Car - Race - Eat my dust 1910 - Side by Side
by Mike Savad
Title
Car - Race - Eat my dust 1910 - Side by Side
Artist
Mike Savad
Medium
Photograph - Colorized Photo
Description
Colorized photo from 1910, Oct 1
Original title: Beardsley "Simplex"
Photographer: Bain News
Location: Long Island Motor Parkway, Queens, NY
This is the 1910 Vanderbilt race, one of the last run in this area because there were too many getting killed or hurt. He made a custom stretch of road that he only used a few times and is still actually there, some of it in terrible shape.
I was able to find a number of paintings of this location, and quite a few cars, but not this one. No one cares about the loser. Was the car red? I don't know, I like red in this because its the star of this shot, without knowing its history he could have been in 1st place, and not 17th,
I wanted this to have a sort of illustrated Rockwell look.
A few notes, the guy in the center left, has a phone like device, I think he is calling in who won or he is an announcer. There is a guy with a megaphone and a motorcycle. And can you spot the time traveler in this one? They pop up in random shots. I think he's the guy in brown with the goatee. They didn't really have goatee's in those days, I can only conclude that he came from the 1970's, a beatnik that tripped too hard on some shrooms and went back in time.
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May 6th, 2021
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