Vanderbilt Cup Races

Apr 06 2021
1958-1967 tours of the Long Island Motor Parkway #8: Melville and Half Hollows Hills

From 1958 to 1967, unidentified couple(s) documented tours of the Motor Parkway with over 70 photos taken from the Western Terminus in Queens to the Eastern Terminus (Lake Ronkonkoma). In the eight post of the series, these seven photos feature the parkway in Melville and Half Hollow Hills. (4 comments)

Apr 05 2021
Mystery Foto #14 Solved: Walter Christie making the Bull’s Head Turn during a practice run

Did you solve this weekend's Mystery Foto? (13 comments)

Apr 03 2021
Kleiner’s Korner - “Speeders, Wrecks and Cows!” or A Day in the Life of Motor Parkway Officers Zinzi and Ericson

Beginning in 1924 the Motor Parkway employed its own personnel to act as police officers. Shown here is a log of incidents compiled by Officers Thomas Zinzi and Eric Ericson over a three week period in the summer of 1924. (14 comments)

Apr 02 2021
Film of the week: A trip through New York City (1911)

This amazing 8-minute film documented New York City at the end of the Vanderbilt Cup Races era (1904-1910). (3 comments)

Mar 31 2021
Family Photos of Henry Schmidt’s Meadowbrook Hotel in Westbury

As a follow-up to the 2020 Mystery Foto #7 of the Meadowbrook Hotel, the owner's great-grandson Michael White has forwarded two photos from the Schmidt/White family album. The photos are from the collection of Thomas Schmidt, another great-grandson. (1 comments)

Mar 30 2021
Kleiner’s Korner: Mineola and the Motor Parkway, 1908

Mineola has often been mentioned in vanderbiltcupraces.com as significant to the development of the Motor Parkway and the Vanderbilt Cup Races. In this 1908 publication published by D. C. McKay & Son, both are used to promote the village of Mineola. (12 comments)

Mar 29 2021
Mystery Foto #13 Solved: 1900 Daimler Phoenix previously owned by Willie K.

Art Kleiner challenged you to identify this weekend's Mystery Foto. (5 comments)

Mar 27 2021
Helck Family Collection: Original Transcript- “William K. Vanderbilt, Jr.”

Among the treasures of the Helck Family Collection is an original typewritten profile of William K. Vanderbilt, Jr. dated November 26, 1969. (1 comments)

Mar 26 2021
COVID-19 Vaccine Links

Links to current available appointments in New York and weekly COVID-19 incidence. (3 comments)

Mar 24 2021
Dave Russo re-explores a Bethpage section of the Motor Parkway

Dave Russo went back to one of his favorite Motor Parkway sections in Bethpage. Dave Russo: I had a free minute last week, decided to investigate a particular spot I had in mind in Bethpage just south of where we all met up that one day, just north of Sportime, just west of Route 135. I attached a little map of exactly where I was. You can see it definitely appears to have lots of LIMP fragments. Enjoy, Howard Kroplick (3 comments)