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Great coverage, Dad & Son! I personally never been at this location, and heard how hard it is exploring around here. No problem for you trailblazers!

From Updated 12/7/2022: Then & Now: The Very Elusive Clody Farmway Bridge in the Melville Sand Pits

Great comparison photos. You can see that unfortunately the “Do not Pass” lettering has faded between 1981 and 2017 on the north abutment. It could be gone in another decade.

From Updated 12/7/2022: Then & Now: The Very Elusive Clody Farmway Bridge in the Melville Sand Pits

What a great job with this post.  That last picture is as real as it gets.  It looks like our parkway to me.

From Updated 12/7/2022: Then & Now: The Very Elusive Clody Farmway Bridge in the Melville Sand Pits

I’m a bit late submitting my guesses, but here are my thoughts:

I realized that the now defunct Dowling College is on the former grounds of The Idle Hour Mansion in Oakdale, but didn’t know that Dowling & Adelphi were the same. Had no clue what year this was proposed, but guessing after 1938. The athletic fields were created much earlier than I thought. On a 1947 topo map, this area is titled “Academy Athletic Field”. The field was still there on a 1951 aerial map ( NYCityMap ). Had no clue who was housing developers in the later 1950’s? What a shame that the clubhouse burnt down, it appeared to be a fine structure. And it was just E/O the Rocky Hill Rd lodge!

From Mystery Foto #52 Solved: A Plan for the Adelphi Academy Bordering on the Motor Parkway

Better late than never,Happy New Year and the best of health. Keep the memories and history going as always.

From The Top Twenty-Five 2017 Posts on VanderbiltCupRaces.com

Thanks for all you do for this hobby and special thanks for saving Chrysler’s Chrysler.

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Nice find Art. Tough mystery. The racetrack/football field was built in the late ‘30s but unlike the proposed plan it was set diagonally. It appears the facility was partially built as well. Still searching…

From Mystery Foto #52 Solved: A Plan for the Adelphi Academy Bordering on the Motor Parkway

Fascinating.  My 26 Model 243 Packard is rated in its huge straight 8 at about 84 horsepower, no idea of torque except that it should be fairly high.

From Road and Track & Jalopnik: Watch a Barn-Find Tucker Lay Numbers on a Dyno

A Great Motor Parkwayear !!!!

From The Top Twenty-Five 2017 Posts on VanderbiltCupRaces.com

Howard,
  Thank you for a wonderful year of reading and fun. Your “Open House” was an amazing event. We wish you and your family a Happy and Healthy New Year!

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wow great tucker stuff. from the looks of the heater it appears to be electric heat element,am i correct?

From Updated 1/24/2018: Profile Series: Tucker 1029 Preston Tucker's Tucker

I had documented the “Pavement Rediscovered in Albertson/Williston Park” long ago but now can’t locate same - sorry; I’ll keep looking.  No matter - this is an excellent excuse to wish all LIMPers a happy and healthy New Year!  Sam, III

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I missed this one - what I find remarkable is the two different offices and the formality of the greeting.  N “Dear Al” back then!  Also, Kienzle ( a famous German clockmaker’s name) was Secretary-Treasurer then, not General Manager.  What’s in Room 3405 today?  I worked in the (a?) Denton Building ca. 1956.  Sam, III

Sam, III

From VanderbiltCupRaces.com Exclusive: The Planned Hempstead Plains Motor Parkway Speedway

Thanks for all your hard work Howard!  Mitch Hackett

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Howard,
Thanks for the memories.  We wish you and your family a Happy & Healthy 2018.
Sheila & Roger

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HAPPY (and most of all ) HEALTHY NEW YEAR!!!!!
Thanks again for your passionate support of Long Island’s automotive history.

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Hi Howard!
All very interesting!  I remember seeing the flying clubs on our many trips from Farmingdale to Hempstead on the Hempstead Tpk. in the 1940’s.  This was just another landmark on our ride.  Now to realize the roof is on the building just down the block from where we live in Bethpage.  That building too has had a lot of history.  We were always told the building came from Mitchel Field.  Thanks for you and your group to pursue this bit of history.  Ann

From VanderbiltCupRaces.com Exclusive: The Lost East Wing of the Long Island Aviation Country Club

I believe that is the property of the Adelphi Academy: I’m not sure if this was affiliated with the University or the high school once located in Brooklyn. In your picture from several weeks ago showing the toll booth near the Springfield Boulevard entrance you showed the athletic complex (football and baseball fields,running track) which was constructed,date unknown to me (1930’s ?). This was located just south of Alley Pond Park. Houses were built on the site sometime in the 1950’s. I recall seeing an early 1950’s atlas which depicted the Adelphi Academy property.

From Mystery Foto #52 Solved: A Plan for the Adelphi Academy Bordering on the Motor Parkway

Whatever happened to the painting done for Esquire in 1944?
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Howard Kroplick

No sure what happened to the original final painting.

From A Salute to the Mets & Mystery Foto #44 Solved: A Gift to George Robertson From Peter Helck

I read somewhere else that the Locomobile is in the Ford Museum….but where is the !944 painting? Is it with the car??
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Howard Kroplick

Old 16 is in the Henry Ford Museum.

From A Salute to the Mets & Mystery Foto #44 Solved: A Gift to George Robertson From Peter Helck