Tag: Mccamish Family Collection
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Mar 12 2024
A Lodge Keeper’s 1933 Motor Parkway Plate
Bill Cruickshank has forwarded this image of his grandfather's 1933 Long Island Motor Parkway plate.
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Dec 26 2023
Mystery Friday Foto #51; Snow on the Meadow Brook Motor Parkway Lodge
In honor of the first day of winter today and Christmas on Monday, we have the Meadow Brook lodge on a cold snowy morning in 1957.
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Jul 31 2021
Greg O.‘s Garage: Plans for the Meadowbrook Country Club Motor Parkway Bridge
Newly uncovered plans for The Meadowbrook Country Club Bridge
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Jul 17 2021
Greg O’s Garage: Wrecks of The Long Island Motor Parkway including a racer practicing for the 1925 Indy 500
There is much reported and documented about the race cars that crashed throughout the Cup races and trials, but much less is known about the hundreds of public accidents along the parkway.
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Jul 05 2021
Mystery Foto #27 Solved: Tommy Zinzi policing the Motor Parkway in front of the Meadow Brook Lodge
Greg O. challenged you to identify this weekend's Mystery Foto.
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Mar 20 2021
Update: Greg O’s Discovery: The McCamish Family and Their Time in the Meadow Brook Lodge
VanderbiltCupRaces.com Mystery Foto regular Greg O. (Oreiro) discovered in April 2020 a new treasure trove of Long Island Motor Parkway photos from Bill Cruickshank, the grandson of toll collector Otto McCamish. Update March 20, 2021: Bill has forwarded two more lodge photos.
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Oct 20 2020
The Motor Parkway Billboard on Horace Harding Boulevard in 1934
Following up on the great detective work from David Stephan, Al Velocci and Art Kleiner, the Motor Parkway billboard on the north side of Horace Harding Boulevard as seen in 1934 is presented here.
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Oct 05 2020
Updated: Mystery Foto #40 Solved: A Historic 1938 Ground-Level View of the Western Terminus in Fresh Meadows
Did you solve this weekend's historic Mystery Foto?
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Apr 27 2020
Updated: Mystery Foto #17 Solved: The Meadowbrook Polo Club Bridge over the Motor Parkway
Bill Cruickshank and Greg O. challenged you to identify this weekend's Mystery Foto taken by Bill's grandfather Otto McCamish.
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Apr 18 2020
Greg O’s Discovery #1: The McCamish Family Collection of Motor Parkway Photos: Meadow Brook Lodge
VanderbiltCupRaces.com Mystery Foto regular Greg O. (Oreiro) has discovered a new treasure trove of Long Island Motor Parkway photos from Bill Cruickshank, the grandson of toll collector Otto McCamish.
