Twin Towers WTC

[Comelade]

with my first voyage (in May 2001) I board was likely to visit the twin towers of the WTC, and I in board brought back the leaflet. I it board scanned (sorry for the quality) and veiled

http://img208.imageshack.us/img208/6010/prospectusrecto18im1la3yf.jpg


http://img208.imageshack.us/img208/6849/prospectusverso15qo2jc6vr.jpg

[Johnnyboy]

i kept one of those after 9/11. i still have it today

[Fabrizio]

Pulling up to Windows on the World...

[BrooklynRider]

I have tickets to the WTC observatory from September 9th, 2001. The ticket taker never ripped them, so I have the ticket and stub attached. Think they are worth anything yet?

[Jimbo Holland]

i miss them!

[Alonzo-ny]

Its amazing how small the trump building looks from the wtc and now its the 2nd tallest downtown, really pisses me off !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[BPC]

I came across an (admittedly not very good) web site tribute to the Greatest Bar on Earth which brought back a lot of great memories:

http://www.chicagobarproject.com/Memoriam/Greatest/Greatest.htm

[Dagrecco82]

I also came across this. If you like Depeche Mode, then you'll love this....

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J6-2q1NTq-I&search=enjoy%20the%20silence

[TomAuch]

I have a similar brochure, plus a small retail catalogue for the underground stores. The catalogue was for Christmas/Winter 2000-2001. Even if those items become valuable (they will in a decade or two, give or take) I still won't sell them!

[STR]

Put a few more hours into my WTC model. Just added all the floors. This is from roughly the 70th floor of 1WTC looking up at Tower 2.

http://img226.imageshack.us/img226/5195/tt13jo.th.jpg (http://img226.imageshack.us/my.php?image=tt13jo.jpg)

[BigMac]

World Trade Center Official Website (http://web.archive.org/web/20010803020404/http://www.panynj.gov/wtc/wtcfram.HTM) - Archived on August 3, 2001.

[STR]

Interesting fact I pulled up while doing research, Tower 2 was designed to handle an antenna just like Tower 1. An interesting alternative had the buildings not been destroyed and the city suddenly had a need for broadcast space.

Apparently, this was an official report edited by a conspiracist. Disregard the red text, even if you believe hte conspiracy, the arguments aren't well thought out or worded.

http://www.serendipity.li/wot/wtc_ch2.htm

[Kris]

Elegy for an Icon (http://www.nytimes.com/packages/khtml/2006/09/08/nyregion/20060910_WTC_FEATURE.html)
For decades, The Times's Keith Meyers photographed the twin towers from all over New York City.

[Merry]

Some amazing memories in this video for Twin Towers lovers and movie fans alike.



http://vimeo.com/danmeth/twintowercameos


Filmmaker Creates Twin Towers Montage

By Shayna Jacobs

MANHATTAN — As the 10th Anniversary of 9/11 approaches, one local filmmaker has pulled together footage of the Twin Towers standing tall and proud on the silver screen.

Videographer Dan Meth created a "Twin Towers Cameos" montage of clips from movies like "Dog Day Afternoon" and "Superman" in the 1970s to "Ghostbusters II" and "How Harry Met Sally" in the 1980s.

The 3-minute, 20-second composite, set to music, can be seen on Vimeo and DanMeth.com (http://danmeth.com/).

"From 1969 to 2001, the Twin Towers made countless cameos in Hollywood films. Sometimes featured prominently in the foreground, sometimes lurking in the distance. This montage celebrates the towers' all-too-short film career with songs that capture the passing decades. Man, I miss them," Meth said in a description.

The filmmaker told CNN he was inspired by the constant display of harrowing images of the collapsing towers over the past decade.

"You've seen the Twin Towers burning and falling for ten years now, but you don't get to think of it as 30 years of them standing there," Meth said.

The World Trade Center, completed in 1973 and for decades a prominent feature on the city's skyline, was destroyed by terrorists in 2001. Meth's video includes clips from 25 films that featured the iconic towers.

http://www.dnainfo.com/20110902/downtown/filmmaker-creates-twin-towers-montage-ahead-of-911-anniversary#ixzz1Wr18YWzI

[mariab]

^What a fitting tribute. I forgot all about the great movies in which they appeared. Btw "City by the Sea" was released in 2002. I wonder how close to 9/11 that scene was filmed. They also filmed on York Ave. near the 59th St Bridge.

The Sentinel (1977), Serpico, not to forget King Kong ('76). Good find. Thanks Merry. Looking at the first pic at the top of this thread, in that brochure, that outside observatory 110-story viewing railing doesn't really look all that high. I would imagine they modified it over the years, but not sure.

[Alonzo-ny]

Lovely, very moving video. Thank you for posting it.

[RonJ]

Since 9/11 is approaching fast, I would like to share my own tribute to the Twin Towers and the victims, in an uplifting way. We are all excited about the new 1 WTC Tower, but here is my own little way of remembering the Twin Towers in a cool way. I visited the Towers in 2000, and got to go to the outdoor observation deck. It was just incredible. The attacks of 9/11 really disturbed me. Here is Depeche Mode on top of the Twin Towers in 1990. Great 80s beat, cool outfits, and the towers in all their glory! The last scene is esxpecially moving. Enjoy everyone.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j3ipORNNzkY&feature=fvst

[STR]

Looking at the first pic at the top of this thread, in that brochure, that outside observatory 110-story viewing railing doesn't really look all that high. I would imagine they modified it over the years, but not sure.

That's what the razor wire on the main roof was for, just out of frame. One of the things the PA didn't want was a huge fence obstructing the view, like at Empire State.

[Music Man]

A minimalist musical tribute:

First Listen: Steve Reich, 'WTC 9/11' (http://www.npr.org/2011/09/04/140144067/first-listen-steve-reich-wtc-9-11)

(I attempted to listen to it. Only made it 5 minutes. :p)

[RonJ]

I'm sure this question has been asked many times but I've never heard a good answer....first off, I like the design of new WTC tower but can someone explain why they didn't just rebuilt the Twin Towers? I saw a design that was floated a few years ago for rebuilding the towers, only taller, better, and safer! I think it would have been such a good thing to do, if they were going to build a sksyscraper there anyway why not the towers? I think many people wanted the towers rebuilt..so why did it not happen? If it had been the Washington Monument that had been destroyed, I'm sure it would have been rebuilt just as it was!

[lofter1]

Track back through this thread -- that's been discussed many times.

[lofter1]

A minimalist musical tribute:

First Listen: Steve Reich, 'WTC 9/11' (http://www.npr.org/2011/09/04/140144067/first-listen-steve-reich-wtc-9-11)



Very evocative. Reich's three movements have different references for "WTC"



World Trade Center

Well-Tempered Clavier

World To Come

[Daquan13]

Here's my mini scale model of the Twins.

[BrooklynLove]

Nice Hulk Hogan statue.

[Daquan13]

Forgot to remove it before taking the pics.

[Edward]

Take a look at this sublime set of photographs of World Trade Center (http://www.flickr.com/photos/stevensiegel/sets/72157600382734172/show/) by Steven Siegel on Flickr.

[mariab]

^In many of them the light really brought them out even though they weren't in the forefront in the pic. Last set with watersplash makes me think it was either a fish, or a perfectly timed thrown rock.

[BrooklynLove]

Wow.

[Merry]

Stunning. They're still evocative 10 years later.

[Merry]

A clever and fitting graphic:

http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-P6i9vFzXYXA/TmwEOEZ0zbI/AAAAAAAAWqg/y5IVmpYodxU/s1600/9-11-01.jpg

[Music Man]

Don't remember where I found this photo on the web sometime back in 2002, but it if the metadata on the pic is true then it was taken only 20 minutes before the first plane hit the tower"

Make: OLYMPUS OPTICAL CO., LTD
MODEL: C21
DATE TIME: 2001-09-11 08:22:50

http://i11.photobucket.com/albums/a196/Orchestrator/Skyscraper%20Photos/4c98cb0b.jpg

[BrooklynLove]

It's possible. Weather looks right.

[Daquan13]

These ones are my favorites.

[Daquan13]

Actually, there is a building in which the Twins were born and derived from;

The IBM Building in Seatle.

Yamasaki thought about using some of the construction technologies that were inherited from this tower for the original WTC, and he DID.

[Music Man]

^ I think the first pic in that bunch is of the Aon Tower in Chicago, not the IBM building.

[Daquan13]

^ I think the first pic in that bunch is of the Aon Tower in Chicago, not the IBM building.


I thought about that myself also, but it DOES somewhat resemble one of the Twins.

[BrooklynLove]

Actually, there is a building in which the Twins were born and derived from;

The IBM Building in Seatle.

Yamasaki thought about using some of the construction technologies that were inherited from this tower for the original WTC, and he DID.

which technologies?

[Daquan13]

which technologies?




Note the close-knit design of the facade. Probably the same design was used back then when the IBM Building was being built.

Yamasaki had a definite fear of heights. His design of the window width in both projects were no more than about 22 inches wide - the width of a man's shoulders with the arms down.

Also, floor trusses were said to be used for the IBM Building as well. About the only thing that's different in THIS building from the Twins is probably the base of the tower. Looks like concrete was used there.

[BrooklynLove]

Nice Hulk Hogan statue.

[Daquan13]

which technologies?

http://www.bizjournals.com/seattle/stories/2001/11/26/focus4.html Click on the View All button when you get there, to read the whole story. Thanx.

Tried to copy & paste the story, but it kept on coming out crapped up with botched up stuff.

[Daquan13]

You said that already. Thanx.

[Daquan13]

This might sound like a far-fetched thing or a stab in the dark, and please don't thing that I'm crazy, and I've always wondered about this.

But what if, after being hit by the planes, the towers didn't fall, but stood up? What if only one was hit but not the other one? Or if one fell and the other one didn't? What then? Could they possibly have been salvaged, repaired and made like new again?

And if so, would workers feel comfy and safe working in them after they survived being hit? I've always thought about this, and it boggles me that this might have been the case. One has to wonder.

[BrooklynLove]

1993.

[BigMac]

http://static.businessinsider.com/image/4e6a730269bedd3019000026-915/an-aerial-shot-of-the-completed-world-trade-center-towers-late-1970s.jpg
(Associated Press)

[Daquan13]

Looks like the Deutche Bank Building was u/c around that time as well.