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[Marc Schultz]

An interesting photo slideshow by Keith Meyers of the NYT and him narrating about his pre-911 historical photos of the WTC:

http://www.nytimes.com/packages/khtml/2006/09/08/nyregion/20060910_WTC_FEATURE.html

[Gary Dublanko]

Thanks for sharing Marc. I still get a lump in my throat when I see pictures of them. I have some slides stashed away from a visit to NYC in 2000 when I spent an afternoon and evening photographing the towers. I think I'll dig them out and get them scanned.

[Don]

Thank's for sharing that with us Marc, I find it difficult to imagine how people can be brainwashed, and manipulated into creating so much carnage and destruction, and the fact that the real culprits, the manipulators, get away with what they are doing. ( Most of them. )
    Let's hope that  Keithes pictures and any film footage are shown to the general public regularly, so that the memory of what happened never fades.

[Marc Schultz]

Good idea Gary on having them scanned. Yes Don, hard to believe there are people like that in the world who would do something like that, but I also find a number of other things happening in the world today hard to believe as well.

I actually was there on the ground shooting exactly 18 days after 9-11, which was on the 29th of September 2001. When I arrived by subway I had to get off the train two stops before the WTC station and walk half a mile to the site as the building's collapse had wiped out the WTC underground station. It was sort of surreal to exit the station and see people in suits wearing dust masks as if they were protecting themselves from some sort of airborne nuclear fallout when in fact there was a heavy content of ash particles floating in the air from all the burned debris.

Immediately I could smell a strong smell of something burning in the air, even from 10 streets away from the WTC site where I had exited the subway station. As I approached the site, there were smoke stacks pumping out smoke into the air from all the fires that were still burning underground, as many of them still weren't reachable yet by the fire brigades. Bear in mind this was already more than 2 weeks after the event.

The linked photo I shot on the 29th. Hopefully the symbolic message potrayed speaks for itself...

[David Salmanowitz]

Marc--thanks for posting this. I used to live a 10 minute walk away, on Water Street right next to the Brooklyn Bridge. Your photo was quite good, and the red light pretty much says it all. Though architecturally I never thought it to be a masterpiece as for example the Chrysler Building (art deco, my favorite design style) or the Woolworth Building (gothic)--the way the light used to play off the buildings was incredible and I had come to love the buildings for what they were. I was lucky enough back in 1974 or 1975 to see the French tightrope artist Philippe Petit walk between the two towers. Saw a crowd had gathered and were looking towards the sky--immediately though a jumper, but no. To see a tiny figure walking between the towers was a sight I will never forget, as was the view from the top or the wind they could create in the plaza at the bottom.