http://my-wtc.com MY_WTC is a collection of private photographs | The World Trade Center between August 5th 1966 - September 10th 2001 Thu, 17 May 2012 09:15:57 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 http://my-wtc.com/380 http://my-wtc.com/380#comments Thu, 17 May 2012 09:08:24 +0000 admin http://my-wtc.com/?p=2884 Atop the World Trade Center during our wedding trip. We were married at the Municipal Building on September 1, 1995. Our week in New York City was perfect. Two gentlemen in suits standing in front of City Hall on our wedding day told us to “Come back in 20 years….we have a great track record [...]]]> http://my-wtc.com/380/feed 0 http://my-wtc.com/379 http://my-wtc.com/379#comments Thu, 17 May 2012 08:54:44 +0000 admin http://my-wtc.com/?p=2861 Atop the World Trade Center during our wedding trip. We were married at the Municipal Building on September 1, 1995. Our week in New York City was perfect. Two gentlemen in suits standing in front of City Hall on our wedding day told us to “Come back in 20 years….we have a great track record [...]]]> http://my-wtc.com/379/feed 0 http://my-wtc.com/378 http://my-wtc.com/378#comments Tue, 15 May 2012 08:03:05 +0000 admin http://my-wtc.com/?p=2856 My wife and me went to New York in May 2000. www.ne.jp/asahi/rockey/luna/ www.asahi-net.or.jp]]> http://my-wtc.com/378/feed 0 http://my-wtc.com/377 http://my-wtc.com/377#comments Sun, 13 May 2012 09:22:35 +0000 admin http://my-wtc.com/?p=2849 We were waiting for the boat to take us to the Statue of Liberty. While we waited I lined up the family for this photo. What a beautiful fall day!]]> http://my-wtc.com/377/feed 0 http://my-wtc.com/376 http://my-wtc.com/376#comments Sun, 13 May 2012 09:07:31 +0000 admin http://my-wtc.com/?p=2842 Even before this very March 1996 I have been on the Observation Deck of the tower and I can only agree with the fan-crowd: the buildings themselves had a “special atmosphere” already, but most of all the opportunity to be like floating “above the clouds and the vitality of this vibrant city” has been an [...]]]> http://my-wtc.com/376/feed 0 http://my-wtc.com/375 http://my-wtc.com/375#comments Wed, 09 May 2012 08:11:41 +0000 admin http://my-wtc.com/?p=2830 That photo was for a video shoot for M-M-M- Manhattan a single I released in 1984 using backbeats and the sounds of the manhattan soundscape, I also did another work called Manhattan Frequency that used the the oscillation of the Manhattan skyscrapers like tuning forks.The image you see is a percussion setup with a metal [...]]]> http://my-wtc.com/375/feed 0 http://my-wtc.com/374 http://my-wtc.com/374#comments Wed, 09 May 2012 08:06:37 +0000 admin http://my-wtc.com/?p=2827 The image was taken in September 2000 during a roundtrip in the US on a Hudson-River sightseeing tour. I often think back to this wonderful travel and I never thought that I took historic images then. Die Aufnahme entstand im September 2000 während einer USA-Rundreise. Wir waren dort auf dem Hudson-River auf Boots-Besichtigungstour. Ich denke [...]]]> http://my-wtc.com/374/feed 0 http://my-wtc.com/373 http://my-wtc.com/373#comments Wed, 09 May 2012 07:58:38 +0000 admin http://my-wtc.com/?p=2824 ]]> http://my-wtc.com/373/feed 0 http://my-wtc.com/372 http://my-wtc.com/372#comments Wed, 09 May 2012 07:57:15 +0000 admin http://my-wtc.com/?p=2820 ]]> http://my-wtc.com/372/feed 0 http://my-wtc.com/371 http://my-wtc.com/371#comments Wed, 09 May 2012 07:49:58 +0000 admin http://my-wtc.com/?p=2818 ]]> http://my-wtc.com/371/feed 0 http://my-wtc.com/370 http://my-wtc.com/370#comments Sun, 06 May 2012 11:56:23 +0000 admin http://my-wtc.com/?p=2811 I lived in Brooklyn Heights, NY from 1994-1997. I teach English as a Second Language to adults. This photo was taken during my first year as a teacher for a proprietary school in Manhattan. The Intensive English classes were for students visiting NYC — from 2 weeks to several months. Monday through Thursday we studied, [...]]]> http://my-wtc.com/370/feed 0 http://my-wtc.com/369 http://my-wtc.com/369#comments Sun, 06 May 2012 11:32:36 +0000 admin http://my-wtc.com/?p=2801 ]]> http://my-wtc.com/369/feed 0 http://my-wtc.com/368 http://my-wtc.com/368#comments Sun, 06 May 2012 11:31:11 +0000 admin http://my-wtc.com/?p=2799 ]]> http://my-wtc.com/368/feed 0 http://my-wtc.com/367 http://my-wtc.com/367#comments Sun, 06 May 2012 11:28:10 +0000 admin http://my-wtc.com/?p=2796 ]]> http://my-wtc.com/367/feed 0 http://my-wtc.com/366 http://my-wtc.com/366#comments Fri, 04 May 2012 08:43:52 +0000 admin http://my-wtc.com/?p=2791 This is a photo of me on the Brooklyn Promenade in 1978. I lived in NYC from 1977-1982, and the Word Trade Center was always one of my icons. I probably only went up the Empire State building once or twice. But whenever a friend came to town, we would always take them up the [...]]]> http://my-wtc.com/366/feed 0 http://my-wtc.com/365 http://my-wtc.com/365#comments Thu, 03 May 2012 17:59:04 +0000 admin http://my-wtc.com/?p=2786 ]]> http://my-wtc.com/365/feed 0 http://my-wtc.com/364 http://my-wtc.com/364#comments Tue, 01 May 2012 09:18:20 +0000 admin http://my-wtc.com/?p=2784 My arrival in New York City that August was the apex of a summer-long, Kerouac-inspired road trip I took with an Irish poet friend of mine from Los Angeles across the west, through the south and then up the eastern seaboard, arriving in New York to find it as crazy beautiful as we had imagined. [...]]]> http://my-wtc.com/364/feed 0 http://my-wtc.com/363 http://my-wtc.com/363#comments Sat, 28 Apr 2012 11:06:07 +0000 admin http://my-wtc.com/?p=2780 This was taken in 1983 aboard one of the boats to the Statue of Liberty. This was in October on a beautiful cool sunny day. This was before the World Financial Center (to the west of the Trade Center (left of the photo). Just the Verizon Building shoes behind One World Trade Center.]]> http://my-wtc.com/363/feed 0 http://my-wtc.com/362 http://my-wtc.com/362#comments Sat, 28 Apr 2012 11:03:17 +0000 admin http://my-wtc.com/?p=2778 This was October, 1983 looking at Austin Tobin Plaza and the Globe Sculpture between One and Two World Trade. My blue and white sneakers are reflected in the glass.]]> http://my-wtc.com/362/feed 0 http://my-wtc.com/361 http://my-wtc.com/361#comments Fri, 20 Apr 2012 20:15:59 +0000 admin http://my-wtc.com/?p=2776 ]]> http://my-wtc.com/361/feed 0 http://my-wtc.com/360 http://my-wtc.com/360#comments Fri, 20 Apr 2012 20:14:46 +0000 admin http://my-wtc.com/?p=2774 ]]> http://my-wtc.com/360/feed 0 http://my-wtc.com/359 http://my-wtc.com/359#comments Fri, 20 Apr 2012 08:38:06 +0000 admin http://my-wtc.com/?p=2772 This was from our NYC stop on a road trip I took with Wahoo in 1994, on our way to a gathering of scramble bands at UPenn. We stopped to see his childhood friend Brandi – and not to mention the big city. I’d been visiting Manhattan, including the WTC, since I was a boy. [...]]]> http://my-wtc.com/359/feed 0 http://my-wtc.com/358 http://my-wtc.com/358#comments Fri, 20 Apr 2012 08:28:28 +0000 admin http://my-wtc.com/?p=2768 This photo was taken in 1993 on board USS Normandy, a U.S. Navy cruiser which at the time was homeported at Staten Island Naval Station.]]> http://my-wtc.com/358/feed 0 http://my-wtc.com/357 http://my-wtc.com/357#comments Fri, 20 Apr 2012 08:20:16 +0000 admin http://my-wtc.com/?p=2766 I have very little memory of the visit to the WTC. We took the photograph because that is what one does on top of tall buildings.]]> http://my-wtc.com/357/feed 0 http://my-wtc.com/356 http://my-wtc.com/356#comments Fri, 20 Apr 2012 08:17:41 +0000 admin http://my-wtc.com/?p=2763 ]]> http://my-wtc.com/356/feed 0 http://my-wtc.com/355 http://my-wtc.com/355#comments Tue, 17 Apr 2012 07:10:00 +0000 admin http://my-wtc.com/?p=2753 I drove cab in NY in 1976 to help pay for college. This photo was taken by my sister when I came home for lunch one day. We lived in the building on the left.]]> http://my-wtc.com/355/feed 0 http://my-wtc.com/354 http://my-wtc.com/354#comments Tue, 17 Apr 2012 07:07:21 +0000 admin http://my-wtc.com/?p=2751 This photograph was taken by a reporter from a Philadelphia newspaper for an article about recent immigrants.]]> http://my-wtc.com/354/feed 0 http://my-wtc.com/353 http://my-wtc.com/353#comments Mon, 16 Apr 2012 07:37:03 +0000 admin http://my-wtc.com/?p=2748 Taken in 1992 or so, these four young men (now much older!) were members of a soccer team I coached. We were participating in the Neptune, NJ soccer tournament and went to NYC for the day, taking a trip to the Statue of Liberty. As we were waiting for the boat to take us back, [...]]]> http://my-wtc.com/353/feed 0 http://my-wtc.com/352 http://my-wtc.com/352#comments Fri, 13 Apr 2012 20:12:41 +0000 admin http://my-wtc.com/?p=2745 ]]> http://my-wtc.com/352/feed 0 http://my-wtc.com/351 http://my-wtc.com/351#comments Fri, 13 Apr 2012 20:07:58 +0000 admin http://my-wtc.com/?p=2738 ]]> http://my-wtc.com/351/feed 0