Towers were partitioned in 3 zones, each of these with its own "lobby". Express elevators operated only between the 3 lobbies and the rooftop(1st lobby: ground level; 2nd lobby: 44th floor; third lobby: 78th floor; rooftop: 110th floor).From the lobbies you could take the local elevators of the 3 zones(each of them operating for 7 floors)
I'm with you bud.. My mom worked in the towers in the 80's. She used to take me to see her office once a week so I was always in the towers.. They were my second home.. It's devastated me..
damn thats one fast elevator! usually when i been on an elevator and i look at the screen where it says what floor your on, it takes one second to display one floor but here, the elevator went up 3 floors in one second
wow 20 yrs ago today what a huge milestone. Today we remember every life, every firefighter, every police officer, every phone call. RIP to all u beautiful souls 🇺🇸
Dididj Enemeje come on dude, imagine you are on that same elevator and that lady tells you that joke, what could you possibly do ?? tell her "hey come on bitch these towers will get knocked down in the following year so how about you shut the fuck up " ?? nobody, and i repeat, nobody knew what was coming, they thought the 1993 attack would be the last one
because the observation deck was in the 107th floor, while the floors 108-110 were technical floors (elevator machine rooms etc). Anyway, there was an escalator to the open roof, above the 110th floor and accessible in the good weather periods.
They rebuilt this building as the One World Trade Center and those ThyssenKrupp Destination Dispatch elevators go TWICE as fast as these at an INSANE speed of 2,000 feet per minute! (That's 22.7 miles per hour!) They are declared as the fastest elevators in North America!
what I'd give for having the chance to go in that plaza, still seeing their wonderful neoghotic trident shaped columns in front of the fountain, going inside their ultrafast elevators, and discovering to be above the clouds as their doors open...with their magnificent twin shadows standing out on lower Manhattan...damn...9 years...
I was really sad to hear it though. I knew a bunch of people that perished that day along with many i didn't even know. I was 6 years old when it happened, and it still feels like yesterday it happened.
The original elevators from 1970/71 to 1990, had all the numbers of the different floors, with the light passing through from digits to digits, depending on the progress of the elevator when it goes up or down.
I remember visiting the towers in my senior high school year in 1991. We went to new york city and got to ride up, it was fun, i was gonna throw a penny dwn, but the lady told me that it would kill someone
i hope they rebuild the towers. i really would have like to have seen them, and since i live in louisianna and since i waz 7 at the time of 9/11 and my parents couldn't afford to go to NYC, i never had an opportunity to see them.
I remember working at Telerate before they moved to harborside and we would travel from the 104th I think all the way down each day. What a pisser. I think it was something like 2 miles an hour slower than free fall. You weighed almost nothing until the end. Nobody ever got used to that.
I am working in the WTC for (almost) 25 years and I still can‘t figure the elevator plan. But the building is so magic. Ever since about like 2001 i have seen nobody ever leave. Kinda as if they and me included were all stuck in some sorts of a purgatory hahaha
Pretty good quality for the time. Was that around when camcorders were coming out? I don't remember much of the early 2000s and late 1990s. I'm only 14.
Funny you say it took them ten seconds to fall. It took around 10 seconds for the buildings themselves to fall. Which proves that thermite was used to cut through the core columns so that there was no resistance upon collapse. Inside job. The planes were the cover, but the speed of collapse gives it away.
The buildings didn’t rely on inner core columns for strength. The durability of the buildings came from the exoskeleton of it, the vertical running panels on the outside. The planes made horizontal slices in vertical panels. Jet fuel does not melt steel beams, but fire can make most metals malleable, which means easily bent. This is why both towers collapsed in the same direction of the most damage dealt by the plane impacts. The south tower leaned into where the plane had first hit it. The north tower had a direct hit in the center of the building, when you watch the footage the building collapses exactly where the plane exploded inside of it upon impact. There are some conspiracy theories you just need to let go of. If this is something you still believe I cannot imagine being eaten alive over false information for 20 years.
@@hera7884 95% of those buildings were unaffected by the impacts or fires, yet they fell straight through themselves at freefall speed, like a controlled demolition. The resistance underneath the impacts was intact and a huge barrier to this happening. This is the giveaway that the buildings were brought down with alternative means.
Pour moi, les ascenseurs rapides sont comme un coaster, car ils sont debout, alors que les attractions ou les free fall towers sont plus fortes en accélérations, mais sont seulement assises, et je ne comprends pas pourquoi les gens semblent indifférents aux démarrages et freinages, auquel je m'amuse à y effectuer bien volontiers plusieurs allers et retours, si on me l'autorise !
its a cool thing to see. ALot of us live in cities that the buildings only go as high as 20 floors. If i had ever gotton the chance to go there (wtc) i probly would have filmed the numbers goin up as well. i grew up in Arizona.. so the one time i went to new york i spent the whole time lookin up. i couldnt belive how high the buildings get.
And the truthertards tell you that no elevators went all the way top to bottom. DEBUNKED! While it may be true that most of them didn't, they shared the same shafts that surely did go top to bottom.
- @ Kenny2k08 - Actually video cameras have been around since the mid 1970's - but they were larger and the recorder section that contained the tape was not attached to the camera. Either it sat on a table or you wore it with a shoulder strap. CD players were invented in the 1970's as well. For a trip back in time, Kenny, look up 8-track, audio cassettes, laser disc, etc. My first computer ran at 4MHz - not GHz and had a 10 meg hard drive and a monochrome CRT monitor.
Cela a été enregistré avec une bonne caméra vidéo VHS, ou même peut-être cassette déjà numérique en 2000 ! Les caméras VHS existaient déjà depuis 1989 environ !
The national institute for science and technology (NIST) calculated 9 and 11 secs for each tower. Maybe you're suffering from delayed reaction syndrome (DRS) ?
Quelle coïncidence, en Octobre 2000, je suis allé en voyage organisé du Québec, dans un autre ascenseur rapide, mais dans... celui de la tour CN de Toronto (6 m/s) ! Et j'avais filmé le travelling avec une caméra VHS de qualité et cassette que j'ai conservée.
I kinda thought 🤔 that since it was shown in the Simpsons episode where Homer goes to New York, Season 9 premiere episode entitled The city of New York vs. Homer Simpson.
I like the freedom tower, but they should have built two of them to honor the twin towers! There still could have been room for a memorial too! I would have preferred them building the exact twin towers back up with updated inside materials though. As far as I'm concerned, we let them win by not rebuilding the towers. They changed it, and we just took it. I wouldn't be as mad if they built two freedom towers though.
World Trade Center yo creo que eran las tores mas visitadas del todo el planneta cuando sea rico yo voy a poner unas torres gemelas en la playas mexicanas de guaymas sonora mexico y espero que muchas gentes vengas avisitarlas
![[4K] One World Trade Center | 102nd Floor Observation Deck Complete Tour](http://i.ytimg.com/vi/ZiOgB-XGKx8/mqdefault.jpg)
It's good to see a piece of history. Thanks for uploading this.
RIP World Trade Center 1973-2001.
I know this is 9 years old but... ITS BEEN REBUILT
@@byntoyt It's now called One World Trade Center.
The original elevator = 1973-1995
The modernized elevator = 1995-2001
@@alpzepta This elevator is from 1995?
Long live the king, Twin Towers!
Damn that elevator was fast!
Towers were partitioned in 3 zones, each of these with its own "lobby".
Express elevators operated only between the 3 lobbies and the rooftop(1st lobby: ground level; 2nd lobby: 44th floor; third lobby: 78th floor; rooftop: 110th floor).From the lobbies you could take the local elevators of the 3 zones(each of them operating for 7 floors)
I'm with you bud..
My mom worked in the towers in the 80's.
She used to take me to see her office once a week so I was always in the towers.. They were my second home..
It's devastated me..
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Please don't jump.
Ironic choice of words.
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damn thats one fast elevator! usually when i been on an elevator and i look at the screen where it says what floor your on, it takes one second to display one floor but here, the elevator went up 3 floors in one second
For real though
itd to even faster during a free fall
They were huge, too. I believe the express elevators could hold something like 55 passengers.
@@stargate1552elevators can’t free fall they have governors
I get such a kick out of the elevator operator lady's thick New Yawk accent.
Ya beat me to the punch on that one
wow 20 yrs ago today what a huge milestone. Today we remember every life, every firefighter, every police officer, every phone call. RIP to all u beautiful souls 🇺🇸
I was on the South Tower 4 months before 9/11, my frist trip to NYC ever, I'll never forget it. My ears popped 3 times going up in that elevator
These elevators ran at 2,000 FPM (foot per minute) for anyone wondering which is close to 23 MPH
D'après le Quid de l'époque, il était indiqué à 8 m/s (28 km/h)(et non 10 m/s, ce qui est le cas pour le One World Trade Center)
This is just eerie to watch, after September 11'th happened....
Feels weird to think some people in that elevator could be dead because of 9/11
Everyone laughed at the joke and my heart sunk
Dididj Enemeje come on dude, imagine you are on that same elevator and that lady tells you that joke, what could you possibly do ?? tell her "hey come on bitch these towers will get knocked down in the following year so how about you shut the fuck up " ?? nobody, and i repeat, nobody knew what was coming, they thought the 1993 attack would be the last one
Ok but his heart sunk because they said the joke. We know they didnt know but since it happened his heart sunk
because the observation deck was in the 107th floor, while the floors 108-110 were technical floors (elevator machine rooms etc).
Anyway, there was an escalator to the open roof, above the 110th floor and accessible in the good weather periods.
That's right!
I was there the day it happened, except we had left and we got home, and it was all over the news. We were lucky.
So crazy...when she says "please don't jump" everyone seamed amused! who knew uh?
I got to go up there the same year and to the roof ! watching this video I can still feel my ears popping lol I'll never forget
They rebuilt this building as the One World Trade Center and those ThyssenKrupp Destination Dispatch elevators go TWICE as fast as these at an INSANE speed of 2,000 feet per minute! (That's 22.7 miles per hour!) They are declared as the fastest elevators in North America!
what I'd give for having the chance to go in that plaza, still seeing their wonderful neoghotic trident shaped columns in front of the fountain, going inside their ultrafast elevators, and discovering to be above the clouds as their doors open...with their magnificent twin shadows standing out on lower Manhattan...damn...9 years...
I was really sad to hear it though. I knew a bunch of people that perished that day along with many i didn't even know. I was 6 years old when it happened, and it still feels like yesterday it happened.
Otis Elevators from 1970 ( North Tower ) and 1971 ( South Tower ).
Speed travel of 8 m/s.
Modernized in 1990s by ACE elevator.
The original elevators from 1970/71 to 1990, had all the numbers of the different floors, with the light passing through from digits to digits, depending on the progress of the elevator when it goes up or down.
@@c63amg81 yes, analog indicators they had.
I remember visiting the towers in my senior high school year in 1991. We went to new york city and got to ride up, it was fun, i was gonna throw a penny dwn, but the lady told me that it would kill someone
Well... She lied.
@@FKBUSH1 no she didn't.
It could have
Myth busters said no, but would really piss someone off!
how is a penny gonna kill someone? the worst it could do is hurt the head and leave a bruise
I live 1 minute away from wear Flight 93 crashed.
That was also a sad awakening.
I remember being at home and feeling the ground shake.
i hope they rebuild the towers. i really would have like to have seen them, and since i live in louisianna and since i waz 7 at the time of 9/11 and my parents couldn't afford to go to NYC, i never had an opportunity to see them.
thats so strange to think that that elevator is gone literally, scary
I remember working at Telerate before they moved to harborside and we would travel from the 104th I think all the way down each day. What a pisser. I think it was something like 2 miles an hour slower than free fall. You weighed almost nothing until the end. Nobody ever got used to that.
I love these old home videos of the twin towers. I was 12 when 9/11 happened and from Texas so I never had the chance to see them. Thanks for posting!
I've been to the WTC many times, also had dinner at "Windows on the World" restaurant, great experience
how are you feeling 15 years later? was the food good?
Was this the South Tower?
little did they know in a year they won’t be able to stand there in the same spot ever again
im glad you made this because the buildings gone and Ill never see it in person at leased I have this video great video
R I P Twin Towers
Nothing else can be as iconic as the Twin Towers
may everyone who died in 9/11 rest in piece
10 floors pass every 5 seconds! Wow!
I wonder if any pieces of the elevator were found amongst the wreckage and rubble after the incident
what type of elevator?
It does go really quick, it's the same as when you go up the Empire State Building. I went up there and it made my ears pop because it was that fast!
holy crap thats a fast lift
nice elevator ride
when you saw people jump on the news it didnt seem that far up but if you watch videos you are like oh my god those poor people
oh i'm sorry to hear. were you there on 9/11?
I am working in the WTC for (almost) 25 years and I still can‘t figure the elevator plan. But the building is so magic. Ever since about like 2001 i have seen nobody ever leave. Kinda as if they and me included were all stuck in some sorts of a purgatory hahaha
@wigglespect sorry for your loss but what does that have to do with the construction of the new complex?
i feel bad for the people who were in the elevator when it happend
He was on "Top of the World", an observation deck on 2WTC (South Tower). So, this is WTC 2.
Pretty good quality for the time. Was that around when camcorders were coming out? I don't remember much of the early 2000s and late 1990s. I'm only 14.
Funny you say it took them ten seconds to fall. It took around 10 seconds for the buildings themselves to fall. Which proves that thermite was used to cut through the core columns so that there was no resistance upon collapse. Inside job. The planes were the cover, but the speed of collapse gives it away.
The buildings didn’t rely on inner core columns for strength. The durability of the buildings came from the exoskeleton of it, the vertical running panels on the outside. The planes made horizontal slices in vertical panels. Jet fuel does not melt steel beams, but fire can make most metals malleable, which means easily bent. This is why both towers collapsed in the same direction of the most damage dealt by the plane impacts. The south tower leaned into where the plane had first hit it. The north tower had a direct hit in the center of the building, when you watch the footage the building collapses exactly where the plane exploded inside of it upon impact.
There are some conspiracy theories you just need to let go of. If this is something you still believe I cannot imagine being eaten alive over false information for 20 years.
@@hera7884 95% of those buildings were unaffected by the impacts or fires, yet they fell straight through themselves at freefall speed, like a controlled demolition. The resistance underneath the impacts was intact and a huge barrier to this happening. This is the giveaway that the buildings were brought down with alternative means.
Imagine being in the elevator at 8:37 AM going down and being on the first floor at 8:43.
You should have gotten the part about how your weight changed cause of the speed of the elevator. (Only if you'd been there would you know about it)
Pour moi, les ascenseurs rapides sont comme un coaster, car ils sont debout, alors que les attractions ou les free fall towers sont plus fortes en accélérations, mais sont seulement assises, et je ne comprends pas pourquoi les gens semblent indifférents aux démarrages et freinages, auquel je m'amuse à y effectuer bien volontiers plusieurs allers et retours, si on me l'autorise !
that elivator goes up REALLY fast!
Imagine being trapped in a metal box while sh*t is going down on the outside
they were my favourite skyscrapers!!!!!!!!
Just think HOW MANY trips those observatory cars made? Their life cut short. RIP Otis 339HT. Thanks for the clip!
This clip has been ADDED (and not TAPED) here in 2007.
This is (or better: was) the real WTC express elevator. I know how it was.
I was up there in September 2000 too
dregge It maybe 2001
I haven't been up there although I was lucky to visit the WTC complex in July of 01
Anyone have a rip of the super faint music in the background? I'm curious what song is playing..
ugh....as the floor number reads 78 (the floor struck by the plane), i just sigh and wish that this disaster never happened.
@LorenaIsa123 Do you mean the roof? or the VERY top floor?
I remember going on that elevator when I was a kid it was a scary ride
I've always had fears of elevators, but imagine a free fall in a wtc elevator
I have been to the WTC back in 1998 and I saw the very top.... man, people from the streets looked like ants at most.
elevators dont seem like there moving after a wile because your used to it thats why it feels like its going down at the top because its slowing down
WOW! CooL elevator FAST 1 !!
@dontwalkhand They might not use the buzz. But if they do, make sure you get some ear plugs.
RIP World trade center :(
where is the 85th floor?
we all know.....it skipped a lot of number
its a cool thing to see. ALot of us live in cities that the buildings only go as high as 20 floors. If i had ever gotton the chance to go there (wtc) i probly would have filmed the numbers goin up as well. i grew up in Arizona.. so the one time i went to new york i spent the whole time lookin up. i couldnt belive how high the buildings get.
your ears popped at 17-25 floors i know they did
Do they really? I was born in 2004, so i didnt get to go there
so sad that 1 year after the elevator is dust which tower is this in
Probably a service floor. I believe WTC had three floors dedicated completely to power.
And the truthertards tell you that no elevators went all the way top to bottom. DEBUNKED! While it may be true that most of them didn't, they shared the same shafts that surely did go top to bottom.
thats a fast elevator!
the observatory was on the 107th floor not the 110th so the freedom tower wud be at the same height
I dont know...
I did not notice the elevators skiping floors
it was an amazing view up there i regret not taking pics
Not to be rude or anything but the guy in the background sounds a lot like the Shrimp from Smiling Friends.
@RomJonno15 108 was chosen because it is an auspicious number.
When going to the top of the world trade centre, I will always remember how my ears popped at around about the 20th floor,
What date was this filmed on? I know it's September of 2000, but I want to know the exact day
I don't remember the exact date.
What were the digital cameras like back then? Was this with one of those home film kind of cameras?
My first digital camera was in '97. It was a Kodak 1.3 megapixel and cost $700.
Anyone else notice it skipped the 85th floor?
The middle was hollow that's why it speeds up.
- @ Kenny2k08 -
Actually video cameras have been around since the mid 1970's - but they were larger and the recorder section that contained the tape was not attached to the camera. Either it sat on a table or you wore it with a shoulder strap.
CD players were invented in the 1970's as well.
For a trip back in time, Kenny, look up 8-track, audio cassettes, laser disc, etc.
My first computer ran at 4MHz - not GHz and had a 10 meg hard drive and a monochrome CRT monitor.
Cela a été enregistré avec une bonne caméra vidéo VHS, ou même peut-être cassette déjà numérique en 2000 ! Les caméras VHS existaient déjà depuis 1989 environ !
The elevator at my hospital moves about 2 floors as fast as this elevator moves 20 floors
Be glad that it was september 2000... if one year later, we probably wont see this video...
The national institute for science and technology (NIST) calculated 9 and 11 secs for each tower. Maybe you're suffering from delayed reaction syndrome (DRS) ?
so sad that 1 year after the elevator is dust
Quelle coïncidence, en Octobre 2000, je suis allé en voyage organisé du Québec, dans un autre ascenseur rapide, mais dans... celui de la tour CN de Toronto (6 m/s) ! Et j'avais filmé le travelling avec une caméra VHS de qualité et cassette que j'ai conservée.
This would be my ultimate fear, i have a fear of elevators and going that high up would be real fucked up
wow 107 floors
107 out of 110
I kinda thought 🤔 that since it was shown in the Simpsons episode where Homer goes to New York, Season 9 premiere episode entitled The city of New York vs. Homer Simpson.
@em1288 My ears didn't pop on the Empire State Building elevator or the plane ride from Nashville to New York in January 2010. Weird.
Man did I just take a time machine or something?
The Freedom Tower's elevators wont even be Otis but Thyssenkrupp. Yet another reason the Freedom Tower is an inferior replacement.
wow that is wath you call fast :p
I like the freedom tower, but they should have built two of them to honor the twin towers! There still could have been room for a memorial too! I would have preferred them building the exact twin towers back up with updated inside materials though. As far as I'm concerned, we let them win by not rebuilding the towers. They changed it, and we just took it. I wouldn't be as mad if they built two freedom towers though.
Otisberg? OTISBERG?
"Its a little bitty place!!"
I was up top too , only 3 months before 9/11. i regret taking pictures or video, it has haunted ever since
World Trade Center yo creo que eran las tores mas visitadas del todo el planneta cuando sea rico yo voy a poner unas torres gemelas en la playas mexicanas de guaymas sonora mexico y espero que muchas gentes vengas avisitarlas
what speed of this ?
1600 feet per minute.
Twin Towers - 18.5 mph
One WTC - 23 mph
Please dont jump everyone laughed but I willing to bet someone in that elevator had to make that jump
I felt like this is rare unless you were born in 2001 and 1973
We have to build and move on into the future, but I think they should rebuild the Twin Towers instead of a Freedom Tower with less floors.