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 Images of the former World Trade Center taken from random publications...
Postcard from mid-70s
Original construction model...
Construction photos early 70s
Images from the 1970s
Images from the 1980s
Curiously prophetic 1980s advertisement
1986 Port Authoritiy brochure
Ironic 1980s cover of a trade publication for insurance underwriters. Article inside covered retrofit of sprinkler system in WTC. Also covered fire damage incurred at the Westvaco Building on Park Avenure.
author: Peter : New York, NY

Recently came across this photo of the World Trade Center in a stack of old hard-copy photos
and decided to scan it and post it here. I snapped it in the summer of 1995
author: Peter : Brooklyn, NY

Not much has changed since 1972, at least in terms of what New Yorker's call their neighborhoods.
The "Lower West Side" is Hell's Kitchen and "Lower Broadway" is now the World Trade Center area.
Sutton and Tudor seem to have melted into each other some, and into the Upper East Side.
Yorkville, too. And I've...
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