{"id":180866,"date":"2019-09-06T09:00:52","date_gmt":"2019-09-06T14:00:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.metrostlouis.org\/?p=180866"},"modified":"2024-02-29T09:59:07","modified_gmt":"2024-02-29T15:59:07","slug":"flashback-friday-298","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.metrostlouis.org\/nextstop\/flashback-friday-298\/","title":{"rendered":"Flashback Friday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\">This is a photo of the Becky Thatcher (formerly called the Mississippi III) on the riverfront with Eads Bridge in the background. The year is 1969. This riverboat served as a restaurant and museum here from 1965 to 1974.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">The boat broke her mooring lines in 1969 during a storm and was swept downstream. With 100 people aboard she passed under both the Poplar Street and MacArthur Bridges and somehow escaped any severe damages.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">For more on this boat, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.steamboats.org\/steamboat-pictures\/becky-thatcher.html\">click here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Bi-State Development continues to operate the \u2018new\u2019 Becky Thatcher on the riverfront. Be sure to check out all of the daytime, dinner and specialty cruises (yes, riverboat drag shows are a thing!) you can book by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gatewayarch.com\/experience\/riverboat-cruises\/\">visiting the website<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Have a great weekend!<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-180867\" src=\"https:\/\/www.metrostlouis.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/68442357_2445004012213144_4957710247608188928_n.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"960\" height=\"623\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.metrostlouis.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/68442357_2445004012213144_4957710247608188928_n.jpg 960w, https:\/\/www.metrostlouis.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/68442357_2445004012213144_4957710247608188928_n-300x195.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.metrostlouis.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/68442357_2445004012213144_4957710247608188928_n-768x498.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 960px) 100vw, 960px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is a photo of the Becky Thatcher (formerly called the Mississippi III) on the riverfront with Eads Bridge in the background. The year is 1969. This riverboat served as a restaurant and museum here from 1965 to 1974. The boat broke her mooring lines in 1969 during a storm and was swept downstream. With [&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":[969],"class_list":["post-180866","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-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\/180866","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=180866"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.metrostlouis.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180866\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.metrostlouis.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=180866"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.metrostlouis.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=180866"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.metrostlouis.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=180866"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}