Archive: 2021
Apr 09 Film of the Week: Long Island’s Hidden History: Abandoned Railroad Tracks
Apr 07 The Alco Black Beast tours the historic Village of Roslyn
Apr 06 1958-1967 tours of the Long Island Motor Parkway #8: Melville and Half Hollows Hills
Apr 05 Mystery Foto #14 Solved: Walter Christie making the Bull’s Head Turn during a practice run
Apr 02 Film of the week: A trip through New York City (1911)
Mar 31 Family Photos of Henry Schmidt’s Meadowbrook Hotel in Westbury
Mar 30 Kleiner’s Korner: Mineola and the Motor Parkway, 1908
Mar 29 Mystery Foto #13 Solved: 1900 Daimler Phoenix previously owned by Willie K.
Mar 27 Helck Family Collection: Original Transcript- “William K. Vanderbilt, Jr.”
Mar 26 COVID-19 Vaccine Links
Mar 24 Dave Russo re-explores a Bethpage section of the Motor Parkway
Mar 23 Kleiner’s Korner: And Now For Something Completely Different: Part 3 (Motor Parkway 1931 - 1940)
Mar 20 Update: Greg O’s Discovery: The McCamish Family and Their Time in the Meadow Brook Lodge
Mar 20 Update: Memories of the 1964-1965 World’s Fair
Mar 19 Favorite Website: Walt Gosden’s AACA Forum-Period images to relieve some of the stress
Mar 17 Kleiner’s Korner: And now for something completely different: Part 2 (Motor Parkway 1911 - 1930)
Mar 16 Newsday LI Life: High Society -Where the elite on Long Island learned to fly
Mar 09 Kleiner’s Korner: Three Illustrators of the Vanderbilt Cup Race Era
Mar 08 Mystery Foto #10 Solved: A 1953 East Williston aerial from the Cradle of Aviation Archives
Mar 05 Video of the Week: The D.B. Cooper of NASCAR
Mar 03 Kleiner’s Korner: And Now For Something Completely Different: Part 1 (Motor Parkway 1906 - 1910)
Mar 02 1960 Photos from the Long Island Automotive Museum in Southampton
Feb 27 Film of the Week: A Tour of Historic Lake Ronkonkoma
Feb 23 Frederick Ogden Beach-“bosom friends” with Willie K’s father
Feb 22 Mystery Foto #8 Solved: Birdie, Sears and Beach at the 1908 Vanderbilt Cup Race
Feb 20 Crankshaft: Preston’s Prodigy
Feb 19 Video of the Week: Long Island’s Hidden History: The Long Island Motor Parkway
Feb 17 Kleiner’s Korner: The Removal of the Clinton Road Motor Parkway Bridge
Feb 16 A rare 1936 amateur film of airplanes at Roosevelt Field
Feb 15 Mystery Foto #7 Solved: A 1932 View of Willie’s K’s Eagle Nest and Northport Harbor
Feb 10 1958-1967 tours of the Long Island Motor Parkway #7: Bethpage Lodge
Feb 09 Kleiner’s Korner: The Land of the Motor Parkway Mineola Lodge (Kiosk)
Feb 08 Mystery Foto #6 Solved: The Open-Air Roosevelt Field Mall in 1957
Feb 06 Sad News: The Passing of Sam Berliner III
Feb 03 Kleiner’s Korner: Part 3 - The Race that Brought Willie K. “Racing” to America”
Feb 02 1958-1967 tours of the Long Island Motor Parkway #6: Petit Trianon in Lake Ronkonkoma
Jan 30 A 1936 flying car, Roosevelt Field and a Tucker engine
Jan 30 Update Marketplace #2: A car collector’s dream garage in Port Washington
Jan 29 Marketplace #1: 1956 Mercury Monterey
Jan 26 My COVID-19 vaccination experience at Aqueduct Racetrack in Queens
Jan 25 Mystery Foto #4 Solved: A 1940 aerial of the Bethpage, the Grumman Airport and the Motor Parkway
Forget the Black Beast victory.
THIS is the competitive spirit of Long Island at its peak of performance.
Loved every…