Tag: Roosevelt Field Motor Parkway Bridge
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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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Mystery Foto #88 Solved: The Homecoming of Charles Lindbergh to Roosevelt Field on June 16, 1927
This weekend's Mystery Foto documented a historic Long Island event.
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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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Mystery Foto #19 Solved: Aerial of the 1936 Vanderbilt Cup Race & Site of Lindbergh’s Takeoff
This aerial was taken during the 1936 Vanderbilt Cup Race held at the "new" Roosevelt Raceway in Westbury.
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Long Island Motor Parkway Bridge Series #33: The “Roosevelt Field” Motor Parkway Bridge in Westbury
The 33rd bridge in the series documenting the 60 bridges built by the Long Island Motor Parkway is the highway bridge that eventually connected Stewart Avenue to Roosevelt Field.
The partially completed train crossing is obviously Mineola or Albertson. Staring at the picture it could easily be…