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Oct 31 2011
Archives: Films & Videos- Long Island Automotive Museum
Links to posts related to films and videos related to the Long Island Automotive Museum (Updated: August 4, 2011): (0 comments)
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Oct 31 2011
Highlights from the First Annual Motor Parkway Parade
The First Annual Motor Parkway Parade was successfully held last Sunday. Celebrating the completion of the Lake Ronkonkoma section of the Motor Parkway, the event was organized by the Lake Ronkonkoma Heritage Association and had been previously rained out on August 7, 2011. Some highlights: (2 comments)
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Oct 29 2011
Race Profile: The 1906 Vanderbilt Cup Race- The First Use of A Checkered Flag
No greater evidence of the success of the Vanderbilt Cup Race emerged than when popular culture embraced it. (0 comments)
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Oct 29 2011
Long Island Automotive Events and News-Saturday, October 29, 2011
Latest Long Island automotive events, updates and recent comments on VanderbiltCupRaces.com: (0 comments)
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Oct 27 2011
Alco Historical & Technical Society Introduces The Alco Memories 2012 Calendar
The Alco Historical & Technical Society has introduced its Alco Memories 2012 Calendar. It features 12 beautiful photos of Alco trains and the Alco Black Beast as photographed by George Gravel, an AHTS board member. (1 comments)
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Oct 25 2011
The 1910 Oldsmobile Vanderbilt Cup Racer: A Rebirth and Another Mystery
Last April, VanderbiltCupRaces.com helped solve an Oldsmobile photo mystery which appeared in the Lansing State Journal. As discussed, the photo showed two Oldsmobile entrants for the 1910 Vanderbilt Cup Race displayed in front of the Downey House Hotel in Lansing, Michigan. The fascinating story of this Oldsmobile continues: (0 comments)
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Oct 24 2011
Long Island Motor Parkway Bridge Series: #10 Commonwealth Boulevard Bridge in Queens
When the 48 miles of the Motor Parkway were completed in 1926, a total of 65 bridges were built by William K. Vanderbilt Jr. and his associates over and under the parkway. Going west to east, the tenth bridge from the Western Terminus at Nassau Boulevard (Horace Harding Boulevard) was a trestle bridge over Commonwealth Boulevard: (2 comments)
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Oct 22 2011
From the Noel Gish Collection: Postcards of the Vanderbilt Cup Races & Long Island Motor Parkway
Noel Gish has a collection of Long Island postcards which he used to help teach Long Island history to his classes at Hauppauge High School. Noel, now President of the Board of Trustees of the Suffolk County Vanderbilt Museum, has forwarded some of his favorite Vanderbilt Cup Races and Long Island Motor Parkway postcards: (3 comments)
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Oct 21 2011
Long Island Automotive Events, Updates & Recent Comments-Saturday, October 22, 2011
Latest Long Island automotive events, updates and recent comments on VanderbiltCupRaces.com: (0 comments)
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Oct 20 2011
Anatomy of a Photo: Harry Grant Winning the 1909 Vanderbilt Cup Race
One of my favorite photographs in the book Vanderbilt Cup Races of Long Island captured the moment Harry Grant and Frank Lee won the 1909 Vanderbilt Cup Race. A closer look of the photo is revealing: (1 comments)
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