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Brian, Patrick’s father Jerry Ahern had a company that sold construction equipment. I knew Jerry as we both dealt with the same construction firms. I seem to recall he was a Caterpillar dealer.

From Updated: From a Family Photo Album: The Central Avenue/LIRR Motor Parkway Bridge

Hi Howard:
Great show at the Bridge, we loved being there. Our Volga was placed at the other side of the field, by the art show. But Tucker had the greatest spot and it look magnificent.

From Highlights From The Bridge IV: 1948 Tucker 1044

Interesting. The auto driving along the LIMP has the steering wheel on the driver’s right hand side while the cabs’ in the Kudos photo are on the left. Were early autos not standardized or was there a switch at a certain time that made the left side the standard in the US?

From Update: Mystery Foto #37 Solved: The Bethpage Lodge Under Construction in September 1908

Looks like the Bethpage Lodge at Round Swamp Road under costruction about 1908 looking east.  The bridge had not yet been built (1910)!so the roadway in front of the lodge is still flat and showing no elevation.  The Auto looks like the official photographer’s Buick.
The sign looks to be on Round Swamp Road.

From Update: Mystery Foto #37 Solved: The Bethpage Lodge Under Construction in September 1908

Mystery photo #37
This is the Bethpage Lodge under construction in 1908, looking east, even though the bridge over Round Swamp Rd. has yet to be built.  The tree line in the background proves it couldn’t be Massapequa Lodge.  The “For Sale” sign was by Round Swamp Rd.  I then checked the VCR Blog of 3/13/2017 which shows this photo with the date of September of 1908. 
Mystery bonus photo
This is a Willys Knight 7-passenger Limousine.  Based on the ads of the RVC Yellow Taxi / Cab Co. probably a 1923 Model 67.  The first ad mentioning all new heated cars was November 1923, and the company was sold in 1928.  This postcard also proves how mistaken we can be in assuming colors based on a B&W photo.  Close examination of the postcard view versus the ad shows the subtle differences which were at first not noticed.

From Update: Mystery Foto #37 Solved: The Bethpage Lodge Under Construction in September 1908

Brings a tear—-Bill at Foxland in the morning —-on his drums….before we would head to 75 E. 77th street School..and have so much fun along the way each day —later, always by end of day,— detention!  Mr. Lenard outside tapping his toe…but..smiling!  A heart is 360 degrees—and Bill has a bunch of it!

From From the Grace Holloway Family Album: Photos of the Old Westbury Home Built by Driver Foxhall Keene

Art Kleiner has added a news clipping about the removal of the bridge.

From Updated: From a Family Photo Album: The Central Avenue/LIRR Motor Parkway Bridge

I believe the kudos photo are the first early 1920’s models of taxis made by the Yellow Cab Manufacturing company.

From Update: Mystery Foto #37 Solved: The Bethpage Lodge Under Construction in September 1908

In honor of Bill and grandaddy i donated Grace line objects to the Wolfsonian in Miami ..Picture of Bill there… article Amazing grace by the chief!

From From the Grace Holloway Family Album: Photos of the Old Westbury Home Built by Driver Foxhall Keene

David please send me your phone and address i will be happy to send you photos of Bill

From From the Grace Holloway Family Album: Photos of the Old Westbury Home Built by Driver Foxhall Keene

Identify the Mystery Foto location, the lodge and orientation of the photographer.
On the LIMP looking East at Round Swamp Rd in Bethpage, next to the Bethpage lodge.

What was the approximate date of the Foto? Provide a rationale.
Bethpage Lodge under construction. September 1908

Identify the automobile and its owner
Buick, owned by the photographer of the photo, his assistant in the driver’s seat.

The “For Sale” sign behind the automobile was located on what road?
Round Swamp Rd

See the special below Kudos Foto.
...this one needs further investigation! Let’s see what we come up with over the weekend!

From Update: Mystery Foto #37 Solved: The Bethpage Lodge Under Construction in September 1908

Looks like Bethpage to me.

From Update: Mystery Foto #37 Solved: The Bethpage Lodge Under Construction in September 1908

GREAT detailed photos of the longest Motor Parkway bridge. The black drill by the embankment also captured the surrounding views, feeling like you’re actually standing there on the corner by Old Central Ave. Amazing capture in such a narrow field. The dilapidated LIMP roadway above likely the reason for the bridge’s removal. I only wish the LIMPPS were around then to help preserve it. We could’ve painted it, cleaned around it, and immortalize this structure as proper. Thank you Patrick for sharing these long lost gems!

From Updated: From a Family Photo Album: The Central Avenue/LIRR Motor Parkway Bridge

Pat Ahern has dated his father’s photos.

From Updated: From a Family Photo Album: The Central Avenue/LIRR Motor Parkway Bridge

So glad Roslyn HS students will benefit from Mackay’s inspirational Marly Horse! Adding to Hollywood stars pictured with Marly Horse sculptures at Universal Studios, I’ve attached a portrait of a special ‘star,’ the sculptor of the Marly Horses – Guillaume Cousteau the Elder (1677-1746) painted in 1730 and seen in Devereux Emmet’s Head of the Harbor home in Smithtown township. His sister Lydia Field Emmet (1866-1952) may have been inspired by the maquette (model) of the head of Cousteau’s ‘Summer’ sculpture (at Marly), seen in the print, as the pose for her White House portrait (1934) of First Lady Lou Henry Hoover painted at the request of Eleanor Roosevelt. Devereux’s nephew Robert Emmet Sherwood (1896-1955) was one of the screenwriters for Hitchcock’s thriller Rebecca (1940), which featured four pivotal scenes with Cousteau’s Marly Horses. In English film director Alfred Hitchcock’s American debut, when British-American actress Joan Fontaine runs to embrace English actor Laurence Olivier, the watching Marly Horse in the main hall is recognizable as ‘France,’ a nation that someday would be liberated because of America supporting Great Britain. Four weeks after the film’s release, Sherwood was quoted, in May 1940, declaring America was a bastion of democracy, earning him a White House position as speechwriter to President Franklin Delano Roosevelt through World War II. Cousteau and Marly ‘horsepower’ made a difference as should all public sculpture. A great inspiration for Roslyn HS!

From A Motor Parkway Director's Second Horse Statue Returns to Roslyn High School

I was a roommate with Billy-Haithcock Academy-NY then on to Ct.  Lost contact with him about 5 years ago…..he would send me posts cards often from somewhere in Pa.  Growing up he was a absolutely wonderful friend….another roommate we had was Chris Crawford who sadly past on about the same time.  Would appreciate any photo’s you may have……….miss him dearly!

From From the Grace Holloway Family Album: Photos of the Old Westbury Home Built by Driver Foxhall Keene

Correction- Image with the booth & crossing gates is southwest, not southeast.

Ahern is familiar to me. When you have time Howard, could you ask Pat if he has a relative that worked for LILCO? I recall a lineman with that surname when I worked in Hicksville.  Thanks

From Updated: From a Family Photo Album: The Central Avenue/LIRR Motor Parkway Bridge

EXCELLENT!

The image with the gentleman on the bridge, camera was viewing south. Great shot, the steel tower that’s on the west side of the ROW is still there today.

The holes must be for dynamite. Pretty sure the view here is northwest. The steel tower on the opposite side of the bridge isn’t there today, but the old concrete foundation is. Dave & Sam first came upon this foundation. Frank F and I also viewed this closely and saw where the 4 tower legs were cut flush. Foundation is on the south side of the tracks, and the historical marker is a little ways left of the foundation. Here’s 2 views from the website: Southeast - crossing gates, and my Northwest guess. The homes seen should be along Revere Ave.

From Updated: From a Family Photo Album: The Central Avenue/LIRR Motor Parkway Bridge

Thank you Howard for another great ‘Horsepower’ history!! Amazing that nearly 200 years after Louis XV commissioned the Marly horses, a Long Island Motor Parkway Director also commissioned ‘horsepower’ for his Roslyn estate during the ‘horseless age’ of the auto. The Marly horse and groom image now at Roslyn HS (Mackay’s North statue) was made available to the general public by the 1940s when inexpensive tabletop metal casts appeared in movie sets during the Golden Age of Hollywood and in LI homes—like the attached ‘conversation piece’ spotted on the North Shore. Now our friends know why they liked it!
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Howard Kroplick:

Corey, you are correct! Check out this YouTube video on the Marly Horses:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ot7FVdZZZz8

From A Motor Parkway Director's Second Horse Statue Returns to Roslyn High School

I could have sworn that I sent in a comment on Mystery Foto #36, the Locomobile. Maybe my name wasn’t attached. Any way I didn’t see it in the comments.
Dick G
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Howard Kroplick

The post is MIA!

From Mystery Foto #36: A Locomobile Limo with a Vanderbilt Cup Radiator Mascot