Long Island Motor Parkway
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Jan 05 2021
Kleiner’s Korner: A Newspaperman’s Memorable Adventure On and Above the Motor Parkway in the 1920s
Sometime around 1920, newspaperman Thornton Fisher of The New York Evening World spent an exhilarating day in the air and on the ground racing on the Motor Parkway. Here is his illustrated account which appeared in the Evening World on March 23, 1921. (6 comments)
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Dec 26 2020
1958-1967 tours of the Long Island Motor Parkway #3: New Hyde Park & Searingtown
From 1958 to 1967, an unidentified couple documented their tour of the Motor Parkway with over 70 photos taken from the Western Terminus in Queens to the Eastern Terminus (Lake Ronkonkoma). In the third of this series, these five photos feature our favorite parkway in New Hyde Park & Searingtown. (6 comments)
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Dec 22 2020
1958-1967 tours of the Long Island Motor Parkway #2: Lake Success
From 1958 to 1967, an unidentified couple documented their tour of the Motor Parkway with over 70 photos taken from the Western Terminus in Queens to the Eastern Terminus (Lake Ronkonkoma). In the second of this series, these nine photos feature our favorite parkway in Lake Success. (3 comments)
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Dec 21 2020
Mystery Foto #51 Solved: The Garden City Lodge on the move on March 11, 1989
Al Velocci challenged you to identify this weekend's Mystery Foto. (28 comments)
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Dec 19 2020
1958-1967 tours of the Long Island Motor Parkway #1: Queens
From 1958 to 1967, an unidentified couple documented their tour of the Motor Parkway with over 70 photos taken from the Western Terminus in Queens to the Eastern Terminus (Lake Ronkonkoma). In the first of a new series, these ten photos feature our favorite parkway in Queens taken around 1958. (12 comments)
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Dec 14 2020
Mystery Foto #50 Solved: William K. Vanderbilt, Jr. on the Long Island Motor Parkway
Did you solve this weekend's historic Mystery Foto? (15 comments)
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Dec 10 2020
Kleiner’s Korner: How the Motor Parkway Aided the Red Cross in Garden City
Starting in 1941, the Red Cross Motor Corps utilized the Motor Parkway in Garden City to train and test volunteer members. (6 comments)
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Dec 01 2020
A New 1946 View of the Broad Hollow Motor Parkway/Trolley Bridge in Melville
A former Motor Parkway explorer Pat Masterson (now residing in Florida) has forward a new view of the bridge over Broad Hollow Road and Cross Island Trolley courtesy of the Dave Keller Archive. (4 comments)
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Nov 27 2020
Film of the Week: Care-Free Cars (1956) Starring Henry Austin Clark, Jr.
This six-minute film starred Henry Austin Clark. Jr. and was shot at his Long Island Automotive Museum in Southampton, New York and throughout the village in 1956. (3 comments)
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Nov 23 2020
Mystery Foto #47 Solved: A 1956 Aerial of the Motor Parkway Behind Stewart Field in Garden City
Did you solve this weekend's Mystery Foto from the Cradle of Aviation Archives? (11 comments)
