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Rocky Road / Springfield Blvd entrance sign?

From Long Island Motor Parkway Signs Updated 2/13/2016

Hi Howard. Thanks as always for running a great site about the LIMP. I always had a notion that there must have been an overpass in this location. The ground level is high at the end of this LIPA ROW, compared to the entrance road from IU Willets into the school south of this location. So the LIMP continued on this overpass, and so not to interfere with the path underneath to IU Willets Rd?

From Long Island Motor Parkway Bridge Series:#19 I.U. Willets Road Motor Parkway Bridge in Searingtown

Brad:
Super find! Thanks!!

From Images from the George McKesson Brown Scrapbook: The 1906 #7 Mercedes

Great post! I was aware of its current location but did not know its original spot or history of the move.  I did my own post on the gate lodge -

http://halfpuddinghalfsauce.blogspot.com/2012/07/south-gate-lodge-at-deepdale.html# 

I linked your post to it. At the bottom you’ll find a photo of the main gate - do you have any insight to its original location? Thanks

From Images from the George McKesson Brown Scrapbook: The 1906 #7 Mercedes

what they said! keep it coming!

From Then & Now: William K. Vanderbilt Jr's Deepdale Gate Lodge in Lake Success

Amazing stuff.  I cannot tell you how much I appreciate your work.  Along IU Willets road the old cement posts used to stick out of the ground quite a bit higher.  They were buried, and some completely buried when they repaved the area about 20 years ago.  They added a couple of feet of dirt there.  My neighbor was just telling me how he used to walk the parkway up there all the time.  That would be in the late 1950’s, and the only thing in that whole area was the brick house on IU Willets Road east of this bridge, and just east of the cement post that you found up on the hill.
There used to be a whole row of posts in the backyard of 39 Piiper Drive, but they are all gone.  They ran right accross the lawn. 
Thank you again. 
-joe

From Long Island Motor Parkway Bridge Series:#19 I.U. Willets Road Motor Parkway Bridge in Searingtown

Brad, the Deepdale Gate Lodge was located on the west side of Lakeville Road, near the current North Shore-LIJ Hospital entrance:

http://www.vanderbiltcupraces.com/blog/article/then_now_wiliam_k._vanderbilt_jrs_deepdale_gate_lodge_in_lake_success

From Images from the George McKesson Brown Scrapbook: The 1906 #7 Mercedes

The Lakevillle Rd. toll house is most informative.  Living in NHP 70 years I am aware of the parkway, as I rode my bike on it.  But was not aware of the toll house on Lakeville Rd.  and I worked in Sperrys also.  Good job   Artie

From Then & Now: William K. Vanderbilt Jr's Deepdale Gate Lodge in Lake Success

I concur with all of the above comments - thanks for the hard work Howard, keep it up!

From Then & Now: William K. Vanderbilt Jr's Deepdale Gate Lodge in Lake Success

From Robert R:

“Wonderful piece on the bridge restoration project, Howard.

Nice to see you in the thick of things, and to see that lovely Model A truck being put to good use.

Terrific!”

From Video "The Restoration of the Old Bethpage Motor Parkway Bridge"

Always a pleasure Sunday Morning to see another element featured on your site, Howard.

Thanks for keping the LIMP memory in our minds.

From Then & Now: William K. Vanderbilt Jr's Deepdale Gate Lodge in Lake Success

Thanks for all your work on the gatehouse. I will visit it when I next pass nearby. Never knew it was there . Ed.

From Then & Now: William K. Vanderbilt Jr's Deepdale Gate Lodge in Lake Success

A fine piece of LI history . Thanks for the lesson.

From Then & Now: William K. Vanderbilt Jr's Deepdale Gate Lodge in Lake Success

Howard
Your research and scholarship that you share with all of us continues to be a pleasure to view. It is an important record that not only provides a visual history , but is also a great insight into the social an economic time when the Motor Parkway existed.
Walt Gosden

From Then & Now: William K. Vanderbilt Jr's Deepdale Gate Lodge in Lake Success

Everyone involved has done something incredible in the restoration effort.  A piece of our history has been preserved because of your action.  I enjoyed seeing both the teamwork and the enjoyment of being able to drive on the overpass.

From Video "The Restoration of the Old Bethpage Motor Parkway Bridge"

I fully support the effort to stop the unwise development of this complex and think that the Nassau County- Motor Parkway Bike path plan would certainly add to local property values while the developer’s plan would lower the value of the adjacent real estate due to the commercial-scale type structures and down-zoning to make it possible. All neighborhoods should have as much parkland and greenspace/open space as possible, and it will give children a safe place to learn to ride bicycles and for adults to ride east to Bethpage or west to Eisenhower Park without worrying much about traffic and vehicles most of the way.

From LevittownPatch: Historical Site May Halt Senior Housing Development

Nice.  Looking foward to the additional photos.

From Patch.com: Restoration Enthusiasts On the Road Again

Hi Brad:

I will try to track it down for you.

From Images from the George McKesson Brown Scrapbook: The 1906 #7 Mercedes

Dean:

The publisher is Garnet Hill Publishing Company and distributed by Racemaker Press:

http://www.garnethillpublishing.com/p/our-latest-automotive-publications.html

From A New Book by Joel E. Finn: The 1912 Milwaukee Races: Vanderbilt Cup and Grand Prize

This is awesome! Wonderful that the engineering of this bridge held up over all the years of neglect. I recall when it was not even walkable up there and the underside was filled with junk appliances and debris. Great job and what an awesome collection of historic vehicles crossing the old bridge!

From Vintage Car Rally on the Old Bethpage Motor Parkway Bridge on June 30, 2012