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The only experience I have with WTC is having lunch at a Pizza Hut across the street from one of the towers back in the summer of 99'. Does anybody know what I'm talking about?
I don't remember there being a Pizza Hut in the neighborhood, but that doesn't mean my memory is correct.
But why go to Pizza Hut when you had Majestic Pizza on Cortlandt Street?
Beautiful pics. I saw the towers for the first time from afar when my family moved to NJ...from the Newark airport monorail a man pointed out the NYC skyline to me and there they were. I saw them up close on my way to see the Statue of Liberty, I believe in the summer of 2000. We have a picture of my dad posing on the boat with Lower Manhattan in the background. We thought we'd have all the time in the world to go and visit the WTC. Wish I could have gone inside, or even to the plaza.
I always admired the old skyline, so much that sometimes I feel terrible for thinking more about the buildings than those who died in and around them (perhaps because I don't know anyone who died...but still I feel bad). It was so uniquely and obviously New York City. There was no mistaking the two towers at the bottom of the island. Like Manhattan was making a peace sign.
Doobage I can relate to what you're saying. I often felt bad about missing the Towers too. I didn't know anyone who perished either and I hoped I'd never found out that someone who did I worked with in the past.
This thread made me realize what those buildings meant to not only me but others who had experiences with them and their grief too. They too are mourning the relationships either brought about or further cemented through those now gone buildings. Memories that at one time made us happy now brings sorrow.
Citychik, your post brought tears to my eyes.
Mightyqueen, was that the pizza place near the hotel? I can't remember exactly where it was but I remembered that pizza and wondered to this day if they are still down there. That was some good pizza.
Knowledge, do you remember if the Pizza Hut was near a Burger King? I'm thinking it might have been near it.
So many things change about Manhattan anyway, so many stores come and go on a regular basis.
The only experience I have with WTC is having lunch at a Pizza Hut across the street from one of the towers back in the summer of 99'. Does anybody know what I'm talking about?
I believe that Pizza Hut was on Broadway...close to the towers but not directly across the street.
Doobage I can relate to what you're saying. I often felt bad about missing the Towers too. I didn't know anyone who perished either and I hoped I'd never found out that someone who did I worked with in the past.
This thread made me realize what those buildings meant to not only me but others who had experiences with them and their grief too. They too are mourning the relationships either brought about or further cemented through those now gone buildings. Memories that at one time made us happy now brings sorrow.
Citychik, your post brought tears to my eyes.
Mightyqueen, was that the pizza place near the hotel? I can't remember exactly where it was but I remembered that pizza and wondered to this day if they are still down there. That was some good pizza.
Knowledge, do you remember if the Pizza Hut was near a Burger King? I'm thinking it might have been near it.
So many things change about Manhattan anyway, so many stores come and go on a regular basis.
I don't recall. I just remember it was like an alley between it and a tower. It was right in front of the Pizza Hut.
What's amusing to me about the wave of nostalgia over the World Trade Center is that when the towers were originally put up, they were widely criticized as a blot on the New York City skyline. It didn't matter that so prestigious an architect as I.M. Pei designed them--many New Yorkers did not like those buildings at all. Now, of course, nobody will admit that, because they're afraid of getting harsh looks (or worse) in response.
And in case you're curious...I didn't care for them much, at all. But I like to think that I recognize reality when it stares me in the face; the twin towers were there, and that was that.
They were designed by Minoru Yamasaki, not I.M. Pei.
Many people will still admit they dislike the towers' design.
I think individually they were boring and oppressive but as time went on the skyline grew nicely around them. They were beautiful because NYC surrounded them.
I acutally liked the facade of the Twin Towers. The tridents, and the steel kind of evokes something. It kind of tells you that this building is here with this heavy amount of arrogance.
I went to the observation deck once in my teens in the mid 90's.. a few years after 9/11 my Mom found one of those pennies I had put in the machine up there that smashed it and stamped it with WTC image...
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