Tag: Garden City Archives
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Greg O’s Garage: Newly Discovered 1919 Blueprints of Camp Mills in Garden City
Long Island contractor Roy Knoernschild has once again generously donated more survey maps. This time, Roy discovered a 1919 Completion Atlas of Camp Mills in Garden City. The Atlas was given today to Bill Bellmer, the village historian of Garden City, for the Garden City Archives.
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Exclusive from the Garden City Archives: Old 16 Locomobile taking a turn in the hamlet of Jericho during the 1908 Vanderbilt Cup Race
Garden City village historian Bill Bellmer has forwarded this never-before-published photo from the Garden City Archives.
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Mystery Friday Foto #22 Solved: The Powell Avenue Motor Parkway Bridge in Bethpage under construction circa July/August 1908
Garden City Archives challenged you to identify this weekend's Mystery Foto.
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Greg O’s Garage: Wrecks of The Long Island Motor Parkway including a racer practicing for the 1925 Indy 500
There is much reported and documented about the race cars that crashed throughout the Cup races and trials, but much less is known about the hundreds of public accidents along the parkway.
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Mystery Foto #11B Solved: The Garden City Archives: Scouting the Ground-Breaking Ceremony Location
The Garden City Archives challenged you to a brand new Mystery Foto.
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Mystery Foto #11A Solved: From the Garden City Archives- A Tour in 1908
The Garden City Archives challenged you in 2016 to identify this special 1908 tour.
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Mystery Foto #7 Solved:The Intersection of Old Country Road & Post Avenue in Westbury (1908 & 2020)
The Garden City Archives challenged you to identify this Mystery Foto of a section of the planned original section of the 1908 Vanderbilt Cup Race course.
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Mystery Foto #6 Solved: The Jericho Turn in Jericho on a Vanderbilt Cup Race Course
The Garden City Archives challenges you to identify another never-before-published Mystery Foto.
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Mystery Foto #5 Solved: The Motor Parkway West of Merrick Avenue Under Construction in 1908
The Garden City Archives challenged you to identify this weekend's Super Bowl Mystery Foto.
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Mystery Foto #4 Solved: A Never Before Published Photo from the Newbridge Road Motor Parkway Bridge
I am pleased to announce that in cooperation with Garden City Village Historian Bill Bellmer, VanderbiltCupRaces.com has obtained 139 scans of the only known copy of the 1908 Long Island Motor Parkway Construction Scrapbook from the Garden City Archives. Many of these photos have never been published including this weekend's…
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