Duration : 0:0:38

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Duration : 0:0:56

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All new video. This one shows off the building process of my latest creation, the Esplanade Apartments. Why Esplanade? Not sure. Acutally, thats a lie. These apartments look awesome right next to the beach! Which is how Esplanade ties into the name…so…you get it? Good!

The song used in this video is Dare, by Gorillaz. Great song, excellent beat. Very catchy!

Here is the direct link to this lot on thesims2.com for downloading…

http://thesims2.ea.com/exchange/lot_detail.php?asset_id=749499

Happy Simming, Sporing and YouTubin’ everyone!

TheSimMan…

p.s, The Pebble Twins Comics will be coming back soon, so keep an eye out

Duration : 0:5:41

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It contains footage of when the twin towers were constructed from the mid 60′s through early 70′s.

20 World Trade Center Facts at 01-Apr-2002 – Courtesy of Carl Taylor, more at…

http://www.theharrowgroup.com/articles/20020401/WTC_facts.htm

1. The WTC opened in 1970 after 8 years of construction.

2. The WTC was the dream of David Rockefeller, chairman of the Chase Manhattan Bank, and Nelson Rockefeller, former Governor of New York.

3. The Rockefellers wanted to name the towers after themselves, but the mayor of NY, John Lindsay, insisted on the World Trade Center.

4. The City chose to build the WTC instead of building a new tunnel and large bridge over the Hudson River.

5. The World Trade Center was designed by architect Minoura Yamasaki.

6. According to Yamasaki, downtown Manhattan was the perfect place to erect the towers because there wasn’t “a single building worth saving in the neighborhood.”

7. Owners of nearby buildings disagreed, and delayed demolition by three weeks with their protests.

8. Sixteen blocks were cleared to house the completed WTC.

9. More than 10,000 workers involved in building the complex.

10. More than 60 of them died during construction.

11. The excavation work displaced enough soil to create Liberty Park, where four 60-floor towers and four apartment buildings were constructed.

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Please note “Fact 11″ is disputed – YT member “opusbeme” claims it should read Battery Park City !!
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12. The WTC’s foundations were laid at 60 feet below ground level.

13. The complex covered 16 acres when finished.

14. In addition to the towers, five other office buildings made up the WTC complex
The WTC had 12 million square feet of space.

15. Each floor was 50,000 square feet.

16. The buildings had their own ZIP codes – 10047 and 10048.

17. The towers were designed to look like a futuristic sculpture.

18. The structure was revolutionary. Its main supports were external, lining the four corners of each tower.

19. Critics condemned the completed buildings as “boring.”

20. Completed, the buildings were 100 feet taller then the Empire State building.

Duration : 0:9:24

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The ATA bus ran into two buildings at Admiral Boulevard and Oak Street. A corner of one of the buildings was sheared off.

Three bus passengers and its driver were briefly trapped inside the bus.

“I grabbed (the bus driver) by her hand. She was upset. Her leg, she couldn’t get it out,” witness Stephanie Wynn told KMBC.

Firefighters freed the passengers and the driver. The passengers were not hurt. The driver of the bus was taken to a hospital with minor injuries.

Wynn was headed to a job interview when she saw the wreck.

“It was just so loud and so sudden and scary,” Wynn said. “The bus hit a slick spot, she couldn’t maneuver. She ran directly into the wall.”

“We heard honking for almost 30 seconds, and then we hear just the biggest crash we ever heard,” said Laura Deangelis, who lives in an apartment building that was hit. “We ran downstairs and lo and behold, the corner of the building is gone.”

“I heard a loud crash, and at first I thought my co-worker had dropped something or scaffolding had fallen over,” construction worker Bryon Bowman said.

Bowman was part of a renovation crew in the other building hit. The plan was to reopen the building next month.

“It’ll put a crimp in my completion date,” Bowman said.

“Bricks and mortar. We’ll fix it and we’ll move on,” building owner Ken Bowman said.

Authorities evacuated the apartment building as a precaution until its stability could be checked out.

“They told us to evacuate the building, that it could collapse,” Deangelis said.

Both buildings were determined to be structurally sound.

Duration : 0:2:17

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