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May 28 2013
Long Island Motor Parkway Bridge Series #33: The “Roosevelt Field” Motor Parkway Bridge in Westbury
The 33rd bridge in the series documenting the 60 bridges built by the Long Island Motor Parkway is the highway bridge that eventually connected Stewart Avenue to Roosevelt Field. (11 comments)
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May 27 2013
Mystery Foto #17 Solved: A 1924 Aerial of the Future Western Terminus in Fresh Meadows
Frank Femenias submitted this 1924 aerial of Fresh Meadows where the Western Terminus will be located off Nassau Boulevard (Horace Harding Boulevard) (10 comments)
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May 24 2013
Chrysler’s Chrysler Chronicle III: An Amazing Discovery
Historian and coachwork specialist Walt Gosden has been providing reports on the restoration of the 1937 Chrysler's Chrysler at Steve Babinsky's Automotive Restorations, Inc. in Lebanon, New Jersey. The third article highlights an amazing discovery about the car. (12 comments)
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May 22 2013
Alco Black Beast to Return to the Wounded Warrior Car Show & Klingberg Vintage Motorcar Festival
Two of my favorite car shows for wonderful causes are the Car Show Benefiting the Wounded Warrior Project and the Klingberg Vintage Motorcar Festival. (0 comments)
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May 20 2013
Mystery Foto #16 Solved: A 2013 Photo of a Model of Old 16 Locomobile
This trick Mystery Foto has been solved: It is a 2013 black and white photo of a scratch-built model of "Old 16" built by Frank Schaeffer. (12 comments)
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May 18 2013
In Search of the Grandstand, Press Box/Officials Stand and Pits in Levittown
From 1908 to 1910, the center of the auto racing world was a 200-yard strip of the Long Island Motor Parkway in the Hempstead Plains, now Levittown. (8 comments)
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May 14 2013
Locomobile Vanderbilt Cup Sold on eBay for $2,300
The small Locomobile Vanderbilt Cups is one of the most collectible of Vanderbilia. A Locomobile Vanderbilt Cup was sold on EBay last week for $2,300. (0 comments)
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May 13 2013
Mystery Foto #15 Solved: William K. Vanderbilt Jr. on the 1906 American Elimination Trial Course
The Mystery Friday Foto has been solved: It was Willie K driving his 1903 Mercedes at Krug's Corner in Mineola during the 1906 Vanderbilt Cup Race. (9 comments)
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May 11 2013
A Mother’s Day Tribute: Alva Vanderbilt Belmont
In celebration of Mother's Day, this is a photo tribute to William K. Vanderbilt Jr.'s mother Alva Vanderbilt Belmont. (1 comments)
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May 08 2013
Inspiration for the Mansions of “The Great Gatsby” & The Hempstead House Screening Gala
Literary scholars believe two inspirations for F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby may have been William K. Vanderbilt Jr.'s mother's Beacon Towers and John Scott Browning, Sr.'s Land's End, both located in Sands Point. (5 comments)
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