{"id":151741,"date":"2019-05-10T09:00:26","date_gmt":"2019-05-10T14:00:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.metrostlouis.org\/?p=151741"},"modified":"2024-02-29T09:59:32","modified_gmt":"2024-02-29T15:59:32","slug":"flashback-friday-283","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.metrostlouis.org\/nextstop\/flashback-friday-283\/","title":{"rendered":"Flashback Friday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Flashback Friday time!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Today&#8217;s photo pictures the Delmar Station, Wabash Railway Company in 1941. The station still stands vacant and is owned by Washington University. The <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Wabash_Railroad\">railroad<\/a> followed some of the same tracks as the modern day MetroLink in St. Louis and took passengers to many cities in the Midwest and beyond.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Interestingly, I came across a 1947 ad touting the new escalators at the station. See below.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">.Have a great weekend!<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-151742\" src=\"https:\/\/www.metrostlouis.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/59464063_2565196826834186_7377895267745398784_n.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"960\" height=\"547\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.metrostlouis.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/59464063_2565196826834186_7377895267745398784_n.jpg 960w, https:\/\/www.metrostlouis.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/59464063_2565196826834186_7377895267745398784_n-300x171.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.metrostlouis.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/59464063_2565196826834186_7377895267745398784_n-768x438.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 960px) 100vw, 960px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-152293\" src=\"https:\/\/www.metrostlouis.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/ride-the-stairs.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"474\" height=\"780\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.metrostlouis.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/ride-the-stairs.jpg 389w, https:\/\/www.metrostlouis.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/ride-the-stairs-182x300.jpg 182w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 474px) 100vw, 474px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Flashback Friday time! Today&#8217;s photo pictures the Delmar Station, Wabash Railway Company in 1941. The station still stands vacant and is owned by Washington University. The railroad followed some of the same tracks as the modern day MetroLink in St. Louis and took passengers to many cities in the Midwest and beyond. Interestingly, I came [&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-151741","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\/151741","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=151741"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.metrostlouis.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151741\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.metrostlouis.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=151741"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.metrostlouis.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=151741"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.metrostlouis.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=151741"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}