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Flashback Friday: Bus vs. Plane
Were you able to guess when this week’s Flashback Friday photo was taken? Pictured is a Public Service Company “Sunday Excursion” bus that, on this day in 1956, had transported citizens to Lambert...
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Flashback Friday — A Very VIP Rider
Were you able to guess when this week’s Flashback Friday photo was taken? The date was Friday, June 24, 1994. President Bill Clinton made a trip to St. Louis for a fundraiser and to speak in Fox Park...
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Flashback Friday — Grand and Gravois
Were you able to guess when this week’s Flashback Friday photo was taken? This was the scene at Grand and Gravois on February 25, 1947. Earlier that month, the first regular television broadcast in St....
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Flashback Friday
Were you able to guess when this week’s Flashback Friday photo was taken? This eastbound streetcar on the Manchester Line is entering Webster Groves in late 1948. Travelling on West Lockwood from...
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Flashback Friday
Were you able to guess when this week’s Flashback Friday photo was taken? This early-1960s promo shot of Forest Park’s “Park Loop Bus” was taken at Kingshighway and Lindell. The buildings across the...
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Flashback Friday — Olive Street Downtown and the Park Pacific
Were you able to guess when this week’s Flashback Friday photo was taken? This was the view looking west on Olive Street from 12th Street (now Tucker) in 1956. Behind the #10 Delmar streetcar is the...
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Flashback Friday – Buses Straddle the New Southtown Famous Barr
Were you able to guess when this week’s Flashback Friday photo was taken? The Southtown Famous-Barr store at Kingshighway and Chippewa opened in August 1951, two months after the Southampton streetcar...
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Flashback Friday
Were you able to guess when this week’s Flashback Friday photo was taken? In this photo, a streetcar heads north on South Broadway at Bellerive, June 16, 1956. Happy Friday! Photo courtesy of Andrew D....
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Flashback Friday — Night In St. Louis
Were you able to guess when this week’s Flashback Friday photo was taken? This is a view looking north on 12th Street (now Tucker) from Olive Street circa 1910. The novelty postcard was one of a series...
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Flashback Friday – Manchester Road, 1948
Were you able to guess when this week’s Flashback Friday photo was taken? This was the view looking west on Manchester Road from the Hampton Avenue bridge in 1948. At the time, outbound cars to...
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Flashback Friday – Double-Decker Bus at the Wabash Delmar Station
Were you able to guess when this week’s Flashback Friday photo was taken? You are looking at a double-decker People’s Motor Bus Company bus at the Wabash Railroad Delmar Station, which, of course,...
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Flashback Friday
Were you able to guess when this week’s Flashback Friday photo was taken? This view is looking North on Third Street as a bus rolls along Washington Avenue approaching the Eads Bridge in 1957. Work was...
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Flashback Friday
Were you able to guess when this week’s Flashback Friday photo was taken? The line from The Crow’s Nest Loop (near Bruno Avenue just west of Ashby in Overland) to Creve Coeur Lake traversed sparsely...
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Flashback Friday
Flashback Friday time! Were you able to guess when this week’s Flashback Friday photo was taken? The Wellston Loop was a very busy transfer point in St. Louis. Buses and streetcars wait as a melee of...
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Flashback Friday
Were you able to guess when this week’s Flashback Friday photo was taken? These street cars operated on the Intramural Railway at the Louisiana Purchase Exposition. The ‘semi-convertable’ cars, made by...
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Flashback Friday
Flashback Friday time! Can you guess the place and year of the vintage transit photo below? Check back at 4 p.m. for the answer!
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Flashback Friday
This was the scene looking west on Delmar Boulevard near Eastgate Avenue in February 1948 as trackwork is performed on the streetcar line. The film on the theater marquee is “Call Northside 777,” a...
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Flashback Friday — Memories of Gaslight Square
You are looking at Gaslight Square and a westbound Hodiamont streetcar as it passes the old Crystal Palace at 4240 Olive Street. The year is 1961 — the same year that Barbra Streisand performed a three...
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Flashback Friday
Did you guess the year and location of today’s vintage transit photo? You’re looking at a westbound Kirkwood streetcar at the intersection of Flora Avenue and Big Bend in the late 1940s. The building...
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Flashback Friday — Streetcar At Forest Park Highlands
Today’s vintage transit photo was taken outside of St. Louis’ late great amusement park Forest Park Highlands in 1945. The Old Barn is in the background. The park began in 1896 as a merry-go-round...
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