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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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Great find, Brian! It’s the end of the road at mile 0, at the LIMP’s western terminus intersecting Nassau Blvd (Long Island Expwy). Photo is looking NW. Photographer is standing on the future site of PS 179Q by Holy Cow Playground, on the ascending ramp towards the North Hempstead Turnpike Bridge just behind. The bridge was built just 3 years earlier. The western terminus would later be widened to accommodate parked vehicles after the LIMP closed in 1938
From Mystery Friday Foto #39 Solved: The Western Terminus in Fresh Meadows (1929)
I’ll say the Western Terminus of the Motor Parkway at Nassau Blvd/Horace Harding Blvd. Looking north.
The North Hempstead Turnpike Bridge would be the closest structure.
From Mystery Friday Foto #39 Solved: The Western Terminus in Fresh Meadows (1929)
Great photo Brian. I can’t wait to hear where you found it. My guess for the location is looking north at the Nassau Blvd. entrance although I’m not too confident. Nearest structure would be the bridge over North Hempstead Tpke. which would have been just behind the photographer. I think the second line of the sign reads “End of Parkway”; the third line, who knows? Regarding the car: 1928 Ford Model “A”.
From Mystery Friday Foto #39 Solved: The Western Terminus in Fresh Meadows (1929)
Loved seeing these photos and reading the production notes.
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Photo looking north towards the entrance, beginning, of the Motor parkway where the Horace Harding Boulevard meets the Motor Parkway. The photographer is on the first bridge, that’s probably his automobile at the sign, which puts the time frame at about 1923.
From Mystery Friday Foto #39 Solved: The Western Terminus in Fresh Meadows (1929)
Hi, Is this the David Lamm from New Hyde Park? Dietz Dairy? 😊
From My Motor Parkway Series #2- David Lamm: Introduction and Chapter One
This seems like a tough one. My thoughts immediately go to Suffolk County. Because to me there appears to be an intersection ahead. And in Nassau almost all intersections were eliminated with bridges. The “STOP” sign is also a warning. And to me they are warning of an intersection.
But then my thoughts went another way, and this is what I see. The western terminus of the Long Island Motor Parkway. From atop the North Hempstead Turnpike Bridge, looking down the slope. What we see at the end is Horrace Harding Blvd. My clues are the guard rails. They look new for 1929, and this section of the parkway would be new. But the clincher, we the “R.R.” As the old line of the Central Long Island Railroad passed through here. Long ago abandoned, which is why we do not see any tracks.
This did not come easy.
From Mystery Friday Foto #39 Solved: The Western Terminus in Fresh Meadows (1929)
It’s not Massapequa nor Bethpage
From Mystery Friday Foto #38 Solved: The Great Neck Lodge by the Motor Parkway
Fascinating history. That’s one of six John Russel Pope’s first toll lodge/house built to service the Motor Pkwy. Pope’s six lodges were located in Great Neck, Roslyn, Garden City, Meadow Brook, Massapequa, and Bethpage. Some of the lodges still exist today but altered and expanded beyond recognition from their original form. The Garden City Lodge remains intact, relocated and preserved at 7 St and Franklin Ave as the Garden City Chamber of Commerce. My best guess is Great Neck lodge looking NE or Meadow Brook lodge looking NE , I really don’t know. Anticipating the answers this week
From Mystery Friday Foto #38 Solved: The Great Neck Lodge by the Motor Parkway
The Ferone house, South Broadway Central Park, served as a fast-food service for those who drove out on the LIMP in the early 1900’s.
From Mystery Friday Foto #38 Solved: The Great Neck Lodge by the Motor Parkway
Great Neck Lodge in Lake Success, constructed in 1909 as the Great Neck Lodge. It was one of the original six gate lodges designed by architect John Russell Pope.
The building is about 310 feet east of Lakeville Road adjacent to the Long Island Motor Parkway right of way. The photographer was looking north east.
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The photograph was taken in 1981 by Ron Ridolph.
From Mystery Friday Foto #38 Solved: The Great Neck Lodge by the Motor Parkway
Excellent weather for the event!
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I think I’ve seen this photo before. It looks like the former Great Neck Lodge that was located slightly east of Lakeville Road. It was built to allow access to the the LIMP and for collecting tolls along with providing living quarters for the toll keeper. I think we are looking northeast. Since there have been may modifications made to the original structure after the LIMP closed in 1938, I’m guessing the date to be late 1990’s around 1996 before the major alterations that are there now.
From Mystery Friday Foto #38 Solved: The Great Neck Lodge by the Motor Parkway
Brian - it appears in your 1951 aerial, park goers were using the future site of Creedmoor for additional parking space
From Mystery Friday Foto #37 Solved: Play Ball! At Alley Pond Park!
Yes, Steve. The Pedestrian Tunnel that was built for Creedmoor. The construction of Union Tpke made the Creedmoor Hwy Bridge not accessible anymore. Remember most of us visited the grounds there to check out the now closed tunnel. The Security Guard towards the end of the visit was none to happy with us being there, but it turned out okay. Below I’ll leave some screenshots. One is a comment by James Spina in 2016, a nice memory of his for this location.
From Mystery Friday Foto #37 Solved: Play Ball! At Alley Pond Park!
I inherited a letter from 1950 from my equestrian uncle, Jim Walsh, who at the time boarded his horse at Alley Pond Stables for $1.58 per day. It was from the stable management informing him the stable (once part of the Taylor estate, The Oaks, circa 1873) had been condemned by the city to add the property to Alley Pond Park. The bridle paths, adjacent to the Oakland Golf Course and now the Queensboro Community College campus were built into a curvilinear neighborhood of homes. My family also had a connection with the golf club; at one time a cousin, George R. Easton, had been its pro. The stable was roughly located at East Hampton Road—once part of Rocky Hill Rd—and 56th Rd, now a shortened “dead end” street.
From Mystery Friday Foto #37 Solved: Play Ball! At Alley Pond Park!
Roy Warner - A Fairchild aerial photograph of Fresh Meadows showing 50th Ave.
From Mystery Friday Foto #37 Solved: Play Ball! At Alley Pond Park!
Alley Pond Park ballfields looking west during Union Tpke upgrade, 1931. Winchester Bl
at bottom, Motor Pkwy bottom left with it’s new bridge. The GCP bridge and park house are still there! The GCP Bridge is now concealed by another GCP Bridge by roadway expansion. Queens was growing just before WWII
From Mystery Friday Foto #37 Solved: Play Ball! At Alley Pond Park!
PHOTO IS OF THE ALLEY POND PARK
MAJOR ROADS - SPRINGFIELD BLVD
73 RD AVE.
76 TH AVE.
BEFORE 1932
WHEELER FRAMWAY BRIDGE #2
WINCHESTER BLVD MOTOR PARKWAY BRIDGE
From Mystery Friday Foto #37 Solved: Play Ball! At Alley Pond Park!
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