Vanderbilt Cup Races

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

Currently on eBay. Real or fake? Seeing rust is orange on back makes me strongly believe it’s a fake.

From Fraud Alert Update: Guide to Identifying Authentic Versus Reproduced Long Island Motor Parkway and Roosevelt Field Porcelain Plates

Always fascinating to me is having the “Second” largest private residents in the United States right here on Long Island.  It’s Oheka Castle in Woodbury, built by Otto Kahn and finished in 1919.  A few things I remember hearing: it had a tunnel built to give Guests arriving at the Woodbury train station, a covered passage from the station all the way to the house.  And the property was dug away at the rear of the original foundation, and huge doors were put in to allow animals as large as elephants and giraffes to enter the basement Menagerie.

From Kleiner's Korner: Part 3: The Vanderbilt (George) Connection and the Rise of the Automobile in my New Home State - North Carolina

Looks like it was a great event.
I’m sure Mark, Sean and Mike did an amazing presentation on Tucker History and the correct restoration of # 1044.
Thanks for the story and the Pictures, wish I was there.

From "Talk with the Tuckers" sells out at the new Savoy Automobile Museum in Cartersville, Georgia

Additional article (“Southern Good Roads”, 1914) and information about George and Edith Vanderbilt’s contribution to the forestry movement in the US. 

From foresthistory.org
“The Pisgah is a gift from many people—some whose names are familiar but many whose names are not. Most have heard of George Vanderbilt, or his Biltmore Estate. His greatest gift, however, was not to himself but to the nation. He hired renowned landscape architect Frederick Law Olmsted to design Biltmore’s grounds. Creator of New York’s Central Park and other urban green spaces, Olmsted saw in this project opportunity to give back to the nation, and through Vanderbilt a way to do so. In 1890, Vanderbilt needed a forester. America needed forestry. Olmsted advised hiring a professional forester who would demonstrate to America that one could cut trees and preserve the forest at the same time.

Vanderbilt hired Gifford Pinchot, who then crafted the first-ever sustainable forest management plan in the United States. Pinchot later gave back to the country in his own way: in 1905, he established the U.S. Forest Service, providing the nation with an institution to manage its national forests and grasslands. But before leaving Vanderbilt’s employ in 1895, Pinchot did two things: he facilitated Vanderbilt’s purchase of an additional 100,000 acres, which Vanderbilt named Pisgah Forest, and he recommended hiring German forester Carl Schenck to implement his management plan.

In 1914 George Vanderbilt’s widow, Edith, sold Pisgah Forest for a fraction of its value in part to “perpetuate” the conservation legacy of her husband, and as a “contribution” to the American people. Pisgah Forest became the nucleus of the Pisgah National Forest, the first established under the Weeks Act, and Biltmore Forest School graduate Verne Rhoades became its first supervisor, in 1916.

And if you are wondering what Pisgah means:
“1808 - First surviving reference to “Mt. Pisgah,” which derives from the Hebrew word for summit and which was the biblical mountain from which Moses first saw the promised land.” (From pisgahconservancy.org)

From Kleiner's Korner: Part 3: The Vanderbilt (George) Connection and the Rise of the Automobile in my New Home State - North Carolina