newberry wrote:Someone"? What, I can't be trusted??
I didn't meant to exclude you; I don't care who provides the evidence. In the post above, the small jpg from nycskyscrapers.com doesn't look like the same building in the photo above it, of WTC 7. Note the verticals on the left and right sides, and the color.
I agree with you on both these points. I'm currently juggling answering this thread and hunting for more pictures that show the Salomon Bros. building to be the WTC7 that it was. You have seen the NY times article that refers to the Salomon Bros. building as World Trade Center 7.
Also, have we ruled out that the BBC reporter confused the name of the building that just fell? After all, in the Youtube clip she turns around and looks at the scene.
Hold on a second. She refers to a building that just fell, and she refers to it as a 47 story building. So does the graphic crawl underneath her video feed. There were only three buildings that 'fell' on 9/11, and the only one that was 47 stories was WTC7, and the only building anywhere near the Towers of that height was WTC7.
More from the times article of '89 that explains the construction inside the Salomon Bros. /WTC7 building, and describes it as a 47 story structure:
To help shuttle Salomon employees between floors, construction crews are adding two escalators and four elevators inside the tower. And to help adjust the floor layouts to Salomon's needs, workers are moving sections of the tower's ''core'' area, which includes pipes up to two feet in diameter and air-handling equipment the size of delivery trucks.
''This is the first time I've every seen such dramatic interior changes being made in a new building,'' said Irwin G. Cantor, structural engineer for the project. ''And the whole world is watching.''
Perhaps not the whole world, but certainly some very concerned parties. Consolidated Edison intends to protect its electrical substation stretched out beneath the 47-story tower. The only existing tenant, an accounting firm, intends to protect its services and security while construction crews work above and below its four floors. Silverstein Properties and the land owner, the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, intend to protect their investments. And Salomon intends to move the work along at breakneck speed.
If you know about 9/11 and WTC7, you know that Silverstein owned it, and Con Ed had a substation under it.
