Tag: Garden City Lodge
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Sep 20 2025
An Al Velocci Special: The Garden City Headquarters of the Long Island Motor Parkway
Motor Parkway guru and master historian Al Velocci recounts the history of the Motor Parkway headquarters.
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Jun 25 2025
A Tour of Long Island Motor Parkway Sites
Earlier in the month, Long Island transplants Richard Salamon and Frank Teracino took a tour of Long Island Motor Parkway sites of their former home of Long Island.
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Jun 23 2025
Corrected Mystery Foto #35 Solved: 1912 Blueprints for Motor Parkway’s General Manager’s Office in Garden City
Did you identify these Mystery blueprints? Two new hints provided.
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Aug 14 2024
In the Garden City News: GC Board approves $114K Toll House renovation project
In a follow-up to the July 17, 2024 post, Garden City has awarded a contract to renovate the Garden City Toll Lodge
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Jul 17 2024
In the Garden City News: Village Takes Bids for Toll Lodge Work
The Garden City News reports on the village accepting bids for the restoration of the Garden City Motor Parkway Toll Lodge
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May 05 2021
Cradle of Aviation Archives: An amazing 1936 aerial of the Motor Parkway, Roosevelt Field and Roosevelt Raceway
Through the joint efforts of the Cradle of Aviation and VanderbiltCupRaces.com, treasures of Long Island history continue to be uncovered including this 1936 aerial.
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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.
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Dec 21 2020
Mystery Foto #51 Solved: The Garden City Lodge on the move on March 11, 1989
Al Velocci challenged you to identify this weekend's Mystery Foto.
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Nov 23 2020
Mystery Foto #47 Solved: A 1956 Aerial of the Motor Parkway Behind Stewart Field in Garden City
Did you solve this weekend's Mystery Foto from the Cradle of Aviation Archives?
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Nov 02 2019
Kleiner’s Kolumn:Update-Historical Markers for the Long Island Motor Parkway & Vanderbilt Cup Races
One way to keep the memories of the Motor Parkway and the Vanderbilt Cup Races alive is to memorialize their existence with historical markers throughout Long Island.
