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Rise of the World Trade Center (1969-1973)
various
| 9 August 2012
Posted on 08/09/2012 5:05:10 PM PDT by moonshot925
Photos are from:
- The World Trade Center: A Tribute by Bill Harris
- Requiem World Trade Center: Once Upon a Time in New York City by Hideaki Sato
TOPICS: Business/Economy; Chit/Chat; History; Society
KEYWORDS: 1970s; 911; construction; worldtradecenter
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To: moonshot925
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posted on
08/09/2012 5:12:22 PM PDT
by
ArrogantBustard
(Western Civilization is Aborting, Buggering, and Contracepting itself out of existence.)
To: moonshot925; ArrogantBustard
Hard Hat Riot, May 1970
Philippe Petit, August 1974
To: moonshot925
Fantastic pix! Hi-Rise construction, (West Coast), was my gig before Ret. Those photos really bring back some wonderful memories. ‘DLDB’(Don’t Look Down Baby) was a common response to another tradesman’s “Hey, how are ya doing”? greeting up in the tower. Damn, a long time ago...
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posted on
08/09/2012 5:28:27 PM PDT
by
bobby.223
(Retired high up in the mountains of the American Redoubt and it's a GREAT life!)
To: moonshot925
wOW These are great pictures. Watched that tower every Sunday as we headed to my Grandmothers on E10th street.
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posted on
08/09/2012 5:46:56 PM PDT
by
angcat
(Without Valor there is no hope.)
To: bobby.223
Thank goodness for people like you who could do that work. I get queasy just looking at the pix!
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posted on
08/09/2012 5:49:43 PM PDT
by
EDINVA
To: moonshot925
Back in 1961 - 62 I was an IBM Customer Engineer (Their name for a machine repairman) in downtown Manhattan. Between service calls I kept my tool brief case at the American Express credit card offices and helped service their machines.
When I needed IBM replacement parts for a customer in the Insurance District.....John St,. Maiden Lane, etc. I picked them up at an IBM sub-station at 220 Church St. That building was torn down to make room for the two World Trade Towers a few years after I left The Big Apple.
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posted on
08/09/2012 6:11:40 PM PDT
by
Tucker39
( Psa 68:19Blessed be the Lord, who daily loadeth us with benefits; even the God of our salvation.KJV)
To: bobby.223
The company that made the steel for the towers was out of Seattle (PacSteel). The original contract called for delivery by barge via the Panama Canal. At the last moment the Port Authority demanded shipment by rail. That broke Pacsteel but they fulfilled the contact and ate the cost of the redesign of smaller parts and the building of special rail cars to deliver them. The lesson here is don't do business with Yankees.
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posted on
08/09/2012 7:19:36 PM PDT
by
fella
("As it was before Noah, so shall it be again.")
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