MSDW, World Trade Center 12-31-1999

** UPDATE** This video was shot in Dec of 1999. As far as I know, most, if not ALL the people in this video HAVE SURVIVED 9/11. MSDW had 13 staff members who perished on that fateful day. Most of them from the brave security team which was led by the late hero Rick Rescorla ***
Short video I took while working at MSDW Morgan Stanley Dean Witter in Dec, 1999. The office was located on the 72nd floor of the second tower (WTC2).
The last clip was in the World Trade Center Mall where all the shops are located.

[@MattH-t3e]

This footage was shot in the 72nd floor. For those unaware, that’s only 5 floors below the impact zone.

[@lovejetfuel4071]

Is it possible that the people in this video survived?

[@paleosapien3468]

@@lovejetfuel4071Of the 15,000 people who were below the impact zones between the two towers all but roughly 100 made it out, so most if not all of the people in this video probably survived.

[@carlosamaral6917]

@@paleosapien3468 Maybe or maybe not, because they were too close to the impact zone... It's easy to guess these 100 deceased were in the floors just below the impact due to the fall of the ceilings and other objects, so we don't know... It's also possible some of these people were already working on other places far from WTC... Who knows...

[@darrenjones3080]

@@lovejetfuel4071 Quoted from the Morgan Stanley wiki page: "Morgan Stanley had offices located on 35 floors across buildings 1, 2, and 5 of the World Trade Center, and was the largest tenant of the WTC complex. Most of these offices had been inherited from Dean Witter which had occupied the space since the mid-1980s.[citation needed] The firm lost 13 employees during the September 11 attacks in 2001[28] (Thomas F. Swift, Wesley Mercer, Jennifer de Jesus, Joseph DiPilato, Nolbert Salomon, Godwin Forde, Steve R. Strauss, Lindsay C. Herkness, Albert Joseph, Jorge Velazquez, Titus Davidson, Charles Laurencin and Security Director Rick Rescorla) in the towers, while 2,687 were successfully evacuated by Rick Rescorla.[29][30] The surviving employees moved to temporary headquarters in the vicinity. In 2005 Morgan Stanley moved 2,300 of its employees back to lower Manhattan, at that time the largest such move.[31]" The only 2 names I could make out in the video were 'Rita' and 'Rosa' and they aren't mentioned in the above list of deceased employees, but of course they could have moved to different companies etc by that time so its imposable to say for sure without knowing full names etc.

[@falsealaska]

​@@lovejetfuel4071well the attacks happened just under two years later so yes of course

[@SouthsideArchives]

It's still hard to imagine how all of that furniture, light fixtures, computers, toilets, refrigerators, let alone the actual victims all were pulverized into dust. Just from the intense force of that collapse. Unimaginable. Being alive when it happened, try explaining that to someone that wasn't around in 2001. Seeing this video just puts into perspective how much we lost that day. Multiply this office view 220 times, 110 floors per tower. All gone in 12 seconds.

[@Methodius93]

Yup that's controlled demolition for ya.

[@stankbox]

​@@Methodius93even if that were true, no one can or will ever prove that, most likely.

[@bigdaddytrips6197]

The Dynamite 🧨 that was detonated in the building is why most body's were never found. Blasted into bits

[@tbh224]

@@Methodius93 what’s it like living without brain cells? since you’re an expert

[@EyeForKnowledge.]

@@leannecampbell4551Unless it was a direct energy weapon that vaporizes everything it touches.

[@YokozunaNumber1]

For those who weren't around at the time, the pre'-9/11 "Y2K Aesthetic" (1996-2001) was a time of great optimisum in the US. The future looked bright and hopeful. September 11, 2001, not only took away nearly 3,000 lives, it also marked the end of that era. It's only now, nearly a quarter-century later, that we can look back and see just what we took for granted. I'm just happy I was there to see that special time.

[@arielleggett2054]

You make a good point. This is when the optimism ended and darkness started entering

[@adamtrogdon959]

I was almost twenty when it happened. I go back and watch videos it so different now

[@pennydreadful5217]

I think nowadays they would not tell us who did it

[@EV-wp1fj]

@@arielleggett2054 I feel the worst for all the kids born post-911. They just don't understand how different the mentality was then. So much less existential worry and so much less mistrust. People were more unguarded.

[@TheRaveMusicArchive]

@@pennydreadful5217They never told you who really did it back in 2001.

[@davewinst1]

This footage gets across the fact that those who died weren’t just a number but normal, beautiful people going about their everyday lives. We owe it to them to never forget them for the rest of our days on this earth.

[@davewinst1]

@@NellyGandhella I don’t use it in the context of the way they look but the fact of them being a human being which is beautiful in every connotation and creation. Have some respect.

[@ashunotaku]

@@davewinst1agreed. A lot of people like to be immature in the comments

[@tvbroken26]

Rest in Peace to all the beautiful souls that lost their lives

[@martinanderssonffs]

Well said!

[@mightytaiger3000]

All under the watch of the gov and orchestration of rogue elements of it

[@JustChill_1031]

Hard to believe that it's been almost a quarter of a century since this was recorded...

[@treasuretrails]

NEVER FORGET!

[@ReganMason-x9y]

To many of us it still feels like yesterday. This was filmed on New Year's Eve day too.

[@ReganMason-x9y]

thank you.

[@davinalopez-oz1ez]

whats hard to believe? its just a recording dude. The Light bulb was invented in 1879 thats hard to believe that someone was able to do that

[@JustChill_1031]

​@@davinalopez-oz1ez It's not the recording itself that's hard to believe, it's the date in which it was recorded. In my opinion, it's hard to believe that this was recorded back in 1999, how nostalgic, and it feels like it was just yesterday I was only 9 years old watching the ball drop on TV and celebrating with my parents including my father who died in 2001.

[@arkan0id594]

As someone who’s been collecting media of the original complex in their glory days, this footage is absolutely priceless. Thank you so much for uploading this! :D

[@wolfie7885]

Bro, why you don't have an KZbin playlist?

[@mintyexe.]

your welcome!

[@arkan0id594]

There’s a playlist called “Original World Trade Center Footage” that happens to have a lot of the videos I’ve saved so far. The thumbnail for it should be of a yellow sign that says “To The Towers Exit”.

[@ReganMason-x9y]

I invite you to see a video here on KZbin titled Working at the World Trade Center. This firm worked in the North Tower. One of the employees did the same thing--candid camera on his coworkers. Look for a young woman with dark brown hair smiling just under the title. Enjoy

[@wolfie7885]

@@ReganMason-x9y ok, thanks bro. and have a good day.

[@xlandros]

Thanks for uploading this, and showing what a typical office in the WTC looked like. Very open floor plan, but packed with office furniture, CRT computer screens, and paper. The constant flutter of paper raining down after the towers were hit, is something I always remember.

[@Parapon3ra]

Cubicle City. The banality of wage slavery.

[@HockeyNationHD]

@@Parapon3ra whatever you think wage slavery means, this isn't it. these people were making salaries, not wages.

[@V0YAG3R]

@@Parapon3ra And communism and islam are religions of peace.

[@coyotelong4349]

@@V0YAG3R Communism isn’t a religion

[@GiGi_RaE]

And we wonder why none of us on planet earth will ever live in peace, simple right here in these comments. Lol no one agrees!

[@nightflyer3242]

This was also the company Rick Rescorla was the Security Director for. Everyone in this footage had probably participated in the evacuation drills he mandated after the '93 Bombings. Rescorla knew terrorists will strike the WTC again and predicted that the next attack will come from the air. Rescorla would be credited for saving over 2000 lives on 9-11, but sadly perished in the collapse of the South Tower.

[@payday444]

Yes, we did. I remember vividly the staircases in the middle "The core". I had nightmares after the attacks cause I kept thinking of all the victims who perished going down those staircases. 😞

[@louiseturner9811]

Rick Rescorla was a hero. May he rest in peace.🕊️🕊️🕯️🕯️

[@fletch61]

Rick Rescorla has a Memorial in his home town of Hayle, Cornwall UK.. The head of Morgan Stanley attended his memorial service in Hayle ..in 2019 in his native Cornwall, a new class 802 train was named "Rick Rescorla

[@blackhawks81H]

Rick was also at la drang with Hal Moore. Who was played by Mel Gibson in the movie "We Were Soldiers". The picture on the cover of the book the movie was based on, was a picture of Rick. Probably the worst most hellish battle of the Vietnam War from the American perspective. Cut off and surrounded. But Rick sang his songs to calm the men down as they went through hell. Just like he would sing songs through a bullhorn during 9/11 to try and calm down people evacuating. The man's fate kept intersecting with these awful historicsl events.. And he always handled them with the ultimate grace and courage. Truly one of the bravest men to ever live. We would all be lucky to be 1/10th the man he was. The company he worked for was one of the bigger tenants in the buildings, but due to his preparation for such an event... Only lost like 6 people. One of whom was him. Contrast that with other companies that lost hundreds that day. That man saved so many lives.

[@niiv9747]

А он случаем не предсказал, что эту атаку с воздуха организуют американские спецслужбы благодаря Ларри Сильверстайну???

[@ChrisSl8]

This footage is incredible, I remember being in these offices with my father as a kid. Not sure if you remember John Slaight, he was with MSDW 60th floor South Tower, thankfully made it out. I was only 10 in 1999 but still vividly remember these offices when I would go to work with him, I’ll have to show him this video too. Thanks for sharing.

[@ReganMason-x9y]

Before 9/11, I worked on the 86th floor of the South Tower for Ebasco Services, Inc. In 1993 Raytheon bought Ebasco for $210 million dollars. I loved working there. Not a day passes that I don't think of them and miss them.

[@USFCpresident]

Glad you and your father are doing well.

[@henriquegois9565]

that´s very interesting, how old are you?? you were working in the day of the attack?? @@ReganMason-x9y

[@aquaabundance4077]

​@@ReganMason-x9yI'm so sorry for your loss. I can't even imagine. 😢

[@ReganMason-x9y]

@@aquaabundance4077 Thank you.

[@plmn93]

I always think of those towers as grand architectural wonders, but that office looks like any other from that time, including mine. Only differences are the view out the windows and the elevator ride up. Makes the whole thing hit that much closer to home. Thanks for posting it.

[@biggils8894]

Not every floor was the same, depending on the business. Some companies decked floor’s out into luxurious offices

[@eaglevision993]

The 90s/00s were the cubicle era. Most offices in the WTC were not luxurious places but small, efficient workstations. Ever seen a trading floor from this time? Cramped messy space with 100+ people hustling around. Nightmare to work in.

[@pinlight97]

@@eaglevision993meanwhile I worked in the non-profit arts at the time in a century building walk up in Toronto, near our awesome St Lawrence Market. View of an iconic flatiron building with a mural on it from my window. Huge desk in an open concept workspace with high ceilings. Loved it! I worked in a cubicle at a bank as a teen and swore to never do it again…even with a cool view of Lake Ontario. So, yes, WTC would have been iconic to visit…not sure of the day to day slog in and back, or the crowded offices either.

[@BlighterProductions]

The last day of the 20th century, and of a millennium. I would have given anything to go back in time to see that special moment in time.

[@Jackie-wn5hx]

You would have seen a lot of people freaking out about Y2K.

[@APerson-ni1gb]

@@Jackie-wn5hxas a little kid I was Oblivious to all that, and just thought hey the Numbers are All changing from a bunch of 9s to a bunch of 0s 😂

[@cobolsaurus]

Geez... I was a 33 year old system analyst working on the Y2K situation.

[@redtra236]

Technically not because the year 2000 is the last year of the 20th century(there was no year 0).

[@mundocpc]

I was 19 back then, so I remember the stuff pretty clearly (well, at least until the late night party started, then everything was blurred). Changing the millennium was something very special.

[@IllIIllllIlIlIll]

The fact my kids are learning about this as I did about Peral Harbor is almost impossible to comprehend. To them, this is something from history. To us, we lived it.

[@yeety1208]

it's like the way our grandchildren and great grandchildren will probably learn about covid 19

[@allanya74]

It’s still almost hard to believe.

[@hobomike6935]

The people responsible for this, and the hundreds of thousands who died (on both sides) in the war that took place afterwards, made *billions of dollars* off this event’s execution. They will also never be revealed, thanks to government involvement.

[@josem588]

@@yeety1208 I wonder who will take us out of the mess COVID did ?

[@tzui4998]

We age as anyone

[@GJW80]

The last day of the 90's and everyone seems so happy and making plans. Little did any of them know of the horror that was too come in the not too distant future. I hope at least some of them made it out alive. RIP to all of those who didn't. Heartbreaking.

[@monserratgomez3159]

I’m not sure if you know but in the late 90’s there was a widespread fear that computer systems would fail when the year changed from 1999 to 2000, because of the “00”. Leading up to the last day of 1999, this caused majority of the people to panic fearing there would be massive power outages, banks shutting down, transportation systems shutting down. So much chaos, people were stocking up on anything they could think of, preparing for the worst. Of course nothing happened but to think they had no idea what would happen in 2001, is insane

[@GJW80]

@@monserratgomez3159 I was there, I remember it well. But you think people foreseen planes flying into the Towers and the Pentagon because of that 🤔

[@sondrapatty3504]

@@GJW80 He was saying what they were preparing for and THIS wasn't one of them. They were preparing for outages and such etc. - JUST SIMPLY CLARIFYING

[@greenkitty82]

That's very thoughtfully said. Everyone just getting on with their day like the rest of us and blissfully unaware that in less then two years time, the tower would be ashes. I hope everyone in their offices that day were able to get out ❤ it also shows us that anything can change in an instant so we have to appreciate the time we have.

[@EV-wp1fj]

I was 25 when I saw the towers hit. I was already an adult for many years, working in NYC and never in my life did I expect to see that. I was so angry not just because of what happened, but because I knew then that this was going to be a scar that would never fully heal. Sadly I was right.

[@zurirobinson2749]

I was five days old when this was filmed. I was in the NICU on a ventilator, as I wasn't supposed to have been born until February 28, 2000. My mom had worked in the WTC some 10 years earlier. Obviously, I have no memory of the original complex or the horrible day when they were destroyed, but I've always been fascinated by what the world was like before (I even attempted to write a novel set among a group of interns at one of the companies in the WTC). Thank you for sharing this bit of history for future generations to see. The girl in the beginning looks somewhat like I do now... she's now about 50 years old, if she survived the attack and the decades after. I hope that all your friends made it and are okay wherever they are.

I was 16

[@dennis3178]

Nobody cares. This is not about you.

[@lenatraceroxton1363]

Your book idea sounds so cool! I would love to read it! :)

[@Raven-rc8zc]

I was 5 when this was filmed, 7 when WTC was attacked. I Remember these horrible pictures from the news. I was horrified when I saw people jumping.

[@trevorwatson2591]

I was 16 and remember the day vividly and still saddened over the tragedy that should have been prevented. For all of us that love to fly domestically and internationally, we're now unfortunately treated as criminals until we pass the scrutized testing from airport security. The airport and flying experience will never be the same post 9/11.😢

[@Satrina777]

It's like looking into another world. I miss the days when we didn't all have phones/cameras in our hands 24/7

[@lifelesstutorialbuilder1]

congratulations, you just commented a anti social media comment on a phone.

[@johnmaltz7165]

​@@lifelesstutorialbuilder1nobody asked

[@lifelesstutorialbuilder1]

@@johnmaltz7165 for your life

[@FADE-AWAY]

u dont know maybe it was on a pc @@lifelesstutorialbuilder1

[@lifelesstutorialbuilder1]

@@FADE-AWAY it’s still a device lmao

[@pomerlain8924]

These are great videos. It's nice to see the towers from this perspective inside to see what life was like. Had to be a pretty unique place to work.

[@Justin-uc8sc]

Not unique at all. Just a run of the mill office building that happened to be destroyed.

[@rnxrx]

@@Justin-uc8sc and that's why you're watching the interiors of that not-unique building and commenting on it

[@hectorlopez1069]

They even looked so unreal inside. The old white computers from those days. Life was so precious before 9/11.

[@MichaelWeldon-x4e]

It still is

[@danielsanchezgomez882]

​@user-my3yp1wb2z Life isn't precious anymore, not only in NY but in the whole damn world. Life isn't the same as it used to be.

[@wr7662]

@@danielsanchezgomez882 This video was recorded inside of an office building. What are you talking about?

[@danielsanchezgomez882]

@@wr7662 What the fuck are you talking about?

[@wr7662]

@@danielsanchezgomez882 You're suggesting that this footage of wage slaves in an office building under monotonous fluorescent light shows how much better life used to be.

[@davidsteele3924]

I was in Times Square at that exact time with over a million people waiting for the ball to drop to start the year 2000

[@payday444]

And we all somehow survived the Y2K bug! Remember that?

[@Ozymandias1]

@@payday444 Well all the panicking over that actually helped make sure that not much happened. By 12-31-1999 just about every piece of software had received bug fixes. I remember that they got old dudes who knew COBOL out of retirement to make sure that even the antiquated mainframes that a lot of companies were still using were fixed.

[@22lyric]

​@@payday444Something COULD have happened. It WASN'T that preposterous of an idea! It could have been just ONE industry with a problem and we would have had problems similar to what happened during COVID.

[@iamhappy679]

Rest in peace to those who died My respect goes out to the loved ones So sorry to them Thank you to firefighters, police officers, doctors, nurse for trying to save another life during this 🤍🕊

[@davinalopez-oz1ez]

enough with the RIP. Its been over 20 years.

[@Tom_why]

@@davinalopez-oz1ez BRO ARE YOU CRAZY OVER 3000 PEOPLE DIED

[@davinalopez-oz1ez]

@@Tom_why enough with the RIP. Its been over 20 years. get that straight

[@davinalopez-oz1ez]

@@isabelle_abeilles rust in peace

[@davinalopez-oz1ez]

@@isabelle_abeilles respect what? I don't know these people who are they to respect?

[@HamburgerTime209]

Man these office floors really were huge

[@payday444]

Yes! You could see from one end of the building to the very end of the other side.

[@jamesvazquez2491]

That was the uniqueness of the towers, unlike any previous before them that large, you had thousands upon thousands of yards of unobstructed airspace. Most floors were simply bolted in from the outer wall to the core

[@Niixx1]

They don’t make them like this no more and it’s so sad !

[@alexedelweiss3267]

I just imagine how those offices would be in the present day after being modernized

[@mikeymcmikeface5599]

Horrible work place.

[@CurlyBoyChuck]

Seeing the windows is so haunting knowing so many had to jump 😢

[@milantehrandubai]

Oh you're here ! I like your videos...

[@Fra93TheGrande]

Still they made the better decision 😢 yet so tragic and heartbreaking Choosing the way to die, must be absolutely terrifying

[@pushvedula5640]

Interesting video, I see this was the 72nd floor of the South Tower which was literally 5 floors below the impact zone! I hope all of these people who were present in this office that unfortunate day were able to make it out just like you!!!

[@kinematics6]

I was searching by their names and Rosa and Rita survived because I don't see their name in the list of dead ones.

[@pushvedula5640]

@@kinematics6 Yeah, I don’t see an Obituary for Rita or Rosa so it’s likely they survived or maybe they left the WTC before 9/11 and it’s very likely almost everyone working in this office below the impact zone survived hopefully!

[@kinematics6]

@@pushvedula5640 True, they have over 2k employee and only 12 died and they were above the impact at that moment.

[@pushvedula5640]

@@kinematics6 ohhh ok I see, so you mean only 12 working for this company were above the impact zone at the time?

[@CybercoreProtos]

That's also assuming they weren't told to stay in their offices despite the burning tower. ​@@pushvedula5640

[@travis4184]

It's one thing that some of these workers actually saw the plane coming and started to panic , but its another for the people who didn't have windows or just worked away from seeing it coming , like in bathroom at the time or just in a conference, and just like that they were gone. Very sad.

[@Rob774]

I don't know if they ever saw it. It was moving close to 600 mph. Everyone else has the advantage of relative positioning. When you are the target, you would have had to be staring at the window at that very moment, because 10 seconds prior, you wouldn't have scene it.

[@shinkyorta7354]

I didn't think planes could fly that fast so low, doesn't the air pressure rip them to bits at that speed and height?

[@mplslawnguy3389]

@@shinkyorta7354There’s no way they were going that fast when they hit. I think they max out at like 550 mph at altitude but don’t quote me. In the video on the ground, the famous one with the FFs, it looks like it was probably 200 mph or so just by looking at it, maybe 300.

[@misterdog7]

​@@mplslawnguy3389No it was determined both were near 500mph at the time. Also looks like cruising speed if you watch the videos.

[@DragonFire360Media]

@@mplslawnguy3389 Actually the higher the altitude the easier it is to break the sound barrier and those planes aren't built for Mach speed. Mach speed at 30,000 feet is 677 Mph and 760 Mph at sea level. Temp can also affect those numbers due to what is called density altitude. The maximum operating velocity (VMO) for a plane at sea level is 360 knots, or 412 Mph but Ground speed and airspeed are two different things so depending on air current the ground speed could have been higher than the air speed.

[@roncaruso931]

I eas a computer tech from 1987 to 1997. One of my accounts was the World Trade Center. I had calls from many companies in both buildings. I remember so much about those buildings. Breaks my heart to see it again with people just doing their work.

[@honesta2707]

0:05 🕊🌹wherever you are; I hope you're well 🌹🕊

[@Subha_Prakash_Nayak]

What happened with her in this day?

[@SillyStrawYT]

​@@Subha_Prakash_Nayak nothing i assume. I guess she was a victim of the twin towers a year later.

[@angelothehorrorfan5013]

​@@SillyStrawYT she survived

[@angelothehorrorfan5013]

​@@Subha_Prakash_Nayakshe didn't die

[@SillyStrawYT]

@@angelothehorrorfan5013 whats her identity?

[@jj-if6it]

It's nice to see a video of people just smiling and working on a normal day. It seems like it was just yesterday

[@adrianprincipe2370]

Most of the people depicted here were probably killed during the attacks.

[@mariafinn1082]

Back in the day when people were shy and sort of embarrassed to be on camera, you know, BEFORE social media and the insufferable selfie.

[@MrFrog_]

Exactly.

[@allthis_time]

Keep yapping old lady

[@audriella222]

I’m still shy to be on camera

[@mariafinn1082]

@@audriella222 Yeah, so am I. We are in the minority it would seem.

[@teaacustardcream2868]

@@audriella222me too nowadays you get shamed if you don’t want to be filmed.

[@davehue9517]

My companies office was on 6th floor of South Tower and I visited in '96 and still have photos... I bought a NYC shirt at the observation deck and still remember the feeling of the building swaying as I looked over at the North Tower.... such an iconic building and RIP 🙏 to all that didn't make it out

[@GreenYoshi3881]

Those offices were massive. Thank you for sharing this. It helps many remember the human life that was taken and the beauty of those buildings 😢

[@SeahawksBamBamKam]

90's were such a Happier time

[@jkbezo]

Early 00s as well

[@olmedoguzman9877]

@Handcuff_Collector I was born in 1979 in Panama, the 80's especially were hard time for most of our people.

[@flyaway6671]

Pre-social media days were objectively better, I don't care what anyone says.

[@SeahawksBamBamKam]

@@flyaway6671 Not even a question, so many bad habits addictions to stupid technology social media crap people cant relax anymore, and everyone thinks there smart because they have a phone

[@StockTurboN20]

@@flyaway6671100% true

[@EV-wp1fj]

I used to work in NYC (Flatiron district) around the same time as these individuals and am about the same age as them. It took my breath away to see this. I had about three years in the work world before 911 and it was exactly like this. So blessedly normal. And WTC did have a mall. I remember it well. In fact, when they did the temporary Path station, it connected up to a tiny piece of what was left of the mall (just a small vestibule) so the double doors and the original floor tile design was all still intact.

[@MrS98VAC]

9/11/01 caused such a drastic change. We've carried on yet, the feeling was NEVER the same again!

[@klaasj7808]

done on purpose to create the new world

[@Victoria3232-j7o]

That's what people said about the 1993 world trade center bombings.

[@krazyspartanodst]

What I don’t get is how didn’t they seee this coming

[@idk-cb8di]

@@krazyspartanodstNgl, seeing the whole entire complex now, it feels like something bad was gonna happen to those buildings. Everything was just too… perfect.

[@choossuck7653]

​@@krazyspartanodstthey knew all about it. They had people help plan it.

[@lizzyrizzy72]

My dads friend didn’t survive. R.I.P. 💗 🕊️ Great friend.

[@trashcantacos]

Rip to your dad's friend

[@gcnj7012]

I worked for Morgan Stanley Dean Witter in Jersey City from June 1998 through May 2001, I remember going to 2WTC to pull invoices from the micro fiche machine on the 45th floor, these videos bring back so many memories of the office.

[@1StIwY1]

80s to early 2000s. The best decades human kind have gone through. Unforgettable, unbeatable times.

[@tono8947]

Every past time was worst. Is a fact.

[@Gramscifreedom]

Rwandan genocide, shock therapy in Russia, break up of Yugoslavia, Afghan civil war, deindustrialisation in the west… Just a reminder that nostalgia can be a powerful tool.

[@Christopher070]

It was truly the pinnacle of human civilization and those of us who were lucky enough to have lived and experienced those glorious decades know it.

[@dennis3178]

@tomr6955 You were born when you were meant to be born. We all are. Live for today and enjoy life.

[@marianebea4184]

It was different time for different countries. We in Russia just tried to survive in 90s after the Soviet Union collapsed. But still 80s and 90s were amazing warm days of childhood when all loved ones were young and alive😊

[@israelmendoza7599]

Wow this is awesome more people are posting the daily life inside the World Trade Center, videos like this were pretty much impossible to find until now, thank you for sharing it

[@ReganMason-x9y]

This is the REAL World Trade Center, not some cheap, gaudy, ugly monstrosity that people don't like looking at. THIS World trade Center was what Freedom is. I worked there, still miss them, and like so many other people would love to have them back. Thank you for sharing this. I also noticed that this was New Year's Eve, the last day of 1999. Can't thank you enough.

[@waverunner7063]

How was this building freedom exactly? Just curious.

[@ReganMason-x9y]

@@waverunner7063 They represented hope. Each tower had something unique to offer

[@ReganMason-x9y]

@@waverunner7063 You cannot go on the roof of the F thing. The South Tower had an indoor and rooftop observation deck. There was a sense of freedom there that's missing now

[@stankbox]

​@@ReganMason-x9yyeah. I guess you're not a big fan of this new place. I get that.

[@samueltorres521]

@@stankboxthose days are very good days and we had those great buildings not like not were everything is very expensive and very dangerous

[@Streetw1s3r]

Y2K, tension and hype counting down to the new millennium, a truly once in about 15 lifetimes event, 4 days away from my 6th birthday. Happy new millennium. Actually it would've been 6am the morning after my time when this footage was taken, I'd have been fast asleep and already in the year 2000 as you were taking this video.

[@rustyshackleford1114]

Art Bell made it seem like it was a foregone conclusion and then nothing happened.

[@Stafford-d8u]

Such a sad day it was when it happened! This footage is amazing. Thank you for sharing

[@Al-ou3so]

I was born just over a week later (9th January 2000). It’s also nice to see people shy on camera and not clamouring for attention. Oddly wholesome.

[@carlaconnor8347]

People are still like that in front of a camera, you clown

[@crediblecommenterr]

Used to be normal

[@mundocpc]

Yep, it used to be like that.

[@cryptocsguy9282]

​@urbanyouthslove that show 😍😍

[@catchwreck928]

Man and to think when you recorded this i was a couple miles away inside my home in Queens , playing Crash team racing spyro 2 Duke Nukem Time to kill, star wars the phantom menace for psx eating a bunch of candy, playing with my action figures, watching Cartoonetwork, Nickelodeon, MTV, HBO Family, watching some VHS tapes i remember Baby genius and Paulie *sigh" man im getting emotional. actually i remember on this day new years eve of 1999 i was dragged to my parents friend house for a new years party, I was HEATED. so many dam people, it was crowded. dam i remember everyone dancing to TLC bad boy DMX Big Pun Mase Mya Biggie hell even ricky martin and even backstreet boys was poppin I was the only kid at the time who didnt have a game boy color and was so i wanted to go home. Finally at around 12:00am we arrived home, and i rushed to turn on my playstation and my mom was like " BOY GET YO A$$ TO BED" I WAS LIKE"TF" *sigh* i say all that to say i miss these times so dam much, and videos like this almost gets me emotional. i regret trying to grow up so fast and taking everyone for granted. So if i feel this pain i can only imagine what You or anyone who lost people from this attack are feeling when you see videos like this.

[@aquaabundance4077]

❤

[@750tripple]

I hope all these people are still alive today and have found peace happiness and purpose in there life

[@hoyasaxa215]

All the people in the video survived the attacks.

[@bmla88]

@@hoyasaxa215source?

[@xtrememarioplush793]

@@hoyasaxa215 How do you know this?

[@hoyasaxa215]

@@xtrememarioplush793 only a dozen people from Morgan Stanley perished. None of them are in the video.

[@redtra236]

@@hoyasaxa215 How do you know all the people in the video were still working there at the time of the attack? It's possible that some of them might have been transferred by then/

[@kevinm5597]

Still can’t wrap my head around this ! So sad rip to everyone who lost their lives

[@1940limited]

Thank national security for dropping the ball on warning signs, the Clinton and Bush Administrations.

[@rknine7998]

As a native New Yorker from when I was a kid, I remember the phobia people had right before the 2000 New years.

[@rickhardman7376]

It was more to do with the crowds what would be at Times Square

[@danl4259]

Y2K was a real fear at that point@@rickhardman7376

[@upon-fe2720]

​@@rickhardman7376Y2K was a genuine worry for people worldwide, it wasn't a Times Square thing

[@rickhardman7376]

I only remember it being taken in jest ... But then again I was only 13 @@upon-fe2720

[@4everdee33]

haha I was scared too - people was saying all the technology would reset because the computers couldn't compute the year 2000 lol. I remember watching The Steve Harvey Show (sitcom version), and they had the cast countdown, and all the power went out lol.

[@alex-internetlubber]

Not just the trade center, but 12/31/99 in general. Such a special day. I imagine where I was at that time, getting ready for the millennium

[@Elkcib]

Thanks for the video. I really missed those days.

[@ReganMason-x9y]

I LOVED those beautiful floor-to-ceiling windows. The air vents in front ot them were about two feet and went back to the windows. I sat on them and leand against one of the columns, right near the window. What sheer joy they were.

[@mickeysmiths]

Very interesting video. An absolute slice of history. Thanks for sharing 👍

[@MichaelGeorge161]

They were looking into the future with such curiosity, and now we are looking into the past with such curiosity.

[@QuinnnMallory]

1:12 was that Kevin Cosgrove walking by on the left holding the cup?

[@AndrewJYoung-zu5ny]

That could genuinely have been. In fact the more I re-watch the more I’m convinced it’s Cosgrove :(

[@edge9380]

Man that's hard to watch, I was 16 in 2001 and I'll never ever forget that day 😢

[@casperinfinito8865]

hola me gustari a saber sobre ello

[@ChildMolester-f2c]

This was '99, not '01.

[@jacobbruce3174]

I’ve watched the video you got your picture from that kid in the record store in like 87 or so lol

[@teortega93]

I was 8 in 2001.

[@jwhyte2042]

Same, a few months away from turning 17 on 9/11. I’m from London, the weather was clear like in New York that day and such an eerie feeling. I will never forget that day 😢

[@sparkynewman6692]

No wonder the entire sky around the Towers was pretty much sheets of office paperwork after the impact. Most filing was still done on paper back then unlike how much of it is stored electronically today.

[@InfamousWolf89]

I read somewhere that papers and debris were flying over the river into Brooklyn from the World Trade Center

[@potato22258]

You really needed this video to tell you that?

[@twistedbliss58]

No shit Captain Obvious. People really do comment the dumbest and most obvious things on 9/11 videos. Everyone knows technology was not what it is now in 1999. 🙄

[@artcompassed4420]

Tbh offices STILL use hella paper today

[@liberioescriba6158]

wtf ....today paper is an necessary as ever

[@coreyrowe4119]

Hopefully everyone made it out alive that fateful day (R.I.P. to everyone that was stuck in or above the impact zones and couldn't escape).

[@payday444]

From what I remember, Most of the people were immediately evacuated after the first plane hit. The 1st one hit WTC1. This video is from WTC2 which the plane hit later.

[@matthewcole4753]

@@payday444 Morgan Stanley's offices were all below the impact zone of 2 WTC. 13 employees of the company's 3800 that worked in the WTC were killed in the attacks. The evacuation of their offices was swift and effective, 16 entire floors of Morgan Stanley offices were within 2 WTC, and everyone was outside in 45 minutes from the beginning of the attacks! This was done by the company as a precaution to the 1993 Bombing. 3 more floors of the company was in 5 WTC. It is fortunate to write that most likely the people in this video did survive.

[@terrycraig6386]

People were happier back then without I phones in hands 24-7.i miss those days when people talked and weren't afraid of one another

[@ronaldojunb]

@@terrycraig6386 today are new times. There were problems in those times that we didn't pay attention to, but they existed. I think there are positive points today. I lived for a while without internet or cell phones, but look what we're doing now, watching videos of something that happened years ago on cell phones, computers, tablets, I wouldn't trade that for the past.

[@dude8273]

that may be, but so many couldn't reach their families in their last moment, i bet they wished they had iphones in their hands to say their goodbyes

[@3434abab]

I used to work at FJ Wilkes, an Insurance company at the top of tower one. I used to have lunch on the huge circular bench in the plaza at ground level and look up at the two towers going seemingly into the clouds. I'll always remember the powerful elevators that would thrust you upwards. You could really feel they were no ordinary elevator

[@RedDeadRanger]

I love the short shopping scene at the end. Everybody walking with their head up, no mobiles. Got a great vibe to it.

[@c.eb.1216]

My goodness, it's like no time has passed, only in the tech and nothing else. Style hasn't changed much. It's almost eerie.

[@libertatemadvocatus1797]

I have always said that we're stuck in a bizzaro version of the 90s with much better technology. I think that's why there aren't too much media set in the 90s the same way there's media set in in the 50s, 60s, 70s, and 80s.

[@jj-if6it]

I was thinking that too. It's not like when you look back at videos of the 80s. I was a young teen in 1999 and it didn't feel that different from now, apart from the lack of smart phones

[@UDRNeonVinylScratch]

Not exactly. We have dumb ugly Oscar Bravo How Money Works offices now

[@llamasarus1]

Except with the modern emphasis on pride and body positivity you're now likely to see more people who look like peacocks and walruses.

[@elliecherise1968]

Hard to believe that a 1 year and 9 months later this same office would have been a nightmare scenario. Edit: This office was below the impact zone so most people here got out. What's sad is that they're the same age as the people that didn't. The people only a few floors above them, well you know...

[@BellaBlue2023]

It was 2 years

[@elliecherise1968]

@@BellaBlue2023 Feels like 6-8 years.

[@SpeccyHorace]

​@@BellaBlue2023It was 1 year and 9 months, as was said.

[@lomemarsupial]

people acted like human beings back then and seemed to have had good hearts. now people seem mean and destroyed inside

[@OldAussieAds]

Of course this video contains a lot of baggage. And yes it makes me very sad too. But it's given me a completely different observation. In Australia, most people are on holidays on New Years Eve and many offices are empty or only have very few people about. Of course I knew New Years was the middle of the year in the Northern Hemisphere, but I hadn't really thought about the holiday aspect.

[@jasonanthony5973]

Everyone is so much happier back then

[@PHlophe]

Jase anthony, it is just a slice of life. come on son.

[@Buoyant_Bear]

I was a six year old when this was filmed. Still remember all of the Y2K panic on TV on this exact day. The world sure has changed a lot.

[@stankbox]

Yeah, some for the better, some for not

[@user59371]

@@stankboxhow tf would he know obviously the world looks different to a 6 year old

[@aquaabundance4077]

I was 6 then too. A few weeks away from turning 7. Good times 😊

[@aquaabundance4077]

​@@user59371who are you to invalidate anyone's memories?

[@teortega93]

I was six years old too.

[@stacyg585]

Everything you see in this footage was what the people who were there on 9/11 were doing too. Just an ordinary day. And now imagine suddenly their day being interrupted by a terrifying explosion followed by fire and panic and no way of escaping. Just imagine that arc, all within the span of an hour.

[@edgargarcia7003]

Now imagine seeing that entire office floor black because of the intense smoke and people screaming because of the intense heat of that smoke, tripping over furniture and people without being able to see any exit to escape from... that's Dantesque!

[@Brian-qg8dg]

I live in California, but I was in the Morgan Stanley Dean Witter offices around the 77th for in the south tower for 3 weeks in May of 2000. Simply crazy place to be in, and crazy how it was just gone not too long after.

[@sunrayrosin7181]

My parents and many of my friends and family all worked in those buildings. Forever in my heart and memories. I grew up going to corporate Christmas parties and family events and those offices where part of my life all my life until they went down.

[@NalaRichenbach]

Looks like an ordinary office in any building. This was before things got horrible in America. I wish we could go back to the 1990s.

[@mega-hb4re]

People were so nice back then

[@pnwguy00]

Eh, not really they were just less distracted without digital devices.

[@TheGabrielPT]

Right. This is the main thing I got from this video. It's shocking to me, as a person born in 1998. People nowadays are so much more antisocial, arrogant, mean, because of social media and its effects, it's so sad.

[@bimmer8602]

@@pnwguy00 probably but definitely less cocky about their social media presence and just focusing on real life things.

[@tina8796]

Wow ! thanks for giving us a glimpse into what it actually looked like inside. I wonder if these people were working there on 9 / 11. Working in a sea of people would be kind of scary for reasons like they faced. All trying to get down the stairs when the planes hit the buildings on 9 / 11

[@rikudouray]

Did those people on the video survive? man this was priceless footage.

[@spicygolem9167]

Most likely, as they were below the impact zone

[@starter47990]

​@@spicygolem9167unless they went to breakfast on Windows of the World

[@spicygolem9167]

@@starter47990 true

[@tomjones4105]

@@starter47990 Or if they had a last minute dermatologist appointment shortly after doubling insurance coverage.

[@libertatemadvocatus1797]

@@starter47990 Windows on the World was pretty pricy and wasn't exactly a place your average office worker would grab a bite to eat.

[@cubist12]

When I think of the difficulty of evacuating buildings like these in an emergency, it kind of pisses me off to see so many people crammed into one spot, then envision this across a hundred floors or so, and expecting that many people to be able to get out of a building in an organized manner. It makes you seriously stop and rethink how corporations should choose better options for their workplaces than 100+ floor towers that are packed to the gills.

[@sarahito8951]

True, but this is NYC and there is nowhere to go but up. Now a number of these firms have relocated to NewJersey where they can spread out

[@dennis3178]

Stop whining.

[@tomloft2000]

One of the solutions (popular or unpopular) is work from home.

[@Teresa-pv9zq]

The top floors should be vacant on skyscrapers-for architectural aestetics only. Even now you ask yourself how would emergency save people in a similar scenario on higher levels today. It seems unrealistic to put people in this situation

[@replicaclone4776]

​@Teresa-pv9zq you speak the truth

[@head_like_an_orange]

Any idea of her full name at 0:53 and if she survived?

[@Stevie2468]

Rita Ripkey, and yes she survived! She was on the 33rd floor at the time of the attacks and made it out alive. She now works as a photographer. There's a news article online about it :)

[@head_like_an_orange]

@Stevie2468 You sure? I looked her up but to me she doesn't look like the lady in the video. Either way I'm glad that the lady mentioned did survive.

[@Velzar3]

She didn't

[@head_like_an_orange]

@@Velzar3 So what's her name?

[@Sharpshooter99100]

I like the old school work cubicles in this office!

[@chrisiemysnyk]

Thanks for sharing this with us ❤

[@michaelgriffith4110]

This is the holy grail of footage here. Rip to all we lost

[@tjhamerica]

Great video that I just stumbled upon. My father Bill Harrigan worked in the World Trade Center at Morgan Stanley Dean Witter from 1987 I believe until 2001, by the grace of God Alhamdulillah he was not there on 9/11, but he used to tell me about how the great work of Director or Security Colonel Richard (Rick) Rescorla. I believe my father worked on the 59th floor on 9/11 but I’ve also heard the 72nd I believe he worked there at one time

[@CopperNic1972]

I've seen a few of these videos from various people and it is so cool to see people hesitant to be video taped. Glad everyone in this video made it out. Rita was right, she is a pretty girl lol!

[@PinkSoldier2009]

How do you know that they all made it out alive?

[@CopperNic1972]

@@PinkSoldier2009 I thought I read somewhere that these individuals in the office were indeed ok.

[@Stevie2468]

Rita (full name Rita Ripkey) was on the 33rd floor at the time of the attacks and made it out alive. She now works as a photographer. There's a news article online about it :)

[@markheying2830]

@@Stevie2468Was Floor 33 Citigroup or Morgan Stanley?

[@UnknownPersononGoogle]

Feels weird knowing I was born in 1991 and this was filmed a few years later.

[@Readeroll]

Many of the employees who got fired on 9/11 actually came to work in the new rented offices and were allowed to work only because there was no record of their firing available with the company. Nor the people who fired them were alive. Crazy times 😢😢

[@knowledgetub46]

I dont know who ar alive and who ar not... But the smiles ar so beautiful... Meaningful and warm.. People should not forget or forgive anyone..

[@GrasshopperGame]

1:11 next to that lady thats being zoomed on, is that Kevin Cosgrove?

[@debadityahazra8317]

Who he is

[@Iloveflower2024]

I was in New York summer 2001. You’d never believe how massive the trade center was in real life. Standing in front of the towers, looking up, it was impossible to see the sky! All these years later, and It’s still so hard to believe it all happened. RIP 🕊️

[@Twobarpsi]

My high school friend worked for Cantor Fitzgerald. RIP Bill.

[@BOND19951]

Watching this video is so eerie yet amazing in its own way. Its taking us back during a time where the world seemed at peace at least in the late 90s. Sadly, the world hasn't been the same since 9/11 and the dark times has followed. Worse, the world is at the bleak of WW3 and nobody can't give a straight answer why and those pushing for it aren't being held accountable. In the words of Lord of the Rings, "How did we get to this...?"

[@superidea-channel]

I'm from Russia and I'm against any wars. But what can I do as a simple person? There are people around me with different views. My opinion is already blocked, there is repression here. That leaves only KZbin and Facebook where I can express my opinion. I can answer the question why this happens. After all, with my own eyes, from the inside, I saw how people came to arms. Because the information does not reach everyone. Despite the Internet, countries are still isolated from each other in an information sense. This is where prejudices and stereotypes originate. This creates misunderstanding. And because of this, wars happen.

[@Kuzey457]

What are you doing to hold them accountable? It's easier than ever to communicate, to rally people up

[@lordnandor3274]

''So much death... what can man do against such reckless hate?''

[@amireallythatgrumpy6508]

WW3 was in the 1970s dude

[@Muonium1]

i have always had a certain fascination with seeing video of the interior of the towers during mundane working hours like this. There's a vanishingly small amount of it for a pair of buildings that held tens of thousands of workers every day.

[@invictus6592]

What happened to your job after the attacks? Did you have to find work somewhere else or did you move to a different building? Have you seen any of your coworkers since?

[@gamerschannel9610]

Hi Rami, did all of the people in this video survive? You may have answered this already but too many comments to go through. Would love to hear your story. Thanks

[@javianjohnson8746]

New Years Eve (Y2K-Eve, which makes it even more interesting) at the WTC. Interesting

[@GirlGolden4]

I wonder how many of these people escaped or were not there that day and lived? 🍀✨ R.I.P. all who were lost. 💔

[@Subha_Prakash_Nayak]

Why? What happened this day in this office?

[@GirlGolden4]

@@Subha_Prakash_Nayak Oh, I was referring to 9/11; I was hoping that the people in this video survived, since a lot of people who worked at the WTC in 1999 when this video was recorded still worked there when it was attacked 2 years later. :/

[@EDMisLife96]

I hope the people you recorded survived the attack

[@terri639]

This was World Trade Center South on the 60th floor. The tower was struck on the 78th-84th floors. Only one person died from the 56-60th floors. So it is unlikely any of these people died if they were still working on the same floor in 2001. So likely...they are good. Nearly all deaths occurred above the impact zone. Only four people below floor 78 died in the South tower. Above the 78th floor, 595 people died.

[@alvreyes28]

​@@terri639Didn't know that only 4 people died below the impact zone. I think That is the exact same number of survivors above the 78th floor(14 on this floor).

[@Kiatakesouls.]

@@terri639wow

[@markheying2830]

@@terri639Also the 4 people who were below Impact Zone that died could be a possible Final Jeopardy Clue on Jeopardy & the Contestants will try to write down any 2 of those 4 Names to come up with the correct response.

[@MiBrCo4177]

i remember being in auto body class when 9/11 happened. rip to all of the victims and hopefully their families find peace even after all these years. there is a very good first person perspective of a film made by two french journalist the day it happened that shows everything from them going on a normal day with firefighters and then to pure madness and chaos just minutes later. everything is shown and even the bodies seen/heard falling from the stories above. truly a watch worth remembering if any of you care to google for it. youtube keeps pulling it down but its around the web.

[@danileuvg]

0:53 idk why but that looks like Rita Ripkey aka one of the survivors

[@Obbee]

yes. i think its her.

[@byehun5073]

He says „it’s Rita my supervisor“ so I think it’s her ?

[@pokecuz]

That is her

[@nex0n55]

The disturbing fact that these people who might be in this video not survive this kind of a tragedy...

[@michlo3393]

Chances are though, that most, if not all of the people in this video did survive. This was in 2WTC on the 72nd floor so it is likely that they had either evacuated as soon as the 1st tower got hit or since they were far enough below the 2nd impact, got out then.

[@PinkSoldier2009]

@@michlo3393 Not true! A lot of survivors said that the voice in the intercom system kept telling them to stay in their seats even though the building was already on fire.

[@michlo3393]

@@PinkSoldier2009 "a lot of survivors" so clearly the PA didn't matter did it? People were already on their way down when the first announcements started.

[@mouih1]

26 year ago today and it’s recommended rest in piece

[@jah_141]

25

[@mouih1]

@ my bad

[@rustbeltrobclassic2512]

My father worked in tower 2. He stayed home that day, we got in a big fight, i was 20, and my girlfriend was going to help me study for my english exam, but my father wanted me to work on the deck, so he wouldn't have to take the day off of work, i ended up studying with my gf and he called off of work.. he's still alive and that gf is now my wife. I think it's the only fight we ever had where i never apologized and will never apologize.. Love to all the faces lost.. but never forgotten..

[@texican512]

I miss the social interactions and cues back then, people actually talk and smile more often, even facial expressions. People actually have their own personalities/self identity

[@NWRJ]

People are awful nowadays. We’ve become monsters and have lost our humanity. 😢

[@kfing1]

Precious footage. Such a different world back then.

[@DailyInspirations1978]

RIP to these people. Imagine the impact of an airplane while you are in your desk working. I cant comprehend the horrific scene after. RIP

[@oliverdavis4642]

this is from 1999 genius

[@rick001982]

​@@oliverdavis4642I mean, it is possible to keep the same job 2 years later Just sayin

[@terri639]

This was World Trade Center South on the 60th floor. The tower was struck on the 78th-84th floors. Only one person died from the 56-60th floors. So it is unlikely any of these people died if they were still working on the same floor in 2001. So likely...they are good. Nearly all deaths occurred above the impact zone. Only four people below floor 78 died in the South tower. Above the 78th floor, 595 people died.

[@DailyInspirations1978]

@@terri639 Thanks God if that is the case. I am glad to hear that they are all alive. God is good.

[@carlaconnor8347]

The guy who recorded it uploaded the video, you clown

[@cheesy-p1j]

I was in NYC at this time with my GF to celebrate new year 2000. And we went to the WTC. I felt like I'm standing on top of the world this day. Nearly 2 years later all gone.

[@EdwardHarrisonScott]

the current year, the same day and the emotions do not change

[@patrickmccarron5059]

I used to work in a cubicle back in 1998 and 1999 in a skyscraper in Houston Texas for KBR (Halliburton). I felt like a goldfish in a goldfish bowl. Now I am self-employed and wake up whenever I want. I was the same age as these people (24 yrs old on December 31, 1999).

[@PHlophe]

Back when you were Paddie Paddosh . awww cute

[@andreweagland4702]

Happier times ☮️