Kleiner’s Korner: 1910 Vanderbilt Cup Race Illustrations
Additional illustrations portray the last Vanderbilt Cup Race held on public roads on Long Island.
From "The Automobile", except for the cover photo which is from "The San Francisco Call" and is part of Robert Edgren's series of color paintings (would be a good find to get an original of this one showing the Alco Black Beast winning the 1909 Vanderbilt Cup Race).
Art Kleiner
The crowd gathers the night before the race.
Willie K. and Arthur Pardington preparing to get the race started.
Getting all things ready for action.
An unwanted attendee!
What happened to the Buick team's mascot?
The previous night's festivities might have prevented some of the crowd not to see the race at all!
And for those that did it was often times hard to see the speeding autos!
But supposedly there were suitable places to view the race.
Comments
$60 for a parking space in 1910 equates to $1662 today. Only the wealthy could bring their cars to the race. The rest arrived by train, bicycle, or horse-and-cart. That must have been a special event to attend to at the time