{"id":160483,"date":"2019-06-14T09:00:59","date_gmt":"2019-06-14T14:00:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.metrostlouis.org\/?p=160483"},"modified":"2024-02-29T09:59:25","modified_gmt":"2024-02-29T15:59:25","slug":"flashback-friday-288","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.metrostlouis.org\/nextstop\/flashback-friday-288\/","title":{"rendered":"Flashback Friday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Happy Flashback Friday St. Louis!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Were you able to come up with the right answer? Here&#8217;s it is.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">The photo below shows a MetroLink train with the first paint scheme (we updated the train&#8217;s look around 2000) at the Civic Center MetroLink Station in 1995. A few fun facts to narrow down the time frame for you:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>1995 was the first year that your Stanley Cup Champion St. Louis Blues played in their new building (after a lockout that delayed the start of the 1994-95 season.)<\/li>\n<li>That year\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/teams\/STL\/1995.html\">Blues team<\/a>, captained by Brett Hull, made the playoffs and lost in the first round (4-3) versus\u00a0the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/teams\/VAN\/1995.html\">Vancouver Canucks<\/a>. The New Jersey Devils swept the Red Wings to win the Cup in 1995.<\/li>\n<li>St. Louis-based Boatmen&#8217;s Bancshares Inc. was acquired by NationsBank in 1996 and later ceased opeations that same year.<\/li>\n<li>In 2001, Trans World Airlines filed for bankruptcy and was acquired by American Airlines\u00a0and closed its St. Louis hub in 2003.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Enjoy your championship parade St. Louis &#8212; and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.metrostlouis.org\/nextstop\/metro-tests-mobile-ticketing-for-special-events\/\">ride Metro to the festivities<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-160484\" src=\"https:\/\/www.metrostlouis.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/Flashback-1024x684.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"684\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.metrostlouis.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/Flashback-1024x684.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.metrostlouis.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/Flashback-1024x684-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.metrostlouis.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/Flashback-1024x684-768x513.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Happy Flashback Friday St. Louis! Were you able to come up with the right answer? Here&#8217;s it is. The photo below shows a MetroLink train with the first paint scheme (we updated the train&#8217;s look around 2000) at the Civic Center MetroLink Station in 1995. A few fun facts to narrow down the time frame [&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],"class_list":["post-160483","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-flashback","tag-flashback-friday"],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"featured_media_urls":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.metrostlouis.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160483","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=160483"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.metrostlouis.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160483\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.metrostlouis.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=160483"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.metrostlouis.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=160483"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.metrostlouis.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=160483"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}