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From Art Kleiner:
At the request of Al Velocci, I’m posting some Hagstrom maps adding to his comments. First is 1939, second is 1946 and the third is 1954. The 1954 map shows I.U. Willets Road as the northern border of the Link Golf Course, continuing west past the Northern State and New Hyde Park Road and meeting Power House Road (notice it missing “Old). Does this clear things up or make it more confusing!
From Mystery Foto #24 Solved: A 1952 Aerial View of Lake Success
From Art Kleiner - Thanks Al - as a previous LIRR commuter to Penn Station, sounds like the amount of time they’ve been talking about an east side terminal! Except in my case it was getting people on and off Long Island.
From Kleiner's Korner: The 1938 Regional Plan Association Update
The freight tunnel from Greenville (Jersey City) to Bay Ridge was proposed way back then? Needless to say, it was never built. They’re still talking about building it! Lack of the tunnel is part of the reason that it’s so expensive getting goods on and off Long Island.
From Kleiner's Korner: The 1938 Regional Plan Association Update
Thanks Art! The recipe will be helpful if I can’t find this at CVS. : )
From Mystery Foto #24 Solved: A 1952 Aerial View of Lake Success
Sam, I. U. Willets Road dates back to 1870. The first section built, about four miles long, was from the Old Westbury Post Office westward to Herricks area. I’m thinking to Shelter Rock Rd because at the time Issac had a farm in that area. Confusing the issue is that Shelter Rock Rd. at the time, was also called Old Court House Rd. It appears I. U. Willets Rd. was named after him as he was a strong proponent of more and better roads.
From Mystery Foto #24 Solved: A 1952 Aerial View of Lake Success
From Art Kleiner:
Brian, thanks for the enlargement - we’re getting a bit off topic but here’s some final info. on Garfield’s Tea Syrup which was on the sign post.
From Mystery Foto #24 Solved: A 1952 Aerial View of Lake Success
Ditto to all the above. Sad to see people are pushing garbage for profit. This is nothing new.
Brian D, that would be interesting to see
From Fraud Alert Update: Guide to Identifying Authentic Versus Reproduced Long Island Motor Parkway and Roosevelt Field Porcelain Plates
The font on the #20 is wrong. The authentic number #25 plate from 1935 uses the font copperplate.
From Fraud Alert Update: Guide to Identifying Authentic Versus Reproduced Long Island Motor Parkway and Roosevelt Field Porcelain Plates
Re IUW/Bates, I have just spent an inordinate amount of time looking for documentation I simply could not find; I documented the entire stretch of the N. Service Road/Fairway Drive/Horace Harding Boulevard/Bates Road east to west some 20 years ago. DING! As I started writing this, it hit me - it’s *NOT* LIMP related at all but, rather, on my NYC Odd Streets page, <http://sbiii.com/oddstrts.html#nassblvd>, and it was on 16 May 2002. It follows the N. Svce. Rd. west past HH Blvd./(yet another)Nassau Blvd. to HH Expressway w/b just west of Little Neck Pkwy. What a tangle of roadnames at the county line! I’m appending my map of all this herewith. Sam, III
From Mystery Foto #24 Solved: A 1952 Aerial View of Lake Success
My thoughts are the same as Brian above. There’s probably other clues to know a real or fake plate. I read Al’s article from 20 yrs ago in the Long Island Forum. Wonder if anyone has the ‘disc plates w/ 2 mounting holes’?
From Fraud Alert Update: Guide to Identifying Authentic Versus Reproduced Long Island Motor Parkway and Roosevelt Field Porcelain Plates
I agree with Brian C. on the fronts but can’t speak to the rears w/o seeing a known real one. My instant feeling was because the left or “new” ones show no wear around the grommet heads whereas all “old”’ ones (or, at the very least, original ones that were mounted) do. Sam, III
From Fraud Alert Update: Guide to Identifying Authentic Versus Reproduced Long Island Motor Parkway and Roosevelt Field Porcelain Plates
In both cases I think the right one is the original. The difference being the “rounded” mounting grommet on the rear vs the “cut” grommet on the left side plates.
From Fraud Alert Update: Guide to Identifying Authentic Versus Reproduced Long Island Motor Parkway and Roosevelt Field Porcelain Plates
Re: I. U. Willets Rd. Today the western terminus of I.U. Willets Rd. butts up against the south side on the Northern State Parkway west of the Buckley School complex beyond several residences. Prior to the building of the Northern State Parkway the western terminus was at today’s North Service Rd. of the LIE. Over the years maps have that roadway as the Old Westbury Rd., Powerhouse Rd. Nassau Blvd. Horace Harding Blvd. extension, Rte 25D, and even as I.U. Willets Rd. Take your choice. Hollow Road, between the South Service Rd. of the LIE and New Hyde Park Rd., was I. U. Willets Rd. pre LIE. Up until a couple of years ago, I. U. Willets Rd existed east of New Hyde Park Rd. on the north side of the north exit of west bound traffic of the Northern State Pky. It led to the Manhasset Lakeville Water District complex and to a residence beyond. There was even a street sign with that designation. It all disappeared with the construction of the condos and the office building. Prior to the construction of the LIE in that area, New Hyde Park Rd ended at I. U. Willets Rd. In those days, before Northern State Parkway was widened in the early 1960’s, there was only one Northern State Parkway exit at New Hyde Park Rd. It was on the south side of the Parkway and west of New Hyde Park and dumped you out onto I.U. Willets Rd. today’s Hollow Rd. I’ve been told that originally it was to be called just Willets Rd. but some felt it would be confused with Willis Ave. hence the adding of the intials.
From Mystery Foto #24 Solved: A 1952 Aerial View of Lake Success
Bridge was about 300 yards east of the Great Neck toll.
From Kleiner's Korner: The 1938 Regional Plan Association Update
This may help, Art.
From Mystery Foto #24 Solved: A 1952 Aerial View of Lake Success
Or, next
From Mystery Foto #24 Solved: A 1952 Aerial View of Lake Success
Resending again.
From Mystery Foto #24 Solved: A 1952 Aerial View of Lake Success
Art, also the Lake Success pole photo is looking approximately North or Northwest based on the pole’s shadow. Two possible locations on old I.U. Willets Road in Lake Success below.
From Mystery Foto #24 Solved: A 1952 Aerial View of Lake Success
From Art Kleiner:
Thanks Frank - good leads to do more research on.
From Mystery Foto #24 Solved: A 1952 Aerial View of Lake Success
From Art Kleiner:
Thanks, Gary!
From Kleiner's Korner: The 1938 Regional Plan Association Update
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