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I have a map of old Farmingdale If you are interested

From Newsday LI Life Cover Article: "Treasure box’ sheds light on history of Motor Parkway

What a day! and how lucky to find these photos!  Thx for sharing, Jeffrey H. Sado NYC / Bourne relative

From Frederick Gilbert Bourne- President of Singer Sewing Machine & a Long Island Motor Parkway Director

Hi again Robert - When playing by the walls in the fiftys, while they were still 8 ft. high, do you recall a dark sign/plaque affixed on the top edge of one of the walls? If so, do you remember what the plaque read?, year? The sign once fixed to the wall was missing today.

From Sam & Dave’s Excellent Lost Motor Parkway Adventure III: The "Mayan Ruins" in Garden City

For me, the building is one of the Dade Bros. buildings in lower left, where I worked ca. 1957/8, but you probably mean the surviving hangar on Old Country Road.  Keystone B-3/4/5/6 Bombers (I’d opt for B-6 for their high numbers) over Roosevelt Flying Field with Clinton Road at right front, Old Country Road at left front, and the LIMP diagonally across the upper right in front of Stewart Avenue.  The Keystone B-6 came out between August 1931 and January 1932 and was assigned to nearby Mitchel Field (at far upper right, where they are heading), so I’d guess 1932.

From Mystery Foto #15 Solved: The Historic Hangar 16 at Curtiss Field (Circa 1931)

As always; great and thanks.  Takes me back to when I first slogged and forced m,y way through the more over-grown areas which I, and later Al and Howard and a few others (and then LI Parks), cleared. Slowly but surely you can see how it looked “before” as I restore more and more of my old website.  Keep it up!  The 71-year older Sam (III)

From Sam & Dave's "Excellent Motor Parkway Hike" I: Stewart Avenue to Deadman's Curve, Bethpage

“Pitter-patter”, indeed!  Sam, III

From Newsday LI Life Cover Article: "Treasure box’ sheds light on history of Motor Parkway

Fantastic find and outcome! I’ll be getting my hard copy soon.

From Newsday LI Life Cover Article: "Treasure box’ sheds light on history of Motor Parkway

Hi Robert - Fantastic story about growing up near the Mayan Ruin walls in Garden City. Just today a group of LIMPPS members met this morning by the walls. With permission, we witnessed the entire Russell Rd wall has been reduced to approx 3 ft. In height. The Pell Terr wall now stands half at 8 ft., the other half at 3 ft. It must have been some fun back then with the huge structures standing tall out of the ground!

From Sam & Dave’s Excellent Lost Motor Parkway Adventure III: The "Mayan Ruins" in Garden City

Is the photo CURTIS FIELD?

From Mystery Foto #15 Solved: The Historic Hangar 16 at Curtiss Field (Circa 1931)

What was the actual physical address of Joe Ida’s Tucker dealership in Yonkers, NY?
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Howard Kroplick
207 S. Broadway, Yonkers, NY

From Documenting 1947 New York Region Tucker Sales and Dealerships

Hi all
  All I can get out of this is,I see Roosevelt,WACO and Air Associates on the buildings,so the only thing I can think of is that it’s an airport in Roosevelt,where I don’t know,I don’t think it’s Mitchell Field,that’s in East Meadow right?or is it? Maybe I can get back to this later on,gotta go now.

From Mystery Foto #15 Solved: The Historic Hangar 16 at Curtiss Field (Circa 1931)

I don’t know the building but the photo is from 1931 showing Keystone Army bombers from distant Mitchel flying over Roosevelt Field with Old Country Road diagonally on left, and Clinton Road horizontally across the bottom. The LIMP and Stewart Avenue are in the middle of the picture with a southeast view.  Mr. Moyers’ dad was the former publisher at Newsday which was located on Stewart Avenue but that building was not there in 1931.

From Mystery Foto #15 Solved: The Historic Hangar 16 at Curtiss Field (Circa 1931)

Great job Sam and Dave.
I grew up at 32 Pell Terrace in G.C.  The former LIMP was in our neighborhoods’ back yards.
We played army and ‘cowboys and Indians’ on these ‘walls’ which were next door behind 30 Pell Terrace and a house on Russell Road.
At that time in the mid ‘50’s, the top of the west wall was about 9 foot high and the east wall about 6 foot to the top.  As I recall, the lower walkable portions of the walls were about 30 inches below the tops and about 12-16
inches wide.
We also road our bikes north to Old Country Road and further north to near E.J. Korvettes on long stretches of the former LIMP The bridge over the LIRR line running through Mineola was an interesting place to watch the trains from especially the last of the steam engines.
We also used to ride our bikes and sleds down the hills on the east and west sides of Clinton Road where a former bridge carrying the LIMP had been.  Riding our bikes on the abandoned roadway east of Clinton Road was a great shortcut to our Little League ball fields behind Stewart Elementary School.
It was a great place to grow up as a kid in the 1950’s.

From Sam & Dave’s Excellent Lost Motor Parkway Adventure III: The "Mayan Ruins" in Garden City

Great spread of photos and information here!

From Mystery Foto #15 Solved: The Historic Hangar 16 at Curtiss Field (Circa 1931)

Nice shots Sam and Dave. That must’ve been one hike and a half that day, I’m estimating 12mi.? Great to see Deadman’s curve being maintained considering the time lapse of the previous cleanup. The rest of the ROW looks good too. Looking forward to the following segments.

From Sam & Dave's "Excellent Motor Parkway Hike" I: Stewart Avenue to Deadman's Curve, Bethpage

This is just a most fantastic photo. If you lived within the vicinity, you truly experienced and appreciated the power of the U.S. Airforce. You had to be there.  Hangar 16 was the home of Lindbergh’s “Spirit of St. Louis’”cross-Atlantic flight to Paris. This landmark location is where the story begins.

From Mystery Foto #15 Solved: The Historic Hangar 16 at Curtiss Field (Circa 1931)

It must be Roosevelt Field (located at Meadowbrook Pkwy off-ramp at Old Country Road), probably 1932 based on the number of Keystone B-6A bombers. The building must be the only one left standing, maybe the hangar used by Spaceland in the 1950’s, which may also be the one used by Lindbergh for his historic trans-Atlantic flight to Paris. If no original buildings remain, I guess the marker would have to be located somewhere around the mall that stands there now. Other notables include Amelia Earhart, Wiley Post, and maybe the Wright Brothers had a training school there.

From Mystery Foto #15 Solved: The Historic Hangar 16 at Curtiss Field (Circa 1931)

I know quite a few intrepids have crawled under this bridge, etc. I’m sure you’ve have tried locating as well, Howard; but there doesn’t seem to be any ground level photo of this bridge while the LIMP was active. I can only guess it was similar to Wheeler Bridge #2.

From Long Island Motor Parkway Bridge Series: #6 Wheeler Farmway Bridge #1 in Queens 1/19/16

Great photo of you both! You and Sam did a hardcore version of a 1/2 marathon! Having a machete would’ve been ideal, but I guess it would’ve brought on unwanted attention. Dave, I’m picturing the whole scene with your wife, etc

From Sam & Dave's "Excellent Motor Parkway Hike" I: Stewart Avenue to Deadman's Curve, Bethpage

Enjoyed the “ride”.  It seemed responsive and reasonably quiet and the unusual shifting appeared not difficult   I reckon a new set of tires helped too.    What were your impressions driving number 44.
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Howard Kroplick

Ken, a real nice ride! It feels like the Tucker has power steering.

From Video: A Test Ride of Tucker 1044