It's good to see a piece of history. Thanks for uploading this. RIP World Trade Center 1973-2001.

@byntoyt

3 жыл бұрын

I know this is 9 years old but... ITS BEEN REBUILT

@williamsr06

3 жыл бұрын

@@byntoyt It's now called One World Trade Center.

@alpzepta

3 жыл бұрын

The original elevator = 1973-1995 The modernized elevator = 1995-2001

@r4ls3i60

2 жыл бұрын

@@alpzepta This elevator is from 1995?

@elevatoralarmcoasterandarc1214

Жыл бұрын

Long live the king, Twin Towers!

Damn that elevator was fast!

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

@johnnydasuper

Жыл бұрын

For real though

@stargate1552

11 ай бұрын

itd to even faster during a free fall

@peterp2153

9 ай бұрын

They were huge, too. I believe the express elevators could hold something like 55 passengers.

@macrebel8068

9 ай бұрын

@@stargate1552elevators can’t free fall they have governors

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..

0:30 Please don't jump. Ironic choice of words.

@waterlooblaky59

4 жыл бұрын

0:30

I get such a kick out of the elevator operator lady's thick New Yawk accent.

@HaywardEntertainment

2 жыл бұрын

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 🇺🇸

These elevators ran at 2,000 FPM (foot per minute) for anyone wondering which is close to 23 MPH

@PhilippeRgt

Жыл бұрын

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....

@summerx1213

3 жыл бұрын

Feels weird to think some people in that elevator could be dead because of 9/11

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

Everyone laughed at the joke and my heart sunk

@carljohnson621

7 жыл бұрын

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

@dylpickle6123

4 жыл бұрын

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.

@elevatoralarmcoasterandarc1214

Жыл бұрын

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.

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...

So crazy...when she says "please don't jump" everyone seamed amused! who knew uh?

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

@FKBUSH1

4 жыл бұрын

Well... She lied.

@fezziwig184

4 жыл бұрын

@@FKBUSH1 no she didn't.

@dylpickle6123

4 жыл бұрын

It could have

@michaeloneil2379

2 жыл бұрын

Myth busters said no, but would really piss someone off!

@stargate1552

11 ай бұрын

how is a penny gonna kill someone? the worst it could do is hurt the head and leave a bruise

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.

thats so strange to think that that elevator is gone literally, scary

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 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.

Otis Elevators from 1970 ( North Tower ) and 1971 ( South Tower ). Speed travel of 8 m/s. Modernized in 1990s by ACE elevator.

@c63amg81

2 жыл бұрын

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.

@NeilPrasad_1905

2 жыл бұрын

@@c63amg81 yes, analog indicators they had.

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

@williamsr06

3 жыл бұрын

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!

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.

may everyone who died in 9/11 rest in piece

R I P Twin Towers Nothing else can be as iconic as the Twin Towers

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!

little did they know in a year they won’t be able to stand there in the same spot ever again

Was this the South Tower?

im glad you made this because the buildings gone and Ill never see it in person at leased I have this video great video

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

I've been to the WTC many times, also had dinner at "Windows on the World" restaurant, great experience

@stargate1552

11 ай бұрын

how are you feeling 15 years later? was the food good?

I wonder if any pieces of the elevator were found amongst the wreckage and rubble after the incident

oh i'm sorry to hear. were you there on 9/11?

Imagine being trapped in a metal box while sh*t is going down on the outside

10 floors pass every 5 seconds! Wow!

He was on "Top of the World", an observation deck on 2WTC (South Tower). So, this is WTC 2.

@wigglespect sorry for your loss but what does that have to do with the construction of the new complex?

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

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

what type of elevator?

i feel bad for the people who were in the elevator when it happend

Just think HOW MANY trips those observatory cars made? Their life cut short. RIP Otis 339HT. Thanks for the clip!

Imagine being in the elevator at 8:37 AM going down and being on the first floor at 8:43.

nice elevator ride

that elivator goes up REALLY fast!

Anyone have a rip of the super faint music in the background? I'm curious what song is playing..

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.

@hera7884

2 жыл бұрын

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.

@noeuro

2 жыл бұрын

@@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.

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.

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.

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)

@PhilippeRgt

Жыл бұрын

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 !

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.

the observatory was on the 107th floor not the 110th so the freedom tower wud be at the same height

I was up there in September 2000 too

@relevanteaglealarms109

4 жыл бұрын

dregge It maybe 2001

ugh....as the floor number reads 78 (the floor struck by the plane), i just sigh and wish that this disaster never happened.

RIP World trade center :(

Not to be rude or anything but the guy in the background sounds a lot like the Shrimp from Smiling Friends.

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

@dontwalkhand They might not use the buzz. But if they do, make sure you get some ear plugs.

they were my favourite skyscrapers!!!!!!!!

I haven't been up there although I was lucky to visit the WTC complex in July of 01

The middle was hollow that's why it speeds up.

I remember going on that elevator when I was a kid it was a scary ride

@stargate1552

11 ай бұрын

I've always had fears of elevators, but imagine a free fall in a wtc elevator

Probably a service floor. I believe WTC had three floors dedicated completely to power.

@LorenaIsa123 Do you mean the roof? or the VERY top floor?

so sad that 1 year after the elevator is dust which tower is this in

where is the 85th floor?

@RomJonno15 108 was chosen because it is an auspicious number.

I dont know... I did not notice the elevators skiping floors it was an amazing view up there i regret not taking pics

Anyone else notice it skipped the 85th floor?

we all know.....it skipped a lot of number

@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.

- @ 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.

@PhilippeRgt

Жыл бұрын

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 !

thats a fast elevator!

WOW! CooL elevator FAST 1 !!

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.

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...

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.

This would be my ultimate fear, i have a fear of elevators and going that high up would be real fucked up

your ears popped at 17-25 floors i know they did

@amo_res9266

4 жыл бұрын

Do they really? I was born in 2004, so i didnt get to go there

Where is the 85 floor? o.o

they've got a 13th floor?

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.

The Freedom Tower's elevators wont even be Otis but Thyssenkrupp. Yet another reason the Freedom Tower is an inferior replacement.

What date was this filmed on? I know it's September of 2000, but I want to know the exact day

@majorleaguepinscom

2 жыл бұрын

I don't remember the exact date.

Man did I just take a time machine or something?

I was up top too , only 3 months before 9/11. i regret taking pictures or video, it has haunted ever since

omg jh1920..thats weird..are you sure it was floor 85..i have the chills now...well spotted

What were the digital cameras like back then? Was this with one of those home film kind of cameras?

@david_1956

2 жыл бұрын

My first digital camera was in '97. It was a Kodak 1.3 megapixel and cost $700.

I felt like this is rare unless you were born in 2001 and 1973

Hell no. They can keep that.

Please dont jump everyone laughed but I willing to bet someone in that elevator had to make that jump

The WTC elevators were faster than the Empire State Building ones. 1600 fpm against 1400 fpm.

so sad that 1 year after the elevator is dust

0:01 floor 2, and 1:04 floor 107, this video totally proves Wikipedia wrong when it said high speed elevators reached the observation deck in under a minute, as that's one minute and 3 seconds according to this video!

@hornyreptilian2664

7 жыл бұрын

afther this video they upgraded the elevators causing a conspiracy theory for planting thermite bombs inside the elevator shafts. Done by Ace elevator corp

When going to the top of the world trade centre, I will always remember how my ears popped at around about the 20th floor,

For the people who'd never been before

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.