Photographer's Note
Second kodackrome slide scanned, hope it will be better than the others.
What I am surprised today is to notice that the twins towers were without buildings around at the béginning, except the old one very little... did they were so close the water ?
(I keeped the paper around the slide, looks rétro! )
I you like this picture, tell me it !
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robiuk
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(10807) 2005-02-27 16:47
Hi Pierrot,
for slide dated 1971, it looks fantastic!
Have you worked on it after scanning or is the sharpness original?
Very nice and crisp,
Robi
Stepan
(27210) 2005-02-27 16:53
Ce n'était plus au bord de l'eau, mais pas très loin pour autant. Ils ont, si je me souviens bien, comblé un peu pour créer 2 ou 3 buildings et un petit port.
C'est une photo bien sympa, merci.
Stéphane
rodalvas
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(641) 2005-02-27 17:19
An unusual document on these two, which were always the pretext for graphically interesting pictures.
Congrats
papagolf21
(152599) 2005-02-27 17:31
Bonsoir Pierrot,
Une photo qui a une valeur d'archives. Effectivement d'après les différents reportages, nous avons l'impression que les tours étaient plus éloignés de l'eau.
J'aime beaucoup la petite touche de nostalgie "diapositive".
Très bien fait.
Philippe
pamastro
(7296) 2005-02-27 21:44
Very nice shot of them under construction. They looked really impressive when they were the first buildings on the shore. The soaring lines are very well shot. The composition is perfect capturing them standing tall over the older buildings beside them. And the way the building sort of fades into the grid pattern beneath the facade is well shown.
In response to your question... The buildings were originally built on the shore of Manhattan. However to create the foundations they had to excavate a lot of earth. To save money they simply placed all that earth next to the shoreline. In this photo you can see the new earth before it was levelled. This created 20-30 acres of new land beside the towers. It stayed empty for over a decade. In the 1980s the World Financial Center and Battery Park City were built on this landfill. And so the bottom of the World Trade Center was hidden behind the new buildings of the World Financial Center.
markgong
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(2840) 2005-02-27 22:58 [Comment]
Zepi
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(22848) 2005-02-28 5:05
Toujours cette magnifique série bien rétro !
J’0adore les couleurs de ces vieilles pellicules !
Magnifique cadrage, belle mise n scène !
J’adore toujours !
Je repasse demain !
Amicalement – Sébastien
loupiot
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(3909) 2005-02-28 5:41
Super comme vue, Pierrot!
Un grand retour dans le passé (ce doit être une des plus vielles photos sur TE, non?). En tout cas l'image est de bonne qualité! Le cadrage est bien vu. Une jolie photo d'archive, merci beaucoup de nous la faire partager!
pridel
(233) 2005-03-01 6:27
Pierrot
Le petit immeuble prend plus de place que les twins. un contraste étonnant entre ce vieil édifice et ces deux tours qui s'élancent trsè haut. toujours aussi surpis de voir l'eau si près.
très belle photo.
Pascal
Prisley
(1485) 2005-11-18 15:30
Impressionnant! Je n'avais jamais une photo des tours jumelles en construction. Merci pour ça! Le grain et le cadre de la photo fait tellement authentique, à l'ère du numérique ça fait du bien de retrouver la chaleur de ces clichés, malgré la nostalgie et la tristesse que ce lieu peut susciter. Philippe a raison, cette photo a valeur d'archive.
Sinon, j'avoue que vu comme ça elles ont en effet l'air très proche del'océan. Elles m'en donne le vertige!
Encore merci pour cette série très intéressante;o)
sebinho342
(19329) 2006-04-25 17:08
Je comprends pas la note, tu peux me la traduire stp ? ;)
J'rigole, c'est toujours un sentiment particulier de retomber sur des images des twins, mais passé cette apréhension "historique", de l'inconscient collectif et qu'on le considère d'un point de vu purement architectural, cette photo est à coupée le souffle, les twins étaient si imposantes !
Merci pour le moment
andeweg
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(139) 2007-05-14 5:19
Wow very cool to see a shot of the actual build of the towers.
The quality is still very good after all these years.
Thanks for sharing.
Kind regards,
Hans
pvinagre
(202) 2007-05-14 5:30
Very nice photo of the Full Size towers. Gives a very interesting historical view. I didn't thought that the space around it existed - I thought the other buildings that hide the first part were built at the same time.
thanks
tchau
Pedro
MichaelLevy
(651) 2007-08-31 19:57
Hi Pierrot,
Thanks for sharing this fantastic picture. It brings back memories of a school trip to New York and a visit to one of the top unfinished floors of the World Trade Center. Great scanning job to produce such clarity.
Cheers,
Michael
Traveller
(672) 2007-09-22 22:58
Wow, this is VERY interesting! Especially for me, because I used to work in that, that seems little (about 20 floors though) building with an interesting roof, that is seen against the WTC-2. Its address is 90 West Street... It was a good time, there used to be very good concerts in summer between the towers, different kind of music every day... It used to be a very nice area, close to the river, where they built a great promenade, from which one can see the Statue of Liberty. It is a very interesting photo for me, really TFS! This is history!
akpilotswife (2) 2010-07-26 1:58 [Comment]
Photo Information
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Copyright: pierrot beltante (bebel)
![Gold Star Critiquer/Gold Star Workshop Editor/Gold Note Writer [C: 853 W: 67 N: 1118]](//i1.trekearth.com/misc/g-g-g.gif)
(7588) - Genre: Lugares
- Medium: Cor
- Date Taken: 1971-11-00
- Categories: Arquitectura
- Camera: canon FTQL, CANON 35 70, Kodachrome 200, Filtre UV
- Versão da Foto: Versão Original
- Tema(s): NYC World Trade Center, Ode to Urbanization, New York City - 2 (continued), My favorite photos (12) (Gatti Matti), Pre-digital III (stego) [view contributor(s)]
- Date Submitted: 2005-02-27 16:21
Discussions
- To robiuk: slide date 1971 (2)
by bebel, last updated 2005-02-27 07:26 - To loupiot: oldest picture on TE ? (1)
by bebel, last updated 2005-02-28 04:00 - To Zepi: rétro diapos (1)
by bebel, last updated 2005-02-28 04:05 - To Prisley: les tours jumelles (1)
by bebel, last updated 2005-11-19 04:14 - To sebinho342: yesse ail canne ;-)) (1)
by bebel, last updated 2006-04-26 02:05 - To MichaelLevy: world trade center (1)
by bebel, last updated 2007-09-01 04:23 - To Traveller: WTC (2)
by bebel, last updated 2007-09-25 08:30 - To akpilotswife: old slide WTC (1)
by bebel, last updated 2010-11-14 02:34
