{"id":152897,"date":"2019-05-17T09:00:23","date_gmt":"2019-05-17T14:00:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.metrostlouis.org\/?p=152897"},"modified":"2024-02-29T09:59:31","modified_gmt":"2024-02-29T15:59:31","slug":"flashback-friday-284","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.metrostlouis.org\/nextstop\/flashback-friday-284\/","title":{"rendered":"Flashback Friday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Flashback Time!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Pictured here is a southbound Public Service car on Broadway in 1956.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Ahh, 1956. The year\u00a0Elvis Presley entered the U.S. music charts for the first time, with \u201cHeartbreak Hotel,\u201d Norma Jean Mortenson officially became Marilyn Monroe and the Yankees beat the Brooklyn Dodgers in the World Series (sigh.)<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">The local nine included such names as Ken Boyer, Alvin Dark and Stan Musial. Sadly, they finished in fourth place that year.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-152898\" src=\"https:\/\/www.metrostlouis.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/fb2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"3653\" height=\"2623\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.metrostlouis.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/fb2.jpg 3653w, https:\/\/www.metrostlouis.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/fb2-300x215.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.metrostlouis.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/fb2-768x551.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.metrostlouis.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/fb2-1024x735.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 3653px) 100vw, 3653px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-153307\" src=\"https:\/\/www.metrostlouis.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/39c37e19e68868385c44fa1ef9865085.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"734\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.metrostlouis.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/39c37e19e68868385c44fa1ef9865085.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.metrostlouis.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/39c37e19e68868385c44fa1ef9865085-204x300.jpg 204w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-153308\" src=\"https:\/\/www.metrostlouis.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/0003467_the-st-louis-cardinals.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"442\" height=\"575\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.metrostlouis.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/0003467_the-st-louis-cardinals.jpeg 442w, https:\/\/www.metrostlouis.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/0003467_the-st-louis-cardinals-231x300.jpeg 231w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 442px) 100vw, 442px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Flashback Time! Pictured here is a southbound Public Service car on Broadway in 1956. Ahh, 1956. The year\u00a0Elvis Presley entered the U.S. music charts for the first time, with \u201cHeartbreak Hotel,\u201d Norma Jean Mortenson officially became Marilyn Monroe and the Yankees beat the Brooklyn Dodgers in the World Series (sigh.) The local nine included such [&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":[747,969],"class_list":["post-152897","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-flashback","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\/152897","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=152897"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.metrostlouis.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152897\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.metrostlouis.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=152897"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.metrostlouis.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=152897"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.metrostlouis.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=152897"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}