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The six Vanderbilt Cup Races held on Long Island from 1904 to 1910 were the greatest sporting events of their day, and the first international automobile road races held in the United States. The races had a far-reaching impact on the development of American automobiles and parkways. This site provides comprehensive information on the races, the Long Island Motor Parkway and current Long Island automotive events, car shows and news.
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Really need a better video of the headlight. Just can’t see it moving in this Vid :(
From The Cyclops Eye of the Tucker '48 Automobiles
1899 Reese At museum of art in Roslyn owned by Harold Mermel
From Mystery Foto #31 Solved: 1899 Reese Special at the "New York, New York" Exhibit in Roslyn Harbor
To answer your question, Where is this vehicle currently being exhibited? This is just a guess but I think that this vehicle is being displayed out in the Long Island Museum in Stony Brook, NY
From Mystery Foto #31 Solved: 1899 Reese Special at the "New York, New York" Exhibit in Roslyn Harbor
The 3 wheeled horseless carriage is a 1899 Reese. The owner of the carriage is Harold Mermel. The carriage is being displayed at the Nassau County Museum of Art in Roslyn Harbor from 7/22/17 until 11/15/17.
From Mystery Foto #31 Solved: 1899 Reese Special at the "New York, New York" Exhibit in Roslyn Harbor
Identify the year and manufacturer of this horseless carriage: 1899 Reese 3-Wheel Horseless Carriage
Where is this vehicle currently being exhibited? Nassau County Museum of Art, Roslyn
Who is the current owner of the vehicle? Harold Mermel, however if I didn’t find the actual answer, Howard, I would have guessed you!
Documentation to follow.
From Mystery Foto #31 Solved: 1899 Reese Special at the "New York, New York" Exhibit in Roslyn Harbor
Mystery Foto #31… the horseless carriage is an 1899 Reese three wheeler. This vehicle is currently being exhibited at the Nassau County Museum of Art in Roslyn.
The current owner is Harold Mermel. Surely the coolest golf cart ever built. Curiously no brakes are seen on the wheels. Perhaps the braking is part of the engine/transmission unit.
From Mystery Foto #31 Solved: 1899 Reese Special at the "New York, New York" Exhibit in Roslyn Harbor
That is an 1899 Reese 3-wheel horseless carriage owned by Harold Mermel and can be seen at the Nassau County Museum of Art in Roslyn.
From Mystery Foto #31 Solved: 1899 Reese Special at the "New York, New York" Exhibit in Roslyn Harbor
The vehicle is a 1889 Reese 3 wheel horseless carriage built by Sephaniah Reese Sr. of the S. Reese Machine & Tool Works of Plymouth ,Pennsylvania . The tricycle is being displayed at the Nassau County Museum of Art Rosyln ,New York as part of the exhibit New York ,New York featuring art work depicting life in NYC from the late 19 th century on up including transportation . The current owner Harold Mermel purchased the vehicle from collector Reed Martin in 1981 who purchased it from Sehaniah Reeese lll. Also notworthy is the the date of manufacture maybe 1884 but not finished till 1887.
From Mystery Foto #31 Solved: 1899 Reese Special at the "New York, New York" Exhibit in Roslyn Harbor
1899 Reese built by Sephaniah Reese of Plymouth PA owned by Harold Mermel of NJ (1995) Nassau County Museum of Art?
From Mystery Foto #31 Solved: 1899 Reese Special at the "New York, New York" Exhibit in Roslyn Harbor
Great post. Love the then and now photos. Great work Frank.
I wonder if Arthur jasper logs on to this site? I didn’t ask him when I met him. He is quite the history buff and he is well aware of his backyard and has many other artifacts in his home, which he happily gave us a tour of. Really nice guy. Hard to imagine that LIMP stretch will survive if that house gets sold.
From Mystery Foto #30 Solved: Motor Parkway Remnants Between Russell Road and Pell Terrace in Garden City
Howard and the rest of us definitely appreciate rememberances of those who lived near the LIMP. Thanks, Bill Harrison.
From Mystery Foto #30 Solved: Motor Parkway Remnants Between Russell Road and Pell Terrace in Garden City
Herricks school district is one of LI’s oldest districts(1813). Park Ave school was definitely in the Herricks district. The school closed down in 1971 and became a Boces until torn down for new housing. They closed down the school for economic reasons. The Searingtown elementary school off of I.U. Willets Rd was opened in 1951 to serve Albertson and Searingtown. The Herricks and Mineola school districts were divided by Willis Ave from Hillside Ave basically to the Northern State Parkway. This split Albertson and Williston Park in half.
It must of been real hard for Albertson students who lived on the other side of the Motor Parkway to get to school. No wonder they had problems with trespassing and damaging the fences thus the need for a bridge or subway.
From Malverne Treasure #2: A Proposed Footbridge and Subway in Albertson/Williston Park
I reposted this pic from newsday on the I grew up in garden city facebook page. Someone with knowledge posted this reply:
That photo was taken in the backyard of the Stewart’s on Russell Road . The kids are climbing into the yard of the Wroldsen’s. I lived in the yard beyond the second fence and the basketball hoop was nextdoor in the Allio’s yard. Eventually, the hoop made its way to my yard where it also doubled as a hockey goal when it was cold enough to flood for skating.
From Mystery Foto #30 Solved: Motor Parkway Remnants Between Russell Road and Pell Terrace in Garden City
Howard, what a great aerial photo of the section.
From Mystery Foto #30 Solved: Motor Parkway Remnants Between Russell Road and Pell Terrace in Garden City
How come I didn’t notice that tower to the upper right? Ugh! If I noticed that from the start, I wouldn’t have needed to RESEARCH it so DEEPLY. A visit to the library is never a waste of time, besides.
From Mystery Foto #30 Solved: Motor Parkway Remnants Between Russell Road and Pell Terrace in Garden City
I spent a GOOD amount of time at the Sachem Public Library searching the NEWSDAY ARCHIVES ( 1950 thru 1970 -“Standalone Images” ), but no luck. Really wanted to solve this one. However you came across this image, Art; it’s an excellent photo. Maybe I was distracted by the pretty lady librarians, lol.
This photo looks to be from the 1950’s/ 1960’s. The location? Don’t know. I can picture several areas in Nassau County. I’ll check in later tonight/tomorrow. Congrats to the solvers. BDM
From Mystery Foto #30 Solved: Motor Parkway Remnants Between Russell Road and Pell Terrace in Garden City
Are you sure that E.H. Brown was a engineer for the parkway? Could it be that he was a lawyer for the parkway? The letters Esq sometimes refers to an esquire or lawyer. Could it be possible that E.H. Brown was asking Willie K for the legal requirements and specs for bridges in reference to the New York Central and New Haven railroads?
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From Howard Kroplick
Frank, E.H. Brown is listed as the Motor Parkway engineer on several of the Malverne treasure chest blueprints.
From Malverne Treasure #1: A Letter from William K. Vanderbilt, Jr.
The quality of the photo is poor due to the reprinting. You can observe in the upper right hand corner a electrical high tension tower. There are a few locations along the parkway that matches up to the photo.
Due to the location of the tower, the gentle curve of the parkway, and other characteristics I determined that this section of remnants is in Garden City.
The location of the photo is in the rear yards of the houses on Russell Rd. This would be between Russell Rd and Pell Terrace near Kenwood Rd.
I later went and read the article from Newsday. The time of the photo would be slightly before the Newsday printing of the article on 10/24/58.
From Mystery Foto #30 Solved: Motor Parkway Remnants Between Russell Road and Pell Terrace in Garden City
From what I gleaned, his engineers knew of the abandoned roadway abutments at that site, which would make it cheaper to cross the depressed LIRR (C RR of L I) at that point, rather than make a whole new crossing.
From Malverne Treasure #1: A Letter from William K. Vanderbilt, Jr.
Sorry guys, I know, I have been a little excitable today.
I did just visit the Town of North Hempstead driveway on the LIMP old ROW. I went to examine the fence between the old Park Ave School and LIMP. There is no remnant there of any old fencing. It is not exactly new fencing. But it is all standard wood stockade fencing or chain link.
-joe
From Malverne Treasure #2: A Proposed Footbridge and Subway in Albertson/Williston Park
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