Tag: Lake Success
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Dec 28 2013
Vanderbilia Postcard Series #2: The Locomobile Postcards of the 1905 Vanderbilt Cup Race
In celebration of its surprising third place finish in the 1905 Vanderbilt Cup Race, Locomobile Company of Bridgeport , Connecticut published a series of 12 postcards showing the #7 racer driven by Joe Tracy and Al Poole.
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Nov 16 2013
Arcadia Publishing Announces the Availability of the Book “North Hempstead” In January 2014
My third book "North Hempstead" has been completed and will available for sale on January 20, 2014.
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Jul 17 2013
A New View of the Great Neck Lodge in Lakeville (Lake Success) Circa 1911
This is a high-resolution view of the Great Neck Lodge in Lake Success taken around 1911. Breaking down the image into segments provides show insight into the lodge.
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May 04 2013
School Project: The Black Beast and the Long Island Motor Parkway in Lake Success
Last month, I was contacted by four Great Neck South Middle School students requesting a film interview on the Long Island Motor Parkway.
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Mar 02 2013
Documenting W.C. Fields on the Long Island Motor Parkway in 1925
At Thursday's meeting of the Long Island Motor Parkway Preservation Society, people were fascinated by the post of the 1925 film "Sally of the Sawdust". As a follow-up to several requests, here is my documentation of where I believe D.W. Griffith filmed W.C. Fields on the Motor Parkway.
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Feb 19 2013
Film: W.C Fields Driving On the Long Island Motor Parkway in “Sally of the Sawdust”
John has forwarded this D.W. Griffith film "Sally of the Sawdust". Starring Carol Dempster, W.C. Fields, and Alfred Lunt, the film was shot in Bayside, Greenwich an on the "Motor Parkway" in 1925.
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Nov 21 2012
The Amazing Fairchild Aerials of Long Island
Sherman Mills Fairchild (1896-1971) was an inventor, entreprenueur and a pioneer in aerial surveys and the aviation industry.
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Nov 14 2012
The Motor Parkway Toll Collection Structures: #4 & #5 Great Neck Lodge & Kiosk in Lake Success
Going west to east, the third and fourth Motor Parkway toll collection structures were the Great Neck Kiosk and Great Neck Lodge located 350-feet east of Lakeville Road in Lake Success.
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Oct 01 2012
Newsday 1954 Article: “Motor Parkway ‘Ghosts’ Haunt Northern State”
Art Kleiner has forwarded a 1954 Newsday article on the two Motor Parkway bridges built in Lake Success by Robert Moses with the construction of the Northern State Parkway in 1931. The Motor Parkway bridge parallel to Lakeville Road is documented below.
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Sep 04 2012
Then & Now in North Hempstead: The Historic Long Island Motor Parkway
In celebration of the first road built exclusively for the automobile, my favorite co-author Al Velocci and I will present tonight a then and now review of the North Hempstead section of the historic Long Island Motor Parkway.
