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

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    Bonus Edition Introduction by George Kupczak of the AT&T Archives and History Center
    A short film about the building of the World Trade Center AND the telephony challenges the construction posed. The Bell System had installed a #1ESS Western Electric central office switching system within the towers. There are plenty of shots of the Towers being built, and then filled by companies, back in the 1970s.
    After 9/11, it was reported that one of the few things to survive the WTC attacks was AT&T's switching system, which was good because many people relied on the mainframe for their telephone connectivity. AT&T's local network switching equipment that routes telephone calls was located in a deep sub-basement of the Towers and somehow survived the collapse of the buildings. None of AT&T's employees were hurt in the attacks.
    Footage courtesy of AT&T Archives and History Center, Warren, NJ
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  • @zjones9876
    @zjones9876 Před 5 lety +560

    I'm 95% certain the man with glasses at 5:02 is my grandfather Charles Sykes Jr. I know he worked on the phone system at the WTC because he talked about it a lot after 9/11. Sadly he passed in 2010 so I can't ask him.

    • @Mike93Gee
      @Mike93Gee Před 4 lety +135

      @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

    • @Mike93Gee
      @Mike93Gee Před 4 lety +70

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

    • @sagew7377
      @sagew7377 Před 4 lety +8

      @TheBigHase Pathetic.

    • @MrThisIsMeToo
      @MrThisIsMeToo Před 4 lety +16

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

    • @PaulChabot
      @PaulChabot Před 4 lety +10

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

  • @TT.4_
    @TT.4_ Před rokem +23

    The Twin Towers were so beautiful and way ahead of its time! They will remain the best looking skyscrapers forever.

  • @giancarlomoscetti215
    @giancarlomoscetti215 Před 4 lety +246

    "wire by wire, a connection at a time..." Amazing, truly amazing.

    • @syntaxerorr
      @syntaxerorr Před 3 lety +11

      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.

    • @simon_1987
      @simon_1987 Před 3 lety

      What aa waste of time lol. They fell down lol

    • @TheBuckTussa
      @TheBuckTussa Před 3 lety +10

      @@simon_1987 man that’s not funny at all

    • @simon_1987
      @simon_1987 Před 3 lety

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

    • @Azarable
      @Azarable Před 2 lety +2

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

  • @daveyburgess
    @daveyburgess Před 4 lety +581

    I was with AGCS when 9/11 went down - the maker of the GTD5 telephone switch in the basement of tower1. On that Tuesday, we all gathered in the conference room and watched the video unroll before our eyes!
    A few hours later, we had leadership calling us out and we began work, assembling switch components and related parts. The two emergency earthquake trailers were pulled in from CA and we stripped them and refitted them It took 2 days, working around the clock, but they rolled out and had a police escort! They left Phoenix AZ on Sunday afternoon and arrived in Brooklyn early on Tuesday! Those truckers hauled ass!! Brooklyn had it's phone system back!
    My contribution to 9/11 was negligible, my respects to those that passed saving others!

    • @newjargon1697
      @newjargon1697 Před 4 lety +19

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

    • @Nighthawke70
      @Nighthawke70 Před 4 lety +7

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

    • @jeffhaggarty9879
      @jeffhaggarty9879 Před 4 lety +22

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

    • @bearb1asting
      @bearb1asting Před 3 lety +11

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

    • @stevegallant3395
      @stevegallant3395 Před 3 lety +4

      @Lewis Samuel it sure sounds like a trusting relationship

  • @vinaybhade7046
    @vinaybhade7046 Před 2 lety +58

    Engineering in those days without computer aided software, was amazing. Respect to all the people who studied science for giving us the technology we have today and take for granted.

  • @JrGoonior
    @JrGoonior Před 5 lety +236

    I was working for AT&T on 9/11 in Chicago. I had access to any network alarms that happened on the network . I made printout of the alarms from the network when 9/11 happened for historical reasons only.

    • @grabasandwich
      @grabasandwich Před 5 lety +37

      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)

    • @mrepic789
      @mrepic789 Před 4 lety +21

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

    • @gregorymalchuk272
      @gregorymalchuk272 Před 4 lety +20

      Please share it!

    • @NikHYTWP
      @NikHYTWP Před 4 lety +13

      share it

    • @zawir_usaodpowiadausa3354
      @zawir_usaodpowiadausa3354 Před 4 lety +20

      Do you have also pentagon security cameras tapes? :))) It was CIA + MOSAD job..

  • @bobsmithinson2050
    @bobsmithinson2050 Před 4 lety +69

    One thing to try to grasp here is that this was before anything was truly wireless, so each line had its own wire traveling from the ground and into the towers. That’s truly mind blowing...

    • @adamt3800
      @adamt3800 Před 3 lety +17

      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

    • @bobsmithinson2050
      @bobsmithinson2050 Před 3 lety +6

      @@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

    • @TheWaveBloke
      @TheWaveBloke Před 3 lety +5

      @@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.

    • @SenileOtaku
      @SenileOtaku Před 3 lety +4

      @@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.

    • @Hashterix
      @Hashterix Před 3 lety +6

      @@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).

  • @TacoCrisma
    @TacoCrisma Před 7 lety +262

    Jesus.... 2:43... Those same pieces are now part of the famous photos of rubble from the aftermath. That gave me the chills.

    • @TheCMLion
      @TheCMLion Před 5 lety +28

      I thought the same thing.

    • @BigEightiesNewWave
      @BigEightiesNewWave Před 4 lety +6

      gave me the willies😁

    • @joe-e-geo
      @joe-e-geo Před 3 lety +13

      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.

    • @ryanm21212
      @ryanm21212 Před 3 lety +26

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

    • @_JoeMomma
      @_JoeMomma Před 3 lety +8

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

  • @rafamancollections1643
    @rafamancollections1643 Před 2 lety +21

    The construction took a few years but just hours for been destroyed. So sad. RIP those who lost their lives or love ones.
    We will never forget.

  • @TunaDad
    @TunaDad Před 2 lety +16

    I love the 70's background music, reminds me of watching film strips as a kid in the 90s

  • @geraldmosley2195
    @geraldmosley2195 Před 4 lety +179

    I worked for AT&T for 14 years and the company has gone down hill and it is not the same anymore out here on the west coast, they are just like Comcast an entertainment company.the Tech's today are over worked and the training has suffered a lot.those people in the video was trained and took pride in there work.

    • @BigEightiesNewWave
      @BigEightiesNewWave Před 4 lety +17

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

    • @redroutemaster
      @redroutemaster Před 3 lety +20

      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.

    • @skmetal7
      @skmetal7 Před 3 lety +11

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

    • @ronsmith4325
      @ronsmith4325 Před 3 lety +9

      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?

    • @redroutemaster
      @redroutemaster Před 3 lety +1

      @@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.

  • @kbabioch
    @kbabioch Před 3 lety +32

    So much equipment spread over so many floors. Wondering how many hours of wiring work went on there and how much maintainenace was needed. Also how often rewiring was needed, because people/companies moved around, etc.
    These days all of this is done with IP and mostly in software. Amazing.

  • @justinflache6396
    @justinflache6396 Před 3 lety +36

    "before a sky scraper goes up. it must go down." 2:05 - my god if only they knew

  • @MartinsNewTeeth
    @MartinsNewTeeth Před 6 lety +83

    My dad worked for Bell Labs in Cincinnati in the 60s and first half of the 70s. He worked on the telecommunications system in the Towers.

    • @dvchel
      @dvchel Před 6 lety +5

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

    • @lance8080
      @lance8080 Před 4 lety +5

      Cincinnati is a good city.

    • @Clay3613
      @Clay3613 Před 4 lety +2

      @@lance8080 Seconded!

  • @TheManLab7
    @TheManLab7 Před 4 lety +86

    "What's that?" "Health and safety?"
    "Never heard of it."

    • @realblakrawb
      @realblakrawb Před 4 lety +6

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

    • @steve1978ger
      @steve1978ger Před 4 lety +7

      @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.

    • @imark7777777
      @imark7777777 Před 2 lety +1

      @@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.

  • @robertcuminale1212
    @robertcuminale1212 Před 5 lety +102

    I worked there from 1970 to 1971 before I was drafted. I installed the first non-Port Authority phone system for a Japanese company, Ishikawa Jima Heavy Machinery. The WTC central offices were not working yet and we got temporary service from the Worth Street Central Office.
    It was a sight to see. Thousands of people working. To get to the subways and the PATH trains you had to walk through a long tunnel made mostly of plywood to get to Church Street because the new stations and walkways weren't built yet.
    From the towers you could see 195 Broadway AT&T's old headquarters, 140 West Street New York Telephone's old head quarters and 222 Broadway Western Electric's headquarters.

    • @dylancruz1131
      @dylancruz1131 Před 5 lety +6

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

    • @colgatetoothpaste4865
      @colgatetoothpaste4865 Před 4 lety +6

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

    • @Casanovamorris
      @Casanovamorris Před 3 lety +15

      @@colgatetoothpaste4865 Dont go there then... and stop telling CZcams that because nobody cares!

    • @americanspirit8932
      @americanspirit8932 Před 3 lety +6

      @@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

    • @sagnbaby
      @sagnbaby Před 3 lety +2

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

  • @user-kp8sx1nh1c
    @user-kp8sx1nh1c Před 10 měsíci +4

    Thank you!! We got to see the INSIDE of the Towers so many of us still love & miss.

  • @theshypersistence
    @theshypersistence Před 2 lety +27

    Imagine living in New York at the time thinking "how much taller are they building??" My stomach drops just looking at those heights!
    For those of us who never got the chance to experience them in person the mind boggles at their sheer scale. Just look at the sea of people "swimming" up the escalators 😳
    It was a different time and place when people worked together towards a common goal. Fast forward 50 years and the world just seems so divided...

    • @user-kp8sx1nh1c
      @user-kp8sx1nh1c Před 10 měsíci

      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.

  • @patcom1013
    @patcom1013 Před 4 lety +31

    This is a great piece of film nostalgia.

  • @tylerzorn6152
    @tylerzorn6152 Před rokem +4

    I STILL SAY,...Life and everything else was so much better back then. God bless that time and those lost on 9/11. I sure miss those days. !!!

  • @Pisti846
    @Pisti846 Před 9 lety +112

    Too bad they cut out the original Bell System intros and cut off the closing.

  • @franlooving4203
    @franlooving4203 Před 4 lety +55

    Fascinating. Love the WTC still and I send so much care and comfort to strong New Yorkers who lost someone, to those not resting peacefully in resting place, to those who worked on this building, the builders, the rescuers that day and Minoru Yamasaki for designing what has been my top fav since I was a kid. The music is beautiful and cheery in this. Fantastic to see a woman working on phone lines at 4:44. Thank you. Take care.

  • @pony053
    @pony053 Před 2 lety +11

    There was no task beyond the reach of the "phone company" back then. Quite a contrast to today. Too bad Otis Elevator did not do a similar film of the system they installed. It too was amazing as was the air conditioning by York.

  • @Adam-xc4qs
    @Adam-xc4qs Před 3 lety +31

    "For building world commerce and perhaps, better understanding among people" Oh the irony...

  • @newjargon1697
    @newjargon1697 Před 4 lety +20

    Amazing teamwork and accomplishment at its finest.

    • @newjargon1697
      @newjargon1697 Před 4 lety +1

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

    • @newjargon1697
      @newjargon1697 Před 4 lety +1

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

    • @americanspirit8932
      @americanspirit8932 Před 3 lety +2

      @@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

  • @rileymannion5301
    @rileymannion5301 Před 3 lety +17

    There's a piece of one of the towers in my city and I live in Calgary Canada, it's at the war museum visible from memorial drive, it's weird seeing beams exactly like it being put into the tower

  • @KindellArmstrong
    @KindellArmstrong Před 4 lety +22

    All the languages and voices .. so beautiful !

    • @newdeep19
      @newdeep19 Před 3 lety

      less drugs back then it shows

    • @stevegallant3395
      @stevegallant3395 Před 3 lety

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

    • @tp899
      @tp899 Před 3 lety +1

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

  • @the_road__warrior6185
    @the_road__warrior6185 Před 2 lety +12

    I did a lot of low voltage work.. I thought running wire in a house was difficult sometimes.. I can’t imagine taking on the task of setting up comms in the twin towers😨👨🏼‍🔧.. Think about it, you could pick up a phone & make a call but with hundreds of other people in the same building using comms & not have much interference.. That is true engineering.

  • @TheWaveBloke
    @TheWaveBloke Před 3 lety +16

    Would be very interesting to see a similar video for a modern telephony and networking install of this size!

  • @darrelldarrell1447
    @darrelldarrell1447 Před 3 lety +11

    Lots of buildings had that same equipment. When the towers came down that equipment you see in the video had already been upgraded and no longer there. The wires were still there and most converted to data by bonding 24 pairs thus creating a T1. Most the offices were using voip.

    • @TheSaltyExplorer
      @TheSaltyExplorer Před 3 lety +3

      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.

    • @darrelldarrell1447
      @darrelldarrell1447 Před 3 lety +3

      @@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.

    • @henri372
      @henri372 Před 2 lety +1

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

  • @ReveredDead
    @ReveredDead Před 2 lety +7

    Imagine all the surviving iron workers who saw the building they built go down in 10 seconds...

    • @josephbennett3482
      @josephbennett3482 Před 2 lety +6

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

  • @scottburns5376
    @scottburns5376 Před 4 lety +18

    I work for at$t and I still run into western electric terminal gear. Hard to believe uverse tv works through all that twisted copper

    • @tankerkiller125
      @tankerkiller125 Před 3 lety +7

      "Works"

    • @markhenry15
      @markhenry15 Před 2 lety +3

      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....

  • @baylinkdashyt
    @baylinkdashyt Před 4 lety +19

    Almost.
    The 4A ESS toll switch in the second subbasement of 1WTC remained on the SS7 net until at least 2 p.m. that afternoon... when it's batteries ran out.

    • @endokrin7897
      @endokrin7897 Před 3 lety +2

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

  • @mylesl2890
    @mylesl2890 Před 4 lety +9

    wished they showed more of the actual telco equipment I got many tours of the telco gear

  • @2dfx
    @2dfx Před rokem +3

    Shame there's no video of the telephone network restoration after the 9/11 events...

  • @thebestisyettocome4114
    @thebestisyettocome4114 Před 4 lety +72

    9/11 We haven't forgotten. Not even 2019.

    • @Gmtail
      @Gmtail Před 4 lety +1

      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. 😕

    • @zawir_usaodpowiadausa3354
      @zawir_usaodpowiadausa3354 Před 4 lety +10

      It was CIA and MOSAD.

    • @punker4Real
      @punker4Real Před 4 lety +2

      i all ready forgot

    • @RobertLock1978
      @RobertLock1978 Před 4 lety +4

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

    • @RobertLock1978
      @RobertLock1978 Před 4 lety

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  • @kirbyyasha
    @kirbyyasha Před 5 lety +13

    What a great video, also, I want the music from this video, just pure amazing.

    • @johnfleetwood8605
      @johnfleetwood8605 Před 4 lety +12

      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.

  • @PaulChabot
    @PaulChabot Před 4 lety +4

    I wish there was some current commentary on your videos. These are so cool!

  • @Felamine
    @Felamine Před 6 lety +170

    4:47 the same telephone system that would carry many people's last phone calls of their lives.

    • @LMB222
      @LMB222 Před 4 lety +19

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

    • @Africanfrogs
      @Africanfrogs Před 4 lety +33

      LMB222 go eat some pork

    • @PeytonOBrienMagic
      @PeytonOBrienMagic Před 4 lety +3

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

    • @bloodytears4you
      @bloodytears4you Před 4 lety +6

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

    • @scottburns5376
      @scottburns5376 Před 4 lety +2

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

  • @BitSmythe
    @BitSmythe Před rokem +2

    5:18 Flying Tiger was subsequently called Federal Express, or FedEx.

  • @sakshambansal4694
    @sakshambansal4694 Před 2 lety +3

    3:39 if you focus 911 is written where he is drilling! Eerie and chilling. Makes me wonder if everything is already written.

    • @imark7777777
      @imark7777777 Před 2 lety +1

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

  • @redroutemaster
    @redroutemaster Před 3 lety +12

    I worked on auditing the Chase Manhattan offices on London wall. They had an AT&T voice/data network.
    Was always nice to use a 10way punch down tool.
    Chase had a huge coms room for the building, the only problem was the weight of the cable jumpers were so heavy, just walking past the frames caused connectivity faults and rectifying the faults caused more connectivity faults it was a nightmare and Cat5 and successors stopped all the faults.

  • @samanthab1923
    @samanthab1923 Před 4 lety +10

    After the '93 bombing, PANY&NJ moved into the vacant Ma Bell bldg. on the Westside highway.

  • @gregorymarsh9504
    @gregorymarsh9504 Před rokem +2

    Watching all those workers construct those awesome buildings... imagine if you could go back in time, and tell them right in the middle of their work what would happen to those "twins." They would look at you in absolute disbelief.

  • @Ian-qs3fz
    @Ian-qs3fz Před rokem +1

    it’s weird seeing the north tower without its antenna spire

  • @Stender_
    @Stender_ Před 5 lety +2

    Best video ever!!! Thanks for uploading!

  • @26TptCoy
    @26TptCoy Před 4 lety +33

    I watched from a technical point. WTC would almost have it's own telephone exchange. Wondering if it had it's own area codes? Cabling the floors would be no big deal as there would be little difference to cabling a 10 storey building. Each floor would have an individual IDF, would be a lot of weight in copper cable. If there is a record of the riser network I would be interested to see it.

    • @BuildYourOwnBass
      @BuildYourOwnBass Před 4 lety +9

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

  • @thatfeeble-mindedboy
    @thatfeeble-mindedboy Před rokem +2

    If they mean 600 miles of 25-pair ABAM cable, imagine the amount of single twisted pairs that is … (a single twisted copper pair is the least that can carry a single, discreet voice line. ) … Back in the early days, the industry standard business telephone system, the “1A2”, every single keyset sitting on someone’s desk had to have a 25-pair cable (about the size of a garden hose) coming down the inside of the wall, emerging and being terminated to a “jack”, and then going back up the wall and continuing on to the next keyset. When an old building so equipped was finally demolished, the mountain of this cable left piled up, entangled in the rubble and the sheer tonnage of copper contained therein was a mind-boggling sight to behold. What must have come out of those two massive skyscrapers in the form of some 600 miles of cable would be incomprehensible. That’s just telephone cable … imagine the routine solid conductor cable for the 110VAC electrical service to every office, break room, conference room, hallway; basically every room on every floor … wall outlets, switches, and light fixtures. Eyes glaze over …Truly astonishing. Oh yeah, and that all has to run inside either rigid or flexible steel or aluminum conduit (as per NYC fire-code)… can’t forget that stuff.

  • @nigerianprince2620
    @nigerianprince2620 Před rokem

    The video of the uninstalling of the cables is dope

  • @ScottRothsroth0616
    @ScottRothsroth0616 Před 3 lety +1

    Thank you for the info from the beginning to timestamp 1:31.

  • @andrewpayonkify
    @andrewpayonkify Před 4 lety +12

    Someone did something

  • @johnuthus
    @johnuthus Před 3 lety +8

    this, this is what we need to show our kids nowadays.

    • @SlimbTheSlime
      @SlimbTheSlime Před 3 lety +2

      We’d probably just tell you funny Bush jokes.

    • @alisa2702
      @alisa2702 Před 3 lety +1

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

    • @nkt1
      @nkt1 Před 2 lety +1

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

  • @danrayson
    @danrayson Před 3 lety +2

    The tower knows where it is, because it knows where it isn't. Subtracting the place where it was from where it will be gives you the precise location of where it currently, is.

    • @user2C47
      @user2C47 Před rokem +1

      The tower knows where it is because it knows where it was. Given its nature, it can safely assume that where it is is exactly where it was. Thus, where it was, it now is. If it has reason to believe that where it is is where it wasn't, it is likely facing a problem of a rather catastrophic nature.

  • @venkatbabu186
    @venkatbabu186 Před 4 lety +12

    This is the reason at&t put everything in cellphone.

  • @MrDaiseymay
    @MrDaiseymay Před 10 měsíci +1

    Seeing that army of people working hard and fast to meet headlines, reminded me of a book I read, about the claim that 9 /11 was a inside job. There was a similar 'gang' of engineer's doing maintenance work on the tower's for weeks, just before the destruction. The question being, how did they wire -up all the explosives, seen shooting out the buildings , just prior to the floors collapsing. Well, large amounts of men , busying them selves on all the floors, laying cables, would not create suspicion.

  • @rohnkd4hct260
    @rohnkd4hct260 Před 4 lety +19

    Hated that old "wire-wrap"

  • @26TptCoy
    @26TptCoy Před 4 lety +10

    So many miss the point here, it's all about the technical complexity of installing a working telecom system. It could have been any building in any city so give it some merit.

    • @americanspirit8932
      @americanspirit8932 Před rokem +1

      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.

  • @METALFAN4EVS
    @METALFAN4EVS Před 6 lety +11

    Can't imagine how many miles of phone lines were used..

    • @LBZDreamer
      @LBZDreamer Před 4 lety +3

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

    • @Engineer9736
      @Engineer9736 Před 3 lety +3

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

    • @chickywilly
      @chickywilly Před 3 lety

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

    • @nkt1
      @nkt1 Před 2 lety +1

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

  • @loganbaileysfunwithtrains606

    I love these type of documentaries, especially older ones on WTC. No mentioning of the tragedy, just people talking about the new revolutionary skyscrapers that were modern wonders of the world (although they were a bit ugly)

    • @SenileOtaku
      @SenileOtaku Před 3 lety +4

      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.

  • @jamesbeemer7855
    @jamesbeemer7855 Před 4 lety +4

    My great grand mother worked for the space shuttle program . Which put Bell system satilites in orbit , amung other things .

  • @garymckee8857
    @garymckee8857 Před 4 lety +4

    I remember wire wrapping DSX panels day after day.

  • @jamessimms415
    @jamessimms415 Před 3 lety +2

    Was @ my Army Reserve unit for one day computer based training. We thought it was part of the training scenario @ first then figured something was up when we were told to stay off the internet to save bandwidth. We were sent home after the second tower fell...

  • @Mack-ww3si
    @Mack-ww3si Před 2 lety +2

    Not only we’re lives lost on 9/11 but history was lost

  • @soundtrancecloud5101
    @soundtrancecloud5101 Před 3 lety +3

    They should of rebuild two towers there.

  • @MrCraigblaze
    @MrCraigblaze Před 3 lety

    Thanks for the Upload!! XD They also had to demolish that highway as well.xd

  • @americancitizen748
    @americancitizen748 Před 4 lety +7

    Fascinating... yet sad...

  • @catinatdenis5190
    @catinatdenis5190 Před 3 lety

    Très émouvant
    Presque une autre époque

  • @blathetube1597
    @blathetube1597 Před 3 lety +3

    4:53 Won't you take me to...... Funky Town.

  • @NikHYTWP
    @NikHYTWP Před 4 lety +15

    What does he mean when saying that the equipment remained operational on 9/11 but the trunk lines were severed? Does it mean that internal phone systems still worked (floor to floor) or does he mean that even though the towers came down the switches were undamanged?

    • @FlorenceSlugcat
      @FlorenceSlugcat Před 4 lety +19

      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

    • @Fredrovicius
      @Fredrovicius Před 4 lety +5

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

    • @FlorenceSlugcat
      @FlorenceSlugcat Před 4 lety +4

      Fred Tarasevicius because the equipment was deeper than the cables

  • @VTMCompany
    @VTMCompany Před 5 lety +12

    Background music sounds like the Miss America Pageant of the same time.

    • @r0_
      @r0_ Před 4 lety +1

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

    • @21350ctw
      @21350ctw Před 3 lety

      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

  • @MrWolfTickets
    @MrWolfTickets Před 4 lety +11

    3:07 good view of the hat trusses

  • @jaminova_1969
    @jaminova_1969 Před měsícem

    I knew a telecom worker who missed his train that fateful morning. They were installing data cabling. he was the only member of his crew that survived. My other friend was a firefighter who was responding to the WTC. He died too. I watched them construct the Twin Towers, stood on top of one of the Towers in 1977 and used to meet my mother for lunch there. It is devastating that the towers were destroyed and so many innocent people lost their lives. If your ideology, religion or cause says that it is ok to murder civilians, it is probably the wrong ideology!

  • @johnaugsburger6192
    @johnaugsburger6192 Před 2 lety

    Thanks

  • @thatGUYbehindthemask
    @thatGUYbehindthemask Před 4 lety +6

    uploaded on september 11th. nice.

  • @josephsolomon8623
    @josephsolomon8623 Před 2 lety +1

    How ironic the narrator's first words before a skyscraper goes up it's got to go down I can't believe nobody caught that

    • @josephbennett3482
      @josephbennett3482 Před 2 lety +1

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

  • @lacitysun
    @lacitysun Před 4 lety +2

    I'd like to visit someday

  • @DavidBerquist334
    @DavidBerquist334 Před 2 lety +1

    How long did it take to get phone service in to all units on all floors and how many people to do whole job

  • @ggysbers9810
    @ggysbers9810 Před 4 lety +4

    "bell guys are good guys"

  • @johneygd
    @johneygd Před 7 lety +12

    When i saw this video, i can hardly believe that these towers are vanquished 15 years ago.
    Now i also realize what kind of impact it dit litterly had on the world,hence the term, world trade centre!!!

    • @JacobJonesy
      @JacobJonesy Před 7 lety

      dude that was 3 years before you were even born

  • @Steve-Richter
    @Steve-Richter Před 3 lety +1

    What a wonderful country we had.

  • @GruntProof
    @GruntProof Před rokem +1

    Must have been crazy working on those and then watching them come down

  • @voiceofjeff
    @voiceofjeff Před 26 dny

    One pair of wires for each phone line; thats how it was back then!
    Thats a lotta copper!
    I collect business phones from that time (1A2 phones). Thats when telephones and systems were rock solid! The phone systems in WTC were probably amazing!

  • @MrWfrr
    @MrWfrr Před 11 lety +5

    9/11. Помним, скорбим.

    • @pchris
      @pchris Před 3 lety

      "remember, we grieve" for anyone about to search it.

  • @modtwentyeight
    @modtwentyeight Před 3 lety +3

    The only communication that was working was the NYFD fire alarm boxes.

  • @onceagain77
    @onceagain77 Před 3 lety +2

    AT&T was real upset over losing those data lines.

  • @androzani
    @androzani Před 16 dny

    "Before a sky scraper goes up, it's got to go down."
    No, no, please no....

  • @whowhoMikeJones
    @whowhoMikeJones Před 2 lety +1

    Man you guys wired that faster than the guys who blew it up

  • @pcressma
    @pcressma Před 4 lety +3

    That guy at the beginning of the video sounds like the pharmacist in Family Guy

  • @joseospina7557
    @joseospina7557 Před 2 lety +1

    So many years to be built... so few minutes to be destroyed :(

  • @robertcananzi2663
    @robertcananzi2663 Před 4 lety +13

    5:20. Is that actually from inside the towers? New South Wales is a state in Australia (and the flag matches) yet I can find no records of the state government having any location in New York. The sign is also spelt in Australian English (centre) which suggests it may not be in the towers. Anyone know?

    • @jakelivni9576
      @jakelivni9576 Před 4 lety +2

      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.

    • @robertcananzi2663
      @robertcananzi2663 Před 4 lety +8

      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.

  • @bendmalik8144
    @bendmalik8144 Před 2 lety +1

    😱the workers didn’t even have a safety harness🤯

  • @jayfriberg2789
    @jayfriberg2789 Před 3 lety +1

    Skip to 1:30 for content.

  • @electronixTech
    @electronixTech Před 4 lety +6

    Did they use wire connection guides to know where to make the wire wrap connections? At 4:22 looks like a lady is dressing off the wire bundles with that string they used to use.

  • @ukranaut
    @ukranaut Před 3 lety

    For better understanding among people...

  • @hambone15
    @hambone15 Před rokem

    i can’t even remotely imagine the fear going through those jumpers minds being that high

  • @freddyfriend5462
    @freddyfriend5462 Před 3 lety +5

    These towers should have been rebuilt as Notre-Dame is being rebuilt now.

    • @josephbennett3482
      @josephbennett3482 Před 2 lety +1

      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.

    • @imark7777777
      @imark7777777 Před 2 lety

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

  • @Perktube1
    @Perktube1 Před 4 lety +1

    Published on Sept. 11…

  • @malvinderkaur541
    @malvinderkaur541 Před rokem

    one of the greatest horrific civil tragedies if all of this can be done... and till today the reason is as murky as answers created but nothing short of real reason of retribution of some egoistic harms abuses done only then such actions get going otherwise nobody even can think of doing such a desvastation.

  • @user-py2ik5ho9n
    @user-py2ik5ho9n Před rokem

    In let and our let are matters in the past. Nowadays, We have new cables. Electricity and peak time are new matters.
    Service quality is very good.

  • @yeamon4699
    @yeamon4699 Před 8 měsíci +1

    2:04 man says before a sky scraper goes up its has to go down SMH