Tag: Roosevelt Field Motor Parkway Bridge
-
Greg O.‘s Garage: Plans for the Meadowbrook Country Club Motor Parkway Bridge
Newly uncovered plans for The Meadowbrook Country Club Bridge
-
Hot Post Alert & Update: Beneath the shadow of wings: Mitchel Field and the Motor Parkway (1924-1948)
Author/historian Paul R. Martin III is working on the first ever comprehensive history of Long Island's Mitchel Field "Beneath The Shadow of Wings". The aerials from Paul's website have resulted in 37 Comments and 42 East Meadow Facebook Comments and counting.
-
Update Mystery Foto #27 Solved: Lindbergh Taking Off from Roosevelt Field on May 20, 1927
Did you solve this holiday weekend's Mystery Foto?
-
Updated: Mystery Foto #17 Solved: The Meadowbrook Polo Club Bridge over the Motor Parkway
Bill Cruickshank and Greg O. challenged you to identify this weekend's Mystery Foto taken by Bill's grandfather Otto McCamish.
-
Mystery Foto #15 Solved: An Aerial of Roosevelt Raceway and Westbury Circa 1937-1939
Preservation Long Island challenged you to identify this aerial from their archives.
-
Kleiner’s Kolumn: Documentation of the Long Island Motor Parkway Bridges in Nassau County (#28-#42)
Part II of the Nassau County Motor Parkway bridges takes us from the Westbury Avenue Bridge to the Wantagh Avenue Bridge.
-
Kleiner’s Kolumn: Part I-Mapping the Motor Parkway, Mitchel Field & Mitchel Gardens
Recently received documents from the Nassau County Dept. of Public Works (NCDPW) highlight the Motor Parkway and Mitchel Field in Garden City.
-
Kleiner’s Kolumn: Removal of the Roosevelt Field Motor Parkway Bridge
This installment of the series exploring the removal of Motor Parkway bridges documents plans from the Nassau County Department of Public Works pertaining to the Roosevelt Field Motor Parkway Bridge, connecting Stewart Avenue and Roosevelt Field.
-
Update #2: In Search of the Mystery Camp Mills “New York” Road
Lee Chambers, who grew up in Mitchel Field, has been determined to document a mysterious Camp Mills road that ran east to west and disappeared when Mitchel Field was reconfigured in 1927 to 1932. Bill Bellmer's recent aerials and documents have help Lee solve the mystery.
-
Update2:Mystery Foto #29 Solved:A 1936 Aerial of Mitchel Field,Roosevelt Raceway & the Motor Parkway
Author Richard Panchyk set a VanderbiltCupRaces.com record with back-to-back Mystery Foto challenges.
Thanks to Howard Kroplick and http://www.vanderbiltcup races.com for Keeping American Automotive Racing History & my…