Tag: Virginia Vanderbilt
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Apr 08 2026
NewYorkSocialDiary.com: A Vanderbilt Homecoming: The Restoration of 60 East 93rd Street
Online site, Newyorksocialdiary.com has done an article on the restoration of Viginia 'Birdie' Vanderbilt's 93rd St. mansion
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Feb 11 2025
Mystery Foto #6 Solved: The Vanderbilts on Vacation
Did you identify the Vanderbilt party on a vacation?
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Nov 16 2024
VanderbiltCupRaces.com Exclusive: A great grandson’s profile of Willie K’s friend and a Motor Parkway treasurer Robert C. Watson, Jr.
David Watson has provided a profile on his great-grandfather Robert C. Watson Jr., a friend of Willie K.and a treasurer of the Long Island Motor Parkway.
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May 21 2024
Mystery Friday Foto #20 Solved: Willie K’s ‘Hard Boiled Egg’ on the Hudson
Did you identify the Hard Boiled Egg and Willie K.?
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Apr 03 2024
The REAL ladies of The Gilded Age from Julian Fellowes’ HBO Show, ‘The Gilded Age’
Julian Fellowes' HBO period drama The Gilded Age, dubbed the 'US Downton Abbey', is about to start filming season 3, and will bring the usual cast of glamorous, privileged and exceeding wealthy personalities to our screens.
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Oct 17 2023
Hold the Date: Thursday, October 26, 2023 7 pm- Special Presentation at the Fall Meeting of the Long Island Motor Parkway Preservation Society
Join author Paul Mateyunas to discuss the Gilded Age and the estates and country homes of Long Island.
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Dec 28 2022
Greg O’s Garage: The 1930 Motor Parkway license plate/season ticket holders Part 3
The Suffolk County Vanderbilt Museum has forwarded lists of people who purchased Long Island Motor Parkway season tickets and license plates over an eight-year period (1913, 1914, 1915, 1916, 1917 1930, 1931 and 1932.) These " Who's Who" lists total over 700 prominent Long Islanders.
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Feb 22 2021
Mystery Foto #8 Solved: Birdie, Sears and Beach at the 1908 Vanderbilt Cup Race
Did you identify this weekend's Mystery Foto?
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Mar 10 2020
Kleiner’s Korner: Mechanician Al Poole - Letters from Home
Included in the Peter Helck Family Collection is correspondence between Al Poole (chauffeur, mechanician and driver) and his father and brother between the years 1902 and 1906.
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Apr 14 2018
Highlights from Long Island Motor Parkway Preservation Society Meeting: The Grand Vanderbilt Estates
Over 65 members of the Long Island Motor Parkway Preservation Society had a wonderful evening last Thursday discussing Motor Parkway projects and listening to author and historian Paul Mateyunas' presentation The Grand Estates of the Gold Coast.
