Tag: Henry Austin Clark Jr
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Jun 15 2016
Walter McCarthy Collection: A Tribute to Henry Austin Clark, Jr.
The Rogers Memorial Library and Southampton Historical Museum invite you for a special tribute to Henry Austin Clark, Jr. and his memorable Long Island Automotive Museum on Thursday at 5:30 pm in Southampton.
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Dec 20 2015
Walter McCarthy Collection: The 20th Anniversary of the Long Island Automotive Museum (1968)
Bruce Wennerstrom documented a visit by the Madison Avenue Chowder Society on August 31, 1968 to celebrate the 20th anniversary of the Long Island Automotive Museum.
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Dec 12 2015
Updated: Walter McCarthy Collection: Then & Now- The Long Island Automotive Museum
Eric Shaffer and Dan Kretzer recently visited the site of the Long Island Automotive Museum in Southampton and documented its current condition. I have combined their "Now" photos with "Then" photos from the Walter McCarthy Collection.
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Dec 07 2015
Mystery Foto #49 Solved: Charles Addams and his wife Barbara Jean in Southampton Updated:10/30/16
Walter McCarthy challenged you to solve this Mystery Foto from his Long Island Automotive Museum collection.
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Dec 01 2015
Walter McCarthy Collection: The Opening Year of the Long Island Automotive Museum (1948)
Walter McCarthy, prominent Long Island automobile collector and Henry Austin Clark, Jr.'s friend for over 25 years, has provided his extensive files and photos of the Long Island Automotive Museum. First in this series are documents and photos from 1948.
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Oct 10 2015
Henry Austin Clark, Jr: “Why Save Old Cars?”
In 1956, Henry Austin Clark Jr. created a brochure "Antique Cars" for distribution at the Long Island Automotive Museum in Southampton. It included this article by Austin entitled "Why Save Cars?" , which described the state of car collecting in the 1950s and why the Long Island Automotive Museum was created.
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Sep 27 2015
A Special Hamptons Evening:“A Tribute to Henry Austin Clark, Jr & the Long Island Automotive Museum”
Please join Walter McCarthy and me for a special evening paying tribute to Henry Austin Clark, Jr. and his memorable Long Island Automotive Museum in Southampton. We will discuss the life and times of this Long Island automobile icon using personal experiences, photos, memorabilia and films.
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Jul 28 2015
Henry Austin Clark, Jr. and the Motor Parkway: “one for the road” (Circa 1985)
Through the 1980s, Henry Austin Clark, Jr. had a regular column Nuts and Bolts in Old Cars Weekly. Around 1985, he wrote this article "one for the road" on the Long Island Motor Parkway.
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Jan 13 2015
New Series:William S. Jackson’s “Memories of Henry Austin Clark: Capturing a Freya Radar Station”
William S. Jackson, former editor of the AACA's Antique Automobile and the CCCA's Classic Car magazine, was a friend of Henry Austin Clark Jr. for 27 years. In response to a request from author Beverly Rae Kimes in 1996, William wrote an article "Henry Austin Clark, Jr. As I Remember Him".
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Nov 29 2014
Memories of the Long Island Old Car Club and the 80th Anniversary of the 1908 Vanderbilt Cup Race
Walter Gosden provides this first post of a series on the Long Island Old Car Club and its celebration of the 80th Anniversary of the 1908 Vanderbilt Cup Race.
