Tag: Newbridge%20road
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Mystery Foto #43 Solved : A 1956 View of the Motor Parkway in Levittown Looking West
My favorite co-author Al Velocci challenged you to solve this previously unpublished 1956 photo of the Long Island Motor Parkway.
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Mitchel Field Aerials Part I: 1923-1928
Hoping to find new views of the Motor Parkway, in 2003 I began collecting military aerials of Mitchel Field and Roosevelt Field. In the first of a new series, below are the best aerials of Mitchel Field from 1923 to 1928.
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Driver of the Week: Willie Haupt (1908 Vanderbilt Cup Race)
Driver of the Week is William (Willie) H. Haupt, who drove the Chadwick "Big Six", the first supercharged racing car, to a 10th place finish in the 1908 Vanderbilt Cup Race.
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Images of America Book: East Meadow by Scott Ackers
Scott Eckers, author of Images of America: East Meadow, will have a book-signing on Saturday, November 12, 2016 at 2:00 pm at the East Meadow Public Library, 1886 Front Street. I am pleased to have contributed nine images to Scott's outstanding book on my childhood village.
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From the Garden City Archives: Building the Bridges of the Long Island Motor Parkway
The building of the Motor Parkway was well documented by photographers throughout the summer of 1908. The best compilation of these construction photos was found in a scrapbook Vanderbilt's Long Island Motor Parkway.
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Mystery Foto #7 Solved: New Bridge Hotel on Newbridge Road- A Favorite Viewing Site for the Races
This weekend's Mystery Foto featured a very busy viewing site for the Vanderbilt Cup Races.
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VanderbiltCupRaces.com Exclusive:The 1908 Race Album of William Luttgen & William K. Vanderbilt, Jr.
William Luttgen participated in four Vanderbilt Cup Races, three as a driver (1904, 1906, and 1908) and one as a mechanician (1905). Today, I met with his grandson Robert Luttgen of Key Biscayne, Florida, who brought along a rare photo album of the 1908 Vanderbilt Cup Race.
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Mystery Foto #98 Solved:The #4 Chadwick on the Ellison Road RR Bridge During 1908 Vanderbilt Cup Race
Frank Femenias has forwarded this weekend's Mystery Foto that he discovered while searching the Detroit Public Library's National Automotive Collection.
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Long Island Motor Parkway Bridge Series #39: Newbridge Road Bridge in Hempstead Plains
The 39th bridge in the series documenting the 60 bridges built by the Long Island Motor Parkway is the Newbridge Road Bridge in the Hempstead Plains (now Levittown).
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Mystery Foto #8 Solved: Levittown/Bethpage on May 27, 1947
Congratulations to Tim, Frank Scotty, Greg Tsistinas, Steve Lucas, Brian McCarthy, Frank Femenias, susansmoose, Gary Hammond, Art K., and Joe Oesterle for correctly identifying last Friday's Mystery Foto.
Thanks to Howard Kroplick and http://www.vanderbiltcup races.com for Keeping American Automotive Racing History & my…