Tag: Walter T. Shirley
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Mystery Foto #38 Solved: 1938 Aerial of Ronkonkoma and the Long Island Motor Parkway
Frank Femenias challenged you to identify this 1938 aerial courtesy of the University of Stony Brook.
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VanderbiltCupRaces.com Exclusive: The Planned Hempstead Plains Motor Parkway Speedway
A recently discovered survey shows that in August 1909 a 5.5- mile Motor Parkway speedway loop was designed for the Hempstead Plains (now Levittown).
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When Walter T. Shirley Was Selling the “Former Vanderbilt Estate” in Ronkonkoma Updated
While researching the Ronkonkoma section of the Motor Parkway for my September 12th presentation, I came across this 1943 real estate ad selling quarter acres from the "former Vanderbilt Estate". Here is the story behind Long Island Acres owned by Walter T. Shirley.
Brian McCarthy - Quite possible the same couple exploring/documenting the LIMP have reached the Jericho Tpke bridge in…