Have you been up the Twin Towers?

kestrelx · 11-09-2011, 08:27

Well back in the late 80's I went up one of the twin towers with my girlfriend at the time. It was a tourist attraction then and for a few dollars you could be taken up in the lifts to the roof and allowed to walk round a roped off area and take photographs of New York

I think after that attempt in the early 90's by terrorists on the World Trade Centre they closed it off and stopped tourism also I wonder is that when they locked the doors so no one could get onto the roof!

Anyone else been up the twin towers when on holiday back in those days?

Let me know - cheers

lancsdave · 11-09-2011, 08:37

I've spent one day in New York when working in Philadelphia we got the train up for the day. We walked past the Twin Towers. Ironically it was 11th September 2000.

cashman · 11-09-2011, 08:46

no never went until 3 months after 9/11, was gonna go up the Empire State Building, but was refused cos we didn't have our passports wi us.

lancsdave · 11-09-2011, 08:48

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Originally Posted by cashman

no never went until 3 months after 9/11, was gonna go up the Empire State Building, but was refused cos we didn't have our passports wi us.

They musy have intorduced that because of 9/11 as we wnet up the year before and didn't need passports.

mobertol · 11-09-2011, 08:49

My husband was over there in November '94 and went up the Empire state building as they were already closed to visitors...

cashman · 11-09-2011, 08:52

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Originally Posted by lancsdave

They musy have intorduced that because of 9/11 as we wnet up the year before and didn't need passports.

Probably so, was very annoying cos we got wet through trailing yon n twas our last afternoon in New York.

Margaret Pilkington · 11-09-2011, 08:54

Was supposed to be going to New York with a friend in November 2001(we were hoping to be there for Thanksgiving)......the 9/11 situation put paid to that.
We didn't go.
It was always one of the places I wanted to visit.......sadly, it won't happen now.
I would not go to a country that treats all its tourists as terrorists.

kestrelx · 11-09-2011, 08:56

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Originally Posted by mobertol

My husband was over there in November '94 and went up the Empire state building as they were already closed to visitors...

Guess I was lucky then, don't have the photos as the girlfriend took em! Went up the Empire State building as well which they say is a little bit of Accrington (Nori) though there is no sign on the building - is it fact that Nori bricks were used to build it?

cashman · 11-09-2011, 08:57

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Originally Posted by Margaret Pilkington

I would not go to a country that treats all its tourists as terrorists.

we went 2 years on the run after n stopped going fer exactly that reason, which is a shame cos we love the place.

gynn · 11-09-2011, 08:59

I went up the Empire State Building a few months before 9/11 and wonfdered why there was so much security around. There was never that much when I went up Blackpool Tower!

I certainly got my answer a few months later!

jaysay · 11-09-2011, 09:18

Well I've never been to the good old US of A but even if I had wouldn't have considered a trip up the towers for the same reason I've never been up Blackpool Tower Vertigo

Wynonie Harris · 11-09-2011, 09:35

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Originally Posted by kestrelx

I think after that attempt in the early 90's by terrorists on the World Trade Centre they closed it off and stopped tourism also I wonder is that when they locked the doors so no one could get onto the roof!

They couldn't have done, as I went up around '98. The security was pretty heavy, though - searches etc. Went up on my own, as Mrs H had discovered a shopping mall in the basement of one of the buildings and preferred some retail therapy to going up another tall building (we'd been up the Empire State a couple of days before). Stood at the top and watched the sun set over New York. What struck me was how quiet it was, as it was too high to hear the traffic noise down below.

Benipete · 11-09-2011, 09:37

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Originally Posted by kestrelx

Guess I was lucky then, don't have the photos as the girlfriend took em! Went up the Empire State building as well which they say is a little bit of Accrington (Nori) though there is no sign on the building - is it fact that Nori bricks were used to build it?

The town is a former centre of the cotton and textile machinery industries. The town is famed for manufacturing the hardest and densest building bricks in the world, "The Accrington NORI" (iron), which were used in the construction of the Empire State Building and for the foundations of Blackpool Tower; famous for its football team and for having Europe's largest collection of Tiffany Glass.

(Wikipedia)

Margaret Pilkington · 11-09-2011, 09:38

World Trade Centre: Rising from the ashes - Yahoo!

For anyone interested, this is how it is going to be.

Neil · 11-09-2011, 10:32

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Originally Posted by cashman

no never went until 3 months after 9/11, was gonna go up the Empire State Building, but was refused cos we didn't have our passports wi us.

Well you do look a lot like this fella so they were just being careful