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Tag: Ronkonkoma Motor Speedway

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  Jul 21 2021

  Kleiner’s Korner: The expenses of constructing the never built Ronkonkoma Racing Loop

  As noted in a 2010 post plans were drawn up to construct a racing loop at the end of the Motor Parkway in Ronkonkoma. An estimate dated October 24, 1910, projected the cost to be $258,075.67 - a low estimate among the many alternatives provided . . .

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  Sep 24 2018

  Mystery Foto #38 Solved: 1938 Aerial of Ronkonkoma and the Long Island Motor Parkway

  Frank Femenias challenged you to identify this 1938 aerial courtesy of the University of Stony Brook.

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  Oct 26 2017

  Hemmings: Ronkonkoma: the never-was speedway that could have brought Indianapolis-scale racing to LI

  With the assistance of VanderbiltCupRaces.com, Daniel Strohl of Hemmings Daily has written an article on the planned Ronkonkoma Motor Speedway.

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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).

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  Aug 12 2017

  When Walter T. Shirley Was Selling the “Former Vanderbilt Estate” in Ronkonkoma Updated

  While researching the Ronkonkoma section of the Motor Parkway for my September 12th presentation, I came across this 1943 real estate ad selling quarter acres from the "former Vanderbilt Estate". Here is the story behind Long Island Acres owned by Walter T. Shirley.

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  Feb 20 2010

  VanderbiltCupRaces.com Exclusive: 1910 Plans for the Ronkonkoma Motor Speedway

  Beginning in November 1906, officials acquired the Motor Parkway right-of way from property owners and farmers from Queens to Riverhead, typically purchasing 1 to 20 acres of land. By far the largest parcel purchased was 891.21 acres in Ronkonkoma from Charles Wright. I always assumed that the Long Island Motor…