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Dec 15 2018
My Favorite Queens Motor Parkway Images for the New York City Parks Department
New York City Parks Department is hoping to develop new historic markers along the Brooklyn-Queens Greenway and has asked for my assistance. Here are a some of my favorite Queens Motor Parkway images. (0 comments)
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Dec 14 2018
Perfect VanderbiltCupRaces.com Holiday Gifts
Become a 2019 member of the Roslyn Landmark Society and for only $25 received a signed copy of one of my Arcadia book(s): Vanderbilt Cup Races of Long Island, Long Island Motor Parkway or North Hempstead. (0 comments)
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Dec 14 2018
Profile Series: Tucker 1008- The Maroon Tucker at the Richard E. Driehaus Collection in Chicago
In the ninth of the profiles on the 51 Tuckers, the maroon Tucker located in the Richard H. Driehaus Collection at the Chicago Vintage Motor Carriage is featured. (0 comments)
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Dec 13 2018
Updated: Mystery Friday Foto #50: Where in the World is the Long Island Motor Parkway?
Author Richard Panchyk challenges you once again to discover the Motor Parkway near this Long Island "landmark". (0 comments)
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Dec 12 2018
Updated: Surveyor Clinton Robertson Photo Album: A Motor Parkway Survey Team in Lake Success in 1909
In the fourth of the photo series from surveyor Clinton A. Robertson's recently discovered construction album, Clinton's Motor Parkway survey team in Lake Success (Lakeville) is featured. (5 comments)
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Dec 11 2018
The Salvation Army Hotel Being Moved Down Clinton Road in Garden City in 1928
Garden City Village Historian Bill Bellmer has forwarded this 1928 aerial showing the same area as last Friday's Mystery Foto from the viewpoint looking north. (3 comments)
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Dec 10 2018
Mystery Foto #49 Solved:Hazelhurst Field, Garden City Lodge,Curtiss Engineering & Camp Mills in 1918
Author Richard Panchyk challenged you again to identify another amazing previously unpublished Mystery Foto. (26 comments)
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Dec 08 2018
Updated: The 1940 Membership of the Long Island Aviation Club
In my effort to collect everything related to the Vanderbilt Cup Races and the Long Island Motor Parkway, years ago I purchased the 1940 membership book of the Aviation Club of Long Island (Long Island Aviation Club). It turns out to be an important research tool for Dr. Katherine Sharp Landdeck (4 comments)
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Dec 07 2018
Video of the Week: The Long Island Motor Parkway- The World’s First Highway
This two-minute video posted by A Fork in a World of Soup Productions in 2012 provides a nice introduction to our favorite historic parkway. (1 comments)
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Dec 05 2018
Kroplick Diaries: A Tribute to President George H.W. Bush
In honor of President George H.W. Bush, here is a brief and funny story remembering the time that I met our 41st President. (6 comments)
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The six Vanderbilt Cup Races held on Long Island from 1904 to 1910 were the greatest sporting events of their day, and the first international automobile road races held in the United States. The races had a far-reaching impact on the development of American automobiles and parkways. This site provides comprehensive information on the races, the Long Island Motor Parkway and current Long Island automotive events, car shows and news.
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