Tag: Roosevelt Field
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May 23 2016
Mystery Foto #21 Solved: A 1937 Cirkut Photo of Mitchel Field and Roosevelt Raceway Update: 5/27
This weekend's amazing Mystery Foto was courtesy of the archives of SPLIA (Society for the Preservation of Long Island Antiquities.)
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Mar 23 2016
1939 Aerial Analysis: East Meadow, Uniondale,Westbury and East Garden City
This amazing Long Island aerial taken on May 18, 1939 documented three golf courses, two airports, two polo fields and sections of three Vanderbilt Cup Race courses.
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Feb 23 2016
Mystery Foto #8 Solved: A 1935 East Meadow Flyover by the United States Army Air Corps
Scott Eckers challenged to you to identify this aerial from the collection of Art Kleiner
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Feb 10 2016
Amazing Aerials from the Cradle of Aviation: #3 The Earliest Known Aerial of the Motor Parkway
The third exclusive aerial from the Cradle of Aviation Museum collection documents Hazelhurst Field #1 (later Roosevelt Field) in 1919. It is likely the earliest aerial known to date of the Long Island Motor Parkway.
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Jan 25 2016
Mystery Foto #4 Solved: A 1942 Composite Aerial of Mitchel Field and Roosevelt Field-Updated 1/26/16
As requested by popular demand, here was the first Mystery Aerial of 2016.
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Sep 21 2015
Mystery Foto #38 Solved:Roosevelt Raceway, Meadow Brook Polo Field & Roosevelt Field Updated 1/24/16
Lee Chambers challenged you to identify this amazing Long Island aerial.
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Jul 08 2015
Long Island Motor Parkway Illustrated Maps (1906-1933)
Art Kleiner discovered this 1932 illustrated map of the Motor Parkway in a portfolio of aerial photographs taken by Captain Alfred G. Buckham.
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Mar 09 2015
Mystery Foto #10 Solved: Mural of the British Dirigible R34 Landing in Roosevelt Field in 1919
This brand new Mystery Foto documented a historic event in transportation that occurred on Long Island.
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Jan 29 2015
Walt Gosden Article:“Going 114 MPH on the Motor Parkway in a Model S Mercedes in 1928”
Walt Gosden has written this article for VanderbiltCupRaces.com on the day author Eric Hatch drove his Mercedes 114 MPH on the Long Island Motor Parkway.
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Jan 05 2015
Mystery Foto 2015 #1: Roosevelt Field and Roosevelt Raceway in July 1937 (Updated with a Then & Now)
The first Mystery Foto of 2015 has never been published before or posted on the Internet.
