Tag: Melville
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Kleiner’s Korner: (Very) Quiet Viewing Spots Along the Long Island Motor Parkway (Part 1)
In each of the counties in which the Motor Parkway passed nearby cemeteries existed or were planned to be built but weren't.
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Kleiner’s Korner: A Return to the Long Island Motor Parkway (Part 2)
The next exploration in my return to Long Island is a much photographed section of the Motor Parkway in Suffolk County - off of Maxess Road in Melville.
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Updated 12/7/2022: Then & Now: The Very Elusive Clody Farmway Bridge in the Melville Sand Pits
The sole remaining standing Motor Parkway bridge in Suffolk County is the elusive Clody Farmway Bridge in Melville.
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1958-1967 tours of the Long Island Motor Parkway #8: Melville and Half Hollows Hills
From 1958 to 1967, unidentified couple(s) documented tours of the Motor Parkway with over 70 photos taken from the Western Terminus in Queens to the Eastern Terminus (Lake Ronkonkoma). In the eight post of the series, these seven photos feature the parkway in Melville and Half Hollow Hills.
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A New 1946 View of the Broad Hollow Motor Parkway/Trolley Bridge in Melville
A former Motor Parkway explorer Pat Masterson (now residing in Florida) has forward a new view of the bridge over Broad Hollow Road and Cross Island Trolley courtesy of the Dave Keller Archive.
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A 1946 View of the Broad Hollow Motor Parkway/Trolley Bridge in Melville
My favorite co-author has provided this never before published photo of the Motor Parkway bridge over Broad Hollow Road and the Cross Island Trolley.
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Mystery Foto #12 Solved: A View Along the 10-Mile Curve in Dix Hills & the “View” Postcard Series
To promote the restaurant/inn Petit Trianon and the Motor Parkway in 1912, Long Island Motor Parkway, Inc. hired a photographer to develop the "View Along the Long Island Motor Parkway" series. These postcards were sold at Petit Trianon. My favorite co-author Al Velocci challenged you to identify this postcard.
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Sammy & Dave’s “Excellent 2019 Vanderbilt Day”- #13 Melville
In the final of the 13 posts of the 2019 series and in preparation for Vanderbilt Day 2020, the father and son team of Sammy and Dave Russo explore the section of the Motor Parkway in Melville.
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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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Kleiner’s Kolumn: Documenting the Ezekiel Smith Farmway Bridge in Melville Over Time
In a new Kleiner's Kolumn, Art Kleiner further explores the farmway bridge in Melville.
Brian McCarthy - Quite possible the same couple exploring/documenting the LIMP have reached the Jericho Tpke bridge in…