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Hi Ted:

Here is the answer:

http://www.vanderbiltcupraces.com/blog/article/location_of_mystery_motor_parkway_aerial_revealed

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Hi Howard,    What’s going on? No one seems to know the answer to this one,you really got them going on it. Most of us are thinking along the lines,but are wrong. What do you think about telling us the answer,then we can comment about it? Or have us rack our brains somemore. I don’t have anymore ideas of where it is. I’ll hate to give up. I would just like to know where it is and where I went wrong looking for it,that’s what everyone else is thinking too I guess. Howard, please don’t leave us hanging

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From Mike Mooney:

I was born and raised in Lake Ronkonkoma about a mile from this mansion/restaurant and my father worked for some time in the 30s as a toll collector at the end of the road. The Petit Trianon was fashioned after the original palatial home in France.

As a son of the former historian of Brookhaven Town, Suffolk County, N.Y., I offer the this map. After the Petit Trianon went into disuse we used to play in the ruins and use it as our “fort” back in the late 40s and early 50s until it was razed.

Mike

From The 1914 Menu from Petit Trianon on the Motor Parkway in Lake Ronkonkoma, L.I.

Marilyn via Patch.com:

“My guess is that it is somewhere near Roosevelt Field.”

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I grew up in Lake Ronkonkoma and never knew about this place!

From The 1914 Menu from Petit Trianon on the Motor Parkway in Lake Ronkonkoma, L.I.

From Robert R:

Wow…that was a very expensive place back then!

From The 1914 Menu from Petit Trianon on the Motor Parkway in Lake Ronkonkoma, L.I.

Howard-  Absolutely a stunning car, much enjoy seeing it. 

(Would not blame you if you traded your Chrysler’s Chrysler for this one.)  What I find remarkable about the design is it appears the door hinges are hidden.  I’d understood the 37 Cord was the first car with that design feature.  Hard to think of a 135-inch wheelbase as being the short one .  Today’s Chrysler 300 has a 120.2 inch wheelbase.

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Great pictures and I’m glad the columns are back up….

From Then & Now: The Home of Driver Foxhall Keene in Old Westbury

My best educated guess would be the bridge on the right is the LIMP bridge going over Merrick Ave directly West of what is now the Eisenhower Park golf course…
Parallel to the LIMP to the South looks like Stewart Ave and below that would be the now Abandoned Central Rail Road…

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Howard, do you have pictures of the before condition and during restoration effort, or other photos of the completed project.  What a long hood, I wonder what engine powers this work of art.

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He’s flying over what is now Eisenhower Park. The line of trees is Stewart Ave., and beneath that is the old LIRR Central Extension. Merrick Ave. is on the left. Westbury is beyond the plane in the center.

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Eisenhower Park

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I was thinking Mitchell Field too. I am looking very closely below the plane with a magnifying glass and I do see the line of trees alongside what looks like a dirt road,but there are more just like that,that go to another road going east west,but have no idea where this is. I don’t recognize anything that would give me a clue,this is a tuffy, I see things,but still nothing comes to mind, We are all stumped, need more HINTS Howard

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Near St Johns Cemetery?

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Nope.
Hint #5: Look very closely at the area below the plane.

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Wish i had one of those time machines…

From The 1914 Menu from Petit Trianon on the Motor Parkway in Lake Ronkonkoma, L.I.

I just sent a reply similar to the one referring to the glen cove rd area, and it’s incorrect. Is this in queens?

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Nope. Try again!

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It’s right over Glen Cove Rd./Old Country Road.  I don’t know what the first hint is, but the second hint is the Motor Parkway bridge by Old Country Road.

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Allright then, mitchell field area.

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