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[PHOTO] Identify This Location

Posted by Bill Newkirk on Thu Oct 15 18:43:53 2020

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Re: [PHOTO] Identify This Location

Posted by Fisk Ave Jim on Thu Oct 15 19:02:06 2020, in response to [PHOTO] Identify This Location, posted by Bill Newkirk on Thu Oct 15 18:43:53 2020.

You got me on the location, but it sure as hell looks like the LIRR 1964-65 Worlds Fair exhibit.

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Re: [PHOTO] Identify This Location

Posted by northshore on Thu Oct 15 19:02:13 2020, in response to [PHOTO] Identify This Location, posted by Bill Newkirk on Thu Oct 15 18:43:53 2020.

RR Museum Riverhead, LI. These are artifacts from the LIRR Exhibit at the 1964.65 World's Fair

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Re: [PHOTO] Identify This Location

Posted by Bill Newkirk on Thu Oct 15 19:21:57 2020, in response to Re: [PHOTO] Identify This Location, posted by northshore on Thu Oct 15 19:02:13 2020.

RR Museum Riverhead, LI.

Incorrect

Bill Newkirk

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Re: [PHOTO] Identify This Location

Posted by Bill Newkirk on Thu Oct 15 19:23:21 2020, in response to Re: [PHOTO] Identify This Location, posted by Fisk Ave Jim on Thu Oct 15 19:02:06 2020.

You got me on the location, but it sure as hell looks like the LIRR 1964-65 Worlds Fair exhibit.

Half right

Bill Newkirk

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Re: [PHOTO] Identify This Location

Posted by Bill from Maspeth on Thu Oct 15 22:34:55 2020, in response to [PHOTO] Identify This Location, posted by Bill Newkirk on Thu Oct 15 18:43:53 2020.

Peninsula Blvd.?

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Re: [PHOTO] Identify This Location

Posted by Express Rider on Thu Oct 15 23:50:11 2020, in response to Re: [PHOTO] Identify This Location, posted by Bill from Maspeth on Thu Oct 15 22:34:55 2020.

Off topic responses -
Nathan's on Peninsula Blvd. - went there a few times with my family.
Fond memories of good food.

And a fine recording: Ben Webster Live at ?* club, on Peninsula Blvd.

*don't remember the name of the club, and I don't have the album anymore - par of the great record sale

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Re: [PHOTO] Identify This Location

Posted by Bill Newkirk on Fri Oct 16 06:36:51 2020, in response to Re: [PHOTO] Identify This Location, posted by Bill from Maspeth on Thu Oct 15 22:34:55 2020.

Peninsula Blvd.?

Tanglewood Perserve is right off of Peninsula Blvd.

So, you're correct.

Bill Newkirk

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Re: [PHOTO] Identify This Location

Posted by Mitch45 on Fri Oct 16 09:34:07 2020, in response to [PHOTO] Identify This Location, posted by Bill Newkirk on Thu Oct 15 18:43:53 2020.

Earth.



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Re: [PHOTO] Identify This Location

Posted by Joe V on Fri Oct 16 11:02:32 2020, in response to [PHOTO] Identify This Location, posted by Bill Newkirk on Thu Oct 15 18:43:53 2020.

Ocean Avenue & Peninsula Blvd, a day camp.

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Re: [PHOTO] Identify This Location

Posted by Dyre Dan on Fri Oct 16 21:26:15 2020, in response to [PHOTO] Identify This Location, posted by Bill Newkirk on Thu Oct 15 18:43:53 2020.

Is that the outer shell from the front end of a real locomotive, repainted and set up as a playground structure?

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Re: [PHOTO] Identify This Location

Posted by randyo on Fri Oct 16 22:25:18 2020, in response to Re: [PHOTO] Identify This Location, posted by Dyre Dan on Fri Oct 16 21:26:15 2020.

I was in it when it was at the World’s Fair and it is.

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Re: [PHOTO] Identify This Location

Posted by Bill from Maspeth on Fri Oct 16 22:47:44 2020, in response to Re: [PHOTO] Identify This Location, posted by Bill Newkirk on Fri Oct 16 06:36:51 2020.

It was in my memory bank. I drove passed it on Peninsula Blvd. many years ago.

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Re: [PHOTO] Identify This Location

Posted by Bill Newkirk on Sat Oct 17 06:31:17 2020, in response to Re: [PHOTO] Identify This Location, posted by Dyre Dan on Fri Oct 16 21:26:15 2020.

Is that the outer shell from the front end of a real locomotive, repainted and set up as a playground structure?

It's an ex-NHRR Alco FA, though the road number escapes me at the moment.

Bill Newkirk


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