Tuesday, February 17, 2009: The Ronkonkoma Lodge in 1930
Last week, I posted images of the Long Island Motor Parkway toll collection structures at the western terminus in Queens. Here is a rare photo of the Ronkonkoma Lodge on the other end of the Motor Parkway at Lake Ronkonkoma. As with the Rocky Hill Road Toll Booth, the Ronkonkoma Lodge also straddled both lanes of the Motor Parkway.
This photo was first published in the April 1930 issue of Roads and Streets. It was found in the archives of the Smithtown Library by Al Velocci.
If anyone would like their Long Island Motor Parkway photos posted on VanderbiltCupRaces.com, please forward the jpegs to me at Howard@Kroplick.com .
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The 128-page book by Howard Kroplick, a researcher and lecturer on the races, contains rare images of the races from the archives of major museums, libraries and private collectors. The book Vanderbilt Cup Races of Long Island will be available from Arcadia Publishing in March 2008.
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