Vanderbilt Cup Races

Howard, Roz and your crew thank you again for sharing your marvelous collection with us. You are truly the best ambassador of classic car culture on Long Island. Gerry Duff thank you for including the Studebaker club and for breakfast. Thank you to the Buick club for a great lunch. Yours Rita and Jerry PS on our way home we tried to locate the Maiden again, but we think she was cut down and think it was in front of or near 150 Motor Parkway where the Motor Parkway museum display is today.

From Update: InstaGRAM report: AACA Vanderbilt Cup Region, Studebaker Club and Long Island Buick Club Visit the Kroplick Collection

Thank you so much for hosting members of the Studebaker Club. What a great day to see and hear about all the details and background on the collection. My first time there, and it was truly amazing.

From Update: InstaGRAM report: AACA Vanderbilt Cup Region, Studebaker Club and Long Island Buick Club Visit the Kroplick Collection

Exciting news! Have a safe trip. Can’t wait to read all about it right here.

From Howard Kroplick to be a featured speaker at the Fifth FIVA Pan-European Conference for Automotive History in Lillehammer, Norway

Howard-
It was a great visit and everyone enjoyed your hospitality immensely.
Thank you again for sharing your collection and your knowledge with the VCR members.
You are the best ambassador to the car hobby I’ve ever seen.
Thank you-
Gerry Duff   AACA-VCR

From Update: InstaGRAM report: AACA Vanderbilt Cup Region, Studebaker Club and Long Island Buick Club Visit the Kroplick Collection

One more interesting article about Peter Prunty announcing something other than a sporting event: dinner plans?

From Mystery Friday Foto #28 Solved: Willie K. Jr. at the 1904 Races

It was a great day and this article really sums it up. That photo of the tree is amazing. I wonder who that guy in the pink shirt on the left side of the first Tucker photo is?

From Update: InstaGRAM report: AACA Vanderbilt Cup Region, Studebaker Club and Long Island Buick Club Visit the Kroplick Collection

Terrific archive. I taught at Henry Viscardi in 1970’s & took my class to then Michael Dubbs Home on Roslyn Road where his driveway led up to old Toll House. My students all in wheelchairs were fascinated with the History & we even tried to contact Robert Moses on why he didn’t use Vanderbilt Parkway for his right of way for GCP/ Northern State.

From Kleiner's Korner: Memories of Researching the Motor Parkway

I wonder how many members have recollections about the LIMP.  Mine began at age 8, in my Aunt’s house in Albertson.  Thanks Art for the walk down memory lane

From Kleiner's Korner: Memories of Researching the Motor Parkway

This photo could’ve been taken in Westbury, Long Island on Jericho Tpke during the first Vanderbilt Cup Race in 1904. Photo is looking north. Willie K in the foreground is on the course looking west towards oncoming racers at the Start/Finish line between Post Rd and Hitchcock Ln. The photographer, also on the course, has captured the Press Box. The Grandstand is behind the photographer. The field in the distance once served as an oval horse track. Today it’s property of the Westbury High School

From Mystery Friday Foto #28 Solved: Willie K. Jr. at the 1904 Races

Thanks Joe, glad you like my posts.

From Kleiner's Korner: Memories of Researching the Motor Parkway

This photo could be in Westbury, Long Island on Jericho Tpke, capturing a snippet of the first Vanderbilt Cup Race in 1904. Willie K in the foreground is looking west towards oncoming racers at the Start/Finish line between Post Rd and Hitchcock Ln. The Press Box is behind him. The Grandstand is out of view. The field behind Willie K was once a horse race track, today it serves as the Westbury High School grounds

From Mystery Friday Foto #28 Solved: Willie K. Jr. at the 1904 Races

This is a photo taken at the 1904 Vanderbilt Cup Race. We are looking north on Jericho Turnpike in Old Westbury with the Hitchcock property in the background. The officials / press stand is visible which was on the north side of Jericho Tpke. between Hitchcock Lane and Powell Lane. Besides Willie K. in the foreground and Peter Prunty holding the megaphone, I think I see Jefferson DeMott Thompson seated directly to the left of the covered section of officials stand (above the megaphone).

From Mystery Friday Foto #28 Solved: Willie K. Jr. at the 1904 Races

Great trip down memory lane! I still remember seeing it for the first time at the Waterfront. I was awestruck then and I still am every time I see it. Howard has been a great steward o this amazing car.

From InstaGRAM Report: Trophies awarded to the 1948 Tucker 1044 (2017 - 2025)

Peter’s voice rose above the noise without the need for electronic amplification.

From Mystery Friday Foto #28 Solved: Willie K. Jr. at the 1904 Races

Vanderbilt Cup Race
1904
Press Box/Grand Stand - Jericho Turnpike, Westbury
Willie K., Peter Prunty (announcer).  See attached files to learn more of Prunty’s interesting life as an announcer of more than auto races and the many celebrities he met along they.

From Mystery Friday Foto #28 Solved: Willie K. Jr. at the 1904 Races

This Tucker has truly had an incredible run via Howard. Honest to say we all feel a part of that renewed and stellar rise to new fame.

From InstaGRAM Report: Trophies awarded to the 1948 Tucker 1044 (2017 - 2025)

Thanks Tom, I’ll e-mail you whatever material I can find.

From Kleiner's Korner: November, 1925 - A Hundred Years Ago on The Motor Parkway

Howard, Thanks for calling this post to my attention! My research had just gotten to the point where I needed something fortuitous, like this post, to learn more about the “Wigmore Estate.” If anyone has any information about which farms the Wigmore “syndicate” bought up to assemble over 700 acres of former farmland an woodlots, I would very much like to know. I’m chasing families like the Voorhises, Brinckerhoffs, Hooglands and Adriances. Thanks to Art for including all those clippings.

From Kleiner's Korner: November, 1925 - A Hundred Years Ago on The Motor Parkway

Great Post Art.  Love to enjoy all your work.

From Kleiner's Korner: Memories of Researching the Motor Parkway

Has anyone seen a reference to a place called the “Wigmore Estate” in relation to the land assembled initially for Hillside Park? I saw a reference to it—if it existed—on the Wikipedia “Fresh Meadows” entry (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fresh_Meadows,_Queens). In particular I’m researching the Black Stump rural corridor that once spread from Utopia Parkway on 73rd Ave, but went as far north as Mt. St. Mary’s Cemetery along Fresh Meadow Lane, and possible as far east on Union Turnpike as Alley Pond Park.

From Greg O's Garage: Robert Moses and the battle to acquire land for Cunningham Park