{"id":140224,"date":"2019-01-25T09:18:19","date_gmt":"2019-01-25T15:18:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.metrostlouis.org\/?p=140224"},"modified":"2024-02-29T09:57:20","modified_gmt":"2024-02-29T15:57:20","slug":"flashback-friday-269","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.metrostlouis.org\/nextstop\/flashback-friday-269\/","title":{"rendered":"Flashback Friday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\" align=\"center\">Were you able to guess when this week\u2019s Flashback Friday photo?<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\" align=\"center\">This photo is of a streetcar heading west on Olive Street in front of the Central Public Library between 13th and 14th Streets. The shot was taken on the afternoon of May 21, 1966 \u2014 just a few hours before the last Olive Street\/Hodiamont streetcar ran and the city\u2019s final rail route was retired.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\" align=\"center\">Up to that day, St. Louisans had enjoyed continuous streetcar service on Olive Street for almost 107 years! Opened from Fourth to Tenth Street on July 4, 1859, the horse cars of the Missouri Railroad company\u2019s Olive Street line were running as far west as Leffingwell Avenue less than two weeks later.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-140225\" src=\"https:\/\/www.metrostlouis.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/flashback0125.jpg\" alt=\"Street Car in St. Louis City\" width=\"800\" height=\"384\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.metrostlouis.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/flashback0125.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.metrostlouis.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/flashback0125-300x144.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.metrostlouis.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/flashback0125-768x369.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Were you able to guess when this week\u2019s Flashback Friday photo? This photo is of a streetcar heading west on Olive Street in front of the Central Public Library between 13th and 14th Streets. The shot was taken on the afternoon of May 21, 1966 \u2014 just a few hours before the last Olive Street\/Hodiamont [&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":[],"class_list":["post-140224","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-flashback"],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"featured_media_urls":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.metrostlouis.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140224","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=140224"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.metrostlouis.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140224\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.metrostlouis.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=140224"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.metrostlouis.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=140224"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.metrostlouis.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=140224"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}