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In the landed blimp photo, there’s a woman dressed in white, with a white dog besides her, experiencing the blimp landing at LIACC. What a lucky dog!
From Mystery Friday Foto #28 Solved: An early view of the Long Island Aviation Club and a special parking area within the Motor Parkway right-of-way.
Nice catch Greg! Also the white observation steps in the parking area appears in both photos.
There were at least two black suits on the field in the mystery photo, almost similar to the landed blimp photo.
I believe Gary Hammond is correct
From Mystery Friday Foto #28 Solved: An early view of the Long Island Aviation Club and a special parking area within the Motor Parkway right-of-way.
I like the ‘52 Cadillac custom, a standout!
From Highlights from the 2022 Gold Coast Cruisers Waterfront Car Show in Glen Cove
Frank- if you look at the blimp shadow photo and the mystery photo, you’ll see the two parked cars are the same cars and parked in the same spots. The shadow photo also caught a passing car on the LIMP aside from the other two parked cars.
From Mystery Friday Foto #28 Solved: An early view of the Long Island Aviation Club and a special parking area within the Motor Parkway right-of-way.
Richard, you are on target with the Jerusalem Av bridge location in the mystery photo. Excellent distance analysis from the hangars on your part!
The two blimp photos posted, including the mystery photo, could possibly be part of the same series, even though each photo was found from different sources.
From Mystery Friday Foto #28 Solved: An early view of the Long Island Aviation Club and a special parking area within the Motor Parkway right-of-way.
With regard to the flat roof of the hanger. There was a fire and an explosion in the hanger early on. My guess is that it was then that the double curved came into being.
From Mystery Friday Foto #28 Solved: An early view of the Long Island Aviation Club and a special parking area within the Motor Parkway right-of-way.
Regarding Brian’s comments of the unpaved sections of the Parkway. We know that the Aviation Club requested an entrance from the Parkway but Vanderbilt turned them down. It appears that Vanderbilt didn’t want to set a precedent. It is obvious that some kind of an arrangement was made that allowed parking on the unpaved portions of the Parkway ROW. In the circa 1937 photo note the stairs over the fence. Also note the double rows of Parkway white cement posts on both sides of the Parkway’s pavement defining the areas autos were restricted to.
From Mystery Friday Foto #28 Solved: An early view of the Long Island Aviation Club and a special parking area within the Motor Parkway right-of-way.
https://www.vanderbiltcupraces.com/blog/article/mystery_friday_foto_15_a_special_day_at_the_long_island_aviation_country_cl
From Mystery Friday Foto #28 Solved: An early view of the Long Island Aviation Club and a special parking area within the Motor Parkway right-of-way.
Great counterpoint!
From Kleiner's Korner: Two Prominent Supporters of Automobile Racing
Blimp wranglers/mechanics makes sense. The mechanics wore white at LIACC. LIFE photographer Alfred Eisenstaedt photos
From Mystery Friday Foto #28 Solved: An early view of the Long Island Aviation Club and a special parking area within the Motor Parkway right-of-way.
Richard, the blimp photo is on the airfields-freeman website: http://www.airfields-freeman.com/NY/Airfields_NY_LongIs_Nassau.htm
From Mystery Friday Foto #28 Solved: An early view of the Long Island Aviation Club and a special parking area within the Motor Parkway right-of-way.
Gary, I added a closeup of the possible “Blimp wranglers.” I believe you may be right.
From Mystery Friday Foto #28 Solved: An early view of the Long Island Aviation Club and a special parking area within the Motor Parkway right-of-way.
Where was this photo found, Frank? ! And thanx for the confirmation about the Jerusalem Ave. bridge on today’s map. (I guess I was right, or at least darn
close, huh?)
From Mystery Friday Foto #28 Solved: An early view of the Long Island Aviation Club and a special parking area within the Motor Parkway right-of-way.
Gary Hammond, I think you could be on to something here. Notice how they are all in white - just as in this photo of a Goodyear blimp at the LIACC. “Blimp wranglers”, to coin a phrase.
From Mystery Friday Foto #28 Solved: An early view of the Long Island Aviation Club and a special parking area within the Motor Parkway right-of-way.
I also thought the mystery was the people all gathered on the ground, as the parking area has been discussed in previous posts. My thought is that this photo was another one taken from a visiting blimp, and that was the ground crew waiting for it to land. If you ever saw the blimps landing at Republic, you know what I mean.
From Mystery Friday Foto #28 Solved: An early view of the Long Island Aviation Club and a special parking area within the Motor Parkway right-of-way.
Richard, great work! I hope the historic sign comes to fruition soon and available for all to acknowledge early Long Island history at this particular site. It’s an important site to reveal and document.
The bridge in the photo carried Jerusalem Av over the Motor Pkwy, with future Ciper Ln and Cool Ln very near the bridge proximity. Map below
From Mystery Friday Foto #28 Solved: An early view of the Long Island Aviation Club and a special parking area within the Motor Parkway right-of-way.
The Commissioners of the appropriate county’s Landmark Preservation Commission have said nothing to me about the making of the historical marker for this airport in three years. I their job is an unpaid volunteer one, and I don’t want to say anything to turn them off.last I heard was that they were not thrilled about the way all of their markets looked and were thinking of redoing all of them. I wouldvthink the cost would be prohibitive. Prior to Covid I expected it would have been erected. About two years ago one of the Comissioners — I think it was Joshua Soren—told a reporter for Newsday that he anticipated that the marker would be erected in 2022. Then Covid hit. I don’t know what else to say. Thanx for asking about the sign.
From Mystery Friday Foto #28 Solved: An early view of the Long Island Aviation Club and a special parking area within the Motor Parkway right-of-way.
David, also another mystery!
From Mystery Friday Foto #28 Solved: An early view of the Long Island Aviation Club and a special parking area within the Motor Parkway right-of-way.
And I thought that the real mystery was what were all those people (mostly) in white were doing on the field!
From Mystery Friday Foto #28 Solved: An early view of the Long Island Aviation Club and a special parking area within the Motor Parkway right-of-way.
1962. This is early use of on-board cameras facing front and rear from a racer. Perhaps the first.
From Film: The Holman Moody Challenger III at the 1962 Nassau Trophy Race
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