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Looking at https://www.bethpageproshop.com/red-course-page-13/chapter/2 - it’s the Red Course in the foreground

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

Wowww! You guys certainlly know alot,it’s amazing,I had no idea of the area,but I’ve been around that area a lot of times and I know where it is now,thanks guys. Like I said once before,I’m new at this,I only realized where it was while I was reading all about it just now,Oh,that’s where it is,I kept saying to myself,then looking at the pictures. My uncle use to live around that area,I should have known it

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

The following movie, Sally of Sawdust, shows film of the parkway at time 1:39:23

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lhm8MysL8oA&list=PL27B857093454F4B9

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Your commitment to the history is GREAT and hopefully soon Nassau County will realize you are preserving a “historical log for them’
Great work on all parts

jim

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

I would say it looks like old Roosevelt Field in the background.  If so then the bridge would be the Motor parkway crossing Clinton Rd.

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

Art, I am meeting later this week with Josh Stoff, the curator of the Cradle of Aviation, and will check out their archives and exhibits.

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

Thank you for sharing this great video

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I did’nt realize that you listed when the film was taken in Havana of the classic cars,but still don’t know if they use them for everday driving now?

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Richard and Sam III:

According to Laurence Newcome and other UAV historians, the March 6, 1918 flight was launched from a deadweight catapult not the Marmon. Sometime from April 7, 1918 to May 17, 1918, the Flying Torpedo was tested on an unknown section of the Motor Parkway. Apparently , the Marmon acted more like a wind tunnel rather than a launching pad. On May 17, 1918, a launch was attempted with the Marmon car modified for an LIRR track. The launch failed when the airplance becgan lifting the Marmon “off the track as it approached its flying speed”.

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

Great shot! That train station on St James still stands. Looking North on Clinton with the LIMP bridge, toll lodge and office and Roosevelt Field towards the top. Looks to be maybe 1928/9 ish?

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

Earlier, Richard; the run with the Marmon was on 06 March 1918.  Sam, III

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

We knew last week’s and we are guessing at this week’s.  Garden City/Roosevelt Field circa 1938.

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

Hi Howard   Nice film of the classic cars in Havana,they most be very popular their. I’m curious to know as to when it was taken and if it is what they drive everyday

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

Clinton LIMP overpass into Roosevelt airfield. Don’t know the year, but I’d guess it was the 1920s.

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

Continued from my first response:
Oh, of course on the middle right is the Curtiss Engineering building, built in 1918.
And, the original train station was converted to GC fire Department Station no. 3. The Clinton Station opened in 1915.
My guess for date of photo is 1923

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

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

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