{"id":25189,"date":"2024-11-27T11:50:44","date_gmt":"2024-11-27T16:50:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/?p=25189"},"modified":"2024-11-27T11:50:44","modified_gmt":"2024-11-27T16:50:44","slug":"when-we-was-fab","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/when-we-was-fab\/","title":{"rendered":"When We Was Fab"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"position: relative; padding-top: max(60%,326px); height: 0; width: 100%;\"><iframe style=\"position: absolute; border: none; width: 100%; height: 100%; left: 0; right: 0; top: 0; bottom: 0;\" src=\"https:\/\/e.issuu.com\/embed.html?backgroundColor=%23d7d7d7&amp;d=dec24_issuu&amp;hideIssuuLogo=true&amp;pageNumber=88&amp;u=portlandmagazine\" sandbox=\"allow-top-navigation allow-top-navigation-by-user-activation allow-downloads allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-modals allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox allow-forms\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\"><b>Story by Colin W. Sargent<\/b><\/p>\n<h4 class=\"p3\"><strong>August 8, 1969<\/strong><\/h4>\n<p class=\"p4\">Hey, today\u2019s the grand opening for the Maine Mall. Wanna check it out?\u201d Tommy Casasa was an icebreaker, a risk-taker, full of fun. He loved to go and do.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p5\">\u201cWhy?\u201d I asked. \u201cIt\u2019s all the way in South Portland.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"p5\">\u201cIt\u2019s just around the corner! Come on! Years from now, you\u2019ll be able to say you were there on the first day!\u201d<\/p>\n<p><em>Read the full story in the digital magazine above.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-25190\" src=\"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/WhenWeWasFab.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"536\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/WhenWeWasFab.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/WhenWeWasFab-980x513.jpg 980w, https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/WhenWeWasFab-480x251.jpg 480w\" sizes=\"(min-width: 0px) and (max-width: 480px) 480px, (min-width: 481px) and (max-width: 980px) 980px, (min-width: 981px) 1024px, 100vw\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Way Back When<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":25191,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[8,112],"tags":[1492],"class_list":["post-25189","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","category-fiction","tag-december-2024"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25189","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25189"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25189\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25201,"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25189\/revisions\/25201"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25191"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25189"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25189"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25189"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}