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Jan 05 2021
Kleiner’s Korner: A Newspaperman’s Memorable Adventure On and Above the Motor Parkway in the 1920s
Sometime around 1920, newspaperman Thornton Fisher of The New York Evening World spent an exhilarating day in the air and on the ground racing on the Motor Parkway. Here is his illustrated account which appeared in the Evening World on March 23, 1921. (6 comments)
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Jan 04 2021
Mystery Foto #1 Solved: Jim Rathmann and Carroll Shelby at the 1960 Vanderbilt Cup Race
Did you identify the first Mystery Foto of 2021? (11 comments)
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Jan 02 2021
The Top 30 VanderbiltCupRaces Posts of 2020
To celebrate a much happier and healthier 2021, here is my list of the 30 top posts for 2020! (2 comments)
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Jan 01 2021
Update From the Pickering Collection: Images of the Vanderbilt Cup Races and Long Island
Roslyn resident William Pickering (1865-1929) was one of the earliest Long Island photographers documenting many of the people, buildings and events in Nassau County including the Vanderbilt Cup Races. In 2009, Catherine Pickering shared with me these photos and postcards taken by her grandfather. (5 comments)
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Dec 30 2020
1958-1967 tours of the Long Island Motor Parkway #4: Garden City
From 1958 to 1967, unidentified couple(s) documented their tours of the Motor Parkway with over 70 photos taken from the Western Terminus in Queens to the Eastern Terminus (Lake Ronkonkoma). In the fourth of this series, these seven photos feature our favorite parkway in Garden City. (31 comments)
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Dec 29 2020
Kleiner’s Korner: Part 2 - The Race that Brought Willie K. “Racing” to America”
Here are the next set of photographs of the participants of the 1903 Paris to Madrid race. Courtesy of the Helck Family Collection. (5 comments)
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Dec 28 2020
Mystery Foto #52 Solved: The Long Island Cloverleaf that destroyed the Hamlet of Jericho
Did you solve the final Mystery Foto of 2020? (20 comments)
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Dec 26 2020
1958-1967 tours of the Long Island Motor Parkway #3: New Hyde Park & Searingtown
From 1958 to 1967, an unidentified couple documented their tour of the Motor Parkway with over 70 photos taken from the Western Terminus in Queens to the Eastern Terminus (Lake Ronkonkoma). In the third of this series, these five photos feature our favorite parkway in New Hyde Park & Searingtown. (6 comments)
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Dec 23 2020
Kleiner’s Korner: Part 1 - The Race that Brought Willie K. “Racing” to America”
Found in the Peter Helck Family Collection are over 30 photographs of the 1903 Paris to Madrid race of which Willie K., Foxhall Keene and Fernand Gabriel participated. (3 comments)
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Dec 22 2020
1958-1967 tours of the Long Island Motor Parkway #2: Lake Success
From 1958 to 1967, an unidentified couple documented their tour of the Motor Parkway with over 70 photos taken from the Western Terminus in Queens to the Eastern Terminus (Lake Ronkonkoma). In the second of this series, these nine photos feature our favorite parkway in Lake Success. (3 comments)
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