When Was The Last Good Year?

The last half of the 20th Century was a party we never want to end

The twin towers in fog, 1998. image via Wikimedia Commons.

There’s a TikTok account I follow that’s just clips of the World Trade Center as it once was, in the decades and months preceding its destruction on September 11th, 2001.

One recent post is an excerpt of an old home video. It begins with a slow panning shot from the Austin J…