Tag: Vanderbiltcupraces.com Exclusive
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Nov 28 2018
Exclusive: The 1954 Opening of Henry Austin Clark, Jr.‘s “Carnival of Cars” in Times Square
On July 15, 1954, Henry Austin Clark, Jr. and investor Robert W. Dowling opened the "Carnival of Cars" museum in the basement of the Astor Theater in Times Square. The grand media opening event with early television celebrities was captured by Bob Grier.
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Oct 16 2018
Exclusive: Surveyor Clinton Robertson’s Long Island Motor Parkway Construction Photo Album
While working as a surveyor on the Long Island Motor Parkway in 1908 and 1909, Clinton A. Robertson (above) documented the Motor Parkway construction and his fellow workers with his trusty camera.
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Sep 22 2018
VanderbiltCupRaces.com Exclusive: The Only Active Long Island Motor Parkway Bridge in Suffolk County
A VanderbiltCupRaces.com viewer has provided the first known images of the 108-year old Clody Farmway Bridge working in action in the Melville sandpits.
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Sep 01 2018
VanderbiltCupRaces.com Exclusive: The Historic Tucker d’Elegance in Big Sur
Last Thursday, photographer Leo Mayorquin found a perfect location in Big Sur to record the 2018 Pebble Beach Tour d'Elegance. Several of Leo's photos have likely documented a historic moment in automotive history- two Tuckers passing each other.
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May 22 2018
VanderbiltCupRaces.com Exclusive: From the Lodgekeeper’s Family Archives-The Garden City Lodge
Greg O. has forwarded an email from the grandson of Motor Parkway lodge keepers Christian and Elizabeth Ernst. Gordon Bainbridge provided his Motor Parkway memories and this photo of the Garden City Lodge (circa 1931).
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Mar 17 2018
Update: VanderbiltCupRaces.com Exclusive: Memories of Living in the Huntington Lodge in Melville
After 15 years of my searching for images of the Huntington Lodge, Maureen Standish has provided these photos from her family albums and wonderful stories of her Melville childhood.
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Mar 14 2018
Updated VanderbiltCupRaces.com Exclusive: A Rare 1947 Tucker Franchise Plan Sales Tool
A 45-page sales tool used by the Tucker Corporation to sell franchises to automobile dealerships in 1947 has been discovered. Only two of these 11" x 18" portfolios are known to exist.
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Dec 20 2017
VanderbiltCupRaces.com Exclusive: The Lost East Wing of the Long Island Aviation Country Club
On Tuesday, my favorite co-author Al Velocci and I went exploring for lost sections of the clubhouse of the Long Island Aviation Country Club. Amazingly, we found the lost east wing!
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Dec 02 2017
VanderbiltCupRaces.com Exclusive: Charlie Chaplin and Mabel Normand at the 1914 Vanderbilt Cup Race
These are the only known film scenes of the 1914 Vanderbilt Cup Race held in Santa Monica, California.
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Aug 20 2017
VanderbiltCupRaces.com Exclusive: The Planned Hempstead Plains Motor Parkway Speedway
A recently discovered survey shows that in August 1909 a 5.5- mile Motor Parkway speedway loop was designed for the Hempstead Plains (now Levittown).
