{"id":95897,"date":"2018-04-13T09:01:01","date_gmt":"2018-04-13T14:01:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.metrostlouis.org\/?p=95897"},"modified":"2024-02-29T09:55:49","modified_gmt":"2024-02-29T15:55:49","slug":"flashback-friday-231","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.metrostlouis.org\/nextstop\/flashback-friday-231\/","title":{"rendered":"Flashback Friday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Today&#8217;s photo was taken outside of St. Louis&#8217; late great amusement park\u00a0Forest Park Highlands\u00a0in 1945. The\u00a0Old Barn\u00a0is in the background. The scene is just a stone&#8217;s throw from next weekend&#8217;s Earth Day festival at the Muny in Forest Park.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">The park began in 1896 as a merry-go-round\u00a0meant to attract customers to the Highlands Cottage restaurant. It\u00a0expanded over the years and consistently attracted huge crowds\u00a0until July 19, 1963 when\u00a0a massive,\u00a0buzz-killing fire\u00a0destroyed the park.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Amazingly, the original carousel survived and currently resides out in\u00a0Faust Park. Taking a ride on this carousel continues to be a rite of passage for St. Louis youngsters.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Have a great weekend!<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 120px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-95898\" src=\"https:\/\/www.metrostlouis.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/flashback0413.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"598\" height=\"480\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.metrostlouis.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/flashback0413.jpg 598w, https:\/\/www.metrostlouis.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/flashback0413-300x241.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 598px) 100vw, 598px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today&#8217;s photo was taken outside of St. Louis&#8217; late great amusement park\u00a0Forest Park Highlands\u00a0in 1945. The\u00a0Old Barn\u00a0is in the background. The scene is just a stone&#8217;s throw from next weekend&#8217;s Earth Day festival at the Muny in Forest Park. The park began in 1896 as a merry-go-round\u00a0meant to attract customers to the Highlands Cottage restaurant. [&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-95897","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\/95897","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=95897"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.metrostlouis.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95897\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.metrostlouis.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=95897"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.metrostlouis.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=95897"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.metrostlouis.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=95897"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}