ajtj99's Market Pulse

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My earliest memories of WTC was watching the pilings being pounded into the ground in 1965. I mean that building project went on for many years from early planning stages to final completion.

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/newyork/timeline/index.html

My father brought me there to show how run down neighborhood of a 100 city blocks could be reborn again. It was this sense of renewal in lower Manhattan by the financial community that impressed him the most. I just remember the sounds, the sights and the smells of the construction. It was very visceral.

My mom taking me to Bay Ridge in Brooklyn to visit my Irish aunt near the Verazano bridge site in 1960 didn't compare since it looks so tiny, quiet and sterile from a mile away

I think every generation needs something grandiose to inspire them.

http://www.artificeimages.com/buildings/World_Trade_Center_History.html

Often, whether addressing suburban luncheons or national conventions, Tobin would invoke the words of Daniel H. Burnham, the turn-of-the-century Chicago architect who built New York's first great skyscraper, the Flatiron Building. "Make no small plans," Tobin quoted Burnham. "For they have no power to stir the blood."

PS now I remember why my father took me there so often. Since city razed so many buildings at once, that part of lower MAnhatan became place for free or cheap parking before buildings were constructed. Saving a buck to invest in stock market was important to dad.