The Long Island Motor Parkway
The first parkway built exclusively for the automobile and part of the courses for the 1908 to 1910 Vanderbilt Cup Races
Unlike the first roads built for commerce and horses, the Long Island Motor Parkway was conceived from a sporting contest; the colorful, exciting and often dangerous Vanderbilt Cup Races
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Dec 27 2018
From A Grandfather’s Photo Album: The Durant Special on the Motor Parkway in 1923
Robert Martens posted this YoTube video in 2011
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Dec 21 2018
Update #2: In Search of the Mystery Camp Mills “New York” Road
Lee Chambers, who grew up in Mitchel Field, has
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Dec 18 2018
Surveyor Clinton Robertson Photo Album: The Construction Equipment of the Long Island Motor Parkway
In the fifth of the photo series from surveyor
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Dec 18 2018
Mystery Foto #50 Solved: Pilgrim State Hospital Complex in 1938
Author Richard Panchyk challenged you once again
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Dec 15 2018
Updated: My Favorite Queens Motor Parkway Images for the New York City Parks Department
New York City Parks Department is hoping to
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Dec 12 2018
Updated: Surveyor Clinton Robertson Photo Album: A Motor Parkway Survey Team in Lake Success in 1909
In the fourth of the photo series from surveyor
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Dec 11 2018
The Salvation Army Hotel Being Moved Down Clinton Road in Garden City in 1928
Garden City Village Historian Bill Bellmer has
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Dec 10 2018
Mystery Foto #49 Solved:Hazelhurst Field, Garden City Lodge,Curtiss Engineering & Camp Mills in 1918
Author Richard Panchyk challenged you again to
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Dec 08 2018
Updated: The 1940 Membership of the Long Island Aviation Club
In my effort to collect everything related to the
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Dec 07 2018
Video of the Week: The Long Island Motor Parkway- The World’s First Highway
This two-minute video posted by A Fork in a World
