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Dec 03 2019
Helck Family Collection: Long Island Motor Parkway Inc. $1,000 Four Per Cent Gold Bond
In 1906 William K. Vanderbilt Jr. and his business associates raised $2 million ($57 million today) in stock to build the Motor Parkway. Eventually, more than $6 million ($171 million today) was raised including $1 million in 4% interest gold bonds. (2 comments)
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Dec 02 2019
Mystery Foto #48 Solved: Marion Spooner Photographed at the 1908 Vanderbilt Cup Race
This holiday Mystery Foto was taken by a professional photographer. (16 comments)
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Nov 30 2019
VanderbiltCupRaces.com Exclusive: Vince Gardner Building the Mustang III Concept Show Car
Last week, I obtained 63 original negatives of the 1963 Mustang III Concept Show Car being built in the summer of 1964 at Dearborn Steel Tubing, Ford's prototype maker. This post features the Mustang III's designer Vincent Gardner building his two-seat concept car. (4 comments)
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Nov 26 2019
Kleiner’s Kolumn: The Long Island Motor Parkway in Maps (Part I)
As a follow up to the November 20, 2019 post showing the Motor Parkway on a 1927 map, here a number of other maps I've collected and/or saved from various newspapers including the The Brooklyn Daily Eagle, Brooklyn Life and The New York Times. (17 comments)
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Nov 25 2019
Mystery Foto #47 Solved: A House Built on the Long Island Motor Parkway Right-Of-Way
My favorite co-author Al Velocci challenged you to identify the location of this section of the Motor Parkway which he photographed in 1995. (15 comments)
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Nov 25 2019
Mystery Auto #2: 1941 Chevy Special Deluxe Coupe Parked In Front of the Roslyn Mill Tea House
The Roslyn Mill Tea House operated in the Roslyn Grist Mill building from 1920 to 1974. Help date this photo by identifying the make and year of the Mystery Auto. (5 comments)
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Nov 23 2019
Memories of Roosevelt Raceway (1936-1988)
For 20 years from 1936 to 1956, the original Roosevelt Raceway in Westbury was the host for various types of racing including: two Vanderbilt Cup Races, midget car racing and harness horse racing. Here is its history and the various configurations of the raceway. (8 comments)
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Nov 20 2019
1927 Map Showing the Long Island Motor Parkway and Proposed Highways & Parkways East of Queens
In August 1927, New York Governor Alfred E. Smith requested that his Cabinet's Committee on Public Improvements develop a map of the proposed highways and parkways in Nassau County and Western Suffolk County. The map also featured the Long Island Motor Parkway. (3 comments)
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Nov 19 2019
Kleiner’s Korner: Removal of the (Old) Westbury Road Motor Parkway Bridge in East Meadow
This next installment of my Motor Parkway bridge removal series takes us to the Westbury Road Bridge in East Meadow. (6 comments)
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Nov 18 2019
Mystery Foto #46 Solved:A View of the Motor Parkway looking West from the Officials’ Stand/Press Box
Did you identify another section of the Motor Parkway that was used for the Vanderbilt Cup Races? (12 comments)
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