Tag: Jericho Turnpike
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Dec 30 2025
Mystery Friday Foto #62 Solved: The Jericho Turnpike Motor Parkway Bridge
For the last Mystery Foto of 2026, let's see how many LIMPers identified the Jericho Tpke bridge
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Jul 12 2025
Kleiner’s Korner: More Misc. Motor Parkway News
Items pertaining to our favorite roadway on a variety of topics.
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Mar 11 2025
Mystery Friday Foto #10 Solved: Time for a Cool, Refreshing Drink at John Allen’s House on the 1904 Course
Did you identify John Allen's home and refreshment stand?
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Apr 16 2024
Mystery Friday Foto #15 Solved; Fred Rieder at the Jericho Turnpike Highway Bridge in 1954/1955
Did you identify the Jericho Turnpike Motor Parkway bridge?
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Nov 30 2021
Greg O’s Garage and Kleiner’s Korner look at Jericho Turnpike Then & Now
Another peek into the history of Jericho Turnpike at the Start/Finish line of the 1904 & 1906 Vanderbilt Cup Races
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Feb 01 2021
Mystery Foto #5 Solved: A 1950 aerial over the Northern State Parkway from the Cradle of Aviation Archives
The Cradle of Aviation challenged you to solve this final Mystery Foto of the month.
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Aug 22 2020
Kleiner’s Korner Part I: Illustrating the 1906 Vanderbilt Cup Race and the Motor Parkway
In addition to magazines using photographs to graphically enhance a story, illustrations were also often times used. One illustrator employed by "The Motor Way" magazine was Henry Thiede whose drawings in 1906 portrayed anecdotes of the Vanderbilt Cup Race and the building of the Motor Parkway.
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Mar 15 2017
VanderbiltCupRaces.com Exclusive: A Vanderbilt Cup Race Scrapbook Discovered in Garden City
The Garden City Archives have discovered a small scrapbook of photos from the 1905 and 1906 Vanderbilt Cup Races. The scrapbook was a gift from Dorothy Peters Hubbell, whose family had direct links to the Long Island Motor Parkway and the founding of Garden City.
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Oct 14 2015
Sam & Dave’s “Excellent Motor Parkway Adventure” V: East Williston to Mineola
On April 4, 2015, Dave Russo and his 10-year old son Sam experienced a one-day 38-mile bike tour on the Long Island Motor Parkway. In the fifth post of this series, Sammy and Dave exploring the Long Island Motor Parkway from East Williston to Mineola.
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May 10 2014
Video:“The Location of the Start/Finish Lines of the 1904 and 1906 Vanderbilt Cup Races”
The recent AmeriCarna "Vanderbilt Cup" episode focused on the six Vanderbilt Cup Races held on Long Island and the Vanderbilt Cup trophy.This two- minute segment features a trip to Jericho Turnpike in Westbury- the location for the Start/Finish Lines, grandstands and officials' stand/press box for the 1904 and 1906 Vanderbilt Cup Races.
