Tag: Roosevelt Raceway
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Dec 20 2025
InstaGRAM Report: Unseen racing photos from the 1960 Vanderbilt Cup at Roosevelt Raceway
The 1960 Vanderbilt Cup race was arguably the most obscure and least documented of the previous Vanderbilt Cup Races. .
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Dec 06 2025
InstaGRAM report: The history behind the 1939 Midget Racing National Championship at Roosevelt Raceway
Long Island’s Roosevelt Raceway was modified to become a ½-mile oval and home to the Midget Racing National Championship on August 12th,1939. There has been almost no photo documentation published online about this race until now.
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Dec 02 2025
Mystery Friday Foto #58 Solved: A Midget Racetrack at Roosevelt Raceway
Did you identify the National Midget Championship race track in Westbury, Long Island?
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Mar 29 2025
VanderbiltCupRaces.Com exclusive: Images of the 1937 Vanderbilt Cup Race from the Marty Himes Collection
The Marty Himes Collection has forwarded these rarely seen images from the 1937 Vanderbilt Cup Race.
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Jan 28 2025
Friday Mystery Foto #4 Solved: Newly Discovered 1953 Drennan Aerials of Roosevelt Field
The Cradle of Aviation challenged you to identify these newly discovered Drennan aerials of Roosevelt Field.
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Oct 22 2024
Mystery Friday Foto #42 Solved; 1936 Vanderbilt Cup Driver Freddy McEvoy
Joel Friedman challenged you to identify Freddy McEvoy
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Jul 04 2022
Mystery Friday Foto #27 Solved: An amazing 1951 aerial over Roosevelt Field and Mitchel Field
My favorite co-author Al Velocci challenged you to solve this holiday Mystery Foto.
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Feb 16 2022
1938 Aerials of Roosevelt Raceway from the Cradle of Aviation
The Cradle of Aviation has provided these six 1938 aerials of Roosevelt Raceway, the site for the 1936 and 1937 Vanderbilt Cup Races.
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May 05 2021
Cradle of Aviation Archives: An amazing 1936 aerial of the Motor Parkway, Roosevelt Field and Roosevelt Raceway
Through the joint efforts of the Cradle of Aviation and VanderbiltCupRaces.com, treasures of Long Island history continue to be uncovered including this 1936 aerial.
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Mar 10 2021
Hot Post Alert & Update: Beneath the shadow of wings: Mitchel Field and the Motor Parkway (1924-1948)
Author/historian Paul R. Martin III is working on the first ever comprehensive history of Long Island's Mitchel Field "Beneath The Shadow of Wings". The aerials from Paul's website have resulted in 37 Comments and 42 East Meadow Facebook Comments and counting.
