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From Mystery Foto #41 Solved: A 1938 View of the Queens Motor Parkway Bike Path Looking West from Bell Boulevard

Location & Orientation - I have 3 answers. A - ( most likely ) The photographer was on the LIMP, viewing West. He or she was between Wheeler Bridge 2 & Grand Central Pkwy. B - ( likely ) On the LIMP, viewing East. Between Wheeler Bridge 1 & Grand Central Pkwy. C - ( least likely ) On the LIMP, viewing South in Bethpage State Park. Between Botto Farmway Bridge & Transmission Tower ROW. Perhaps this section was to become a bike path soon after the pkwy closing as this was done in Queens? We all know that most of this section is now part of the trail today. We all see the ‘crossway’? where the new painted lanes stop. Guess they continued to paint new lanes ahead? Was this something that was done, but not continued when fading?. I don’t recall the Queens section having these type of lanes today.

Date of Photo - roadway looks in fairly good condition. I’ll say 1955 based on images in 1940 and 1970.

From Mystery Foto #41 Solved: A 1938 View of the Queens Motor Parkway Bike Path Looking West from Bell Boulevard

Al Prete, You might have better luck finding a chain drive schematic if you consider looking at trucks. The Mack Truck Co. offered a chain drive option as later as1946.

From Automobile Quarterly: The Mighty Alco- A History by Beverly Rae Kimes

Queens bikeway when first opened or when just repaired and restriped.  ???  Sam, III

From Mystery Foto #41 Solved: A 1938 View of the Queens Motor Parkway Bike Path Looking West from Bell Boulevard

Just in case readers don’t know the Boeing 314, the Yankee Clipper was only one of twelve 314s built.  They were gigantic, dwarfing the B-17 Flying Fortress, using the wings of the huge Boeing XB-15 with far more powerful engines.  When land planes could finally cross oceans commercially, flying boats were doomed.  Somewhere, I have an 8mm color film clip supposedly of a 314 taking off at Port; gotta find it and send it to HK to post for all to see.  Sam, III

From Newsday: Soaring Success In 1939, Port Washington's Place in Aviation History Took Off

Wow!  Missed this one.  Love the letter to Tante; weird!  OK, I’ll bite - where are the “chassis drawings of the Alco six”?  As to what they did best, the later WWII-era Union Pacific Big Boy locomotive may well be the most famous ALCo (or any) loco of all time, with several surviving and one (#4014, attached) restored and running again!  Sam, III

From Automobile Quarterly: The Mighty Alco- A History by Beverly Rae Kimes

I’m fascinated by chain-drive automobiles, but have never seen a schematic of one. Is that a transaxle under the seats? Was that the norm for chain-drive?

I have downloaded the PowerPoint so I can read it later. My old eyes can’t read it off the website.

From Automobile Quarterly: The Mighty Alco- A History by Beverly Rae Kimes

Always such interesting history on your website. I think, in a way, Campbell’s switch from unlucky 13 to an “X” could have signified the Roman numeral ten.

From The Mansion House in Roslyn, the 1905 Headquarters for the "X" Mercedes

Thank you for all you do to preserve the history of Long Island. It appears that every generation keeps forgetting how great Long Island was and is.

From Newsday: Ready for HIS STORY

Bethpage Bicycle Path. East side of the Bethpage State Park in 2013 they extended the Bicycle path.

From Mystery Foto #41 Solved: A 1938 View of the Queens Motor Parkway Bike Path Looking West from Bell Boulevard

Put me down for a subscription as well.  Cant wait to see it.

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Not much to go on - but here’s two gueses:
1) Great Neck schools property before turning right over the Northern State
2) Bethpage State Park

From Mystery Foto #41 Solved: A 1938 View of the Queens Motor Parkway Bike Path Looking West from Bell Boulevard

The automobile Quarterly, Second Quarterly 1973, Volume XI, Number 2. I have it.

From Automobile Quarterly: The Mighty Alco- A History by Beverly Rae Kimes

This is during early Motor Pkwy closure on Rt 67, about 1943. Looking forward to this week’s answers

From Mystery Foto #41 Solved: A 1938 View of the Queens Motor Parkway Bike Path Looking West from Bell Boulevard

This mystery had me struggling. It’s not a bicycle path in Queens, it’s a car path with well defined lines, missing the yellow center line defining two-way traffic (Queens bike path had a single center white line). Exhausted, my best guess is somewhere in Suffolk on Rt 67. Orientation? Forgetaboutit, there’s no shadow to determine anything. Very difficult. Super High-Five who guesses this. I’ll be back for closer examination

Top photo:  Cyclists struggling the 8% grade under GCP in Queens, 1940.

Great Motor Parkway Foto Howard!

From Mystery Foto #41 Solved: A 1938 View of the Queens Motor Parkway Bike Path Looking West from Bell Boulevard

Thanks for noting the hydrant, Frank.  Speaking of typos, note the “BYCYCLE ENCLOSURE”!  Was one to bicycle by cycle by the enclosure?  Sam, III

From Updated: Mystery Foto #40 Solved: A Historic 1938 Ground-Level View of the Western Terminus in Fresh Meadows

Another typo?  Queens T*o*pographical Bureau, more likely.  :·)  Sam, III

From Updated: Mystery Foto #40 Solved: A Historic 1938 Ground-Level View of the Western Terminus in Fresh Meadows

Why the name change from Nassau Blvd. to Horace Harding Blvd ?  That story goes back to 1923. That year J. Horace Harding, a NYC banker, headed up a group that donated money to fund a study by the Queens Typographical Bureau to extend Nassau Blvd. to the Nassau County line. In 1924 NYC began the process to make that happen and by 1928 the Motor Parkway was able to access Nassau Blvd. Harding died Jan 4, 1929. In April that year the City Council passed a resolution renaming the road after him since his was the prime reason for it’s being. Today the Queens portion of Route 495 is called the Horace Harding Expressway.

From Updated: Mystery Foto #40 Solved: A Historic 1938 Ground-Level View of the Western Terminus in Fresh Meadows

Let’s take a poll.  Did anyone else notice the URL and e-mail typo “a_long_island_swimming_poll”?  We could pool our answers!  Mean, ain’t I?  Hey - “weird bird-winged plane”.  Semi-elliptical low-winged monoplanes were quite rare.  Could that be the Seversky AP-7 racer, like the DS (Doolittle Special), based on the P-35, powered by a Pratt & Whitney 1,200 hp R-1830 Twin Wasp engine, and flown by Jackie Cochran when she won the 1938 Bendix Trophy race, setting a women’s air speed record?  More nostalgia, too - Hardie Gramatky is exceptionally dear to my heart; he wrote and illustrated “Little Toot” (the indomitable little tugboat)!  Sam, III

From Mystery Foto #39 Solved: The Long Island Aviation Country Club (Circa 1940-1945)

Eagle-eyed Art, I believe you are correct! Westbury Rd and trolley overpass, and Jericho Tpke underpass by the Mineola Lodge. The LIRR bridge is covered by trees. 1937, one year before closing.

From Mystery Foto #39 Solved: The Long Island Aviation Country Club (Circa 1940-1945)