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Hudson11 · #**561** Posted **Dec 19, 2012, 12:35 AM**

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It's not photoshopped, it's from Fleet Week 1999 or 2000, I forget. I remember the B-2 Spirit flying over Brooklyn; that was also the same day the Blue Angels did a flyover of Manhattan.

They've gotten B-2s to do flyovers for Yankee stadium so it's not like they've never been here

jd3189 · #**562** Posted **Dec 19, 2012, 2:23 AM**

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This is rather eerie. This is apparently the same UAL 767 that was crashed into the South Tower, some seven years before 9/11. And the towers are in the background, which makes it even more spooky.

http://www.airliners.net/search/phot...gsearch=N612UA

Holy crap. 9/11 was almost destined to happen, although I'm not a conspiracy theorist.

Chapelo · #**563** Posted **Dec 19, 2012, 2:39 AM**

One of the establishments I miss from the old WTC was a restaurant on the first floor of the Marriott Hotel (3WTC). It was called Tall Ships Bar and Grill, and was a very warm, inviting place to dine with friends, have a glass of wine, and carry idle conversation into the wee hours of the morning. Great service, excellent food and drinks, and much more affordable than Windows on the World.

It was also a great place to catch brunch. Me and some of the guys would sneak out of the office often and take an elevator down for brunch, especially if we were working on weekends. Drink mimosas, eat pancakes, and go back to work shitfaced. Ahh those were the days!

Here's a picture of Tall Ships that Unisonar on SSC found on Corbis.

Chapelo · #**564** Posted **Dec 22, 2012, 6:54 PM**

Menu from "Skydive", a restaurant located on the 44th floor skylobby of One World Trade Center. A great place to catch breakfast before taking the elevator up. It was still there in 2001. This has to be an old menu though, as I don't remember the prices being this good.

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Old menu from "Skydive" a restaurant located on one ogh the Tower's sky lobby, 44th floor
Look at those prices

Chapelo · #**565** Posted **Dec 22, 2012, 7:00 PM**

And for the Holidays. Merry Christmas everyone!

nycaddict · #**566** Posted **Dec 22, 2012, 7:04 PM**

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And for the Holidays. Merry Christmas everyone!

wow. this this beautiful! i wish i could have seen them in person.

photoLith · #**567** Posted **Dec 24, 2012, 5:16 PM**

These towers were pretty cool looking but man, that would have been so depressing working on those floors. Just big open spaces with nothing but cubicles for as far as the eye can see.

jsr · #**568** Posted **Dec 24, 2012, 7:16 PM**

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These towers were pretty cool looking but man, that would have been so depressing working on those floors. Just big open spaces with nothing but cubicles for as far as the eye can see.

I would think the restricted views from the narrow windows might make the environment a little depressing. I'd certainly be curious to hear Chapelo's take on it...

Chapelo · #**569** Posted **Dec 24, 2012, 7:53 PM**

Felt like working in a jailhouse on some days, especially when it was really drab and dark outside. The best days though, were during the summer, when it would be crystal clear, and you could see for miles and miles in every direction. It was the closest to heaven I've ever been.

Or if the fog was really low, you'd look out the window and see nothing but a giant blanket of white, and the only other building you could see would be the ESB and the South Tower.

And rows after row of cubicles, how is that different from any other modern office building?

Chapelo · #**570** Posted **Dec 24, 2012, 7:59 PM**

I have my own MMC pictures from 1WTC I'll be sharing in the next few weeks, but here are some office pictures from 2WTC.

58th Floor, Two World Trade Center, circa 1999. By Jeff Lanka

^^ The floors in the Twins were MASSIVE. The 107th floor was probably the biggest floor in the towers, with only a few columns, elevator shafts, and stairwells breaking up 1 acre of floorspace. We had around 400 people on each floor, to put things into perspective.

jd3189 · #**571** Posted **Dec 24, 2012, 8:12 PM**

^^^ Thanks for the pictures. These are the closest we will ever get in actually being in these towers.

jsr · #**572** Posted **Dec 25, 2012, 6:33 PM**

Thank you for your insights.

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Felt like working in a jailhouse on some days,

Sadly, that's the one thing I just can't get out of my mind when I think about 9/11... how those columns must have seemed like steel bars.

Chapelo · #**573** Posted **Dec 29, 2012, 3:50 AM**

The mast atop 1WTC, under construction in March 1979. The original antenna can be seen on the left, and was removed when construction of the new mast was completed during the summer of 1979.

jd3189 · #**574** Posted **Dec 30, 2012, 12:32 AM**

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Yackemflaber69 · #**575** Posted **Dec 30, 2012, 4:17 AM**

nice vid

jd3189 · #**576** Posted **Jan 6, 2013, 7:42 PM**

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Thaniel · #**577** Posted **Jan 6, 2013, 8:47 PM**

I found this rendering of the ORIGINAL World Trade Center towers' core structure and elevator shafts and thought it was pretty cool. Thought people on here might like to see it.

Jonboy1983 · #**578** Posted **Jan 6, 2013, 9:44 PM**

^^ I find that interesting. You can somewhat clearly see where the sky lobbies were and how the rest of the elevator shafts were constructed...

DURKEY427 · #**579** Posted **Jan 6, 2013, 11:14 PM**

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You know theres a website of pictures of the twins in films.

Thaniel · #**580** Posted **Jan 7, 2013, 3:08 AM**

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The mast atop 1WTC, under construction in March 1979. The original antenna can be seen on the left, and was removed when construction of the new mast was completed during the summer of 1979.

That's amazing. I was looking for pictures of this exact thing several weeks ago and came up empty. Do you have anymore pictures of this? Or do you or anyone else have pictures of the installation of the new HDTV addons to the mast in 1999?