Vanderbilt Cup Races

LI Aviation Country Club, looking east.  LP is out of sight at right.  All other details answered back on 11 Apr 2016 Mystery Foto #15 (among others).  That plane, though, has me stumped!  Trike gear, high wing, and twin tail?  Help!  Sam, III

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

Richard C.

we gotta preserve as much of history as we can..
shame on garden city - ????????

From Update: A Proposal to the Village of Garden City To Restore the Motor Parkway Concrete Posts Near Their Parking Lot

It is the Long Island aviation club out side of Hicksville near Levittown.

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

I have just the car on base portion only. I was told that my piece was used to create cars by Clarence Young.

From Tucker Discovery: Original Tucker Ash Tray Sets from Their Manufacturer and Their Tooling Molds

Wait to til they realize the real property value enhancement would have been a heritage park deducted to the history of the Motor Parkway and not… a rarely used parking lot.

From Update: A Proposal to the Village of Garden City To Restore the Motor Parkway Concrete Posts Near Their Parking Lot

One more photo showing a plane and an auto.
Aero Digest, Dec., 1929

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

Long Island Aviation Country Club, Hicksville (Levittown now) looking east.  The club was located on the north side of The Motor Parkway which also was used for the Vanderbilt Cup Races.
Charles Lindbergh and his wife, Anne Morrow Lindbergh among many others!
1937 - similar to the attached photo from Life Magazine of Aug. 16, 1937

First pic - Life Magazine
Second pic - Hans Groenhoff Photo Collection National Air & Space Museum
Third pic - Nassau County Tax Assessor

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

It’s terrible the way they lie.They told you one thing I did another. That’s very wrong. ????

From Update: A Proposal to the Village of Garden City To Restore the Motor Parkway Concrete Posts Near Their Parking Lot

Long Island Aviation Club in Hicksville in 1949.

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

Most interesting. Maybe resin copies could be made to support future Tucker research.

From Tucker Discovery: Original Tucker Ash Tray Sets from Their Manufacturer and Their Tooling Molds

Pool at the Long Island Aviation Country Club In Levittown looking east.  Right across the parkway from the grandstands and the pits for the cup races.  Jerusalem Ave bridge would be just off past the hangars in the distance.  Charles Lindbergh was a member and taught his wife to fly here.  Early 1940’s on account of the color photograph and the aged landscape?

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

It is not totally unexpected, but is still a wonder how important history can be so so important when presented for a photo opportunity for elected officials or those seeking office around election time. They then become “preservationists” and recognize the ‘importance” of local history that is unique to an area. Short memories prevail ...........keep that in mind the next time that there is a rally or a campaign fund raiser - ask a question “why did you destroy/erase history?” Write letters to newspapers to alert the general public to what has happened. Garden City annually has an Easter parade of old vehicles - question why?? , when most of the time they ignore or bury history. The only justice is to make known what has been done to point out what was/wasn’t important. If you don’t then you can not regret what has been lost.

From Update: A Proposal to the Village of Garden City To Restore the Motor Parkway Concrete Posts Near Their Parking Lot

This is exciting news. I’ve bike ridden this path with kids numerous times this summer and yes, it needs work. The steep slopes (9% at times) are dangerous for inexperienced kids to travel on these bumpy roads. Glad to hear it’s being paved over

From Queens Motor Parkway Renovation Update: Oldest road in country to be as good as new

0.31 miles of Motor Parkway stretch remaining in GC, but now with a parking lot in the center interrupting flow. Likely Roosevelt Field mall development began the parkway desecration many years ago. Same happened recently in Levittown with housing, with its slightly longer 0.85 stretch. Seems these short stretches today don’t stand a chance against eminent domain, decisions that no doubt will be regretted later

From Update: A Proposal to the Village of Garden City To Restore the Motor Parkway Concrete Posts Near Their Parking Lot

Just north of LIMP in Levittown.

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

We are looking east at the L.I. Aviation Country Club in Hicksville at the time but now Levittown. The property shared a border with the Long Island Motor Parkway a few feet to the right of the photo. The LIMP was part of the course for the 1908, 1909 and 1910 V C Races. Among the many famous members of the club were Charles Linbergh, Leroy Grumman, Chance Vought, Walter Beech, Sherman Fairchild and Jackie Cochran. The plane is a General Aircraft G1-80 “Skyfarer” which had its maiden flight in 1940. There was a “Family Day” or “Industry Day” at the club on June 30, 1940 so I wouldn’t be surprised if the photo dates from around then.

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

  9/25/2002 Mystery Photo Details:
    The location is what Levittown is today and the photographer is standing on the east side of pool looking west(erly).  The LIMP borders it on its north side. There is
tons of writings and photographs that give the complete story of its history in time
leading and up to the building of Levittown.
                        Best To ALL,  Ron
                              .

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

Aviation Country Club swimming pool

Hicksville/ Levittown

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

A photo we’ve seen before! Not as a mystery photo, but as part of an answer to a mystery photo I submitted back in 2013!
https://www.vanderbiltcupraces.com/blog/article/mystery_foto_friday_29_can_you_identify_thsi_section_of_the_motor_parkway

Long Island Aviation Club looking East. Located just off the Motor Parkway, which would be to the photographers right in the photo. Cup races grandstand location was a few hundred feet away.
As per VCR.com,  https://www.vanderbiltcupraces.com/blog/article/the_1940_membership_of_the_long_island_aviation_club
prominent members were; 
-Vanderbilt Cup1940 Membership List of the Long Island Aviation Club
Walter Beech- who began Beechcraft Aviation - still fabulous airplanes.
Wallis C. Bird
Jacqueline Cochran- First woman to fly a bomber across the Atlantic Ocean leading to the formation Women’s Air Force Service Pilots (WASPs)
Powel Crosley, Jr. - of Crosley Radio (nearly everyone’s radios in this time period were Crosley’s and he innovated radios in cars) and owner of Cincinnati Reds
Four members of the Du Pont family: Louisa Carpenter, Felix Du Pont Jr. and his wife, and Richard Du Pont. Felix and Richard were both pilots and went on to found Allegheny Airways which became U.S. Air.
Sherman Fairchild
Marshall Field III - heir to Marshall Fields, founder of “Chicago Sun” newspaper, owned Simon & Schuster Publishing for a time
Robert L. Gardiner
L. R. Grumman - founder of Grumman Aviation - terrific planes and today Northrop-Grumman
Roger Wolfe Kahn-  Jazz musician and son of Otto Kahn
Col. Charles Lindbergh
William L. Mitchell- Vice-President,Design for General Motors
Henry S. Morgan - son of J.P. Morgan and founder of Morgan-Stanley
Elmer A. Sperry, Jr.- the son of inventor Elmer Sperry
Cornelius Vanderbilt Whitney
Gar Wood - inventor and championship motorboat builder
My guess on the date is sometime around 1940.

Research to ID the plane this weekend….

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

Great that you kept the scrapbooks from ‘69!

From Kleiner's Korner: My Personal Tribute to Tom Seaver