{"id":79086,"date":"2023-03-30T04:00:53","date_gmt":"2023-03-30T08:00:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/?p=79086"},"modified":"2023-03-31T08:30:38","modified_gmt":"2023-03-31T12:30:38","slug":"throwback-thursday-28","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/03_30_2023\/throwback-thursday-28","title":{"rendered":"Throwback Thursday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Since 1959, there had been dreams of a beautiful green space in the heart of Main Campus. But work really began in the mid-1970s, when the University unveiled plans to replace a parking lot with a mall that included grass, walkways, trees and a fountain. Centennial Mall was officially dedicated in 1980. And in 1999, the American Society of Landscape Architects named it \u201cone of the most beautifully landscaped spaces in America.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/Throwback-Thursday-Centennial-Mall-Plaque-Dedication-MAIN.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-79099\" src=\"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/Throwback-Thursday-Centennial-Mall-Plaque-Dedication-MAIN.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" srcset=\"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/Throwback-Thursday-Centennial-Mall-Plaque-Dedication-MAIN.jpg 748w, https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/Throwback-Thursday-Centennial-Mall-Plaque-Dedication-MAIN-300x169.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/Centennial-Mall-Plaque.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-79089\" src=\"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/Centennial-Mall-Plaque.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"395\" srcset=\"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/Centennial-Mall-Plaque.jpg 500w, https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/Centennial-Mall-Plaque-300x237.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<a href=\"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/03_30_2023\/throwback-thursday-28\"><img width=\"120\" height=\"120\" src=\"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/Throwback-Thursday-Centennial-Mall-Plaque-Dedication-MAIN-150x150.jpg\" class=\"alignright tfe wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" \/><\/a><p>Since 1959, there had been dreams of a beautiful green space in the heart of Main Campus. But work really began in the mid-1970s, when the University unveiled plans to replace a parking lot with a mall that included grass, walkways, trees and a fountain. Centennial Mall was officially dedicated in 1980. And in 1999, the American Society of Landscape Architects named it \u201cone of the most beautifully landscaped spaces in America.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":758,"featured_media":79099,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[348,50,1,298,7],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79086"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/758"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=79086"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79086\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":79102,"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79086\/revisions\/79102"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/79099"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=79086"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=79086"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=79086"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}