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1941 Chevy Coupe

From Mystery Auto #2: 1941 Chevy Special Deluxe Coupe Parked In Front of the Roslyn Mill Tea House

This home is on Green Dr Searingtown. I never visited this remnant of the LIMP, but wished that I have because of the newer homes along Old Homestead. Connection between the Swamp & St George Lake is very clear on the 1950 map. Appears the LIMP ROW was able to stay clear of the swamp?

From Mystery Foto #47 Solved: A House Built on the Long Island Motor Parkway Right-Of-Way

The car is a 1941 Chevrolet Special Deluxe coupe, however base on the condition of the car it appears the photo was taken post war time period, 1950s?

From Mystery Auto #2: 1941 Chevy Special Deluxe Coupe Parked In Front of the Roslyn Mill Tea House

Hmm not sure Al. On the top photo there are boundary posts that appear close to 50ft width if the roadway is only 16. The bottom shows no posts indicating a wider RoW width. I’m assuming the LIMP RoW was more than 50ft north of OCR.

From Mystery Friday Foto #45 Still Open for Discussion: A Motor Parkway Bridge Built on a Curve

Al - I meant both sides of the climb on the North Hempstead Turnpike (HA!) up out of Roslyn.  Seems to me the west side is steeper but I’m not about the check my topo maps.  Ditto Spinney Hill.  From my Automotive page <http://sbiii.com/automotv.html>, “A Dr. Doehm, a veterinarian in Roslyn, Long Island, drove a Franklin as his every-day car well into the ‘60s or ‘70s; his favorite trick was to start the car cold and drive it directly up the Northern Boulevard (25A) hill (very long and steep) in top gear without even warming it up or shifting down, which the car did without even hesitating!”  Dr. D.‘s place was at the base of the hill on Bryant Ave. (#55?) opposite the westbound on/off ramp from 25A.  He drove ONLY air-cooled Franklins.  Of course, his later cars were from the 20’s and 30’s.  We really should have an indexed archive for all this stuff!  Sam, III

From Mystery Friday Foto #45 Still Open for Discussion: A Motor Parkway Bridge Built on a Curve

Frank,  Note that in the top photo the embankment walls are extended and angled outward. The Parkway could not do that on the south side of OCR because the overall width or the Parkway ROW was only 50 feet wide.

From Mystery Friday Foto #45 Still Open for Discussion: A Motor Parkway Bridge Built on a Curve

Al - I noticed in the first photo Robertson positioned the camera at ground level, attempting to include the horizon under the OCR bridge on the other side. I had a similar issue recently when photographing a RR trestle that also had a dip underneath. Robertson barely cleared it, and fortunately was able to include most of the Mineola RR bridge with its steep incline to the north. In the second photo the camera was held normally and cleared the horizon without a hitch, likely indicating a higher elevation on the south side than in the north.

Sam - Interesting how the Model T was a better hill climber in reverse gear. Guessing it was due to the gear ratio.

From Mystery Friday Foto #45 Still Open for Discussion: A Motor Parkway Bridge Built on a Curve

Love the image of the pedestrian underpass, sections of the stadium that rarely get captured in race photos

From Mystery Racers: The 1914 Indy 500 Race

Sam, Your mention of the Roslyn grade, I assume your referring to Northern Blvd on the east side of the Roslyn Viaduct. If so, I recall at least one newspaper article describing how some early Fords could only make the grade by backing up the hill.  Today the grade elevation is much lower than it was originally, we now go under the railroad crossing, at one time that section of Northern Blvd had a steeper angle and was a level grade crossing with the railroad.

From Mystery Friday Foto #45 Still Open for Discussion: A Motor Parkway Bridge Built on a Curve

Sorry.  Too easy for me.  63 Greene Drive.  Rosyln.
We are looking at the westbound LIMP, a couple of hundred yards west of Old Searingtown Rd.  My brother first found this in the summer of 1975, when I was 9 years old.  The house is still there.  It was built about 1960.  This area of the LIMP survived until 1995.

From Mystery Foto #47 Solved: A House Built on the Long Island Motor Parkway Right-Of-Way

Go it Brian!  Great pics.    Thanks.

From Kleiner's Korner: Removal of the (Old) Westbury Road Motor Parkway Bridge in East Meadow

That section is from NHP rd on the west to Searingtown rd on the east. the northern part by IU Willets rd.

From Mystery Foto #47 Solved: A House Built on the Long Island Motor Parkway Right-Of-Way

Nice job, Art. Thought to post the below 2 images from a past blog. Once you see them it’ll be understood.

From Kleiner's Korner: Removal of the (Old) Westbury Road Motor Parkway Bridge in East Meadow

Have you screened Ford v Ferrari yet? I think you’d love it!
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Howard Kroplick

Maybe this weekend!

From The Day We Met Carroll Shelby

Even the least width of the roadways doubled the LIMP. My driveway is 20 ft wide and 2 vans can comfortably park side by side. Toll cost was lower for the LIMP at this time period, too. Still had to be the best route until the State Pkwys took over.

From 1927 Map Showing the Long Island Motor Parkway and Proposed Highways & Parkways East of Queens

I love the hand lettering! It’s very much a lost art these days.

From 1927 Map Showing the Long Island Motor Parkway and Proposed Highways & Parkways East of Queens

Al Prete - I agree with all the above. You are correct.

From Kleiner's Korner: Removal of the (Old) Westbury Road Motor Parkway Bridge in East Meadow

Hate to disagree but most cars that ran the LIMP probably had little trouble on those grades.  Cars back then went up and down the Roslyn and Spinney Hill grades, as well as in and out of Port Jeff., routinely.  Ditto the climb from the Hudson up to Broadway in northern Manhattan and similarly in Yonkers and Croton and across the river in Nyack.  There was a hill on today’s Rte. 17 over the Catskills where Model Ts had to back up to summit but nothing near like that on LI.  Any documentation to prove either thesis?  Sam, III

From Mystery Friday Foto #45 Still Open for Discussion: A Motor Parkway Bridge Built on a Curve

Hi Al,  based on a conversation Howard and I had, I believe you may be right.  Thanks.

From Kleiner's Korner: Removal of the (Old) Westbury Road Motor Parkway Bridge in East Meadow

So the stretch of the Motor Parkway from where it turns SE (E of Carman Avenue) to where it turns E again ran parallel to Old Westbury Road, and just south of it. Based on modern maps, it appears that this stretch of Salisbury Park Drive came from Old Westbury Road, and not from the Motor Parkway. Where the Motor Parkway was is now occupied by baseball fields and the Knolls residential community. Or am I off base?

From Kleiner's Korner: Removal of the (Old) Westbury Road Motor Parkway Bridge in East Meadow