Tag: Garden City
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Jul 18 2018
Update #3: Mystery Foto #28 Reveals Another Piece of Long Island History in Garden City
Mystery Foto #28 has uncovered a piece of Long Island history. Garden City Village Historian Bill Bellmer notes "the aerial shows the Camp Mills Base Hospital remains, one of my local specialties. The image you posted is better than any other that I have."
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Jul 16 2018
Update #3: Mystery Foto #28 Solved: A 1931 Aerial of the Motor Parkway in Garden City and Mineola
Author Richard Panchyk challenged you to identify this spectacular Long Island aerial.
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May 28 2018
Mystery Foto #21 Maybe Solved: The Clinton Avenue Motor Parkway Bridge Under Construction in 1909?
Gordon Bainbridge challenged you to identify this previously unpublished photo of a Motor Parkway Bridge under construction in 1909.
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May 22 2018
VanderbiltCupRaces.com Exclusive: From the Lodgekeeper’s Family Archives-The Garden City Lodge
Greg O. has forwarded an email from the grandson of Motor Parkway lodge keepers Christian and Elizabeth Ernst. Gordon Bainbridge provided his Motor Parkway memories and this photo of the Garden City Lodge (circa 1931).
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May 14 2018
Mystery Foto #19 Solved: The Motor Parkway East of Clinton Road, Garden City in the 1950s
Brian McCarthy challenged you to solve another Motor Parkway Mystery Foto.
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Apr 03 2018
Highlights from the Alco Black Beast at the 2018 Garden City Easter Sunday Vintage Car Parade
The Garden City Easter Sunday Vintage Car Parade has been a wonderful Long Island tradition for 63 years. The Alco Black Beast was greeted with the first smiles and thumbs-ups of 2018.
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Sep 18 2017
Mystery Foto #37 Solved: An Amazing Aerial of the Long Island Motor Parkway In Garden City
It was time for another amazing Mystery Foto.
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Aug 14 2017
Mystery Foto #32 Solved: A 1950 Image of the Motor Parkway Looking West to the LILCO Gas Tank
Art Kleiner, Paula S. and her son Jeff challenged you again to identify this 1950 image of our favorite parkway.
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Jul 31 2017
Mystery Foto #30 Solved: Motor Parkway Remnants Between Russell Road and Pell Terrace in Garden City
Art Kleiner, Paula S. and her son Jeff challenged you to identify this section of our favorite parkway in a photo published in Newsday.
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May 06 2017
The Concrete Fence-Posts of the Long Island Motor Parkway
My favorite co-author Al Velocci and I have recently been discussing the concrete posts of the Long Island Motor Parkway. Al has provided some facts and documentation on the Motor Parkway "concrete fence posts".
