipment remained intact. The cable had to go back to surface to connect to the phones. That cable got severed as it was closer to ground level

@@FlorenceSlugcat Curious how the trunks were exposed in a manner that allowed a falling building to sever them.

Fred Tarasevicius because the equipment was deeper than the cables

That’s crazy considering voip was relatively new technology on the consumer and commercial markets at the time. Each building had 100,000+ pots lines when constructed. Assuming by 2001 the number of lines increased by at least 3, for every line an additional added about every 10 years, you’re talking about approximately 600,000 phone lines converted to voip by 2001. NYC must have been WAY ahead of the times compared to everywhere else to accomplish that. We didn’t start rolling it out in large scale in Florida (with the exception of inter office communications) until almost a decade later.

@@TheSaltyExplorer voip came out it the 90s. Buildings like WTC were the first to adopt it on a large scale. I was converting lines in the woodman tower in omaha Nebraska to T1s at the time the planes hit. I was more pointing out that none of that equipment existed even before voip it would of been replaced by more advanced switches.

Would like to get the recording where Silverstein orders the team to pull it.

Not exactly sure what that means or how it impacted phone service, but I get the gist...

7,989,999 max phone numbers in an area code so, close?

But it's still the most reliable way to make a connection

Better than soldering tags!

Sam Skellern agreed

That's interesting good day. I actually think it's some thing xxx 116, but still.

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Yes they should have

60 workers died during the construction of the original WTC. Presumably, a hell of a lot fewer died building its replacement. That’s a bad thing?

I agree with you 100%, I had 36 years, Western Electric then change the name to ATT. I was very proud to say who I work for my entire career there.

We’d probably just tell you funny Bush jokes.

yeah it’s better you’d not show us this unless you wanna be BOMBbarded with 9/11 jokes

Why do we need to show our kids 50+ year old footage of a tall building being equipped with a telephone system?

Enough to go to LA to Sacramento and back with no stops

No need to imagine.. A matter of paying 4:07 minutes of attention to the video.

@@LBZDreamer - Hi there ChillyFilly! I noticed your name rhymes with mine. Now THAT'S a coincidence! LOL!.... Have an awesome day!

I’d estimate around 600 miles, give or take.

Color code was used to locate each wire. Blue orange green brown slate.

@@TheHavrelandtExperiment I learned the color code drinking in a bar.

@Matt Ks Thanks.

The spelling makes sense. Doesn't have to be American. Note the room number - 6269? Did NSW have offices on the 62nd floor anywhere else? I'd guess that the sign and image were indeed from one of the towers. The sign is consistent with several others appearing in this video clip. The Australian consulate in NYC in the 1980's was in Rockefeller Center, not nearby.

Jake Livni 6259 belonged to 5 World Trade Center. Some deeper investigation lead me to the text ‘Commerce Today’ which clearly listed New South Wales Center as a presence in 5 WTC. You learn something new every day.

And some payphones.

He didn't, but knows the people that did.

I remember watching movies and shows set in NYC during the late 60's and early 70's, where we'd look to see how much of the buildings were completed. You could almost date the show/movie by it.

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