Tag: Garden%20city%20lodge
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Mystery Foto #73 Solved: A Spectacular 1933 Aerial of Hempstead and North Hempstead
Gary Hammond forwarded this amazing aerial for this weekend's Mystery Foto.
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Mystery Foto #53 Solved: Clinton Road, the Motor Parkway in Garden City and Curtiss Field Circa 1926
Milan G. Sharik, Jr. submitted this week's Mystery Foto...Another classic Long Island aerial.
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Long Island Motor Parkway Bridge Series #32: Clinton Avenue Motor Parkway Bridge in Garden City
The 32nd bridge in the series documenting the 60 bridges built by the Long Island Motor Parkway is the two pillar Clinton Avenue Motor Parkway Bridge in Garden City.
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The Motor Parkway Toll Collection Structures: #9 Garden City Lodge
Going west to east, the eighth Motor Parkway toll collection structure was the Garden City Lodge located off Clinton Road in Garden City.
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Mystery Friday Photo #2 Solved: Clinton Road, Curtiss Field and the Curtiss Engineering Corporation
Last Friday's mystery photo has been solved. The aerial is looking north towards Curtiss Engineering Corporation and Curtiss Field in Garden City and East Garden City in 1927.
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Special Presentation Tonight in Old Bethpage:“The history and preservation of the Garden City Lodge”
John Ellis Kordes, Village Historian for Garden City, will make a special presentation on "The history and preservation of the Garden City Lodge".
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From the Ron Ridolph Collection- Then & Now: Motor Parkway Lodges
When Ron Ridolph walked the Long Island Motor Parkway in the 1970s and 1980s he documented four toll lodges that were still standing...or was it five? Here are my "Then" photos as compared to Ron's "Now" photos circa 1970 to 1981.
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From the Ron Ridolph Collection: Images of the Long Island Motor Parkway
Ron Ridolph has been exploring and enjoying the Motor Parkway for more than 70 years. In 1981, Ron walked the length of the road from Fresh Meadows to Lake Ronkonkoma. His resulting 532 photographs documented the Motor Parkway as it existed 29 years ago.
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Garden City Patch “‘Black Beast’ Returns to Garden City for Encore”
The Garden City Patch has posted an article on the Alco Racer's Wednesday's visit to the Garden City Toll Lodge. Here are highlights and some photos:
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The Day the Garden City Lodge Moved- March 19, 1989
The Garden City Lodge was the fifth toll lodge built for the Long Island Motor Parkway. It was one of the six toll lodges designed by John Russell Pope with living quarters for the toll-takers and their families.
Thanks to Howard Kroplick and http://www.vanderbiltcup races.com for Keeping American Automotive Racing History & my…