Who here knew the World Trade Center before 9/11?

Question

i didnt know the twin towers before it was hit AND I LIVE IN NYC lol....but that was when i was in 4th grade and i thought the tallest building was the Empire State Building

Answer 1

i do, class trips every year til the forth grade before the first time they tried to blow it up. and it was the last place i saw my ex . you know I'm from NY and never been to the statue of liberty, the only reason I've been to the empire state building my mom use to work on the 17th floor and then again i've only been in the lobby

Answer 2

I never even heard of the World Trade Center until the acts of terrorism occurred. I also thought the Empire State Building was the tallest building in the world, but I think the reason for that is that the World Trade Center was more closely associated with the buissness community, whereas I heard of the Empire State Building from the old Spider-Man cartoon I use to watch when I was little. The Empire State Building was more "mainstream" from my point of view.

Answer 3

The World Trade Center Towers are the remarkable testament to our achievements as a civilized culture.
there is a man who danced between the beautiful buildings while they were being constructed.
At 4 p.m. on Saturday, September 11, 2004, Philippe Petit, the man who 30 years ago astonished New York City and the world by crossing between, dancing between, the two towers of the World Trade Center on a wire he and a friend had flung from one building to the other, 111 stories into the sky,....
please feel free to investigate further this remarkable human being.

Answer 4

The World Trade Center was very well known throughout the world way before Sept. 11. In 1993 there was a plot to blow up underneath one of them and have it fall on the other one. The bomb went off but they did not fall. They were a huge part of the NY skyline. Of course you were in the 4th grade at the time, but at your age now it would almost be the same as not knowing what the US Capitol building is. They were an icon of America.

Answer 5

I'd been to the WTC quite a few times before it was destroyed. Sometime after the incident, I created a webpage about it. Here's an excerpt:

FAVORITE WTC MEMORIES
Watching the army of blue- and gray-suits--hundreds
of them--parade through the subterranean mall to the
train...the outdoor concert with Micky Dolenz and
Davy Jones of the Monkees...meeting Danny Bonaduce...
the partial display of the AIDS Quilt in the Atrium,
including the panel I made (see links below)...the
Gershwin concert outdoors last year...my then-preschool
niece in a beauty contest...I last saw WTC "up close
and personal" August 2001 on my way from seeing the film
"Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory" at a nearby pier.

To see more, go here;
http://mnl_1221.tripod.com/wtc.html

Answer 6

Lived and worked nearby them. Hung out there a bit. The underground mall at WTC was considered a bit scummy, it was a little dirty. Mostly it was just a pass-through for commuters who went to the PATH trains to New Jersey.

I have a funny story that happened to me in about 1998 ...

I thought of myself as sort of a hotshot journalist (actually I probably sucked) but I wrote for some good publications, and I had a few good clips. A headhunter got me an interview with the Coffee, Tea and Sugar Exchange that was in one of the WTC towers, and my first interview went great, I was pretty sure I was going to get the job as a flack (PR person) for them. So for the second interview, I put on a nice suit, rushed out of my apartment and headed down there.

Then, for some reason, my interviewer smiled when she saw me, and proceeded to march me around the entire Exchange, introducing me to everyone she could think of. I was stoked, it seemed like I was going to get the job. And for some reason, everyone I met had this big sh*t-eating grin on their face when they saw me. But I took it as a good sign.

The interview ended, and I went downstairs to catch a cab, and as I got in the cab I looked down and realized that not only was my fly open, but my beautifully starched, white button-down oxford shirt that I tucked into my suit was flowing through the open zipper. Apparently I was the day's amusement at the Coffee, Tea and Sugar Exchange.

Needless to say, I didn't get the job, but I ended up working up the street at a publisher. And it might have been that my open fly may have saved my life.

Anyway, of course in retrospect, it was a wonderful two buildings and everything, but before 9/11 people didn't really like working there that much because the security was such a pain after the first explosion in the garage. I dreaded having to go there on sales calls because of the security.

And my wife and two kids lived about 1000 feet away from it in Battery Park City.

Those were fun days, lots of fun, back when I was young and had the world at my fingertips.

Answer 7

I stay not a techniques, approximately 20 miles from the WTC, and if I went to specific community parks, I had an immediate view of the homes. In entire, i'm related to 6 who died. One pal, a co-human beings brother, a chum's uncle, a neighbor's husband, and a pair of fathers of those I shield. Have a advantageous day.

Answer 8

i visited nyc before 9/11 and i was astonished by the height of the WTC. i was standing in front of it and i looked up to see the top but putting my head all the way back i still didnt see the top. i literally had to bend my back backwards to see the top! it was an incredible bldg.

Answer 9

I did. I have a picture of me in front of it, and a photo of my parents having dinner at the restaurant at the top. You might want to check out the U.N. sometime. That will probably be the next target.

Answer 10

Yep, I knew what the WTC was before 9-11. I've been in them, too.