Vanderbilt Cup Races

Congrats, Howard and Roz. A wonderful recognition!

From Highlights from the FIVA 5th Pan-European Conference for Automotive History held in Lillehammer, Norway

Looks like you and Roz had an amazing experience attending the Automotive conference in Norway.
In addition to speaking about the Vanderbilt Cup Races, did you do a presentation on your car collection?
You have great cars that any automobile enthusiasts would love to see and hear about.

From Highlights from the FIVA 5th Pan-European Conference for Automotive History held in Lillehammer, Norway

Congratulations, Howard! Looks like a great time!

From Highlights from the FIVA 5th Pan-European Conference for Automotive History held in Lillehammer, Norway

CONGRATULATION! Howard

From Highlights from the FIVA 5th Pan-European Conference for Automotive History held in Lillehammer, Norway

We are over mostly Bethpage with north at the top of the photo. The LIMP runs from the lower left corner to the top center. The Botto farmway bridge is near the top. The year is 1939. The golf course is part of Bethpage State Park. I believe it’s the Red Course which opened in 1935. The photo is hanging in the clubhouse at Bethpage State Park.

From Mystery Friday Foto #39 Solved: A Bethpage Aerial

We are looking at current day Bethpage State Park.  Namely, where the new bicycle path runs on top of the LIMP.  And where the old Botto Farmway Bridge crossed the LIMP.  If we could pan this picture a bit further north and east, we would see the Toll Lodge at Round Swamp Rd.  The golf course is currently part of Bethpage State Park.

From Mystery Friday Foto #39 Solved: A Bethpage Aerial

• Location in photo: Old Bethpage/Farmingdale
• Orientation of photographer: Southwest → Northeast (North to the upper-right)
• Motor Parkway structure: Botto Farmway Bridge
• Year: 1923–1932, probably mid-1920s
• Golf course: Lenox Hills Country Club (now Bethpage Green)
• Display locations: Cradle of Aviation Museum

From Mystery Friday Foto #39 Solved: A Bethpage Aerial

Of course I meent Matile instead of Marije..

From Hemmings Classic Car: The Vanderbilt Cup- America's first internationally recognized road-race

Hello Frederic Marije, I’m currently researching the history of a specific Bugatti which might been in Nantes, where the Bugatti dealership of your grandfather was located. Is it possible to get in touch with you? (.(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address))

Thanks in advance

From Hemmings Classic Car: The Vanderbilt Cup- America's first internationally recognized road-race

Art, A Mrs. Caroline M. Jackson owned a 300 acre parcel in Melville that fronted on Round Swamp Rd, westward to the Nassau County line between Old Country Rd. and the Northern State Parkway at the time. Could there have been a connection with the Pony Farm ?

From Kleiner's Korner: Real Estate Transactions Near the Motor Parkway - May, 1926

As lifelong horse people we’re intrigued by the Jackson Pony Farm. We wonder what type of horses they bred there. The military usually supplied stallions to breeders in order to have influence on the type of horses raised and had right of first refusal to each year’s crop. JeRita

From Kleiner's Korner: Real Estate Transactions Near the Motor Parkway - May, 1926

Ellison Avenue, 1926

From Mystery Friday Foto #38 Solved: The Spinney Hill Turn from the 1906 Course

Direct link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j1BHbvor_bI&t=1626s

From InstaGRAM Report: A YouTube video tour of the AACA Museum’s Chrysler Imperials exhibit with Chrysler's Chrysler

We are looking south down Lakeville Road from the intersection with North Hempstead Tpke. (Northern Blvd) with the grandstand set up for the 1906 Vanderbilt Cup Race. Today it is the northern-most portion of Lake Success but back then it was probably Manhasset. Four houses down was John Dennelly’s farm and home which he called “Maple Cottage”. It was temporarily being used as the headquarters for Joe Tracy and the Locomobile race tram.

From Mystery Friday Foto #38 Solved: The Spinney Hill Turn from the 1906 Course

I believe this is Northern Blvd turning onto Community Drive.  Well… at least that is what it is today.  Back then, Spiney Hill Rd.  The grandstands are for the VCR.

From Mystery Friday Foto #38 Solved: The Spinney Hill Turn from the 1906 Course

Clarence Mackay’s Harbor Hill estate with Carriage House in today’s East Hills, NY. The estate was built at Nassau County’s highest elevation. Mackay was a Vanderbilt Cup Race official and close friend of William Vanderbilt II. The planes are likely from Roosevelt Air Field, Garden City, around 1920s?

From UPDATE 9/16/26: Mystery Friday Foto #37 Solved: A Flight Over Clarence Mackay's Harbor Hill Estate

Gary, I saw John Kennedy’s motorcade that day going down Hempstead Turnpike in East Meadow.

I still remember Kenndy waving to me and my friends in a downpour.

From InstaGRAM Report: Rare Home Film of Antique Automobile Racing at the 1960 Long Island Fair

I’m pretty sure the unidentified horseless carriage was Oyster Bay resident Harold Kraft’s 1908 Sears Model J.  See attached photos I took of Harold & the car back on October 22, 1978 at the “Town of Oyster Bay 325th Anniversary Grand Parade and Vanderbilt Cup Race”. 
The 1960 Mineola Fair and Industrial Exposition at Roosevelt Raceway was held from Oct. 7-16, 1960.  On Thursday, October 12th, Senator John F. Kennedy, spoke before a crowd of 10,000 in the parking lot outside the Fairgrounds at Roosevelt Raceway, on his first Long Island campaign trip; one month later he would be elected President of the U. S.  This was the last “Mineola Fair”, 1961 would be the first Long Island Fair.

From InstaGRAM Report: Rare Home Film of Antique Automobile Racing at the 1960 Long Island Fair

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From UPDATE 9/16/26: Mystery Friday Foto #37 Solved: A Flight Over Clarence Mackay's Harbor Hill Estate

I believe the plane is either a Fairchild 71 or Fairchild FC-2. The estate is Harbor Hill owned by Clarence Mackay with the main house in the foreground and the horse stables and garage behind it. I’ll guess the year to be around 1930. Mackay was an investor in and director of the LIMP and as a friend of Willie K., attended the Vanderbilt Cup Races. As the plane is marked “Roosevelt Flying Corporation”, I believe it was based at Roosevelt Field (adjacent to the LIMP) where it was used for flying lessons and training.

From UPDATE 9/16/26: Mystery Friday Foto #37 Solved: A Flight Over Clarence Mackay's Harbor Hill Estate