Tag: Drennan Collection
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Nov 19 2024
Mystery Friday Foto #46 Solved: A 1940 midair crash of two B-18 bombers over Bellerose, Queens
Joel Friedman of the Cradle of Aviation Museum challenged you to identify this weekend's mystery aerial.
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Oct 22 2024
Mystery Friday Foto #42 Solved; 1936 Vanderbilt Cup Driver Freddy McEvoy
Joel Friedman challenged you to identify Freddy McEvoy
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May 26 2010
From the Drennan Collection: 1937 Roosevelt Raceway “Australia” Mystery Solved
Onelung: Question: "One of the 1936 Vanderbilt Cup Race photos in the April 9, 2010 post shows the Italian Alfa Romeo team in front of garages at Roosevelt Raceway. You can clearly see the beginning of the word ITALY above one of them. Can you explain why "Australia" appears on the door in the background of a 1937 Vanderbilt Cup Race photo that I found on the web?"
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May 19 2010
Rare 1930s Photos of Two Motor Parkway Bridge Accidents
The Motor Parkway bridges in Nassau County were built from 1908 to 1911. The significant growth of traffic in the 1920s and 1930s was not anticipated in the design of the bridges and the openings for roads below were very narrow, typically only 22 feet wide. As a result, multiple car accidents occurred at the Motor Parkway bridges. Photos of two of these accidents in the 1930s were documented by the omnipresent photographer John Drennan and were discovered in the archives of Nassau County…
