{"id":153656,"date":"2019-05-24T09:00:33","date_gmt":"2019-05-24T14:00:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.metrostlouis.org\/?p=153656"},"modified":"2024-02-29T09:59:30","modified_gmt":"2024-02-29T15:59:30","slug":"flashback-friday-285","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.metrostlouis.org\/nextstop\/flashback-friday-285\/","title":{"rendered":"Flashback Friday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Flashback Time!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Today&#8217;s photo shows a car rolling southbound on 18th Street at Clark in 1951. This is, of course, the location of the current Union Station MetroLink Station.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Excitement is building for the upcoming opening (this winter) of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.stlouisaquarium.com\/\">St. Louis Aquarium<\/a> at Union Station. That combined with a\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/news.stlpublicradio.org\/post\/giant-ferris-wheel-will-soon-rise-above-union-station#stream\/0\">200-foot observation wheel<\/a> and possible <a href=\"https:\/\/callnewspapers.com\/photos-get-a-first-look-at-the-proposed-st-louis-major-league-soccer-stadium\/\">MLS soccer stadium<\/a> should make this grand landmark a legit national tourist destination, all easily accessible via MetroLink!<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-153657\" src=\"https:\/\/www.metrostlouis.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/fb1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"3141\" height=\"1992\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.metrostlouis.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/fb1.jpg 3141w, https:\/\/www.metrostlouis.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/fb1-300x190.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.metrostlouis.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/fb1-768x487.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.metrostlouis.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/fb1-1024x649.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 3141px) 100vw, 3141px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Flashback Time! Today&#8217;s photo shows a car rolling southbound on 18th Street at Clark in 1951. This is, of course, the location of the current Union Station MetroLink Station. Excitement is building for the upcoming opening (this winter) of the St. Louis Aquarium at Union Station. That combined with a\u00a0200-foot observation wheel and possible MLS [&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],"class_list":["post-153656","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-flashback","tag-flashback-friday"],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"featured_media_urls":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.metrostlouis.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153656","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=153656"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.metrostlouis.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153656\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.metrostlouis.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=153656"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.metrostlouis.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=153656"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.metrostlouis.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=153656"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}