What happened to the Twin Towers Main Lobby?

[@PaulBrooksTV]

I used to have breakfast in the Twin Towers lobby almost every morning back in the late 90s, so this was a nostalgic watch for me. I worked at the American Express building next door, so I also spent a lot of time in the Trade Center mall during my lunch break. Thanks for the video!

[@micahp.4356]

Were you there at work on 9/11?

[@PaulBrooksTV]

@@micahp.4356 No, I decided to leave in 2000. Scary because I usually got to work at 8:45, so I would have been inside when the first plane hit.

[@LordKrhiyos]

I was just in the AmEx building (3 WFC) two weeks ago for breakfast at the winter garden. It’s honestly kinda crazy to hear from people who’ve been to these same places but separated by decades of time

[@aarretro]

@@PaulBrooksTV thank god you didn't witness it because my cousin died in 9:03 am when second plane hit the middle of the south tower

[@PaulBrooksTV]

@@aarretro So sorry to hear that.

[@victorpeirce4753]

Sadly a lot of people fell through that canopy just out the front of the tower and some landed on police cars, fire engines,and ambulances underneath it. Those poor people. RIP.😢😢

[@jimmyhook4852]

And don't forget one that fell on a firefighter that killed said firefighter in the process.

[@wesleysayud419]

@@jimmyhook4852 Daniel Suhr?

[@victorpeirce4753]

@@wesleysayud419 Yep.. Danny Suhr. RIP.

[@jimmyhook4852]

@@wesleysayud419 Correct.

[@ir8free]

@@jimmyhook4852one woman fell from 2wtc's southern impact zone, near the lesser damaged sw corner

[@jimmyhook4852]

It's such a damn shame that we'll never get a lobby design like that ever again. :(

[@CheeseMiser]

Standard oil building, Chicago

[@jimmyhook4852]

@@CheeseMiser ? What does that have to do with my comment? :T

[@wesleysayud419]

@@jimmyhook4852 AON Center, in Chicago, designed by Edward D. Stone, has a look reminiscent of the original WTC

[@TaeSunWoo]

Never say never

[@TaeSunWoo]

⁠@@jimmyhook4852a lot actually. The other commenter has a point, Standard Oil tower’s lobby design is quite similar to the Twin Towers

[@matthewadonis3020]

The north tower was the more mysterious tower because of the Antenna and it wasn’t open to the public as much only the restaurant it was more for business use the south tower was more for public use.

[@jerseykevin27]

I would personally like to see a video about floor 108, mechanical room.. it had to be as big as the lobby. With quite impressive machinery.

[@CJbrinkman602]

Never did I think I would be subbed to a channel that makes videos about sports but also makes videos about 9/11 but here I am.

[@jimmyhook4852]

Same

[@derek15boom]

I said once before, your World Trade Center videos are beyond excellent, thank you!

[@briansmith2125]

Absolutely LOVE your work on the twin towers. I never saw them in real life. I showed up several days after they collapsed. Hopefully there is a way for this to remain long into the future.

[@lindaschrier2330]

As an older person, its nice to witness younger ppl using exemplary executive brain skills as y'all have been doing with this " what if" WTC exercise ( as per the hundreds of comments I've read). Y'all are the future, critical and logical thinking in addition to knowledge of and usage of mathematical concepts and applications.. smart ppl are needed in the world, the amount of empathy that is noted in the comments is also promising. .GO Get ur degrees and go forth.🌐

[@briansmith2125]

The degrees are worthless. Go and be the subject matter expert, and skip the student loans. Look at the degreed people who run the world now. One should run very far from academia today.

[@rosalindshays5679]

Father Mychal Judge, chaplain for the NYFD, was killed in the lobby of the North Tower from being hit by debris from the South Tower as it collapsed. He became known as the first certified fatality of 9/11.

[@Bpg1111]

@@tornadofire82the reason he was certified first is his body was the first to be examined by a coroner

[@tornadofire82]

@@Bpg1111 I'm aware of how that works, I'm just tired of hearing everyone saying father judge this father judge that. FYI I'm aware of how MEs work I've dealt with them a lot as well as transported bodies for them over 20 years in EMS. The point is FJ wasn't the first victim or the first responder he wasn't even a responder he was a chaplain. People keep perpetuating this non truth to the point there's a movement to canonize him as an actual saint. So Yes I understand why he was given the designation of #0001 but it's not technically true either he was pronounced by an ME as Suhr was pronounced at the ER before FJ was even removed from the church he was taken to. So my point because of confusion stands because Suhr was pronounced 15-20 mins prior to the collapse which caused the heart attack that killed FJ. But if we're being technical the potential real first victim was Daniel Lewin on flight 11.

[@Bpg1111]

@@tornadofire82 playing semantics about 9/11 is especially scummy

[@tornadofire82]

@@Bpg1111 not semantics its simply facts in a strange order of occurrence being laid out to explain the actual timeline and causes of death.

[@amireallythatgrumpy6508]

There were first responder fatalities before either tower collapsed. One hand a jumper land on them

[@craigusselman546]

Those lobbies were so classy.

[@ShogunResu]

It's just whiplash inducing to see what the world trade center was before the attacks like such a beautiful place where you could tour, see all of manhattan from the top of the world, relax at the plaza then just out of nowhere, a sight of complete devastation and terror wtf and I live in New York city and was only 2 at the time of the attacks so it sucks I missed out on such a great place to chill, but I guess the new one is great too, I'll visit it sometime it's not far

[@rosalindshays5679]

The new 1 WTC sucks, because unlike the old WTC, it doesn't have an outdoor observation deck on the roof, and it costs an arm and a leg to visit the observation room that they do have in it.

[@taridean]

From what I remember from visiting the WTC, the mezzanine walkway part of the South Tower was where us tourists accessed the elevators to the 107th floor. We also had to go through an airport style security checkpoint. I'm assuming this all came in after the 93 attack. We visited in 96.

[@DoyleTheExplorer]

I feel warm and cozy looking at photos of the lobby

[@vayhees]

i have the same autistic 9/11 interest as you so thank you for your uploads

[@crazycatladyoftullamore5176]

Me too ✋️

[@AspieOperator]

Same

[@NFL_guy679]

Same

[@liamcoolcool]

👍👍

[@brycefourn2001]

Count me in! 🖐

[@longlakeshore]

1. The balcony above the lobby was called the mezzanine. 2. The glass broke in the lobby windows because the external frame of the building flexed most on impact between the tridents. 3. The open floor plan of the lobby was the same as on all floors above where you see core in the middle with vertical columns around the perimeter. 4. The Empire State doesn't have a separate core - it's ALL core with elevators in the middle and office space around them.

[@tornadofire82]

You can also see the FDNY command/accountability board by the desk showing what units were operating in the tower.

[@ChillGuy9272]

The original complex was absolutely beautiful inside and out no matter what anyone says.

[@nurfyturf3202]

What the survivors in lobby must of felt during the collapse, the lobby begins to shake, seeing debris smashing into wtc 6 and destroying one of the pedestrian bridge out the window, marble panels on the lobby walls crack and break as the columns began to distort and shift from it foundation, ceiling collapses, people in the core stair well feels the 70 foot remain of the core swaying than snaps off and fall on top of them.

[@kevinmorris3200]

Survivors is the wrong word. Anyone who was in the lobby and saw all that would be dead.

[@philliesclips7348]

I wonder how many people were in the lobby when the towers collapsed?!

[@patatebanine4278]

Alot, Due to the slow evacuation. The frequency of people during the evacuation was constant, it did not decrease from the beginning until the collapse. In the Naudet brothers' videos, we can see that there were people on the mezzanine floor during the collapse of the South Tower.

[@travisjohnson622]

Thanks for another WTC video bro. I remembered a while back you said you may get demonetized for covering WTC, meaning you do this because its what you love and you bring us this content with risk. I always look forward to your next one. PS, look into playing some Warhammer 40k (table top game, not some kind of console stuff! LOL I know you'll love it.

[@adamcontreras1486]

I love that the video lengths are consistently 9:11 long

[@oddsandwindsocks5905]

That sketch at the end showing use of the sky lobby shows an engine on display by the look of it ,, gave me a little shiver

[@jameschesnut6274]

Great videos sir, keep up the good work!

[@BuzzCityNCHoops]

Interesting stuff man love these little bits of history! Super cool

[@Shlam26]

Yo Ginger, love your content, I'm going to NYC to visit the memorial and the 1 WTC observatory. Have you ever been there?

[@MichaelSchramm11.09]

The twin towers were the most beautiful buildings in the world and the lobby was nice too. Who agrees with it? 😊It's so sad that they no longer exist 😔

[@patriciaotte5298]

rest in peace.

[@sio3439]

The lobbies windows shattered was cause by something much more disturbing. When the plane hit, a lot of the fuel followed gravity and went down the elevator shaft and not only incinerated those in the elevators, once the fuel reached the elevator lobbies above and the main lobby, it exploded and also incinerated anyone in its path waiting for those elevators and blew out the windows.

[@amireallythatgrumpy6508]

The windows were shattered by the shockwaves of the impact travelling down the steel columns. Those shockwaves had nowhere to go when they hit the ground and their energy went into the windows.

[@sladwig4094]

How many express elevators went up to the impact zone? Did fire travel from regular elevators to express elevators?

[@joshcorvette]

If you look at the last known photo of the lobby, you can also see daylight shining through the pillars where the mall *would* have been.

[@ww21943]

I believe the windows shattered because of the fireball that shot through the elevators

[@ir8free]

the pressure wave blew out some of the windows, if not stress on the frames due to the swaying on impact.

[@theraiden1018]

@@ir8freeit’s called explosives. There were dozens of eyewitnesses that saw, heard, or were impacted by the explosion. You can call them crazy if you want if it makes you feel better. Look up Willy Rodriguez

[@Larry26-f1w]

@@ir8free the pressure wave of explosives?

[@JP-uu2rw]

please do a video on what if the towers were struck at the 105th floor, would they have still collapsed ?

[@TaeSunWoo]

I’m glad the vid time is back to 9 mins and 11 seconds. Also any word about the people in the mobile triage stations set up in both lobbies? I hope they at least got people of the north tower’s lobby

[@stuartbrown25]

I've never seen the twin towers face to face, but i can clearly see they were huge and wide on video's etc. i do know people from the UK who visited the twin towers and evan went on to the roof of the south tower. all i can say is, if i had the chance to visit them i think i'd look up at them from ground level and say wow as i'm sure they were breath taking. such a damn shame they were destroyed by pure evil, i often wonder the total cost of building them a long with the decor etc as they must of cost absolute fortunes. it would be great knowing what the total cost was, they simply were a power house for sure.

[@hypercomms2001]

It is hard to look at this, and I remember watching it on television and knowing what happened, and knowing people who died....

[@flyingtigerline]

Ok, so here's a question for you. How much research time does a video like this take? Is it difficult putting together the narration (script) for this kind of video? Your videos are good, particularly because of the research you've done and your ability to present it to your audience.

[@dmac9777]

Does the last image of the sky lobby use of space show a jet engine display on the right hand side?

[@Dodgers-sw2uk]

4:27 does anyone know who took that photo and if he survived?

[@rocketthedachshund2961]

I’m pretty sure it’s still footage from the naudet brothers. One of whom was in the north tower lobby with chief fieffer when the south tower collapsed.

[@ISZXJE2]

jules naudet was far away on west street with the crew by the time the photo was taken@@rocketthedachshund2961

[@markkolaanepold7485]

@@rocketthedachshund2961It's not a still footage from Naudet footage. This pic was taken by a firefighter.

[@h_enrix_92]

You can talk about the North Tower's antenna and its radio station etc.

[@theshenpartei]

Not sure if you did video of this already but can you do a video of the mall or concourse

[@winko567]

CAN YOU DO A VIDEO ON WHAT YOU THINK WOULD HAVE HAPPENED IF THE 1993 WORLD TRADE CENTER ATTACK WOULD HAVE WENT ACCORDING TO PLAN?

[@WarhammerWings]

Where the last lobby photo is concerned, what I'd like to know is if anyone took pictures of the plaza looking towards the Millennium Hotel, the carnage of the jumpers and the blood splattered all over the windows, and any photos of the lobby looking to where the South Tower was after it fell.

[@Marc.B111]

The Trade Fair Tower (or Messeturm) in Frankfurt, Germany has a quite similar lobby, with a different window style but the same open design (a very tall, open room only with the center core)

[@STOSeraa]

Intresting never thought about that but now i do♥️

[@i-Love-CarlyShay]

Those jumpers didn't commit suicide there were murdered

[@MikeyBurgher]

If entering the lobby from the Tobin Plaza, would you be standing in the lower/main lobby, or on the upper balcony floor?

[@Blaines-smallengine-repair]

@depressedginger you should do a video on all the plane parts found. I looked it up yesterday and seen a damn tire nd engine please do a video of it all!

[@85steph]

Ooh what videos?, I tried to search but it keeps giving me that one piece of landing gear wedged between buildings for 10 years

[@davionjibeelgossettjunior2011]

Next video: what happened to the north tower antenna

[@darkchild666100]

"What happened to the bathrooms of the south tower" All jokes aside, these videos are pretty good.

[@davionjibeelgossettjunior2011]

I don't know what happened

[@thoseonetrains]

they managed to find a portion of it but not the entire thing

[@davionjibeelgossettjunior2011]

Ok

[@user60521123]

The second story of the lobby in the south tower was just for the public to buy tickets and board the elevator to the observation deck. You went up the escalator and walked around most of the way. The elevator was enormous The times I went up (1992 and 1993) they had weight meters on the elevator.

[@msn64man1]

It was a sad 😞 day in America 🇺🇸

[@user-Rocket-Fest]

The Norff tower (Noddy) was heart broken when the Souff tower (Sally) fell After crying pools of tears his knees gave in and he crashed to the earth.

[@matt25675]

🤮

[@GRosa250]

How appropriate that the video is 9 minutes 11 seconds

[@marsco25177]

Tulsa has a building of the same design. Just 1/2 as tall. The lobby looks the exact same.

[@85steph]

Wtc's architect also built a similarly designed building (M&T bank) in downtown Buffalo NY.

[@ethanaerni8938]

Look at the video duration…

[@gangautism]

whatever happened to the flags in the lobby?

[@Honor_Our1st-Responders]

The video length 😢

[@seanquinn5634]

Lobby design looks really good with the tall windows between the Tridents. Don't like the ceiling though and how it cuts off just the very to of yue tridents. Slightly too low in my opinion. Also the lights and general ceiling design look so dated.

[@TheRealMeanDean]

Looks like a jet engine art display in that drawing. Cursed

[@dcnascarboy0514]

Love these videos.

[@sladwig4094]

How many express elevators went all the way up to the airplane impact zone? Zero? How many secondary elevators went from the impact zone to the express elevators below? Did the fire travel between secondary and express elevators? How did fire travel seventy or more floors down to the lobby? The shafts only went part of the distance by design. Doesn’t heat and smoke in a shaft travel up and not down?

[@amireallythatgrumpy6508]

Weren't there TWO express elevators that went all 110 floors?

[@Key-wg6dn]

Last time they where seen was right around September 2001

[@victorpeirce4753]

Foolish comment 🤡

[@JASONcirone-kg8or]

i saw the twin towers that morning at 7am for the last time

[@jimmyhook4852]

@@JASONcirone-kg8or Dang. Even at that time on that day for the towers.... did you have any idea what was bound to happen to them by about 8:46 A.M.?

[@JASONcirone-kg8or]

@@jimmyhook4852 im from nyc i did look at the towers going to school weird that day like if it was never going to be there again

[@JASONcirone-kg8or]

@@jimmyhook4852 it was a werd feeling i had at the time i couldn't put my mind to it

[@CRTLALTBACKSPACE]

Check out the BOK building in Oklahoma City. It’s the cousin of the twin towers.

[@Dollarg1-j3g]

Well it obviously got flattened

[@E90M3ZCP]

what happened to the twin towers toilets.... next video

[@Ilikesogdog]

The video length

[@Definitelynotcrystal-t2q]

No way bro made the video length 9:11 😭😭

[@skyz6789]

I love how most of your 9/11 videos tend to last 9 minutes and 11 seconds

[@theraiden1018]

It was blown up with the rest of the building

[@OfficialRudeeBoss]

Am I the only one who noticed the video is 9:11

[@Zickcermacity]

Uhm... Ginger mentions that most of his Original WTC and Sept.11 related videos would be 9 minutes and 11 sec. long.

[@mjmh1983]

People have asked you not to use the word crap when referring to 9/11 debris because the debris included remains of victims, yet you continue to do so. Knock it off!!

[@mkoury83]

Porte-cochère*

[@raiwserkoopa2221]

x :( i still say twitter, because it is twitter

[@davidreynolds3709]

No it’s not

[@Steve52344]

What does it matter about the f---king lobby?

[@joaoflintino]

Dude it’s so weird that you talk about 9/11 so much 😂 i don’t get it. are you like emotionally scarred or something

[@ethanf2351]

so it's weird to talk about a national event? wow.

[@adobemcguy]

bro is not in america. 9/11 shook us all. People died from falling from the towers because of how intense the flames were.

[@CheeseMiser]

You need help if you find this funny

[@joaoflintino]

@@adobemcguy more ppl died from hurricane katrina than 9/11 but y’all never talk about that bc it was a bunch of poor black folks that died & not rich white businessmen

[@gurusheat3506]

you got a weird definition of weird

[@ronaldtartaglia4459]

Can you do a video on the remaining parts of the building, and how and when the removed them?