Vanderbilt Cup Races

Tag: East Meadow

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  May 07 2013

  Mystery Friday Foto Solved #14: East Meadow/Westbury: Location for Six Vanderbilt Cup Race Courses

  This 1949 aerial is looking north towards East Meadow (my childhood hometown) and Westbury.

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  Dec 17 2012

  Location of Mystery Motor Parkway Aerial Revealed

  The location for last week's mystery aerial is the Hempstead Plains looking north in East Meadow, now Eisenhower Park.

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  Jul 30 2011

  Then and Now: The Meadow Brook Lodge in Westbury

  Syd and Ellen (members of the Long Island Motor Parkway Preservation Society): "Howard, can you please post photos of the Meadow Brook Lodge and help us determine where it was once located?"

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  Apr 18 2011

  Then & Now: The Meadow Brook Motor Parkway Bridge in East Meadow/Westbury

  One of the first bridges built by the Long Island Motor Parkway was captured in a 1939 aerial view in last Sunday's post. Here's a Then & Now of the curved "Meadowbrook Bridge" in East Meadow built for the 1908 Vanderbilt Cup Race:

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  Sep 18 2010

  A “New” Motor Parkway Map & Nassau County Historical Sites

  Steven W. comments: "Do you have a road map of the full route of the Motor Parkway with surrounding residential streets? This would be highly appreciated, as I would love to see it and bike through the trails of the demolished part in Nassau County".

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  Mar 28 2009

  Entrance to the Meadow Brook Lodge from Merrick Avenue

  One of my favorite photos in the book The Long Island Motor Parkway is this 1910 image of the entrance to the Meadow Brook Lodge.





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