Vanderbilt Cup Races

Howard;
      Thank You for today, for an enjoyable, educational,, interesting afternoon.
To answer the questions, starting with the last. The airplane is a Fairchild UC-61 Forwarder with a Ranger inverted inline 6. If You want to see that same model airplane, come to the Bayport aerodrome.  That airplane was also available with Warner Radial engines.
      I do not know what the building in the background is.
      I would guess 38 or 39. Location, Roosevelt Aviation school at Roosevelt Field.
    Stay Well.  Paul Emmert

From Mystery Foto #31 Solved: Alfred Eisenstaedt's Photos of the Long Isand Aviation Country Club in 1937

I have a round 5 gallon Elliscoand sons inc.with a plate with company name and a rectangular and an oval emblem on plate good cond what is it worth

From Mystery Foto #86 Solved: Antique Five Gallon Can Manufactured by George D. Ellis & Sons, Inc.

I know this section well, Dave. About midway in it becomes real muddy during wet weather (I would do LIPA inspections throughout the ROW). I’m guessing the passageway under the LIMP bridge is now the road into the existing school? I remember the old photo from one of Howards farmway bridge series.

From Sam & Dave’s “Excellent Motor Parkway Adventure” III: Searingtown

Hi Howard,

Austin Clark’s column in Old Cars was headlined, “Young Nuts and Old Bolts.” I have suggested to a number of people that a book about Austin Clark, similar to the book, “For the Love of Old Cars” would make for great reading. And, half of the book could reprint all of his old articles for Old Cars. Young Nuts and Old Bolts was the first thing I would read when the new issue of Old Cars would arrive in the mail.

Happy to see your weekly emails again.

Best wishes,
Phil Alderman

From Henry Austin Clark, Jr. and the Motor Parkway: "one for the road" (Circa 1985)

This photo is a 1937 image of the hangars at L. I. Aviation Country Club located right off the Motor Parkway in what was then Hicksville. Now the area is part of Levittown. The plane in the foreground is a Fairchild 24H. The plane inside the hangar appears to be a Stinson Gullwing. I think the building in the background could be Meadowbrook Hospital.

From Mystery Foto #31 Solved: Alfred Eisenstaedt's Photos of the Long Isand Aviation Country Club in 1937

Too easy!  Long Island (a.k.a. Hicksville) Aviation Country Club, Hicksville, NY, at 40.74N/73.53 W.  It wasn’t just near the LIMP, it was directly adjacent to it and Blyman’s farm, between Woodbury Road & the L. I. Rail Road.  1937.  The 60’ x 200’ hangar, dissasembled and re-erected in downtown Bethpage, still standing between the LIRR and the intersection of Schneider Lane and Revere Avenue, opposite the southern end of Lexington Avenue.  Fairchild 24H.  ‘Nuf?  Sam, III

From Mystery Foto #31 Solved: Alfred Eisenstaedt's Photos of the Long Isand Aviation Country Club in 1937

Howard,
Thanks for all that good stuff about Austin Clark.  I have fond memories of Austin and his museum in Southampton.  I used to visit there whenever I could.  He could be seen in his coveralls working on the cars.  The auctions were fascinating too.  Thanks again.
Rog

From Henry Austin Clark, Jr. and the Motor Parkway: "one for the road" (Circa 1985)

I worked for austie for four years at the museum when it opened,he knew his old cars no doubt,but i never saw him work on one! i was with him in the 1911 mercer at the bridge in 1950’ we are in the program.im told the mercer went to auction and sold for 2.3 mil but didn’t meet the reserve.i think austie’s son still has it.

                                                Gene Martin

From Henry Austin Clark, Jr. and the Motor Parkway: "one for the road" (Circa 1985)

Mitchell Field in Garden City,

From Mystery Foto #31 Solved: Alfred Eisenstaedt's Photos of the Long Isand Aviation Country Club in 1937

Mitchell Field about 1937. building is now Nassau C.C. Stearman. And the hangers might now be Aviation Museum.

From Mystery Foto #31 Solved: Alfred Eisenstaedt's Photos of the Long Isand Aviation Country Club in 1937

1937 photo of a Fairchild 24h in front of a hangar at the Aviation Country Club in Hicksville.

From Mystery Foto #31 Solved: Alfred Eisenstaedt's Photos of the Long Isand Aviation Country Club in 1937

There are such interesting information on this blog. I want to put some information together for my grandchildren. I think it’s so interesting to have been poor girl from Brooklyn , to have been raised with the good Shepard sisters,that took us to Madonna Heights ( before it was a schoo (1961-62) for day in the country. I got to romp on the grounds and swim In the pool of the rich and famous. Just like rich kids that went to boarding school.i would love any photos that can be share. Thanks Lori fiorelli .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address)    1412 s.park ave Sanford fl 32771

From Was the "Bagatelle" Mansion in Half Hollow Hills Built by a Vanderbilt?

1.  Country Club Airport, Hicksville
2.  1937 or later
3.  Club House and pool
4.  Fairchild 24H, first built in 1937

Thanks for the great website.  When I was a kid we lived on Edna Avenue - I remember hearing the AC engines being run up at Grumman before take-off and also the pilots waving at me as they made their final over our back yard.

From Mystery Foto #31 Solved: Alfred Eisenstaedt's Photos of the Long Isand Aviation Country Club in 1937

I really missed a good show at the Oyster Bay,The Century of Speed and 100 Years of Racing,just by looking at these pictures, I’m missing all the good stuff now.Well any how have a good time at Stony Brook tomorrow and I’ll read about it when you post it

From See Chrysler's Chrysler on Display in Stony Brook This Sunday & Three Car Shows

laddenburg dr off salisbury pk dr westbury any info

From A Favorite Website: Long Island Ruins & Remnants

Does anybody know anything on ladenburgs & ladenburg DR in westbury!!!!!!!!

From A Favorite Website: Long Island Ruins & Remnants

Long Island Aviation Club perhaps in the early 1930s along the LIMP in Levittown (or Hicksville back then)...the building in the background is the clubhouse and I have no idea whose plane that was or its make but i’ll bet it belonged to somebody important. I believe the hangar roof was recycled and moved to cover a warehouse along the central ave LIRR tracks in Bethpage.

From Mystery Foto #31 Solved: Alfred Eisenstaedt's Photos of the Long Isand Aviation Country Club in 1937

Identify the airfield and its location.
Aviation Country Club, Hicksville, along the motor parkway

What was the approximate year of the photo?
1937

What is the building in the background?
Beyond the hangars (one still exists) is the clubhouse.

Identify the airplane
Fairchild 24H

From Mystery Foto #31 Solved: Alfred Eisenstaedt's Photos of the Long Isand Aviation Country Club in 1937

Absolutely loved viewing and reading this data….Thanks for making it available to us all….

From Fortune Magazine, June 1932: A Portfolio of Aerial Photographs by Captain Alfred G. Buckham

My personal favorite stretch of Parkway starts at the Old Courthouse Road bridge (a great location—interesting to think that this bridge was built prior to the Bethpage Restoration bridge which was so much closer to the Parkway ground breaking) heading east, over Shelter Rock Road (over a fence near power station) and then continuing eastward to IU Willets Rd through the bamboo / old bridge location near Herricks HS. It’s a great section of original road that has a very private feel to it, fairly undisturbed with lots of posts, green and quiet. There are many great sections, and several I would recommend to “rookies” before this run, but I really felt thrown back in time for this portion of the journey. Sammy’s favorite location will be disclosed upon its arrival on Howard’s future postings of our adventure! Stay tuned!

From Sam & Dave’s “Excellent Motor Parkway Adventure” III: Searingtown