{"id":89597,"date":"2018-02-02T09:00:37","date_gmt":"2018-02-02T15:00:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.metrostlouis.org\/?p=89597"},"modified":"2024-02-29T09:56:10","modified_gmt":"2024-02-29T15:56:10","slug":"flashback-friday-221","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.metrostlouis.org\/nextstop\/flashback-friday-221\/","title":{"rendered":"Flashback Friday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\" align=\"center\">Were you able to guess the place and year of today&#8217;s transit photo?<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\" align=\"center\">In honor of it being Super Bowl weekend, we picked a football-related photo. Pictured is a Bi-State Big Red Express bus dropping off passengers in front of <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Sportsman's_Park\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Sportsman&#8217;s Park<\/a> in the mid-1960s.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\" align=\"center\">Wait &#8212; football at the Cardinals former stomping grounds? The football Cardinals moved\u00a0here from Chicago in 1960 and\u00a0played at Sportsman&#8217;s Park (also known as Busch I) until 1965. They played at the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Busch_Stadium_II\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">old Busch Stadium<\/a> (Busch II) from 1966 to 1987, when they moved to Phoenix.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\" align=\"center\">Over their 28-years in St. Louis, the team only made three playoff appearances (1974, 1975 and 1982), never hosting or winning any of the three. But hey, at least we got a ring with the Rams that one year, huh?<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\" align=\"center\">Have a great weekend!<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 120px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-89598\" src=\"https:\/\/www.metrostlouis.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/flashback0202.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"615\" height=\"480\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.metrostlouis.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/flashback0202.jpg 615w, https:\/\/www.metrostlouis.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/flashback0202-300x234.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 615px) 100vw, 615px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Were you able to guess the place and year of today&#8217;s transit photo? In honor of it being Super Bowl weekend, we picked a football-related photo. Pictured is a Bi-State Big Red Express bus dropping off passengers in front of Sportsman&#8217;s Park in the mid-1960s. Wait &#8212; football at the Cardinals former stomping grounds? The [&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-89597","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\/89597","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=89597"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.metrostlouis.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89597\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.metrostlouis.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=89597"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.metrostlouis.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=89597"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.metrostlouis.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=89597"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}