Tag: Old Country Road
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Mystery Friday Foto #35 Solved: Bert Dingley taking the Hicksville Turn in a Pope-Hartford at the 1910 Vanderbilt Cup Race
The Walter McCarthy archives again challenged you with another unpublished race photo.
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Kleiner’s Korner: Construction Details of the Old Country Road Highway Bridge
From the Motor Parkway collection of maps and surveys come these 1908 construction plans of the Old Country Road highway bridge which is classified this way due to the parkway running under the bridge.
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Family Photos of Henry Schmidt’s Meadowbrook Hotel in Westbury
As a follow-up to the 2020 Mystery Foto #7 of the Meadowbrook Hotel, the owner's great-grandson Michael White has forwarded two photos from the Schmidt/White family album. The photos are from the collection of Thomas Schmidt, another great-grandson.
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Mystery Foto #2 Solved: A 1956 aerial of the new opened Roosevelt Field and almost completed Meadowbrook Parkway
The Cradle of Aviation Archives challenged to identify this weekend's Mystery Foto.
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Mystery Foto #7 Solved:The Intersection of Old Country Road & Post Avenue in Westbury (1908 & 2020)
The Garden City Archives challenged you to identify this Mystery Foto of a section of the planned original section of the 1908 Vanderbilt Cup Race course.
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Kleiner’s Kolumn:Update-Historical Markers for the Long Island Motor Parkway & Vanderbilt Cup Races
One way to keep the memories of the Motor Parkway and the Vanderbilt Cup Races alive is to memorialize their existence with historical markers throughout Long Island.
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Sam & Dave’s “Excellent 2019 Vanderbilt Day”- #7 Mineola & Carle Place
Our favorite Motor Parkway father and son team Dave and Sammy Russo journeyed once again on their bikes to explore our favorite parkway from Lake Success to Melville. In the seventh post of the series, Sammy and Dave explored the Mineola/Carle Place section of the Motor Parkway.
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Updated: Then & Now: Mineola LIRR Motor Parkway Bridge
Frank Femenias observes that a 1909 photo on the Mineola LIRR Motor Parkway Bridge by surveyor Clinton Robertson was taken at the exact location of a 1983 photo by Ron Ridolph.
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Mystery Foto #9 Solved: An Aerial Looking East Over Roosevelt Field. Circa 1952
The Cradle of Aviation Museum challenged you to solve this weekend's Mystery Foto.
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John E. Roosevelt Family Photo Album: Action in Hicksville During the 1910 Vanderbilt Cup Race
In the second post from the John E. Roosevelt Family Photo Album, Gladys Roosevelt, the daughter of John E. Roosevelt and the second cousin of President Teddy Roosevelt, captured accidents and breakdowns that occurred at her viewing location at Old Country Road in Hicksville.
The partially completed train crossing is obviously Mineola or Albertson. Staring at the picture it could easily be…