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Nice job Howard. I think deep inside everyone is at least a little compelled to preserve some sort of history because deep inside we all know once it’s gone, it’s gone FOREVER, leaving just photography and videography if lucky. Not an easy feat for the average Joe and Joanne but more than happy to see your efforts actually come to life. Much more of same is needed. High five to you and your accomplishments. Congratulatons.

From Newsday:On the trail of LI's lost history A grand statue,vintage cars-he's saving them from oblivion

Howard, you deserve all the recognition for your fine historical work!

From Newsday:On the trail of LI's lost history A grand statue,vintage cars-he's saving them from oblivion

1..Mackay’s “Harbor Hill”
  1906 Cup race
2.  Glen Cove Rd. L. to .r. Across bottom;  25A l. to r. across top
3.  Helena Rubenstein Bldg. circa. 1958, now multi use offices
4.  Robert Lovett
5.  Hal David

From Vanderbilt Cup Racers on Glen Cove Road & Old Westbury Road & Special Exhibit "Images of East Hills"

As I mentioned in a different venue, if ever a car cried out for 1937 Lincoln built-into-the-fender headlights, this Chrysler would be the one!  The dowdy, high-mounted, bullet headlights are the one feature that takes away from the whole streamlined package.  Someone with PhotoShop experience, using the image of the ‘37 custom-bodied Lincoln portrayed recently in Hemmings, could easily modify a photograph to show us what it would have looked like.  PhotoShopper, if you’re out there, please do it and ask Hemmings to run the result on line!

From Chrysler's Chrysler Then & Now: Pre-& Post-Restoration

From Aldo Zana:

About the mystery car it’s the Dymaxion , the 1933 concept car by Richard Buckminster Fuller (1895-1983) built for the Chicago World Fair 1933.It was totally unstable and underpowered, but the shape was a real revolution.

From Mystery Friday #35 Solved: Buckminster Fuller's Dymaxion #1 on a 1933 Test Run at Roosevelt Field

From Gary Hammond:

Here’s Hammond’s Historical Happenings for Mystery Photo # 35:

Automobile: Buckminster Fuller’s Dymaxion Car #1 – 3 were built (only one still survives); at Roosevelt Field (note old Curtiss Field hangers in background), 1933; Buckminster Fuller on right pointing; possibly the man he was talking to was pilot Frank T. Coffyn ((1878-1960) who drove the car on August 10, 1933 (see photo); license plate: red with white lettering “FV 453 CONN. 1933”.
The Dymaxion Corporation factory was located at the defunct Locomobile dynamometer building, Tongue Pointe, Bridgeport, CT.  Building markings: “4D / DYMAXION” (see photo)

This photo is probably from August 10, 1933 when the car was given test runs on the runways at Roosevelt Field, supposedly reaching more than 90 mph. (see Brooklyn Daily Eagle, August 11, 1933, p. 6) The car again visited the Field when it was exhibited at the National Charity Air Pageant, held at Roosevelt Field, Saturday & Sunday, October 7-8, 1933. (see copy of ticket)

Aircraft: The P-3B Privateer amphibian, built by Amphibions, Inc. in 1933, with a 210 h.p. seven-cylinder Continental R-670 pusher engine, which was pylon-mounted above cockpit. Registration # NC13252.  Notice the Amphibions logo on the a/c. (see photo)
The company was originally called Ireland Aircraft Inc., and located at Curtiss Field, Garden City NY.  In 1931 it was reorganized as Amphibions Inc., at Roosevelt Field, Garden City, NY.

Hammond’s Bonus question: Did you know that an important Fuller design resides in Nassau County?  In 1936 Fuller designed a Dymaxion Bathroom for his friend Christopher Morley, for his writing studio “The Knothole”, in Roslyn, where it still resides!

From Mystery Friday #35 Solved: Buckminster Fuller's Dymaxion #1 on a 1933 Test Run at Roosevelt Field

Omg Howard,my Uncle worked in Helena Rubiinstein when I was a teenager and early 20s,I think he was the president.I went their many times to watch them make cosmetics and always brought samples home for my Mom,what memories this brings back.

From Vanderbilt Cup Racers on Glen Cove Road & Old Westbury Road & Special Exhibit "Images of East Hills"

Possibly Buckminster Fuller’s Dymaxion #1 three-wheeler in Bridgeport, CT, July 12, 1933. Flyer “Al” Williams standing in front of vehicle with lighter slacks would eventually purchase the vehicle. An amphibian plane but dunno what it is.
http://www.vintag.es/2016/08/buckminster-fuller-and-dymaxion-car.html

From Mystery Friday #35 Solved: Buckminster Fuller's Dymaxion #1 on a 1933 Test Run at Roosevelt Field

The ” car ” is a Dymaxion probably around 1934,35 the pusher plane I’m guessing was made by Grumman but don’t know what they called it.

From Mystery Friday #35 Solved: Buckminster Fuller's Dymaxion #1 on a 1933 Test Run at Roosevelt Field

2200 Northern Boulevard in East Hills is (or was last) owned by Pall Corp.  I was in there when they gutted it after Helena Rubenstein vacated it - what a vast, empty cavern!  I had a friend who, after her father, a Mill Neck police officer, always referred to the corner of Glen Cove Road and the North Hempstead Turnpike as Bull’s Head.  I also remember that one of my very first solo drives in February of 1950 was the full 24 mile length of Grand Avenue/Baldwin Road/Henry Street/Clinton Street-cum-Road/Guinea Woods Road/Glen Cove Road and the open grassy areas and white wooden fencing up north.  I feel I should instantly recognize the 1938 aerial but I just can’t place it - too rectangular and too much open land - this should be a “DUH”!  Sam, III

From Vanderbilt Cup Racers on Glen Cove Road & Old Westbury Road & Special Exhibit "Images of East Hills"

Buckminster “Bucky” Fuller’s prototype Dymaxion car ca. 1933 at Roosevelt Field.  What is of especial interest to us LIMPers is that the Dymaxion Corporation’s factory was in the defunct Locomobile dynamometer building at Tongue Pointe in Bridgeport, CT.  The amphibian appears to be a Curtiss-Wright CW-1 Junior (several survive, incl. at the Smithsonian’s NASM).  It’s hard to tell at such low res. but that seems to be Fuller at right, pointing.  Sam, III

From Mystery Friday #35 Solved: Buckminster Fuller's Dymaxion #1 on a 1933 Test Run at Roosevelt Field

Identify the automobile
Buckminster Fuller’s Dymaxion

Identify the airplane
Unsure-For a guess, I’ll say it’s a Curtiss since they were an airfield neighbor on Clinton Rd.

Where was the photo taken and in what year?
Roosevelt Field in 1933

From Mystery Friday #35 Solved: Buckminster Fuller's Dymaxion #1 on a 1933 Test Run at Roosevelt Field

Identify the automobile: Buckminster Fuller’s Dymaxion #1
Identify the airplane:  I know I’ve seen this before, but came name it (or find it).  Might be hanging at the Cradle of Aviation Museum in Garden City.  Similar military aircraft called the Walrus. 
Where was the photo taken and in what year?  Roosevelt Field, 1933 at the National Charity Air Pageant.

From Mystery Friday #35 Solved: Buckminster Fuller's Dymaxion #1 on a 1933 Test Run at Roosevelt Field

From Rich R.:

Amazing photos of history in my (our) backyard.

From Vanderbilt Cup Racers on Glen Cove Road & Old Westbury Road & Special Exhibit "Images of East Hills"

WOW look how small the trees are They are huge now I love the shot of the Mackay home w/ the statues [Thank you for saving one] Did Irving Berlin live there One of my friends has a Brougham carriage owned by Irving’s father in law who lived in Old Westbury

From Vanderbilt Cup Racers on Glen Cove Road & Old Westbury Road & Special Exhibit "Images of East Hills"

That’s R. Buckminster Fuller’s DYMAXION #1. Photo may have been taken on August 11, 1933 at Roosevelt Field. No clue on the plane.

From Mystery Friday #35 Solved: Buckminster Fuller's Dymaxion #1 on a 1933 Test Run at Roosevelt Field

WOW what a glimpse into the past Thank you so much for sharing

From John E. Roosevelt Family Photo Album: Action in Hicksville During the 1910 Vanderbilt Cup Race

The Dymaxion car by Buckminster Fuller.
Site could be Bridgeport, 1933. Maybe.
Can’t identify plane.

From Mystery Friday #35 Solved: Buckminster Fuller's Dymaxion #1 on a 1933 Test Run at Roosevelt Field

Looks like the Dymaxion three vehicle prototype near a Roosevelt Field hangar in
1933; either in August or October.

From Mystery Friday #35 Solved: Buckminster Fuller's Dymaxion #1 on a 1933 Test Run at Roosevelt Field

In the U. S., Packard most notably used the wheel held out by a wingèd Victory as their radiatpr mascot ca. 1931-33.  <https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/f0/‘31_Packard_833_(MIAS_’10).jpg> Sam, III

From The Michelin Wheel of Fortune Poster on the French 1905 Gordon Bennett Elimination Race Course