Crowd Swarms on to Jericho Turnpike
More than 200,000 spectators attended the race, breaking the attendance record set at the 1905 race. After the race was called, the crowd once again filled Jericho Turnpike around the grandstand.
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I should have gone with my reasoning that it couldn’t have been the 1906 car since the picture showed it in front of a garage…