World Trade Center 2001 | BREATHTAKING and HISTORIC VIEW from the top of WTC South Tower. MUST SEE

My feelings on the Twin Towers have changed over the years. Always a devastating loss, always tragedy, but now, over 20 years later, they've become symbols of an entire bygone era. I don't just wish the towers were still here, I wish the world that they've come to represent in my mind were still here.

I worked on Wall St. I watched them being built. I ate my lunch on a bench there listening to the music in the early ‘70’s. It was a good time. No cell phones, no PC’s, no social media. People talked to each other face to face. It was a good time to be alive.

9:15 It's a bit creepy that there was a service where you could photoshop yourself and your friends to look like you're jumping off the towers.

I was 21 when this happened I can't believe how "old" this video looks. I don't remember 2001 feeling so long ago.

this needs to be archived and saved. and redistributed freely, what a golden piece of footage that is, wow !!!

The saddest part of this video for me is knowing, 22 years later, that Americans are doing more to hurt each other than any outsider could ever do to hurt them.

09:15 those pictures are haunting, considering that was going to happen in 66 days, gives me chills!!

The post cards/artwork beginning at 9:19 are eerie to say the least!

For someone who never was lucky enough to visit the towers, this is really awesome to see what it looked like inside. Thanks for this❤️

9:15 made my heart stop. That was beyond eerie.

The knowledge that people fell/jumped/were pushed from that height in those buildings is truly heartbreaking

At 11:20 the viewer sees the escalator ride approaching the roof of the south tower, at the time the highest open air observation platform in the world. This video brings back great memories of my childhood visit during 1981 when I visited the enclosed 107th floor observatory and the 110th floor roof, only open during good weather. The cool thing about the 107th floor was that given the building's sheer design, one could sit on a narrow metal bench (catch a glimpse at 7:23 and other moments), press your nose against the glass and peer 1,310 feet straight down to the courtyard below. I still have my ticket stub and brochure. Printed on the brochure was that years' catchphrase: "The closest some of us will ever get to heaven." Powerful statement, given the history.

What is most amazing about this video is that at the time it was made, there could be no idea of how historically valuable it would become. Very thoughtful and thorough: I appreciate that the stores, restaurants, and other details were filmed along with the amazing views. I was up there in the early '80s. I don't remember being able to go onto the actual roof though, so that is really cool that when this was made you could go up there. Very well done.

My god, those cards that kids could digitally make of themselves "falling" from the top of the building at the the 9-minute mark.... Chilling doesn't even begin to describe it, in retrospect! What a precious record of moments lost forever in time. I wish I had made the trip there in 1996 with my young nieces & nephew instead of choosing the Empire State instead.

My first thought was , how amazing it is to see people looking at each other and talking. No faces down in cell phones and no one taking selfies. A time before we lost our innocence.

That view will never be seen again...this is surreal.

imagine jumping from that floor down to the ground?! I JUST CAN'T imagine edna cintron waving with hopes that someone could save her life... waving at the edge of the building that high.. 😭

Everyone just minding their own business.. having a good time with camera and chit chat without any smartphone on their hands.. amazing classic day.

Could never work in a building like that, terrified of heights!

I was working in Jersey City, directly across the Hudson on the 11th. When I heard the north tower had been hit I went downstairs in my building and bought a Kodak disposable camera and walked to the waterfront, right by the Exchange Place PATH station. While snapping photos I saw a low flying plane and initially didn’t think anything of it until it slammed into the South Tower. Immediately I and everyone around me knew what was happening. My hands trembled and I continued to snap photos as I knew what I was seeing was history in the making. One of my colleagues tragically lost her husband in the North Tower working for Cantor Fitzgerald. Thanks for posting this video.