{"id":49249,"date":"2017-03-17T09:00:59","date_gmt":"2017-03-17T14:00:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.metrostlouis.org\/?p=49249"},"modified":"2024-02-29T09:53:14","modified_gmt":"2024-02-29T15:53:14","slug":"flashback-friday-176","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.metrostlouis.org\/nextstop\/flashback-friday-176\/","title":{"rendered":"Flashback Friday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\">How&#8217;d ya do St. Louis?<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Longtime St. Louisans can identify this intersection from miles away \u2013 literally! The world\u2019s largest Amoco sign was just as jumbo back in 1953 when this shot was taken, only it read \u201cStandard Red Crown.\u201d The photo was taken during a jammed morning rush hour at the intersection of Skinker Boulevard and Oakland Avenue. Thankfully, a few buses can barely be seen at the end of the long line of cars, thus qualifying this classic photo for our Flashback series.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Incidentally, the green party of the year is happening right now right down the street from this scene. Click <a href=\"https:\/\/www.metrostlouis.org\/nextstop\/ride-metro-to-st-patricks-day-festivities-in-dogtown\/\">here <\/a>to learn how to ride Metro to the festivities.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Have a great weekend!<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-49250\" src=\"https:\/\/www.metrostlouis.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/fb0317alt.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"659\" height=\"403\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.metrostlouis.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/fb0317alt.jpg 1317w, https:\/\/www.metrostlouis.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/fb0317alt-300x184.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.metrostlouis.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/fb0317alt-768x470.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.metrostlouis.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/fb0317alt-1024x627.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 659px) 100vw, 659px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How&#8217;d ya do St. Louis? Longtime St. Louisans can identify this intersection from miles away \u2013 literally! The world\u2019s largest Amoco sign was just as jumbo back in 1953 when this shot was taken, only it read \u201cStandard Red Crown.\u201d The photo was taken during a jammed morning rush hour at the intersection of Skinker [&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":[184,969],"class_list":["post-49249","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-flashback","tag-featured","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\/49249","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=49249"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.metrostlouis.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49249\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.metrostlouis.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49249"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.metrostlouis.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=49249"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.metrostlouis.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49249"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}