Tag: Hempstead
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Mystery Friday Foto #13 Solved: The 1904 Vanderbilt Cup Race winner #7 Panhard driven by George Heath stopped at a Control
Jeanne Booth, an archivist at the Hicksville Public Library, was seeking your assistance in identifying this Mystery Foto found in the library's collection.
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Herb Lytle’s Great-Great-Grandson Takes a Ride in the Alco Black Beast
Last Sunday, Scott Lytle, the great-great-grandson of Vanderbilt Cup Racer Herb Lytle, and his lovely wife Marie visited me in Roslyn and took rides in the Alco Black Beast.
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Mystery Foto #4 Solved: A 1942 Composite Aerial of Mitchel Field and Roosevelt Field-Updated 1/26/16
As requested by popular demand, here was the first Mystery Aerial of 2016.
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Then & Now: The Long Island Motor Parkway, Mitchel Field and Sonny Corleone
In my quest to discover Motor Parkway images over the last 11 years, I have uncovered many great aerials of nearby Mitchel Field Air Force Base taken from 1924 to the the present.
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Mystery Foto #73 Solved: A Spectacular 1933 Aerial of Hempstead and North Hempstead
Gary Hammond forwarded this amazing aerial for this weekend's Mystery Foto.
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Then & Now: The Proposed Fulton Avenue Entrance to the Motor Parkway in Hempstead (Part II)
In 1907, Long Island Motor Parkway, Inc. planned to connect the Parkway to Fulton Avenue and Hempstead by a 1.3 spur road. Today's post will review the southern section of the extension and the proposed entrance on Fulton Avenue.
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Then & Now: The Motor Parkway Railroad Station on the “Hempstead Extension (Spur)” Part I
Dick Makse has forwarded this photo of a Long Island Railroad cash fare receipt dated from 1915 to 1916.
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Then & Now: The Hempstead Control For the 1904 Vanderbilt Cup Race
Joe Oesterle: Do you know exactly where these old pictures (of the Hempstead Control) were taken?
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The Hempstead Control in the 1904 Vanderbilt Cup Race
The 1904 Vanderbilt Cup Race consisted of ten laps of the 30-mile course with controls in Hicksville and Hempstead.
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108th Anniversary of the 1904 Vanderbilt Cup Race
Monday marked the 108th anniversary of the first Vanderbilt Cup Race on October 8, 1904. In celebration of this historic race, here are the two-minute American Biograph film of the race and several of my favorite 1904 race images.
Really think the couple up on Jericho Tpke are the same couple that officially toured the LIMP 1958 - 1967. Could also…