Solved: PN #707 -- automobile gymkhana at Brookline Country Club, October, 1937

[pnegyesi]

Here's one for lovers of vintage cars. What's going on here? Please name at least two people, the year, the event (and maybe the cars) for a point

[pnegyesi]

Experts?

[pnegyesi]

Professionals?

[ropat53]

I don't know what this is so lets start asking questions.

Is that Harold Lloyd with the straw hat?

[Tom_I]

I thought it might be Buster Keaton.

[pnegyesi]

not Harold Lloyd or Buster Keaton

[Wendax]

Some kind of commemorative run?

[4popoid]

Might the person in the straw hat, in the left car, be William K. Vanderbilt II?  If so, perhaps the older gentleman, in the car on the right, might be his father William K. Vanderbilt I, and the location Newport,  Rhode Island in about 1900.

[pnegyesi]

Wendax is scratching the surface of something. It was not a commemorative run, but the picture is younger than the early 1900s.

[4popoid]

Some sort of reunion?

[pnegyesi]

not a reunion

[4popoid]

Was this photograph taken in the USA?

[pnegyesi]

yes

[nicanary]

Anything to do with a Glidden Tour?

[pnegyesi]

nothing

[4popoid]

Was the event where the photograph was taken a celebration of a US holiday (Memorial Day, Independence Day, Labor Day, etc.)?

[pnegyesi]

no

[4popoid]

Was the event where the photograph was taken a re-creation of a memorable earlier event?

[ropat53]

Is it from a film?

[pnegyesi]

it not from a movie or a recreation of an earlier event, but it still has some significance

[4popoid]

Are there prominent individuals or members of prominent families (like the aforementioned Vanderbilts) shown in this photograph?

[pnegyesi]

in their provinence they were fairly well-known.

[4popoid]

Was this photograph taken in a state bordering the Atlantic ocean, and north of Washington, DC?

[pnegyesi]

north of NY city, a state bordering the Ocean

[4popoid]

Was this photograph taken in Massachusetts?