{"id":90014,"date":"2018-02-09T09:00:31","date_gmt":"2018-02-09T15:00:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.metrostlouis.org\/?p=90014"},"modified":"2024-02-29T09:56:09","modified_gmt":"2024-02-29T15:56:09","slug":"flashback-friday-222","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.metrostlouis.org\/nextstop\/flashback-friday-222\/","title":{"rendered":"Flashback Friday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Today\u2019s shot pictures Delmar Boulevard looking west from Melville Avenue in the U. City Loop in 1945. Hull-Dobbs Restaurant and the Varsity Theater are pictured on the left side of the photo. University City&#8217;s City Hall can be seen in the far distance. The theater marquee advertises &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0038120\/\">Ernie Pyle&#8217;s The Story of G.I. Joe<\/a>.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Did you know\u2026<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Before it was developed commercially the land along Delmar Boulevard was a <a href=\"http:\/\/atthefair.homestead.com\/Misc\/CampLewis.html\">campsite<\/a> for visitors to the 1904 World&#8217;s Fair. In later decades, the Loop&#8217;s rapid growth was facilitated by its convenient streetcar service.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Photo and caption courtesy of the Missouri History Museum.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-90015\" src=\"https:\/\/www.metrostlouis.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/flash0209-page-001.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2731\" height=\"1612\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.metrostlouis.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/flash0209-page-001.jpg 2731w, https:\/\/www.metrostlouis.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/flash0209-page-001-300x177.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.metrostlouis.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/flash0209-page-001-768x453.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.metrostlouis.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/flash0209-page-001-1024x604.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2731px) 100vw, 2731px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today\u2019s shot pictures Delmar Boulevard looking west from Melville Avenue in the U. City Loop in 1945. Hull-Dobbs Restaurant and the Varsity Theater are pictured on the left side of the photo. University City&#8217;s City Hall can be seen in the far distance. The theater marquee advertises &#8220;Ernie Pyle&#8217;s The Story of G.I. Joe.&#8221; Did [&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-90014","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\/90014","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=90014"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.metrostlouis.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90014\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.metrostlouis.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=90014"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.metrostlouis.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=90014"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.metrostlouis.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=90014"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}