{"id":49702,"date":"2017-03-24T09:00:15","date_gmt":"2017-03-24T14:00:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.metrostlouis.org\/?p=49702"},"modified":"2024-02-29T09:53:11","modified_gmt":"2024-02-29T15:53:11","slug":"flashback-friday-177","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.metrostlouis.org\/nextstop\/flashback-friday-177\/","title":{"rendered":"Flashback Friday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\">We&#8217;ll call today Station Wagon Appreciation Day here at the NextStop Blog. This shot was taken on Locust Street looking west. The \u2018woody\u2019 station wagon at center is moving south on Broadway toward Busch Stadium. In the distance you can see the Jefferson Hotel on Tucker Blvd. The year is 1974.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Note the First National Bank in St. Louis at left. In advertisements, the bank used to refer to their location as &#8216;Broadway, Locust, Olive &amp; 6th&#8217;. I stepped outside a few minutes ago and tried to replicate the photo, (result below.)<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Have a great weekend!<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-49703 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.metrostlouis.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/fback0325.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"408\" height=\"509\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.metrostlouis.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/fback0325.jpg 654w, https:\/\/www.metrostlouis.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/fback0325-240x300.jpg 240w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 408px) 100vw, 408px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter  wp-image-49821\" src=\"https:\/\/www.metrostlouis.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/20170324_153242.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"406\" height=\"671\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.metrostlouis.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/20170324_153242.jpg 391w, https:\/\/www.metrostlouis.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/20170324_153242-182x300.jpg 182w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 406px) 100vw, 406px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;ll call today Station Wagon Appreciation Day here at the NextStop Blog. This shot was taken on Locust Street looking west. The \u2018woody\u2019 station wagon at center is moving south on Broadway toward Busch Stadium. In the distance you can see the Jefferson Hotel on Tucker Blvd. The year is 1974. Note the First National [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[184,747,969],"class_list":["post-49702","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-flashback","tag-featured","tag-flashback-friday","tag-st-louis-history"],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"featured_media_urls":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.metrostlouis.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49702","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.metrostlouis.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.metrostlouis.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.metrostlouis.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/20"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.metrostlouis.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=49702"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.metrostlouis.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49702\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.metrostlouis.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49702"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.metrostlouis.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=49702"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.metrostlouis.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49702"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}