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May 04 2011
Art Kleiner’s Exploration #2: The Motor Parkway East of Bagatelle Road in Dix Hills
One of the current bravest explorers of the Long Island Motor Parkway is Art Kleiner. There is not a forest, thorn patch or hill that will stop Art from finding remnants of the Motor Parkway. Here are his recent findings from trips near Bagatelle Road in the area known as Dix Hills, Melville, Half-Hollow Hills and Wheatley Hills depending on your map. (0 comments)
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May 03 2011
In Search of Alcos: #9 1913 Alco Model 6 Berline Limousine at Crawford Auto Aviation Museum
Over the last three months, we have attempted to document the Alco "12"- the 12 existing rebuilt and restored cars made originally by the American Locomotive Company in Providence, Rhode Island. The ninth Alco is a 1913 Alco Model 6 Berline Limousine at the Crawford Auto Aviation Museum, A Collection of Western Reserve Historical Society, in Cleveland, Ohio. (0 comments)
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May 02 2011
A New Monthly Record Set for VanderbiltCupRaces.com and April 2011 Highlights
VanderbiltCupRaces.com set a new monthly record in April for total views (29,306) and attained the second highest monthly visitors (6,088). Following March's record of 210, the daily unique visitor average of 203 represented a 74% increase over April 2010. For the first four months of 2011, a total of 21,683 unique daily viewers have visited the website, a daily average of 178 and a 52% increase over YTD 2010. Thanks for stopping by! (0 comments)
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Apr 30 2011
The D.W. Griffith Vanderbilt Cup Race Film That Almost Was
In 1910, D.W. Griffith, the pioneering American director, proposed to create an innovative racing film for American Biograph & Mutoscope . Using the Vanderbilt Cup Race as the backdrop, Griifth wanted the film narrative to highlight "triumph over adversity and competitve rivalry". Andrew Gray has documented Griffith's proposal in this Screened.com post (supplemented by my films and images): (0 comments)
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Apr 29 2011
VanderbiltCupRaces.com Forum #11- Saturday, April 30, 2011 (News, Events, Comments & Feedback)
Feedback and sharing of information are much appreciated on VanderbiltCupRaces.com. Today's Forum provides news, this weekend's car events (beautiful weather is predicted), an update of the clean-up of the Old Bethpage Village Restoration Motor Parkway Bridge and recent comments: (0 comments)
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Apr 28 2011
Starting Lineup: The 6 Cars of the 1910 Massapequa Sweepstakes
During the 1910 Vanderbilt Cup Race, two other sweepstakes races were run simultaneously for commercially available stock cars. The Massapequa Sweepstakes had six entrants for the smallest stock cars who competed for 10 laps over 126.4 miles. Here are images and information on the two Coles, three Abbott-Detroits and one Lancia that competed: (0 comments)
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Apr 27 2011
Then & Now: Central Park (Bethpage)
It was a great turnout last night at the Bethpage Public Library. A total of 73 people attended the presentation "The Motor Parkway, Vanderbilt Cup Races and Central Park" hosted by the library and the Central Park Historical Association. Here are five "Then & Now" images from the presentation. (0 comments)
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Apr 26 2011
Help Solve the Motor Parkway Mysteries of Central Park
The Central Park Historical Society and the Bethpage Public Library will be co-sponsoring a presentation The Long Island Motor Parkway, the 1908 Vanderbilt Cup Race and Central Park" tonight beginning at 7:30 PM. (0 comments)
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Apr 23 2011
VanderbiltCupRaces.com Exclusive: The Rare 1910 Vanderbilt Cup Race Radiator Plate
One of the most elusive pieces of Vanderbilia are the special radiator plates to signify entrants practicing for the 1910 Vanderbilt Cup Race and the associated Sweepstakes races. Although these plates were documented to exist, I believe no one had actually ever seen them...until my favorite co-author Al Velocci examined this photo of three 1910 Abbott Detroits posted on April 12, 2011. (4 comments)
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Apr 22 2011
VanderbiltCupRaces.com Forum #10- Saturday, April 23, 2011 (News, Events, Comments & Feedback)
Feedback and sharing of information are much appreciated on VanderbiltCupRaces.com . Today's Forum provides news, this weekend's car events (weather permitting), book reviews and recent comments on the clean-up of the Old Bethpage Village Restoration Motor Parkway Bridge: (0 comments)
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