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 around 1960.
Enjoy,
Howard Kroplick
East Williston
View looking north on the right-of-way in Wheatley Hills Country Club.
Mineola
Jericho Turnpike Motor Parkway Bridge looking north.
Mineola LIRR Motor Parkway Bridge. Is the view looking east or west?
Bethpage
View looking north of the Bethpage Lodge on Round Swamp Road.
Old Bethpage
The rarely photographed Botto Farmway Bridge located in the Bethpage State Park, Old Bethpage.
Comments
I believe the Botto Farmway Bridge was located solidly within current day Old Bethpage.
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Howard Kroplick
Robert, you are correct. The park is primarily in Old Bethpage with a Farmingdale mailing address.
Below is the 1960 image from the bridge series here. Looks like the same couple seen up on Jericho Tpke, there’s only the 3 bikes and boy on the LIMP. Their son perhaps? And the photo taken at the LIRR, I think is east.
Newly discovered Motor Parkway photos.
One more!
I agree the view on the RR bridge is looking east based upon the 1960 Historic Aerial showing that building south of the tracks and the siding going north.
https://www.historicaerials.com/viewer
Thanks Howard!! Always enjoy, sorry for not responding, but I enjoy and send them on!
Ann
In the summer of 1984 I got a job working for a demolition company. There were 8 of us in the crew that summer. We dismantled the East Williston LIRR overpass as well as the overpass in Mineola. Tough job. The company was Big Apple demolition.