Long Island Motor Parkway
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Oct 20 2018
Femenias Findings: A New Interactive Online Map of the Long Island Motor Parkway
Inspired by Wayne Consolla's online Motor Parkway map, our master mapper Frank Femenias has created a new interactive online map of the Long Island Motor Parkway. (15 comments)
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Oct 16 2018
Exclusive: Surveyor Clinton Robertson’s Long Island Motor Parkway Construction Photo Album
While working as a surveyor on the Long Island Motor Parkway in 1908 and 1909, Clinton A. Robertson (above) documented the Motor Parkway construction and his fellow workers with his trusty camera. (14 comments)
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Oct 09 2018
Updated: The 6th Annual “Motor Parkway Sunday Drive to Lake Ronkonkoma” A Big Success
Last Sunday's Motor Parkway Drive to commemorate the 110th Anniversary of the Long Island Motor Parkway was a great success. (3 comments)
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Oct 02 2018
Celebrate the 110th Anniversary of the Long Island Motor Parkway on Sunday, October 7, 2018
Celebrate the 110th Anniversary of the Long Island Motor Parkway at the 6th Annual Motor Parkway Drive to Lake Ronkonkoma on Sunday, October 7, 2018. (13 comments)
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Sep 24 2018
Mystery Foto #38 Solved: 1938 Aerial of Ronkonkoma and the Long Island Motor Parkway
Frank Femenias challenged you to identify this 1938 aerial courtesy of the University of Stony Brook. (9 comments)
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Sep 17 2018
Mystery Foto #37 Solved: Cherry Valley Club, Garden City Hotel & Roosevelt Field in 1936
Author Richard Panchyk challenged you again to find the Motor Parkway and more in another classic aerial. (11 comments)
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Sep 12 2018
Update #1: John E. Roosevelt Family Photo Album: The Motor Parkway Near Ronkonkoma, Circa 1911
Frank Giebfried of the Bayport Heritage Association has forwarded another gem from the John E. Roosevelt Family Photo Album. The photo, documenting the "Motor Parkway near Ronkonkoma", was likely taken by Gladys Roosevelt, the daughter of John E. Roosevelt and the second cousin of President Teddy Roosevelt. (8 comments)
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Sep 10 2018
Mystery Foto #36 Unveiled: Christopher Morley’s Cat Teaches How to Draw A Map of Long Island in 1927
Bob Sargent, Village Historian of Roslyn Estates, challenged you to identity the author of a 1927 story which includes directions of how to draw a map of Long Island with the Motor Parkway. (13 comments)
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Sep 08 2018
Update #1: Time to Wail: The Western Wall of the Mayan Ruins is Gone
Over the last year, several people have sadly reported the legal destruction of the western wall of the "Mayan Ruins" in Garden City as a result of the building of two new homes in this Garden City area. (18 comments)
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Sep 05 2018
A Chambers Profile: The Meadow Brook Polo Fields
As a follow-up to Mystery Foto #33, Lee Chambers has provided images and observations concerning the polo fields of the Meadow Brook Hunt and Polo Club. Lee grew up in Mitchel Field adjacent to the polo fields. (2 comments)
