Vanderbilt Cup Races

I liked the Zeppelin hangar!  Huge.

From Kleiner's Korner: A U.S. Army Signal Corps (Mineola) Scrapbook

Thanks for sharing that car event right in NYC!

From The 1954 Carnival of Cars parade down Fifth Avenue

From “The NY Daily News”, July 30 and August 9, 1942.

From Long Island Motor Parkway Bridge Series: #11 Little Neck Road Motor Parkway Bridge in Queens

Found on this website the 1910 Marquette-Buick (#27) that raced during the 1910 Vanderbilt Cup Race on Oct 1, 1910. Its driver was Bob Burman with Howard Hale as mechanician. Guessing the race preparation is at the Marquette-Buick headquarters on Sept 1910

From Mystery Foto #25 Solved: Harry Grant preparing the Alco "White Beast" for the 1910 Indy Races

Enjoyed seeing Professor Kraft’s collection of unique rare photos of early motoring here in Levittown, Long Island. Amazing that this set has been preserved all these years and now available for all to access at anytime.

Happy Father’s Day Ted, and to all the Dads out there!

From VanderbiltCupRaces.com Exclusive Part I: From the Hall/Kraft Family Album-Previously unpublished photos of the 1909 Vanderbilt Cup Race

Never realize how big the grand stand was. Big time race!

From VanderbiltCupRaces.com Exclusive Part I: From the Hall/Kraft Family Album-Previously unpublished photos of the 1909 Vanderbilt Cup Race

It is always nice to see new photos of these racing events. The photo of the National of Aitken (not Aiken) with the lost wheel is rather unique, never seen one before. Johnny Aitken had made it until round five (out of 22). The mystery racer is Willy Knipper on a Chalmers-Detroit with nr. 7. He had replaced Dingley, who had an accident during practice the day before, and he would end surprisingly on 3rd place. Another photo of his car from the Detroit Public Library archive, though from a slightly different angle, shows the same contours and details.

From VanderbiltCupRaces.com Exclusive Part I: From the Hall/Kraft Family Album-Previously unpublished photos of the 1909 Vanderbilt Cup Race

Great picture and perspective on how big the grandstand was.  Today the person who took this picture would be pretty much standing on the west side of Crocus lane, (Levittown) maybe about 100 feet south of Blacksmith road facing west/southwest.

From VanderbiltCupRaces.com Exclusive Part I: From the Hall/Kraft Family Album-Previously unpublished photos of the 1909 Vanderbilt Cup Race

These are wonderful photos.  It is like stepping into a time machine, and traveling back to 1909!

From VanderbiltCupRaces.com Exclusive Part I: From the Hall/Kraft Family Album-Previously unpublished photos of the 1909 Vanderbilt Cup Race

Hi all
  Happy Father’s Day day, have a great day.

From VanderbiltCupRaces.com Exclusive Part I: From the Hall/Kraft Family Album-Previously unpublished photos of the 1909 Vanderbilt Cup Race

Great reading Howard. Thank you for posting. Do we have a bio of Mr. Ethridge?

From Kleiner's Korner: "Big George" Robertson and "Fireball" Glenn Ethridge tell their story of winning the 1908 Vanderbilt Cup Race

Harry Grant and Frank Lee in the ‘White Beast’ preparing to race in the 10 and 20 miles races as well as the Cobe Trophy Race in Indianapolis, Indiana, over a few days on July 1-4th, 1910.

From Mystery Foto #25 Solved: Harry Grant preparing the Alco "White Beast" for the 1910 Indy Races

Great photos Robert! If those can be scanned, I’m sure the collective group here can identify most, if not all of the Cup Race locations and cars in the photos.

From Mystery Foto #24 Solved: A wonderful painting of Howard Kroplick in the Alco Black Beast by Joe Pep

That’s Harry Grant (driving) with Frank Lee (mechanician) in the ALCO White Beast racer in Indianapolis, IN preparing for a series of 3 races held there from July 1 through July 4, 1910. Grant won both the 10 mile and 20 mile race in its class and finished 4th. in the 200 mile Cobe Trophy. Photo was probably taken around those dates or maybe June 30, 1910.

From Mystery Foto #25 Solved: Harry Grant preparing the Alco "White Beast" for the 1910 Indy Races

AT the time of the interview in the early 1950s George Robertson lived in the Village of Bellerose , next to the village of Floral Park where my family has resided since 1924. Robertson lived about a 10 minute walk from my house. Crawford Robertson , his son, lived in Garden City in an apartment house just east of the old Garden City Hotel and Crawford, Austin Clark and I frequently would meet and go out to lunch together. Hard to imagine that this was 50 years ago.

From Kleiner's Korner: "Big George" Robertson and "Fireball" Glenn Ethridge tell their story of winning the 1908 Vanderbilt Cup Race

Good question, Al - more research to do on that!

From Long Island Motor Parkway Bridge Series: #8 Alley Road Bridge (Winchester Boulevard) in Queens

Art, The Daily News photo caption speaks of the new overpass   “reducing the crossing collision toll”.  ????  Any idea what the News is referring to.

From Long Island Motor Parkway Bridge Series: #8 Alley Road Bridge (Winchester Boulevard) in Queens

Holy Canoley Robert, these are excellent images! If you haven’t done already, would you mind directly emailing these great photos to   .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address)  What a treasure!

From Mystery Foto #24 Solved: A wonderful painting of Howard Kroplick in the Alco Black Beast by Joe Pep

The North Hempstead Turnpike Bridge is shown in this photo from The NY Daily News of August 8, 1933 which accompanies an article about the murder of railroad executive Henry F. Sanborn. 

More about the murder, which was never solved can be found here.
https://aboxofoldletters.com/2016/08/19/a-murder-in-queens/

From The Long Island Motor Parkway Bridge Series: #1 North Hempstead Turnpike Bridge in Fresh Meadows

From Art Kleiner:

And from 1933, 1934 and 1940.

From Long Island Motor Parkway Bridge Series: #8 Alley Road Bridge (Winchester Boulevard) in Queens