Vanderbilt Cup Races

Tag: Crawford Robertson

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  Apr 19 2021

  Mystery Foto #16 Solved: Jerry Helck and Walt Gosden in Old 16 at the 80th Anniversary of the 1908 Vanderbilt Cup Race

  Walter McCarthy challenged you to solve this weekend's Mystery Foto.

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  Aug 10 2020

  Mystery Foto #32 Solved: New York Islanders Celebrating Their First Stanley Cup Championship in Henry Austin Clark, Jr.‘s Old 32

  The Helck Family Collection challenged you to identify this weekend's Mystery Foto.

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  Aug 04 2018

  Jerry Helck and the Old 16 Locomobile Racer

  Old 16 Locomobile, the winner of the 1908 Vanderbilt Cup Race, was owned by the Helck family for 55 years from 1942 to 1997. Nobody was photographed more frequently with this historic racer than Jerry Helck.

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  Feb 04 2017

  Helck Family Collection: George Robertson’s Eyewitness Account of Lindbergh’s Journey to History

  One more treasure from the Helck Family Collection- George Robertson, winner of the 1908 Vanderbilt Cup Race, documents his role in Charles Lindbergh's historic transatlantic journey on May 20, 1927.

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  Nov 29 2014

  Memories of the Long Island Old Car Club and the 80th Anniversary of the 1908 Vanderbilt Cup Race

  Walter Gosden provides this first post of a series on the Long Island Old Car Club and its celebration of the 80th Anniversary of the 1908 Vanderbilt Cup Race.

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  Feb 22 2010

  An Armband Discovery and a Lantern Mystery

  Since 2008, I have been searching for a Vanderbilt Cup Race brassard (armband) reportedly found in the historic Malcolm House. As seen on the arm of William K. Vanderbilt, Jr, officials and press wore these distinctive armbands to allow access to the course. Last week my search for the…