Vanderbilt Cup Races

Tag: Walter T. Shirley

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  Sep 24 2018

  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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  Aug 20 2017

  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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  Aug 12 2017

  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.