{"id":50066,"date":"2017-03-31T09:00:37","date_gmt":"2017-03-31T14:00:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.metrostlouis.org\/?p=50066"},"modified":"2024-02-29T09:53:09","modified_gmt":"2024-02-29T15:53:09","slug":"flashback-friday-178","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.metrostlouis.org\/nextstop\/flashback-friday-178\/","title":{"rendered":"Flashback Friday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\" align=\"center\">Did you guess the year, location and bus route of today&#8217;s vintage transit photo?<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center; box-sizing: border-box; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; word-spacing: 0px;\" align=\"center\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; color: #333333;\">The scene is the south side of Busch Stadium II where a Redbird Express bus has pulled up in 1966, the year the stadium opened.\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; color: #333333;\">Both the baseball and football Cardinals played there beginning that year, moving from the old Sportsman&#8217;s Park (Busch Stadium I) on North Grand Boulevard. <\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\" align=\"center\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; color: #333333;\">The Redbird Express lives on in Metro East starting this Sunday on opening night. Illinois riders can catch the bus at the St. Clair Square Water Tower starting at 4:15 p.m. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.metrostlouis.org\/nextstop\/ride-metro-to-the-cardinals-home-opener\/\">Click here for all the details.<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\" align=\"center\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; color: #333333;\">Have a great weekend and happy opening day (finally!)<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-50067\" src=\"https:\/\/www.metrostlouis.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/flashback0331.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"526\" height=\"384\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.metrostlouis.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/flashback0331.jpg 526w, https:\/\/www.metrostlouis.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/flashback0331-300x219.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 526px) 100vw, 526px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Did you guess the year, location and bus route of today&#8217;s vintage transit photo? The scene is the south side of Busch Stadium II where a Redbird Express bus has pulled up in 1966, the year the stadium opened.\u00a0Both the baseball and football Cardinals played there beginning that year, moving from the old Sportsman&#8217;s Park [&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":[811,184,781,969],"class_list":["post-50066","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-flashback","tag-bus","tag-featured","tag-flashback","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\/50066","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=50066"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.metrostlouis.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50066\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.metrostlouis.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50066"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.metrostlouis.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=50066"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.metrostlouis.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=50066"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}