My mother has some of the last photos of the Twin Towers. We were in New York the weekend before the disaster visiting with family. There’s two photos she has of myself and my sister as children with the World Trade Center in the background. Looking at those photos today is almost eerie to know that by the time those images were developed, the towers were already gone.
Very interesting. Did you ever happen to upload those photos on the internet? Or send them to the museum for display? I know there are still people searching every day for new photos of the WTC before it's demise. Nonetheless very interesting thanks for sharin that.
My grandfather was inside the Windows on the World restaurant at the top of the north tower on the 10th. My grandfather thankfully wasn’t in the towers when the planes hit, but it is scary how close he was to dying.
On September 11th 2001 and for months afterward my brother in law, David Rose, was a search and recovery member at the wreck of the Twin Towers He recalls so many horrific things about that dark day.. Cellphones ringing from the rubble, people flocking to the wrecksite hoping to find their loved ones alive After that time he retired from the US Government and never even collected his pension, he has always said “If you saw what i saw you wouldn’t want their money either, our country isn’t with us.. its working against us”
What amazes me most about 911 is that some people inside the towers had no idea what happened. We know what happened but they died without ever knowing this event took place. 😵💫
They most likely did, word and rumors would have spread fast, they still had access to radios, tv sets and phones which more likely than not, would have made them aware (news, calls, radio) now granted not to the extent to we now know but they would have known.
They probably knew about the plane. Once they saw the other tower get hit, I think they probably figured it was an attack. Maybe in the panic they didn’t have time to think about it. Who knows man. I hope the families have found some semblance of peace all these years later.
I remember 9/10/01. I was 11 years old and in 6th grade living in Chandler, Arizona and my parents had just bought a new home about 2 months before in July. I remember on the 10th my teacher announced I was one of the winners of a contest we had at the school and the prize was a Diamondbacks baseball game in Phoenix on the 11th. They were doing amazing that year and would ironically beat the Yankees in the world series later that year. I woke up really excited on 9/11 because I was a huge baseball fan and was proud of my hometown team and my happy day was ruined.
*Right before you said it in the beginning, I knew and I remembered it rained on Monday, September 10th really hard!!!* I had to pause the video at 3:16 and just focus on the last minutes of peace. Beautiful.
@rknine7998 It's strange that you mention 3:16 also known as John 3:16 For God so Loved the World, that he gave his only begotten Son, That whosoever Believe Believeth in Him should not parish, but have everlasting life.
What got me was how happy everyone was before tragedy struck, I was only 2 years old but it seemed like everyone was so energetic on the news and stuff like a different world
The temperature graph is important for context. Imagine what it must have felt like to break out a window in your smoke-filled, broiling office and feeling that 70-degree air. And 8:37 all of those people died. That conference was on the 107th floor of the North Tower. And yeah, the cameraman survived. He left to get another roll of film, and was among the last dozen or so people to leave the upper floors of the North Tower before AA11 hit it.
A lot of people forget that Hurricane Erin was in the Atlantic off the coast of New York that pulled the toxic smoke away from the main land. This hurricane probably saved many lives from that smoke.
As crazy as this sounds, it could have saved even more lives and prevented the attacks, had it hit NY, maybe it would have delayed the hijackings or it possibly would have completely stopped it, because the hijackers would have had alot of trouble navigating through a hurricane, to hit the towers, I highly doubt they could have did what they did in bad weather
@@Mrd9960 the planes would have never been allowed to fly had the hurricane hit the region. The only difference it would have made is that we would be talking about 9/12 today
Regarding the last part of the video, the planes definitely broke into hundreds, if not thousands of individual pieces. A lot of them probably got pulverized into dust when the towers collapsed.
@@allennixon4745 That is true, he overslept. Its eerie but i wonder how many people were at that M J concert the night before and maybe they worked in those twin towers. Hope no one died after seeing the great concert on the 10th
Two other celebrities who barely avoided this catastrophe: Mark Wahlberg and Seth MacFarlane were supposed to be on American Airlines Flight 11, but Wahlberg changed his travel plans at the last minute, and MacFarlane arrived late to the airport.
What I want to know is- how can there be no other pictures or video of the plane hitting the Pentagon? Isn’t that a very high security & videoed watched area with cameras everywhere ?
@@rosiesingleton6480I’m sure that there was a lot of security on the inside of the building, but probably not as much reason to watch the outside 24/7. You probably needed security clearance just to enter the parking lot. Not much security can do when a plane is barreling towards a building at 500 mph anyway
They were incredible to see. I'm a Brit, but I was lucky enough to visit the Twin Towers on my trip to NY back in 1990. The space in front of the towers was completely open, which made them seem even more imposing as you looked up at them. The fact that you had two towers together also added to the effect especially when you were at the top, as you were basically looking down the outside of the other tower and could see the people working in their offices in that tower.
Lived in central indiana at the time of 9/11.not that geographically far from new york city as you might think especially as world geography goes.The weather was so insanely beautiful. The attack made the dichotomy of the beauty of the day along with the darkness of the attack. Almost made it creepy. Perfect weather. Not a cloud in the sky
This was really interesting to see 22 years later and hope all those who died on September 11th rest in peace ☮️. It is chilling to see the video of the twin towers the night before.
I’m so glad that they never did that stupid renovation on the plaza. The plaza was a get away from all the typical New York City Buildings and Sidewalks, to enter the Twin Towers meant going thru the plaza it was spectacular and relaxing. Getting rid of the plaza would have been depressing.
I remember taking a flight from NYC (my hometown) to Atlanta to visit some friends on September 10th, 2001. I would have never thought when I woke up the next morning that the WTC would be under attack and my life would change forever! #memories
I live in Maryland and I remember it was raining down here on September 10th. About a couple weeks after 9/11, a tornado ripped right through Maryland in the city of College Park.
True story i know a guy that had a operation on September 10th and he slept through that whole event waking up 7pm September 11th new york time, when we told him, he was like have i woken up in a another dimension
My mom left NYC on September 10th to come back home to St Louis that same day. She had lunch with her grandmother in one of the towers that same day, crazy hearing the stories and seeing the footage she brought back of the towers standing on their last day/days.
I quit smoking in march 2001 cold turkey and even thought 9/11/01 happened I never picked up another cigarette. I had to go to work that day and every thing was shut down, kind of eerie like what happened to covid.
That took some amazing guts too. That especially since smoking rates did drastically increase after 9/11 happened also. I'll admit my habit with that did get to be a bit out of control after Hurricane Sandy happened in late 2012, which left my life in a huge, literal mess, and turned it upside down back then as well!
It's because they're gone. Before 9/11, they were iconic but weren't that highly regarded in any way for their aesthetics. To many, they were monolithic boxes, indicative of the late 1960's. And in Manhattan, there was an overabundance of architectural marvels that were far more interesting to look at.
3:31 That might be from EWR airport in Newark The only time I saw the WTC Twin Towers was April 28, 2001. I was at Newark Airport on a layover waiting to go to Frankfurt for a tour of duty in Germany. You could see the skyline with the distinctive towers. I wanted to check them out at some point and I'm glad I at least saw them once.
what is crazy is that these are one of the lasts photos before the towers got hit, and the time when they took the pictures are about the time when they hijack it.
I always thought they were such a statement of American strength. If they only had built one it would have been the tallest building in the world but they made 2 of them right next to each other. That’s such a bold statement, along with their boxy design it was just different. It’s sad to me that they aren’t a part of the NYC skyline anymore. It’s even more sad that all those lives were lost.
It's eerie how many photos there are of the towers hours or even minutes before their demise. Just seeing the plane that would eventually hit the Pentagon is haunting but interesting. I'm no conspiracy theorist but it's as if people knew the towers were gonna get attacked in some way so they snapped as many photos as possible before it happens.
There's a video out there from some construction workers who were working at the airport recording one of the planes during its taxi and takeoff literally as it was taking off minutes before impact
I’d like to see you do a video on September 12! The day after 911 i turned 6 that day and think a lot of people would like to see the aftermath and clean up part of it
I couldn’t believe they cleaned up that site in eight months. I thought they’d be down there five years. They were but they had all the aftermath cleaned up very quickly.
@@jpmnky They sure did an amazing job with that I'll admit. It was kind of like when they managed to somehow clean up, and get the Louisiana Superdome to be fully operational for the 2006 NFL season after Hurricane Katrina in order to assure that the Saints would be able to come back home just in the nick of time. That being when the city needed them the most in order to help begin their long, painful healing process too.
I remember that night before 9/11 vividly, and my memory is pretty damn good to where I can tell u exactly what I was doing, wearing, what I ate etc a year ago today(May 30 2024 when I'm posting this) ..I was staying with my pa and big brother and the night before or actually on 9/11 since it was past midnight but I was 15 and many times I'd go up on the rooftop of my building and think or sometimes chill and around 12:30 am I did exactly that and being into architecture since i was a kid I'd if course watch the skyline, around 1:45 i headed back in having no clue it'd be the last night I'd ever see The Twins which despite being not being too special as far as their exterior at least, they've been some of my all time favorite buildings, I'm talking top 10 for me since I was like 5 years old and as much as I really do love the new tower I don't think it'd ever top the twins though it's exterior is no question more unique than the twins...that morning i was getting ready for school when my dad walked in from work and asked me if i heard about the WTC, i turned the TV on and about 1 min later I ran up to the roof about 2 min before the second plane hit, I saw it coming and shrugged it off for a second thinkin it must be heading to La Guardia but about 15 seconds it was clear to me it wasn't heading to any airport and seeing it hit the south tower is one of my rare moments where I literally couldn't believe what was happening, I was no bullshit asking my dad to slap the shit outta and I was doing what I've done in some of my nightmares where i realize it's a nightmare so I actively try to end it and wake up, that's how I felt and when the south tower was hit and again when it collapsed.. sometimes it feels like people are forgetting that day or seeing it less serious than they should, it really a trip it's been almost 23 years now and there's literally no way I could ever forget that day, I remember reading that Limp Bizkit received a letter thanking them for shooting part of Rollin'... on the roof, less then a day later it was gone, Lebron passing Kobe's and taking 3rd place in Points and less than a day later, Kobe was gone, it's a major trip home quickly it could all be over
The world before 9/11 seemed idyllic and peaceful. That all died that day. I can't help but grieve for all the people whose last evening that was. There is some small mercy in not knowing how we will die. Still unbelievably heartbreaking almost 23 years later.
Hi, it's september 10th, 2024, and trying to figure out how tremendous towers still marking the city's panorama, but the misfalling and tragedy comes in in the other hand... simply touching😢❤
I kinda feel that that the towers and the planes were alive! They were alive with life anyway! The fact that the pentagon only had that one camera is hard to believe!
Now it´s 09:53 p.m at night I live in Chile (center zone). The air is electricized and sky full of clouds, about to rain just like it did on Monday, September 10, 2001 in New York, I am already preparing for tomorrow, which will be a day with energetic tension, in fact it already feels like it. Tomorrow I think will be a sunny day than today.
It is amazing to me that none of those television news cameras around the city pointed at the Twin Towers were on or had their output being recorded at 8:46am. Imagine what AAL11 would have looked like going into 1WTC from their perspectives...
Picture at 7:44 is not a plan for New York, but Seoul. I know you didn't say it was for NY, but might confuse someone who watches your video at the moment. It confused me as well, then I got it
It was a gorgeous day that day, just a really nice early fall day, and blue sky, I think almost no clouds all day. I'm about 3 hours drive from NYC, down in MD. I was living in the country then, and the septic tank was being pumped out LOL. It was also amazing that for like a week or whatever, there were no planes other than some military ones, and no helicopters. It was so quiet and nice. Normally planes flew over many times a day, and a helicopter daily. So annoying being out in the country and air traffic so often, but then hearing the loudest sit down mowers ever made, every day almost in summer was also annoying!
I'm glad I got to visit and go to the top of one of the towers on a boy scout trip in 1989. I don't know which tower I was in. I just remember wanting to buy a disposable camera in the gift shop up there. The price was $35 and I was scrounging to come up with the money. Luckily my scoutmaster convinced me not to waste my money.
I was also finding it weird that in those skyscrapers lights stay on overnight… But then I watched some documentary about WTC’s nightlife that basically said as soon as all those financial/business executives & their employees had finished working & were getting back home, hundreds or thousands of other "little hands" were starting their shift as cleaning ladies/janitors. So people that happened to walk by the WTC complex at night could hear some catchy, upbeat Latino music playing from both buildings… Indeed, the majority of those workers were from South American countries, mainly from Mexico (a huge part being illegal immigrants by the way, which is somehow quite "funny" since many official departments such as customs had offices or even their headquarters in WTC 1 or 2… !!).
What i don't understand is how was there only one camera that caught the plane hitting the Pentagon. The Pentagon is one of the most secure places in the world so why wasnt there more security cameras to catch different angles.
Seeing photos like this is like seeing photos of the TITANIC sailing in mid-Atlantic at 11:30 P.M. on April 14, 1912 (not that any such images actually exist, but it's a fair comparison).
Привет! Я не знаю, обсуждался ли уже этот вопрос на Вашем канале или нет, но тем не менее я попробую его задать: а что, если бы в одной из башен-близнецов WTC располагалось бы что-то вроде штаб-квартиры крупного музыкального лейбла, продюсерского центра или крупной студии звукозаписи (по аналогии со студией Capitol Studios в Голливуде). Давайте представим, что в начале-середине 80-х годов это открылось во Всемирном торговом центре. Реально было бы такое открыть в одной из башен или нет из-за особенностей и специфики этих зданий? Ведь в теории такие здания как башни WTC постоянно гудели, шумели и вибрировали 24/7 и студийные микрофоны для записи акустических инструментов и вокала могут это всё улавливать, что доставляло бы звукорежиссерам дополнительные проблемы? А что насчёт размещения студии, с полным комплектом оборудования и инструментов? Хватило бы места для всего этого? Ведь напомню, на дворе примерно начало-середина 80-х годов, поэтому вся аппаратура реальная и аналоговая, а не загружена в компьютеры. И как дела со звукоизоляцией, как с одной стороны, так и с другой? В общем, был бы такой проект внутри здания номер 1 или здания номер 2 оправдан и практичен или нет? Заранее спасибо за ответ. Пожалуйста, сделайте ответ в формате очередного ролика про WTC. Ваш зритель Евгений из России.
I watched my football team the Giants get beaten up by the Denver Broncos that night! That of which would obviously soon end up being the least of our concerns the very next morning too!
A girl in my school’s grandma took one of the last and most popular photo of the twin towers at sunrise. She was on a boat and it’s one of the first results when you look it up.
Cannonball Run driver Alex Roy claimed to have set a lap record of 27 mins in his B5 Audi S4 around the island of Manhattan at about 3AM on September 10th 2001 in his book The Driver, I don't know how true it is, but it's a pretty good story.
On that day I was getting my school pictures taken and on 9/11 I was in the cafeteria during breakfasts when I heard about the attacks I was 17 and a senior that year.
CNN at 8am, from the financial news center, they showed WTC live, is is possible they have a video of the first plane? Or maybe the camera wasn't recording unless the image was "on air"
i'm totally against conspiracies but i never understood how the most secure building in america has no camera recordings of the incident. only that one crappy piece of footage
Don't you find it weird/strange for a place like the pentagon not to have tons of cameras and better security footage. OR maybe they do. But very very strange
When it comes to the sun New York is normal, and Ohio is abnormal. The control meridian for Eastern Time Zone (75 deg, W) is in Philadelphia. Therefore Philadelphia is where sundials actually give the correct time when daylight savings is not in effect. In Ohio, sundials are about 40 minutes behind in winter, and 1 hour and 40 minutes behind in summer.
Me and my parents went to Chicago for Xmas one year in the late 80's. We stayed at a motel not too far from South Bend IN where it becomes central time. It stayed light for an eerie amount of time for that time of year, as we were in the eastern zone, and used to that 1 hour difference as well. To have the sun set at like 6pm instead of 4:46 or whatever. I dunno, I just remember it as interesting, which is why I remember it!
I love how you keep saying crap . You do realize there were people in these buildings when they fell. Like no Offense but sometimes you sound very disrespectful.
4:50 A rocket doesn't tear/clip numerous light poles. I just always found it odd they didn't show us any footage... it's the Pentagon... Never seen that AA11 debris photo. I remember Big Brother Season 2 had just started and the production showed the housemates newspapers and some footage since it was such a bizarre time and wanted to inform them. Some of housemates just didn't believe it... they thought it was a cruel joke.
they need to rebuild the same buildings in the same place. the new world trade center is a mess of random buildings that don't go together in a strange layout.
Just not in Same Exact place at least, Pls Look up ‘Skyscraper City Forum’ and WTC Replanning or Reconstruction ideas !! This guy called Noodle DangerDoodle ? Has the NEW Twins North East of the OG Footprints !
Kind of yeah, as the new W.T.C. doesn't exactly stand out, but more rather blends in with what's next to it. While it does have a nice, sleek, modern day feel to it, the bottom line is that it'll never be nowhere near as iconic as the Twin Towers were. That being even if I can perhaps maybe understand why building them almost exactly the way they were might not have been the best option for that matter either. While you technically could have replaced the buildings (to an extent at least), you obviously couldn't replace the many lives which were tragically lost that fateful day though.
I had the idea of tearing down the modern-day 3 and 4 WTC and building new revised twin towers in their place. (I left One WTC and the Oculus in because I actually have a soft spot for them, and three towers dominating the skyline together would look so cool with how I arranged them, the towers standing in front of the pools and retaining the diagonal arrangement, there are some angles where OWTC is blocked from view if you’re a salty purist)
So basically a middle finger to 9/11 families and survivors. Also they won’t rebuild them because theres new buildings. And why rebuild a building from the 60s decades later. That alone is a stupid idea.
@@michawee I make stupid (and on extreme occasions offensive) ideas all the time! It was just an odd compromise between the new complex and the old towers, which people only want back for pathetic symbolism.
I know there's a photo out that was taken at about a quarter to nine that showed the towers intact but the tip of the wing of American Airlines Flight 11 is visible just before the plane goes into the building.
