Vanderbilt Cup Races

Awesome! Congrats Howard! Very well deserved!

From Howard Kroplick named to Wharton Graduate Emeritus Society's Honor Roll for his non-profit activities

Congrats Howard, UPenn scholar!

From Howard Kroplick named to Wharton Graduate Emeritus Society's Honor Roll for his non-profit activities

John, so sorry that you had a bad experience with this replica. Happy holidays to the entire Tucker family! Howard

From Tucker 48 replica movie prop car sells for $100,000

My .02 on the possible location. My thought is the Meadowbrook bridge looking North. The telephone poles for me match in all angles and heights and locations. Some of my other observations are the fence for the property and the roofline of the house. There is fencing in the race photos and I drew a crude line on the mystery photo and what I think matches the 1926 aerial. While the resolution is tough, It appears that the roofline could be a match by the peaks pointed to in the 2 photos.

From Mystery Foto #50 Solved: William K. Vanderbilt, Jr. on the Long Island Motor Parkway

Garden City Lodge. Mar. 13, 1989. The lodge was being relocated from its original location off Clinton Road to its new location at 230 Seventh Street, where it is the headquarters of the Garden City Chamber of Commerce.

Looks like Franklin Avenue, because it’s a busy, multilane, undivided highway. If the lodge took the shortest route, the photographer is facing south.

Irony of the location? No clue.

From Mystery Foto #51 Solved: The Garden City Lodge on the move on March 11, 1989

-Identify the Motor Parkway Lodge

Garden City Lodge

-What was the date of the Mystery Foto?

March 19, 1989

-Where was the lodge headed?

It’s new home as the Garden City Chamber of Commerce at 230 7th St.

-Identify the exact location of the photo and orientation of the photographer.

Standing on the corner of Old Country Road and Laurel Street across from the Eagle Rock apartments looking west down OCR.

-What is ironic about this location?

A LIMP lodge traveling down Old Country Road which was labeled as the route to the grandstands for the 1906 Vanderbilt Cup Race map, and just about the exact spot where the Old Country Road LIMP bridge are both pretty ironic!

From Mystery Foto #51 Solved: The Garden City Lodge on the move on March 11, 1989

Garden City Lodge.  If I remember, it was about March 1989.

From Mystery Foto #51 Solved: The Garden City Lodge on the move on March 11, 1989

I think it’s the Garden City lodge located on Clinton Rd.It was moved 3/19/1989 to its new location on 7th street in Garden City. The lodge is headed west pass the Fairhaven Apartments on Old County Rd. It ironically crosses path of the Motor Parkway and Old County Rd in Mineola now called Vanderbilt Drive N.

From Mystery Foto #51 Solved: The Garden City Lodge on the move on March 11, 1989

This replicas story leaves a bad taste in my mouth. we donated that car once thinking thats where it would stay and the present directors sold it against our wishes. I worked hard to make that museum a success and now its a joke. Preston, my father, Frank Tucker and many others were let down by this sale. Ypsilanti’s Automotive Heritage is the loser here. Eric and Ron are no friends of this Tucker.

From Tucker 48 replica movie prop car sells for $100,000

Now you’ve got me going!  We identify gnat’s eyebrows.  If the “large building” was still there in 1950, SOMEONE must know what it was.  Sam, III

From Mystery Foto #50 Solved: William K. Vanderbilt, Jr. on the Long Island Motor Parkway

It’s at $16,000 with one day to go. I’ll say $20,000. It can’t be worth more than that.

From Tucker 48 replica movie prop car sells for $100,000

Pretty sure you nailed this one, Al.

From Mystery Foto #50 Solved: William K. Vanderbilt, Jr. on the Long Island Motor Parkway

Frank, This might help. Note that the guard rail on the driver side in the mystery photo is curved at the end while on the passenger side the guardrail is straight and extends past the opposite curved rail.  In the accompanying photos of the Bellmore/Westbury bridge area, both guard rails east of the bridge are curved and of the same length while in the photos of the race cars on the northside the Central Ave./Central RR.. bridge, the guard rails are straighter and the one on the vehicle passenger side is longer….just like in the mystery photo.

From Mystery Foto #50 Solved: William K. Vanderbilt, Jr. on the Long Island Motor Parkway

Al, I’m keeping all options open and still consider the Central Ave bridge in Bethpage a prime candidate. Tricky mystery.

From Mystery Foto #50 Solved: William K. Vanderbilt, Jr. on the Long Island Motor Parkway

Almost convinced the mystery photo is near the Ladenburgh estate looking NW. Attempting to locate the structure that is west of the estate and north of the Motor Parkway. Top photo below shows 1908 Merrick Ave/ Bridge looking north from the parkway. The avenue here appears free of any structures.
Bottom photo shows the Salisbury Plains looking east from the Merrick Ave bridge in 1909. I spotted three objects in the field (Eisenhower Park) but they’re difficult to make out, even after enhancing the photos.

From Mystery Foto #50 Solved: William K. Vanderbilt, Jr. on the Long Island Motor Parkway

Howard, My first inclination was that we were looking north west from the Westbury-Bellmore bridge and the large building in the distance was the Ladenberg estate. After looking at the aerial of Central Park area,  I now am of the opinion we are looking north west from just north of the bridge over the Central Ave./Central RR. and the large building in the distance is a hotel located on the east side of Broadway just south of Powell Ave. (Central Park Hotel ? )

From Mystery Foto #50 Solved: William K. Vanderbilt, Jr. on the Long Island Motor Parkway

My first thoughts were the LIMP bridges over Central Ave & LIRR and Newbridge Rd. Couldn’t think of anything Historic happening near the Stymus Property, and like Greg said, that’s not the Newbridge Hotel. There’s a split rail fence on the right parallel with the pole line. Figured the other pole line is running along Newbridge Ave,which becomes Post Ave to the north.

From Mystery Foto #50 Solved: William K. Vanderbilt, Jr. on the Long Island Motor Parkway

Great observations! Agreed it’s the Meadow Brook bridge over Newbridge Ave looking NW. The two sets of telephone poles and guardrails flaring at the end should nail it. The guardrails north of the Central Ave bridge ended straight (photos below). The right most telephone pole is on the Motor Parkway RoW outside Ladenburgh’s property fence. The mystery structure west of the Ladenburgh’s estate was likely located on Merrick Ave.

From Mystery Foto #50 Solved: William K. Vanderbilt, Jr. on the Long Island Motor Parkway

This could be Willie K in Levittown heading home on his Motor Parkway towards Deepdale, after testing out the speedster with passenger resembling Louis Chevrolet. They’re descending from the Old Westbury Rd bridge. Photo looking about SE. I believe that’s the CRR branch alongside the Motor Parkway. The year is about 1908. Another great historic shot during early Long Island development.

From Mystery Foto #50 Solved: William K. Vanderbilt, Jr. on the Long Island Motor Parkway

“Height: Tall”?

From Helck Family Collection: Distinguished service citation for Joe Tracy awarded by Automobile Old Timers in 1948