Vanderbilt Cup Races

Hi Jeff, never heard of this film before. Any chance of making a DVD copy. Please contact me at .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address).?

From Film "The Long Island Automotive Museum"

I have a well-worn old 16mm short subject that includes scenes of the Long Island Automotive Museum.  The buildings are as they looked in the 1950’s clips shown here.  The film runs 10 minutes in black and white.
However, the titles of the film are missing and I have no idea of its true identity or who made it.  Most of the reel deals with bizarre turn-of-the-20th-century driving laws, with re-enactments involving period cars probably from the LIRR.
The film may have been made by an industrial-film outfit, or by a newsreel company like Pathe’ or Movietone.  Anyone know what it is?

From Film "The Long Island Automotive Museum"

I now see the limp bridge passing over Clinton rd in garden city.

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

Silly question. Is the limp in this photo?

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

EAST GARDEN CITY CLINTON ROAD ON LEFT, CURTISS AIRCRAFT IN CENTER, CURTISS FILD/ROOSEVELT FIELD AT TOP. NOTE MOTOR PARWAY CROSSING OVER CLINTON SOUTH OF AIRFIELD. DATE OF PIC BETWEEN 1922 AND 1951 PROBABLY AROUND 1940

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

Garden City about 1940.
Looking north;  large columned building in center is Curtiss Aircraft
Roadway (left to right) across bottom is Oak Street
Roadway (left to right) on top of Curtiss building is Stewart Avenue
Roadway running top to bottom on left is Clinton Road
Bridge over Clinton (near top) is LIMP bridge)
On right side of roadway at the bridge is toll house
Across top of photo is Roosevelt Flying Field.
Roadway (left to right) across top is Old Country Road
At lower left, across from Curtiss, is former rail station, later to be firehouse

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

P.S. Of course th Motor Parkway is there just left of center crossing over Clinton Avenue and the General Manager’s home and the Toll house right next to the overpass.

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

The picture is in Garden City with the Curtiss factory in the front and Roosevelt Field in the background. Yearwise I would place sometime in the late 1930s. The Central Railrod line is the tracks.

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

I believe this is looking north up Glen Cove/Clinton Rd. in Garden City. The Motor Parkway bridge crosses Clinton just south of Roosevelt Field. Stewart Ave. runs right through the center of the photo, parallel to the abandoned Mitchell Field LIRR line. The station building, left center, is used by the Garden City Fire Dept. and is still there. I’m not sure who occupied the factory. Looks like it was taken in the late ‘30s. Thanks for posting these!

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

Clinton Ave looking North.  Roosevelt Feild in back.  Curtis Wright Factory in front.
LIMP crosses over Clinton Ave.

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

Great photo’s! Are there more photo’s you could post of the surrounding area too?

From Watching the 1904 Vanderbilt Cup Race in Floral Park

Love the photos, Howard. I’d love to see a photo of the original bridge built in the late 1860s.

From Watching the 1904 Vanderbilt Cup Race in Floral Park

From Robert R:

1935 851 Auburn Speedster?

From Memories of Super Bowl XLVII In New Orleans

Mr. Notebloom, just for the record, the photo at the top showing your great-grandfather, Lee Frayer, as a passenger, with Eddie Rickenbacher (he replaced the “h” with a “k” during WWI) at the wheel, the “famous politician” at the extreme left is William Jennings Bryan, three-time unsuccessful Democratic candidate for President. His last loss was in 1908 to William Howard Taft. He was later the losing attorney in the Scopes Monkey Trial to Clarence Darrow. Just FYI. I appreciate your posting pictures of Mr. Frayer. He gave Eddie his first meaningful automotive job and really mentored him. He knew great talent and drive when he saw it.

From Profile of Driver Lee Frayer by his Great-Great Grandson

Kinda thought it was Bethpage State Park,that’s what almost everybody was saying,shucks I should have said it,maybe I would be able to get another ride on the Black Beast

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

It is Bethpage Park, but before the polo field was at its’ present location at bottom of photo. Also before the construction of the Seaford-Oysterbay Expressway

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

Rumor has it winners get a free ride in “The Beast”

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

just match up the dog-legs for you golfers out there

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

If you invert Bethpage park on Google earth you can clearly see the resemblance with the town of farmingdale on the south side of the park.

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

Brian, similar to the Old Courthouse Road and Jericho Turnpike “highway” bridges, the Old Country Road Motor Parkway Bridge was below grade level.

From Updated: Long Island Motor Parkway Bridge Series #30: Old Country Road Motor Parkway Bridge