Tag: Sperry Plant
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Nov 20 2025
Updated:The Role of the Motor Parkway in the Development of the Cruise Missile
Hard to believe the Long Island Motor Parkway is connected to the development of the cruise missile?
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Aug 26 2025
Friday Mystery Foto #44 Solved: A Familiar Aerial of Lake Success
Al Velocci challenged you to identify this aerial of Lake Success
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Jun 15 2020
Mystery Foto #24 Solved: A 1952 Aerial View of Lake Success
Did you identify this Fairchild Aerial Survey?
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Mar 20 2017
Mystery Foto #11 Solved: Hundreds of Automobiles Seen in This 1952 Lake Success Aerial
This weekend's Mystery Foto was another amazing aerial from Fairchild Aerial Surveys.
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Jul 11 2016
Mystery Foto #28 Solved: The Sperry Gyroscope Plant in Lake Success on September 27, 1952
This weekend's Mystery Foto was originally classified as "Confidential" by the U.S. Defense Department.
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Apr 30 2016
Exclusive: 1956 Aerial Views of the Construction of the Long Island Expressway in Lake Success
In October 1956, Skyviews Survey was commissioned to document the construction of the Long Island Expressway.
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Jan 06 2014
Mystery Foto #49 Solved: A View of Lake Success in 1934
To celebrate 2014, the first Mystery Foto was another vintage Long Island aerial.
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Oct 01 2012
Newsday 1954 Article: “Motor Parkway ‘Ghosts’ Haunt Northern State”
Art Kleiner has forwarded a 1954 Newsday article on the two Motor Parkway bridges built in Lake Success by Robert Moses with the construction of the Northern State Parkway in 1931. The Motor Parkway bridge parallel to Lakeville Road is documented below.
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Jul 07 2012
Then & Now: William K. Vanderbilt Jr’s Deepdale Gate Lodge in Lake Success
In 1906, William K. Vanderbilt Jr. commissioned architect John Russell Pope to design a gate lodge for his Deepdale Estate located in Lake Success, New York. Fortunately, the gate lodge is still standing and provides the opportunity for this "Then & Now".
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Oct 22 2009
The Motor Parkway Bridges over the Northern State Parkway
Ron, with the construction of the Northern State Parkway in the early 1930s, Robert Moses agreed to build two Motor Parkway bridges over the new parkway, one just west of Lakeville Road and another west of New Hyde Park Road. At this section of the Motor Parkway, the right-of way did not cross the Long Island Expressway. Here's the amazing supporting photos.
