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Sep 25 2013
An Evening With Marty Himes- Stock Car Driver, Museum Owner and Auto Racing Historian
At the Thursday, October 17, 2013 meeting of the Long Island Motor Parkway Preservation Society, stock car driver, museum owner and auto racing historian Marty Himes rode back in time and told stories of racing at Freeport, Deer Park, and Islip. (5 comments)
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Sep 24 2013
Smiles and Thumbs Up from the Cow Neck Peninsula Historical Society Fall Country Fair
The Black Beast generated many smiles and thumbs ups at the Cow Neck Peninsula Historical Society Fall Country Fair last Saturday in Port Washington. (4 comments)
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Sep 23 2013
Mystery Foto #34 Solved: The Sayville Automobile Club in Front of the Kensington Hotel in Sayville
Kathy Curran, Executive Director of the Suffolk County Historical Society, submitted this previously unpublished photo of a car club dated June 20, 1911. (8 comments)
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Sep 21 2013
Long Island Motor Parkway Bridge Series #37: Carman Avenue Highway Bridge in East Meadow
The 37th bridge in the series documenting the 60 bridges built by the Long Island Motor Parkway is the Carman Avenue Bridge in my childhood hometown East Meadow. It is classified as a highway bridge since Carman Avenue was over the Motor Parkway. (3 comments)
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Sep 17 2013
Smiles and Thumbs Ups from the Vanderbilt Museum
It was great fun last Sunday as the Black Beast returned to the Suffolk County Vanderbilt Museum for the Jaguar Concours d'Elegance and All Marque Concours Sanitaire. (2 comments)
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Sep 17 2013
Mystery Foto #33 Update: Three Possible Locations for this Rare Photo of “Old 16”
The Homer Historical Society has submitted this Mystery Foto of "Old 16", the winner of the 1908 Vanderbilt Cup Race. (10 comments)
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Sep 14 2013
Then & Now: The Motor Parkway Railroad Station on the “Hempstead Extension (Spur)” Part I
Dick Makse has forwarded this photo of a Long Island Railroad cash fare receipt dated from 1915 to 1916. (5 comments)
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Sep 11 2013
Video: Henry Ford’s Racer “Sweepstakes Rides Again”
This summer, Ford Racing released a video of NASCAR Sprint Cup driver Carl Edwards taking the ride of a lifetime in Henry Ford's first and only race car, Sweepstakes. (2 comments)
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Sep 10 2013
Smiles and Thumbs-Ups from the 2013 Cruizin for a Cure Car Show
The Black Beast returned with a roar to the Cruzin for a Cure car show in Hicksville. (0 comments)
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Sep 10 2013
Mystery Foto #32 Solved: Carman Avenue Bridge in East Meadow During the Opening of the Motor Parkway
This week's Mystery Foto is one of my favorite images of racing on the Long Island Motor Parkway. (11 comments)
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