Banquet in Bridgeport
Bridgeport, Connecticut, where the Locomobile was manufactured, declared Monday, November 9th a holiday as Robertson paraded the victorious #16 Locomobile around town before 30,000 spectators. That evening more than 300 business and community leaders attended the largest banquet in the city’s history up to that time in the dining room of the new Stratfield Hotel. The Vanderbilt Cup was proudly displayed in the back of the room.
