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Tarabiscoté means unnecessarily complicated. I understand why he writes that ...
From Kleiner's Korner: The Courses of the Vanderbilt Cup Races (in French)
Al - the Meadow Brook Hunt Club east access road was just one half-mile in length and accessible only from Merrick Ave (map below)
From Mystery Friday Foto #5 Solved: A 1930's view of the Motor Parkway area around Merrick Avenue in Westbury and East Meadow
Al - The bridge is filled beneath and overgrown. One would have to park the car nearby and walk up to it. Once there, you can see frame of the bridge and walk on top a bit. White X on this map.
From Mystery Friday Foto #5 Solved: A 1930's view of the Motor Parkway area around Merrick Avenue in Westbury and East Meadow
I grew up in Merrick, and this one stumped me! What threw me off was the Meadow Brook Hunt Club access road, which doesn’t exist today. Did this road connect with Westbury Blvd. to the southwest? I have never seen the CRR bridge, even though I’ve passed that way many times.
From Mystery Friday Foto #5 Solved: A 1930's view of the Motor Parkway area around Merrick Avenue in Westbury and East Meadow
The Links Golf Course just to the west, 1926
From Update:Kleiner's Korner - An Interesting Long Island Map from 1929 & the KKK in Queens
Here’s a 1926 of the area
From Update:Kleiner's Korner - An Interesting Long Island Map from 1929 & the KKK in Queens
More CRR bridge
Top: Courtesy Dave Keller, 1955
Mid: Courtesy Dick Makse, 1964
Bottom: Courtesy Dick Makse, 1964
From Mystery Friday Foto #5 Solved: A 1930's view of the Motor Parkway area around Merrick Avenue in Westbury and East Meadow
Great photo! About 1925 in Uniondale, flying over the Meadow Brook Hunt Club (future Mitchel Field) looking NNE.
Major roads from top to bottom; Motor Pkwy, Stewart Ave, CRR.
From left to right; Meadow Brook Hunt Club east access rd, Merrick Ave.
Meadow Brook golf course west of Merrick Ave.
Salisbury Links’ Red Golf Course covers most of the top photo east of Merrick Rd. (photo below).
Meadow Brook Lodge just west of Merrick Ave, and the Merrick Ave bridge.
The Salisbury Plains CRR station is seen. The CRR bridge still stands today abandoned by the Meadow Brook Pkwy. Easy access for explorers!
Lower right building is the Salisbury Links clubhouse west of Merrick Ave.
From Mystery Friday Foto #5 Solved: A 1930's view of the Motor Parkway area around Merrick Avenue in Westbury and East Meadow
This sites’s Jun 18 2013 blog post talks about The Links Golf Course, designed by Macdonald & Raynor. This a Emmet & Tull course, the Emmet that my Walter Travis comment on this page mentions.
Emmet did not take on Tull as a partner until 1929, seven years after the Shelter Rock Club opened. So Al’s guess about morphing is wrong even as the Shelter Rock course was also designed by Emmet!
The Parkway Country Club does not show up on any list of Emmet-designed courses and is not mentioned as a recently completed course in Emmet’s obituaries from December 1934 (the 1931 Huntington Crescent course was mentioned).
My best guess is that this course was never built, but, as Art asks, it would be interesting to learn where Leo found this!
From Update:Kleiner's Korner - An Interesting Long Island Map from 1929 & the KKK in Queens
Eisenhower red was called Salisbury golf club i think.
From Mystery Friday Foto #5 Solved: A 1930's view of the Motor Parkway area around Merrick Avenue in Westbury and East Meadow
looking n/ne over the hempstead plains. motor parkway, stewart ave, merrick ave(whaleneck), meadowbrook hunt club access road and bridge. The meadowbrook lodge can be seen. present day eisenhower red course is the golf course. Central RR and meadowbrook station are visible and so is the bridge over the clubs access road. Photo taken around 1930. I got nothing on the building on the bottom.
From Mystery Friday Foto #5 Solved: A 1930's view of the Motor Parkway area around Merrick Avenue in Westbury and East Meadow
Art, The Links Golf Club was located on the west side of Shelter Rock Rd. The Parkway Country Club rendering has their course located on the east side of Shelter Rock Rd. on property owned by the Cedar Heights Association at the time the Motor Parkway was built. Perhaps the Parkway Country Club morphed into the Shelter Rock Country Club which opened in the early 1920’s and was located at the north west corner of I. U. Willets and Searingtown Rds. There was a Southern Parkway Golf Club in north Valley Stream during the 1930’s.
From Update:Kleiner's Korner - An Interesting Long Island Map from 1929 & the KKK in Queens
Thank you Leo. Where did you find it?
From Update:Kleiner's Korner - An Interesting Long Island Map from 1929 & the KKK in Queens
Plate #777 1929
From Updated: My Long Island Motor Parkway License Plate Collection (11/7/2025)
This map shows what eventually became the Links Golf Club in Searingtown.
One of the 2 Private entrances to Motor Parkway depicted.
From Update:Kleiner's Korner - An Interesting Long Island Map from 1929 & the KKK in Queens
Thank you for insight. I’m going to pass on it.
From Fraud Alert Update: Guide to Identifying Authentic Versus Reproduced Long Island Motor Parkway and Roosevelt Field Porcelain Plates
The Stanley is a 1906 or ‘07 Model F. The 1908 version changed from a flat dash to a rounded cowl. Interesting that a family of wealth would be messing around with something like that. The car on the far right is a Pope-Hartford - much more like it. Coincidentally, also a 1906 Model F.
From Mystery Foto #4 Solved: The family of William Cullen Bryant of Roslyn Harbor watching the 1908 Vanderbilt Cup Race in Jericho
We’re over today’s Uniondale looking north east toward the Salisbury section of Westbury. Besides the LIMP, major roads include Stewart Avenue, Merrick Avenue, and the access road to the Meadow Brook Hunt Club. The golf course is the Salisbury Links. The LIMP structures are the Meadow Brook Lodge and the bridge over Merrick Avenue. Railroad structures include the Salisbury Plains station and the bridge over the hunt club access road, both on the Central Branch. On the lower right, we can see the Salisbury Links clubhouse. The date should be around 1932.
From Mystery Friday Foto #5 Solved: A 1930's view of the Motor Parkway area around Merrick Avenue in Westbury and East Meadow
Looking forward to seeing this when it’s available on film. Tucker history from the experts is always interesting.
From "Talk with the Tuckers" sells out at the new Savoy Automobile Museum in Cartersville, Georgia
George, difficult to tell. However, the creme-colored back makes me suspicious. Moreover, the plate was never recorded in the Long Island Motor Parkway Porcelain Plate Census.
https://porcelainplates.net/LIMP_census.html
https://porcelainplates.net/images/Long_Island_Motor_Parkway_NY_1933_25.jpg
Personally, I would not place a bid on this plate.
Howard
From Fraud Alert Update: Guide to Identifying Authentic Versus Reproduced Long Island Motor Parkway and Roosevelt Field Porcelain Plates
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