Vanderbilt Cup Races

-What is the exact date of the aerial?

October 12, 1936

-What is the location and ongoing event?

Roosevelt Raceway looking east during the running of 1936 Vanderbilt Cup Race

-What non-automobile historic event also happened on this exact site?

Charles Lindberghs’ departure field for his successful solo flight to Paris, and the return reception on June 16, 1927

-Name the different forms of transportation seen in the aerial?

Planes, trains, and automobiles- but I can’t see John Candy or Steve Martin! Very cool that you can see smoke coming off the train underway on the Central RR in the upper right corner.

-How many Motor Parkway bridges are visible?

Starting with the twin Roosevelt Field bridges we just learned about, and then to the Merrick Ave bridge, Newbridge Ave, can’t really make out the Stewart Ave bridge, but zoomed in, you can vaguely make out the Carmen Ave bridge. It’s tough to see beyond that with my computer resolution.

-Which Motor Parkway lodge is visible?

The Meadow Brook Lodge

-Where is a former airplane hangar located in the aerial?

I would assume it is the old, big hangar in between the Old Country Rd grandstands.

From Mystery Foto #19 Solved: Aerial of the 1936 Vanderbilt Cup Race & Site of Lindbergh's Takeoff

Hi Howard,
Nothing more to write : http://www.vanderbiltcupraces.com/blog/article/spectacular_aerials_of_roosevelt_field_and_roosevelt_raceway

Best

From Mystery Foto #19 Solved: Aerial of the 1936 Vanderbilt Cup Race & Site of Lindbergh's Takeoff

Mitchell field/meadow brook pkwy
,idk the year

From Mystery Foto #19 Solved: Aerial of the 1936 Vanderbilt Cup Race & Site of Lindbergh's Takeoff

Phil, all the Alcos were built in Providence. They had a sales office in New York.

From In Search of Alcos: #12 1912 Alco 4-Cylinder Touring Car Being Sold on eBay

Date - Closest I can get is 1937
Event - VCR Roosevelt Raceway
Non Auto Event - Lindy Returns
Transportation - Car, Airplane, Railroad barely visable
LIMP Bridges - (as if my eyes can see them) Roosevelt Field, Merrick, Stewart, Carmen Ave
LIMP Lodge - Meadowbrook
Hanger - Old Country Rd

From Mystery Foto #19 Solved: Aerial of the 1936 Vanderbilt Cup Race & Site of Lindbergh's Takeoff

Howard, great pic as usual, trying to catch up on thing,have’nt been on lately. Lots of car shows now,keeping me busy. Are you going to the Mustang Round Up with your car on Sunday? Can’t wait to go to Klingberg Vintage next week.

From The Motor Parkway Toll Collection Structures: #10 Meadow Brook Lodge in Westbury

In reply to Brian, there is no trace of this entrance remaining.  None.

From Mystery Foto #18 Solved: The Links Golf Club's Private Entrance to the Long Island Motor Parkway

I wonder if the pillars are still hidden in there? I’ll have to check it out the next time I’m in there.

From Mystery Foto #18 Solved: The Links Golf Club's Private Entrance to the Long Island Motor Parkway

Thanks for another great post.  The Links was just another place for us kids to explore.  Sleigh riding and snowball fights are some of my better memories.  But overall, I think the developer did an excellent job.  There is plenty of open space, and a few of the small hills and bluffs remain.  But it is also part of our unique Long Island history.  My close friends older brother was a caddy there for years.  He used to caddy for Jock Whitney and so many others, including English royalty.  I once heard a rumor the old clubhouse was IU Willets home?  I wonder if that was true.  I cannot get enough of your website.

From Mystery Foto #18 Solved: The Links Golf Club's Private Entrance to the Long Island Motor Parkway

Howard I received the hats. Thank you so much!

From Then & Now: Alva Vanderbilt Belmont's Beacon Towers in Sands Point

At first I was thinking this was Willie K’s private entrance to the LIMP at Deepdale Mansion but the missing slat and hanging left gate door would not be permissible at Deepdale. So I’m guessing we’re at the east end in Lake Ronkonkoma but not at the Petit Trianon. I think were just down the block off the LIMP at this private entrance to the maids quarters at the Annex. That gate would have been heavily used there. Good tricky photo this week Robert.

From Mystery Foto #18 Solved: The Links Golf Club's Private Entrance to the Long Island Motor Parkway

Kevin, as described in curbed.com’s post “The Magnificent Mansions of Five Famous Beverage Barons”, the mansion is own by AriZona Ice Tea co-founder Don Vultaggio and his wife Irene:  http://curbed.com/archives/2013/04/29/the-magnificent-mansions-of-five-famous-beverage-barons.php

From Then & Now: Alva Vanderbilt Belmont's Beacon Towers in Sands Point

Howard:    If you “Google Earth” this location, it now shows an very large mansion right on the point of land next to the lighthouse, complete with pool and greenhouses.  What property is this and who is the owner ?  It’s huge and not mentioned in any website I can find.

From Then & Now: Alva Vanderbilt Belmont's Beacon Towers in Sands Point

Links Golf Course in North Hills.  I believe the exact location is situated across from 239 Robby Lane (educated guess based on the structures in your photo being the clubhouse and some more recent photos showing similar structures and where they would be situated today).  Howard, see the articles concerning the Links Golf Course, Willie K., and the Motor Parkway I’m sending under separate cover.

From Mystery Foto #18 Solved: The Links Golf Club's Private Entrance to the Long Island Motor Parkway

Ron, it is estimated that American Locomotive Company built over 500 cars. Most were destroyed for the World War I effort.

From In Search of Alcos: #12 1912 Alco 4-Cylinder Touring Car Being Sold on eBay

Is it that only 12 ALCO cars remain of some larger quantity produced, or did they only produce 12 and apparently all survived?

Ron

From In Search of Alcos: #12 1912 Alco 4-Cylinder Touring Car Being Sold on eBay

One original motor parkway post remains between where Stewart Ave. and the Meadowbrook Parkway run parallel - as documented here: 
http://www.freewebs.com/limparkway/stewartavenuegardencity.htm. I haven’t been back there in a few years so I’m hoping its still there.

From Long Island Motor Parkway Bridge Series #33: The "Roosevelt Field" Motor Parkway Bridge in Westbury

Wow. I’m pretty clueless about this one. Douglaston Golf Club?

From Mystery Foto #18 Solved: The Links Golf Club's Private Entrance to the Long Island Motor Parkway

Beautiful! But I think I’ll pass on this one since it doesn’t have a sunroof, power windows or A/C.

From In Search of Alcos: #12 1912 Alco 4-Cylinder Touring Car Being Sold on eBay

I think that’s the entrance to the Links Golf Course. It would have been on the north side of the LIMP between New Hyde Park Road and Shelter Rock Road. The golf course is no longer there but has been developed into “The Links” gated community.

From Mystery Foto #18 Solved: The Links Golf Club's Private Entrance to the Long Island Motor Parkway