Tag: Bethpage Lodge
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1958-1967 tours of the Long Island Motor Parkway #7: Bethpage Lodge
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 seventh of the series, these three photos feature the Bethpage lodge taken around 1960.
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1958-1967 tours of the Long Island Motor Parkway #5: East Williston, Mineola, Bethpage & Old Bethpage
From 1958 to 1967, an 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 fifth of the series, these five photos feature our favorite parkway from East Williston to Old Bethpage taken…
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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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Update: Mystery Foto #37 Solved: The Bethpage Lodge Under Construction in September 1908
The Garden City Archives challenged you to identify this weekend's Mystery Foto.
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Update-Malverne Treasure #6: 1908 Survey of the Proposed Entrance to the Bethpage Lodge
Over 300 Long Island Motor Parkway surveys, maps, blueprints, documents and drawings discovered by Roy Knoernschild in a Malverne basement in February 2017 are still being categorized, repaired and scanned. This July 8, 1908 Motor Parkway survey documented the "proposed entrance to parkway on property of William A. Finger at…
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Motor Parkway and Vanderbilt Cup Races Featured in New Book on Plainview-Old Bethpage
A chapter of the new Arcadia book "Plainview-Old Bethpage" by Thomas Carr features our favorite parkway and road races. Below are 12 photos and their accompanying captions.
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Sam & Dave’s “Excellent Motor Parkway Hike” III: Bethpage State Park to Round Swamp Road, Bethpage
In the third of the series, Sammy and Dave documented their excellent Motor Parkway hike from Bethpage State Park to Round Swamp Road in Bethpage.
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Mystery Foto #24 Solved: A Rare View of the Massapequa Lodge on the Motor Parkway
This weekend's Mystery Foto was a first-ever published view of the Long Island Motor Parkway.
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New Arcadia Images of America Book: Bethpage by John Logerfo
Lifelong Bethpage resident John Logerfo has authored a new Arcadia book celebrating the village of Bethpage.Chapter Four documents the Long Island Motor Parkway and the Vanderbilt Cup Races including 16 images from my collection.
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Rare View of the Bethpage Lodge and Its Lodgekeepers
Gary Hammond has forwarded this photo of the Bethpage Lodge.
Thanks to Howard Kroplick and http://www.vanderbiltcup races.com for Keeping American Automotive Racing History & my…