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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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1939 aerial looking west over Fresh Meadows.
Right diagonal road looks like North Hempstead Turnpike.
Left side overpass is LIMP running left to right crossing over the old
North Hempstead Turnpike.
Fresh Meadows Golf Course is to the left of the bridge.
From Mystery Foto #43 Solved: A 1939 View of the Motor Parkway Western Terminus in Fresh Meadows
If you look at the radiator shell on the wrecked car it’s different than the one on the ‘23 Cadillac. Wonder what the joke was that got them laughing?
From An Accident on the Motor Parkway in Garden City on July 8, 1931- Updated: 10/17/16
This photo is looking west over present day Cunningham Park in Fresh Meadows showing the western end of the LIMP. The major roads are: Horace Harding Blvd (Nassau Blvd.); Hollis Hills Terrace (Hollis Court Blvd); and the LIMP with its bridge over North Hempstead Tpke. The Fresh Meadows Golf Course is also visible. The date of the photo is June 2, 1939 and my rationale is that I cheated and found the photo by using the “search” feature above.
From Mystery Foto #43 Solved: A 1939 View of the Motor Parkway Western Terminus in Fresh Meadows
Location and orientation of the aerial: Fresh Meadows, Queens - Looking West at the Western Terminus of the LIMP
The major roads: Motor Parkway, Black Stump Row (73rd Ave.), North Hempstead Turnpike, Nassau Blvd. (Horace Harding Blvd.), Queens Rd. (Hollis Hills Terrace)
The bridge: LIMP 73rd Avenue Bridge
The golf course: Fresh Meadows Golf Club
From Mystery Foto #43 Solved: A 1939 View of the Motor Parkway Western Terminus in Fresh Meadows
A great story, Howard, and a terrific piece of Ford history.
From Hagerty News: This is the two-seat Mustang that Ford wanted to build
Location and orientation of the aerial
LIMP Western terminus Fresh Meadows looking NorthWest
The major roads
LIMP, Horace Harding Blvd, N. Hempstead Tpke
The bridge
N. Hempstead Turnpike LIMP parkway Bridge
The golf course
Fresh Meadows Golf Course
What was the date of the aerial? Provide a rationale.
June 2, 1939
From Mystery Foto #43 Solved: A 1939 View of the Motor Parkway Western Terminus in Fresh Meadows
Not sure where it is. I would need a DeLorean for that!
From Mystery Foto #43 Solved: A 1939 View of the Motor Parkway Western Terminus in Fresh Meadows
I will be there but will paint be supplied? I also have an anime club to attend later in the day. I would like to wear my Link outfit to this because I will have no time to go home and change. Link is the hero of the Legend of Zelda video games. I have moved to Massapequa and someone will be driving me there. I would like to get my uncle Ed involved in this. He lives in Little Neck and I will be asking him about it this week.
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From Howard Kroplick
Chris, I expect that 95% of the graffiti will be removed from the bridge by next Saturday!
From Help Clean-Up the Historic Old Courthouse Motor Parkway Bridge This Saturday, October 29, 2016
Congrats, Howard. Great to see your stories and photos of our past “neighbors”.
From The Roslyn Times: Local historian wins award
No, not just neatly arranged, I believe this is the foundation of the Creedmoor Highway bridge. A recent overlay placed it right on the spot. This is the only LIMP remnant I know of the area besides the pedestrian underpass.
From Remnants of Long Island Motor Parkway Discovered in Queens
I believe LIMP remnants of the Creedmoor highway bridge still exists in this area. Eric Shaffer’s recent findings of concrete embedded in the grass lays where the bridge’s foundation should have been. This is the only remnant I know that still exists in the area besides the pedestrian underpass.
http://www.vanderbiltcupraces.com/blog/article/remnants_of_long_island_motor_parkway_discovered_in_queens
From The Expansion of Union Turnpike and the Relocation of the Motor Parkway East of Winchester Boulevard
Thanks for the most interesting presentation! I was around in 1938 but I was a bit too young to be interested in the Motor Parkway.
Ken Harris
From The Expansion of Union Turnpike and the Relocation of the Motor Parkway East of Winchester Boulevard
Western Terminus.
From Mystery Foto #43 Solved: A 1939 View of the Motor Parkway Western Terminus in Fresh Meadows
Looks like its going thru Eisenhower (salsberry) park east of Merrick ave.
From Mystery Foto #43 Solved: A 1939 View of the Motor Parkway Western Terminus in Fresh Meadows
The LIMP Creedmoor highway bridge’s exact location is also included.
From The Expansion of Union Turnpike and the Relocation of the Motor Parkway East of Winchester Boulevard
WOW! Never seen these surveys before, and they’re loaded with info; bearings, lengths, radius’, and ROW widths. This is as accurate as possible. Thank you gentlemen for sharing these. Great stuff!
From The Expansion of Union Turnpike and the Relocation of the Motor Parkway East of Winchester Boulevard
The path or road that continued N/O the Creedmoor Highway Bridge meandered thru quite a bit of forest. I read that they used to have the patients tend to the farm fields. Just being outdoors and doing some yard work can be quite therapeutic.
From Long Island Motor Parkway Bridge Series: #9 The Creedmoor Bridge in Queens Updated: 10/22/16
Oh, THAT’s who the others are! Sure wish you’d give us better blow-ups of pix, especially the letters. Sore eyeballs notwithstanding, the guest list is an impressive array of early car buffs. “Alec Ullman”! WOW; I’ve been trying to think of his name for years; he was a friend my Dad’‘s and wrote a history of Mercedes I’ve misplaced. Now I can update my Mercedes pages and bibliography! Thanks a million, Howard. Bet that monster Mercedes was either Ullmann’s or Charlie Strich’s. Sam, III
From Mystery Fotos #42 Solved: A 1948 Picnic at Lowell Thomas' Home in Pawling, New York
I had gone on Google search for 1923 Cadillac for photos, which came up with lots of photos of the car. Something new for me, great stuff Google.
From An Accident on the Motor Parkway in Garden City on July 8, 1931- Updated: 10/17/16
I’m a little surprised that this map does not show the proposed Creedmoor Parkway which was to run along the abandoned Central Railroad ROW from somewhere west of the still in operation Creedmoor Spur to the Flushing area. Some other maps from the 1920’s showed this as part of the grand plan to expand arterial highway construction. For some reason all this old highway/railroad/subway/trolley history in East Queens is fascinating to me,e.g.,your recent Union Tpke. underpass discovery. Keep up the good investigative work and thank you for making my neighborhood (Queens Village) more interesting.
From 1925 Long Island Map of Queens Traffic Arteries & Proposed Highways and Parkways in Nassau & Suffolk
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