Tag: Bloomingdale Road
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Apr 03 2023
Mystery Friday Foto #13 Solved: #J13 Maxwell and #G28 Sharp-Arrow competing in the 1908 Sweepstakes at the Bloomingdale Road Motor Parkway Bridge
Did you identify these two racers going head to head?
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Jun 07 2021
Mystery Friday Foto #23: A.L. Riker road testing the Motor Parkway in a 1908 Locomobile 40
Did you identify this weekend's Mystery Foto?
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Feb 12 2020
Kleiner’s Kolumn: Documentation of the Long Island Motor Parkway Bridges in Nassau County (#28-#42)
Part II of the Nassau County Motor Parkway bridges takes us from the Westbury Avenue Bridge to the Wantagh Avenue Bridge.
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Nov 13 2019
Garden City Archives: The “Snake Turn” of the 1908-1910 Courses of the Vanderbilt Cup Races
As a follow-up to Mystery Foto #45, my favorite co-author Al Velocci and I visited Garden City historian Bill Bellmer and reviewed the one-of-a kind 1908 Motor Parkway Construction Book. Below is documentation of the "Snake Turn" of the 1908-1910 Vanderbilt Cup Race courses.
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Nov 11 2019
Mystery Friday Foto #45 Still Open for Discussion: A Motor Parkway Bridge Built on a Curve
My favorite co-author Al Velocci challenged you to identify this Long Island Motor Parkway Bridge that was built between 1908 to 1910.
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Mar 07 2016
Mystery Fotos #10 Solved: Road Testing the Motor Parkway During the Summer of 1908
The Garden City Archives challenged you to identify this series of unique photos of three automobiles on a road test prior to the Motor Parkway's opening.
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Jan 10 2015
The Spectacular 1936 Long Island Motor Parkway Flyover
In June 1936, two airplanes from the aerial survey company Braman & Johnson conducted a flyover over Long Island. The result was this amazing photo of the Long Island Motor Parkway and the Hempstead Plains.
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Nov 30 2013
Long Island Motor Parkway Bridge Series #41: The Bloomingdale Road Bridge in Hempstead Plains
The 41st bridge in the series documenting the 60 Long Island Motor Parkway bridges is the highway bridge built for the extension of Bloomingdale Road in the Hempstead Plains (now Levittown).
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Apr 28 2012
The Hempstead Plains Motor Parkway Bridge Near Bloomingdale Road
Tim Ivers: "Howard, the 1932 Hagstrom Map shows an overpass over the LIMP (Bloomingdale Road extension) which connected with Hempstead Tpke. The overpass is about halfway between Jerusalem Avenue on the west and Wantagh Rd (Ave.) on the east. Are there any known photos of this overpass, or other information?"
