Tag: Petit Trianon
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Jan 13 2026
Mystery Friday Foto #2 Solved: A Large Automobile Gathering at the Petit Trianon in Ronkonkoma
Can you identify the location of this large gathering of autos?
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Dec 10 2025
Update: 12/11/2025: A 17—year old Parkway Inn Lake Ronkonkoma sign mystery likely solved
Back in 2008, a mystery photo was posted but never solved. Seventeen years later, it just may be solved.
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Nov 25 2025
Mystery Friday Foto #57 Solved: The Petit Trianon Annex Building
Did you identify this weekend's Mystery Foto of the Petit Trianon Annex building in Lake Ronkonkoma?
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Nov 12 2025
The Significance of the Long Island Motor Parkway
As many of the Motor Parkway enthusiasts know, the Motor Parkway had a major impact of the future of road building with the newly constructed parkway
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Oct 25 2025
Kleiner’s Korner: News of The Motor Parkway from September, 1925
Here's another edition of 100 years ago on The Motor Parkway.
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Mar 19 2024
Mystery Friday Foto #11 Solved; The Petit Trianon Construction in Lake Ronkonkoma
Frank Femenias challenged you to identify the Petit Trianon under construction.
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Jan 06 2024
A 1908 Aeromap of Lake Ronkonkoma, the Motor Parkway Inn and an Automobile Parkway under construction
At the October 2023 meeting of the Long Island Motor Parkway Preservation Society, Al Velocci presented a 1908 "aeromap" of Lake Ronkonkoma. Here are up-close scans of Al's unique map.
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Mar 17 2021
Kleiner’s Korner: And now for something completely different: Part 2 (Motor Parkway 1911 - 1930)
The second installment of this series includes robberies on the Motor Parkway, fires started by Motor Parkway motorists, a proposed extension to Sag Harbor, a full day of pleasure on the Motor Parkway Parkway for $5 and more.
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Feb 27 2021
Film of the Week: A Tour of Historic Lake Ronkonkoma
Lee Chambers has forwarded this 14-minute YouTube created in 2018 by the Town of Smithtown as part of their "Historic Smithtown" series.
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Feb 02 2021
1958-1967 tours of the Long Island Motor Parkway #6: Petit Trianon in Lake Ronkonkoma
From 1958 to 1967, unidentified couple(s) documented tours of the Motor Parkway with over 70 photos taken from the Western Terminus in Queens to the Eastern Terminus (Lake Ronkonkoma). In the sixth of the series, these photos feature the post-fire Petit Trianon located at the Eastern Terminus in Lake Ronkonkoma from 1958-1960.
