Tag: Roosevelt Raceway
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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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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.
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Mystery Foto #97 Solved: Rare Wooden Long Island Motor Parkway Sign (1933-1938)
This weekend's Mystery Foto was a rare wooden parkway sign from the archives of the Society for the Preservation of Long Island Antiquities (SPLIA).
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Then & Now: The Long Island Motor Parkway, Mitchel Field and Sonny Corleone
In my quest to discover Motor Parkway images over the last 11 years, I have uncovered many great aerials of nearby Mitchel Field Air Force Base taken from 1924 to the the present.
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The Golf Courses Along the Long Island Motor Parkway
Golf writer Phil Carlucci for the website GolfonLongIsland has requested photos of the golf course that were adjacent to the Long Island Motor Parkway.
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Mystery Foto #82 Solved: Aerial View of Mitchel Field and Roosevelt Field on September 1, 1948
Frank Feminas challenged you to solve another Mystery Foto.
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Film of the Week: “Tazio Nuvolari Wins Vanderbilt Cup (1936)”
Éclair-Journal in 1936 released this 26-second movie news clip on the 1936 Vanderbilt Cup Race.
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Images of the 1937 Vanderbilt Cup Race from the Works Progress Administration (WPA)
Florence Ogg, former Director of Collections and Archives of the Suffolk County Vanderbilt Museum, has forwarded links to photos of the 1937 Vanderbilt Cup Race from the collection of the NYC Municipal Archives Collections.
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When Tazio Nuvolari Drove A Sprint Car In Ozone Park
After winning the 1936 Vanderbilt Cup Race, Tazio Nuvolari and the Italian team had one more week in the New York area before sailing back to their home land. In the February 2008 issue of Automobile, Tony Kaye documented their trip to the Cross Bay Speedway in Ozone Park.
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Mystery Foto #47 Solved: Aerial of 1937 Vanderbilt Cup Race at Roosevelt Raceway
After last week's difficult Mystery Foto, here was an easy one.
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