Vanderbilt Cup Races

Looks to me that its Clinton Ave. in Garden City, looking north towards Roosevelt Field. The train station with brick pavement is shown in the middle to lower left of picture. I even see a concrete fountain, just north of the station. Its still there, but is semi hidden now. I always wondered what it looked like originally.
Further north you can clearly see the bridge going over clinton, as well as the buildings.

From Mystery Friday Photo #2 Solved: Clinton Road, Curtiss Field and the Curtiss Engineering Corporation

The photo looks like Garden City about 1930. The view is looking north with Clinton Road running north / south in the middle. The large complex in the center is the Curtiss Airplane Factory with Roosevelt Field north of that with the hangars along Old Country Road. Motor Parkway crosses over Clinton Road about 2/3 of the way up on the left side.

From Mystery Friday Photo #2 Solved: Clinton Road, Curtiss Field and the Curtiss Engineering Corporation

I think this is clinton road in garden city, approximate time period would be the 30’s.

the big big building on the right i believe is the pendaflex paper factory..somewhere in that shot should be the garden city gatehouse for the Motor Parkway

From Mystery Friday Photo #2 Solved: Clinton Road, Curtiss Field and the Curtiss Engineering Corporation

wow, such an amazing, high-quality photo…at first i was going to ‘guess’ what it was but upon further inspection, growing up in Garden City and now living in Carle Place (on Garson Rd. right next to the LIPA right-of-way and down the road from where they are digging the pit where the Westbury ave. bridge was) i can clearly see Roosevelt Field, the Clinton Rd. LIMP bridge, the empty field that would become Stewart School, the old Garden City rail station that is now a Firehouse, the big empty field to the top/north of the photo that would become Carle Place (the original Levittown), the big courthouse-looking building that would later become Esselete and/or a Newsday location/train stop.  i’m gonna guess 1925….wish i could zoom in on this photo…amazing…favorite pic so far….thanks…

From Mystery Friday Photo #2 Solved: Clinton Road, Curtiss Field and the Curtiss Engineering Corporation

INTERESTING

From Updated:The Role of the Motor Parkway in the Development of the Cruise Missile

The photo was taken in Spring of 1928.

From Mystery Friday Photo #2 Solved: Clinton Road, Curtiss Field and the Curtiss Engineering Corporation

From Bob G.:

“Notwithstanding its Farmingdale address, Bethpage State Park is not located in Farmingdale; it is almost entirely within the boarders of Old Bethpage.  When the park was constructed, Old Bethage was known as Bethpage and Bethpage was known as Central Park.  When the villages successively changed their names, the State did not change the name of the park. “

From Mystery Friday Photo #1 Solved: The Bethpage State Park in Old Bethpage and Farmingdale

From Cyril Smith:

“View is north-northeast in Garden City.  Factory is the Curtiss Engineering Plant, where Glen Curtiss “Father of Naval Aviation” built aircraft, including NC 4, the first plane to cross the Atlantic (May 1919), Just above the plant is Stewart Ave, then the Motor Parkway with its bridge spanning Clinton Road.  LIMP running north-south to left of Clinton Road, the turning east-west.Beyond that is western end of Roosevelt Field / Hazelhurst Field. 
In lower right hand corner is where Camp Mills 1917-19 existed, large deployment and training base of World War I. Some houses starting to appear, the warehouses just opposite Curtiss plant and across railroad, now little used freight spur, were originally for Camp Mills.”

From Mystery Friday Photo #2 Solved: Clinton Road, Curtiss Field and the Curtiss Engineering Corporation

Facing NE along Clinton Rd. in Garden City to Roosevelt Field with the Motor Parkway crossing over Clinton. Curtiss Engineering plant at center right.

From Mystery Friday Photo #2 Solved: Clinton Road, Curtiss Field and the Curtiss Engineering Corporation

howard good morning love the site always read it completely member of the li buick club.  to answer the mystery pic it is a pic of roosevelt field looking north the street running through the pic from lower right to upper left is clinton rd and some of these houses in the pic stand today. the road on the lower left is chestnut st. just north of the tracks is an old train station that still exists but i believe is now used for a fire station, to the right just south of the tracks is comercial ave. and going north just past the large industrial bldg in the center of the pic is stewart ave and of course just north of that is the motor pkwy crossing over clinton, the right of way looks like it still exists today on the right and further north is old country rd with roosevelt field on the right of clinton south of old country rd. say hello to walt godsen for me thanks again for the great website

From Mystery Friday Photo #2 Solved: Clinton Road, Curtiss Field and the Curtiss Engineering Corporation

From Richard W:

” Howard. I wrote you some time ago about a 1922 Marmon Model 34 Speedster that I once owned. The Marmon used by Sperry to test his autopilot looks like a model 34. I know they made that model in 1921 and maybe earlier. Any idea the date of the test on the Motor parkway?

From Updated:The Role of the Motor Parkway in the Development of the Cruise Missile

In the last photo, the car on the left in the fourth rank back is a landaulet or some such closed car, not a touring car.  The Master Nitpicker (a.k.a. Sam, III)

From Watching the 1904 Vanderbilt Cup Race in Floral Park

You doubted ME, Howard?  Perhaps we should add that Lawrence B(urst). Sperry (born 22 Dec 1892; Chicago) was the third son of gyrocompass co-inventor Elmer Ambrose Sperry and his wife Zula, invented the first autopilot and the artificial horizon.  and died on a flight over the English Channel 23 Dec 1923.

From Updated:The Role of the Motor Parkway in the Development of the Cruise Missile

One of these programmable bombs was on display at the Aviation Museum in Garden City some years ago.  Perhaps it’s still in its collection.

Best,
Art

From Updated:The Role of the Motor Parkway in the Development of the Cruise Missile

Mitchel Field (aka Roosevelt Field)  - Looking North
VP crosses East - West over bridge Glen Cove Road
Stewart Avenue East-West
Garden City / Central RR East West

From Mystery Friday Photo #2 Solved: Clinton Road, Curtiss Field and the Curtiss Engineering Corporation

Curtiss Aircraft Factory with Curtiss Field in background?

From Mystery Friday Photo #2 Solved: Clinton Road, Curtiss Field and the Curtiss Engineering Corporation

Cero wire

From Mystery Friday Photo #2 Solved: Clinton Road, Curtiss Field and the Curtiss Engineering Corporation

My Error:
I am sorry about naming the street running left to right across the bottom as “Oak Street”.  It is actually Commercial Avenue.

From Mystery Friday Photo #2 Solved: Clinton Road, Curtiss Field and the Curtiss Engineering Corporation

In addition to Frank Croker, his riding mechanic, Alex Raoul, was killed in the accident.  Raoul was employed by Smith & Mabley Simplex.  He came to the U.S. in 1904, and brought his wife, Margaret, to the U.S. later that year.

Is the car’s number 12, or I2?  I suspect that it is twelve instead of roman numeral I, two.

From Driver Profile: Frank Croker (1878-1905)

I recognize the area,but can’t think of where it.,I’ve seen those buildings many times,don’t know whether it is Queens,Nassau or Suffolk. I’ll give it a try again when there’s some comments about it

From Mystery Friday Photo #2 Solved: Clinton Road, Curtiss Field and the Curtiss Engineering Corporation