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Oct 16 2020
Video of the Week: High Style in the Gilded Age: Consuelo Vanderbilt The Pawn
Mary Cummings presented this 24-minute presentation on Consuelo Vanderbilt for the Southampton History Museum. (0 comments)
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Oct 14 2020
Kleiner’s Korner: Part 5 - A Proposed 2 Day 1907 Vanderbilt Cup Race on LI
As late as September, 1907 proposals were being made to hold that year's Vanderbilt Cup Race on Long Island. The Metropolitan Automobile Association offered one such proposal. (3 comments)
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Oct 13 2020
Kleiner’s Korner: The Little Known (until now) 1908 Vanderbilt Cup Race Driver: Howard Gill
Little has been published on this blog about Howard Gill, driver of the #19 Thomas racer in the 1908 Vanderbilt Cup Race. Here is a brief biography of Gill from his roots in the tea business to his unfortunate early death. (5 comments)
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Oct 12 2020
Mystery Foto #41 Solved: A 1938 View of the Queens Motor Parkway Bike Path Looking West from Bell Boulevard
Did you identify this weekend's Mystery Foto? (30 comments)
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Oct 10 2020
Automobile Quarterly: The Mighty Alco- A History by Beverly Rae Kimes
The definitive article on Alcos was written by Beverley Rae Kimes in the 1973 Volume Number 2 issue of Automobile Quarterly. (10 comments)
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Oct 09 2020
The Mansion House in Roslyn, the 1905 Headquarters for the “X” Mercedes
For the 1905 Vanderbilt Cup Race, driver Al Campbell and the "X" Mercedes team chose the largest hotel in the Village of Roslyn for it headquarters. (2 comments)
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Oct 07 2020
Kleiner’s Korner: Long Island Aviation and the Vanderbilt Cup Races
As aviation matured on Long Island in the early 1900s, so did its interaction with those who supported automobile racing. (0 comments)
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Oct 05 2020
Updated: Mystery Foto #40 Solved: A Historic 1938 Ground-Level View of the Western Terminus in Fresh Meadows
Did you solve this weekend's historic Mystery Foto? (48 comments)
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Oct 03 2020
Sad News: We Lost a Good Friend and Master Mechanic
I am sad to inform you that my friend Sam Greco passed away on Friday. (22 comments)
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Sep 30 2020
Documentation of the 1942 Demolition of a Queens Motor Parkway Bridge
This remarkable photo documented the demolition of the Commonwealth Boulevard Motor Parkway Bridge on July 24, 1942. (8 comments)
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