1937 Vanderbilt Cup Race
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Sep 06 2016
The Selling of the George Vanderbilt Cup Trophy at the 1994 Hershey Region AACA Meet
While looking through a collection of magazines from the Helck Family Collection today, I came across an ad that really caught my attention- the selling of the one and only George Vanderbilt Cup Trophy used for the 1936 and 1937 races. Details follow. (3 comments)
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May 23 2016
Mystery Foto #21 Solved: A 1937 Cirkut Photo of Mitchel Field and Roosevelt Raceway Update: 5/27
This weekend's amazing Mystery Foto was courtesy of the archives of SPLIA (Society for the Preservation of Long Island Antiquities.) (12 comments)
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Mar 23 2016
1939 Aerial Analysis: East Meadow, Uniondale,Westbury and East Garden City
This amazing Long Island aerial taken on May 18, 1939 documented three golf courses, two airports, two polo fields and sections of three Vanderbilt Cup Race courses. (1 comments)
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Feb 04 2016
VanderbiltCupRaces.com Exclusive: Amazing Aerials from the Cradle of Aviation: #1 1956 Mitchel Field
Joel Friedman, archive and docent volunteer for the Cradle of Aviation Museum, has forwarded several spectacular aerials of Mitchel Field. With the permission of Joshua Stoff, curator of the museum, VanderbiltCupRaces.com will be posting a series of aerials from the museum's archives. (3 comments)
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Dec 11 2015
Film of the Week: British Movietone- The 1937 Vanderbilt Cup Race
The British Movietone Archives has posted this 49 second news clip of the 1937 Vanderbilt Cup Race. (0 comments)
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Sep 28 2015
Mystery Foto #39 Solved: George Robertson Promoting the New Roosevelt Raceway in June 1936
Martin Rudow challenged you to identify this press event photo. (11 comments)
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Sep 21 2015
Mystery Foto #38 Solved:Roosevelt Raceway, Meadow Brook Polo Field & Roosevelt Field Updated 1/24/16
Lee Chambers challenged you to identify this amazing Long Island aerial. (15 comments)
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Aug 11 2015
The Five Vanderbilt Cup Trophies (1904-2007)
Most people associate the Vanderbilt Cup with the trophy donated by William K. Vanderbilt, Jr. and now owned by the Smithsonian Institution. However, there are actually five Vanderbilt Cup trophies associated with auto racing. (0 comments)
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Jan 05 2015
Mystery Foto 2015 #1: Roosevelt Field and Roosevelt Raceway in July 1937 (Updated with a Then & Now)
The first Mystery Foto of 2015 has never been published before or posted on the Internet. (24 comments)
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Oct 25 2014
Then & Now: The Long Island Motor Parkway, Mitchel Field and Sonny Corleone
In my quest to discover Motor Parkway images over the last 11 years, I have uncovered many great aerials of nearby Mitchel Field Air Force Base taken from 1924 to the the present. (7 comments)
Brian McCarthy - Quite possible the same couple exploring/documenting the LIMP have reached the Jericho Tpke bridge in…