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Good Times at the Twin Towers
Aired January 01, 2002 - 08:54 ET
THIS IS A RUSH TRANSCRIPT. THIS COPY MAY NOT BE IN ITS FINAL FORM AND MAY BE UPDATED.
THIS IS A RUSH TRANSCRIPT. THIS COPY MAY NOT BE IN ITS FINAL FORM AND MAY BE UPDATED.
MARTIN SAVIDGE, CNN ANCHOR: The site of the World Trade Center has become one of the saddest places on earth, but the buildings deserve to be remembered for happier times as well.
Here's CNN's Jeanne Moos.
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JEANNE MOOS, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): After all the tears of sorrow that have been shed over the World Trade Center, maybe it would be nice to recall some tears of joy.
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UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Carl (ph), you may kiss your bride.
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UNIDENTIFIED MALE: You may kiss your bride.
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MOOS: In past years, we've covered everything at the Twin Towers from weddings to egg balancing in celebration of the coming of spring. When we did a story called "Foggy New York," we learned that tourists will gladly take pictures of nothing.
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UNIDENTIFIED MALE: You'll remember it forever.
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MOOS: From (UNINTELLIGIBLE) observation decks at the Empire State Building and World Trade Center, it was another world up there, at eye level with New York's tallest antenna. The antenna that ended up being the last part to hit the ground.
With all those windows, where better to hold a press conference to announcement the launch of self-cleaning glass.
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UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Wouldn't it be great to have something like this in your home?
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MOOS: A coating on the glass reacts to sunlight, dissolving dirt. But at the World Trade Center, they washed windows the old fashioned way, with soap and water dispensed by an automated device that went up and down on tracks.
One of our favorite World Trade Center stories featured the world's tallest Christmas tree.
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UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: The tree actually is only about three feet, four inches.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: It's sort of like a little Charlie Brown Christmas tree up there.
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CHARLIE BROWN: I've killed it.
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MOOS: Folks competed to have their tree grace the Trade Center. The trees even had to go through metal detectors. The winner had to be fastened down with aircraft cable.
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UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: I hope I don't blow away.
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MOOS: True, the Twin Towers' tree couldn't compare with the one at Rockefeller Center.
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UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Three, two, one.
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MOOS: Three, two, one, but who needs a tree with a zillion lights when you've got a whole city of lights below.
The Twin Towers were the perfect location for a twin talent contest.
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MOOS: It may seem frivolous now, but pre-September 11, belly- dancing twins were just double the fun. Things that were innocent have become eerie. Take the sky ride at the Empire State Building. It takes you on an aerial tour of Manhattan.
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UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Straight ahead, the Twin Towers.
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MOOS: The craft ends up almost crashing into Wall Street. There are plans to edit out this part of the sky ride. The Twin Towers may be gone, but happy memories of them remain. Take the dozens of couples who were married on Valentine's Day at the top of the world.
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UNIDENTIFIED MALE: I proposed on the Eiffel Tower, so I wanted -- we wanted to keep the high standard.
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MOOS: These days, all of America seems to have fallen for the towers that fell.
Jeanne Moos, CNN, New York.
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SAVIDGE: Our thanks to Jeanne Moos for bringing out the happier times for the World Trade Center.
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