Vanderbilt Cup Races

Continuing our "Then and Now" series, this photo captured Old 16, the eventual winner of the 1908 Vanderbilt Cup Race, climbing the Long Island Motor Prarkway bridge over Massapequa-Hicksville Road. To the right is the Massapqua Lodge, one of the three John Russell Pope-designed toll lodges opened in 1908.

Thisl photo was taken on March 27, 1959 by a Nassau County Department of Public Works photographer Bob Donahue. He snapped this photo of the lodge to document future project sites and captured the decaying pavement of the parkway. At this time the Zinzi's were still in the lodge, but only for a couple of more years. The lodge was torn down in the 60's to make way for the eventual Nassau County Police Eighth Precinct building and Crescent Woods Garden Apartment complex.

The lodge was demolished in the early 1960s and the site became part of a garden apartment complex. Note the right-of-way of the Long Island Parkway has been repaved and now leads to the Eighth Precint police station.