{"id":62528,"date":"2017-06-16T09:00:16","date_gmt":"2017-06-16T14:00:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.metrostlouis.org\/?p=62528"},"modified":"2024-02-29T09:52:36","modified_gmt":"2024-02-29T15:52:36","slug":"flashback-friday-189","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.metrostlouis.org\/nextstop\/flashback-friday-189\/","title":{"rendered":"Flashback Friday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Were you able to guess today&#8217;s location and year? You are looking at two westbound buses as they pass by the Ben Franklin Motor Hotel in August 1967.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">The &#8216;motel&#8217; is actually the Lennox (built in 1929) at 823 Washington Ave. after owners re-branded as the Ben Franklin Motor Hotel with the addition of a parking garage in 1965. As you can see the mirrored photo below, the hotel still stands with the convention center down the block.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Have a great Father&#8217;s Day weekend!.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-62529\" src=\"https:\/\/www.metrostlouis.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/FB0616.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"774\" height=\"344\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.metrostlouis.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/FB0616.jpg 1800w, https:\/\/www.metrostlouis.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/FB0616-300x133.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.metrostlouis.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/FB0616-768x341.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.metrostlouis.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/FB0616-1024x455.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 774px) 100vw, 774px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-62632\" src=\"https:\/\/www.metrostlouis.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/fb-now-page-001.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"387\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.metrostlouis.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/fb-now-page-001.jpg 640w, https:\/\/www.metrostlouis.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/fb-now-page-001-300x181.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Were you able to guess today&#8217;s location and year? You are looking at two westbound buses as they pass by the Ben Franklin Motor Hotel in August 1967. The &#8216;motel&#8217; is actually the Lennox (built in 1929) at 823 Washington Ave. after owners re-branded as the Ben Franklin Motor Hotel with the addition of a [&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":[811,184,747,969],"class_list":["post-62528","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-flashback","tag-bus","tag-featured","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\/62528","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=62528"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.metrostlouis.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62528\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.metrostlouis.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=62528"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.metrostlouis.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=62528"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.metrostlouis.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=62528"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}