Vanderbilt Cup Races

Amazing tribute. Any relationship to Bethpage Lodge keepers Ida and Louis Damiano

From Damianos Realty Group pays tribute to the Long Island Motor Parkway and the Vanderbilt Cup Races

It’s the Polo Grounds, home of the N.Y. Giants baseball team, and later, the Mets.

I’m more of a baseball fan than a racing fan, but I’ll guess that those are midget racers and the track is made out of wood.

From Mystery Friday Foto #8 Solved; Midget Racing at the Polo Grounds & The Marty Himes Collection

Gram, I also have a short article on the Autocar Hotel bus that Mr. Clark wrote for a local newspaper many years ago. I would be glad to share if it is of interest.

From VanderbiltCupRaces.com Exclusive: Unpublished Long Island Automotive Museum Photos from 1958 to 1962 Part 3

Wow! thanks Lee Irwin. we did not come across that post card in our collection (or researching online) anywhere! great to see that Austin Clark had one made for his Bugatti. thanks for sharing!

From VanderbiltCupRaces.com Exclusive: Unpublished Long Island Automotive Museum Photos from 1958 to 1962 Part 3

The stadium is the Polo Grounds, home of the New York Giants
The type of track (and how it was constructed) was “1-1/2 inch thick tongue and groove pine boards of varying widths created the track surface secured by cleats to the pre-engineered aluminum stringers with stainless steel fittings.”
The type of racing was board track midget racing
The year was 1948
Answers about the track and its construction are from Kevin Triplett’s Racing History: https://triplettracehistory.blogspot.com/2016/10/post-war-midget-board-track-racing-this.html

From Mystery Friday Foto #8 Solved; Midget Racing at the Polo Grounds & The Marty Himes Collection

    Polo Grounds, New York

From Mystery Friday Foto #8 Solved; Midget Racing at the Polo Grounds & The Marty Himes Collection

This is the Polo Grounds where the NY Giants played.  This is a “board track” where midget/sprint race cars competed.  The year of the picture is 1958.

From Mystery Friday Foto #8 Solved; Midget Racing at the Polo Grounds & The Marty Himes Collection

Great historical Motor Parkway shots Al Kleiner, taken from newspaper clippings at the time! Likely Westbury Av over the trolley line, or could be the crossing over Rt 110 with trolley as well. The busy environment points towards Rt 110.

From Kleiner's Korner: A 1909 Motor Parkway Construction Update

I’m amazed at how much the design of the cars has changed just a few short years after the days of the Black Beast.

From Mystery Friday Foto #7; Solved; Gentlemen, Start Your Engines for the 1912 Milwaukee Vanderbilt Cup Races!

Bergerac, in Dordogne.

From Mystery Foto #26 Solved: The Two-Tone Tucker 1046 in 1956 at Sebring, Florida

And also in the town of Cherbourg, in Normandie.
https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fichier:Blason_ville_fr_CherbourgOcteville_(Manche).svg

From Mystery Foto #26 Solved: The Two-Tone Tucker 1046 in 1956 at Sebring, Florida

I think that this car had been in the France town of Bergerac (Dordogne).
https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bergerac_(Dordogne)#/media/Fichier:Blason_ville_fr_Bergerac_(Dordogne).svg

From Mystery Foto #26 Solved: The Two-Tone Tucker 1046 in 1956 at Sebring, Florida

The F is for France. Did this car went to France ?

From Mystery Foto #26 Solved: The Two-Tone Tucker 1046 in 1956 at Sebring, Florida

Good stuff Art!
The bridge over the trolley road would be Westbury Ave I presume.

And that very well may be Sydney Jones in front of the Meadow Brook lodge looking west at the Whaleneck bridge.

From Kleiner's Korner: A 1909 Motor Parkway Construction Update

Beautiful property. I remember my parents taking me as a child, touring this and other “Gold Coast” estates that were built by the 19th century industrialists. A good lesson on history and the development of our capitalist economic system which has enabled America to lift more people out of poverty than any other system. Still is the case today. We must protect it.

From Video of the Week: William K. Vanderbilt Jr.'s Summer Estate: Eagle's Nest - Centerport, NY

Hey guys, our Howard was a town historian for North Hempstead and did a book from Arcadia Publishing that did his other books of North Hempstead. You might want to check it out if has any photos of the area in question?

From The Roslyn Hill Climb in the 1901 Long Island Endurance Test

Bob,

Yes, I was quoted in the New York Times!

Howard Kroplick (AKA Howard Kroplink)

From The Roslyn Hill Climb in the 1901 Long Island Endurance Test

Al, thanks for the extra info! Would love to see a 1901 photo of the RR grade crossing then.

In regard to your answer on the toll gate, I believe the toll gate was not moved into the cemetery. Rather, Northern Blvd was realigned a few hundred feet to the south and the toll gate stayed in its original spot. The Roslyn Landmark Society seems to feel that’s what saved the toll gate from demolition.

https://www.roslynlandmarks.org/profiles/east-gate-toll-house-roslyn-cemetary

From The Roslyn Hill Climb in the 1901 Long Island Endurance Test

Greg, You have to back and take another east bound photo that shows the LIRR going over North Hempstead Turnpike to get a true picture of the grade the automobiles at one time had to climb. Originally when the Oyster Bay Line opened in 1865 the tracks over the roadway were at grade. Also, today as one leaves the Viaduct heading east note the difference in the grade of the roadway compared to the buildings on both side of the Turnpike. Your first photo shows how much soil was removed to lower the grade.  Just remembered, lore has it that the early Fords could only make the grade in reverse.

From The Roslyn Hill Climb in the 1901 Long Island Endurance Test

For Bob Allen                                                                           Sometime prior to 1850 a charter was issued by NY State to the Flushing North Hempstead Turnpike Company to construct a Plank Toll Road from Flushing to today’s Glen Cove Rd. When North Hempstead Town acquired the section within the Town the tolls were eliminated. My guess is that it was at that time the toll house was moved into the cemetery.

From The Roslyn Hill Climb in the 1901 Long Island Endurance Test