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Howard:    If you “Google Earth” this location, it now shows an very large mansion right on the point of land next to the lighthouse, complete with pool and greenhouses.  What property is this and who is the owner ?  It’s huge and not mentioned in any website I can find.

From Then & Now: Alva Vanderbilt Belmont's Beacon Towers in Sands Point

Links Golf Course in North Hills.  I believe the exact location is situated across from 239 Robby Lane (educated guess based on the structures in your photo being the clubhouse and some more recent photos showing similar structures and where they would be situated today).  Howard, see the articles concerning the Links Golf Course, Willie K., and the Motor Parkway I’m sending under separate cover.

From Mystery Foto #18 Solved: The Links Golf Club's Private Entrance to the Long Island Motor Parkway

Ron, it is estimated that American Locomotive Company built over 500 cars. Most were destroyed for the World War I effort.

From In Search of Alcos: #12 1912 Alco 4-Cylinder Touring Car Being Sold on eBay

Is it that only 12 ALCO cars remain of some larger quantity produced, or did they only produce 12 and apparently all survived?

Ron

From In Search of Alcos: #12 1912 Alco 4-Cylinder Touring Car Being Sold on eBay

One original motor parkway post remains between where Stewart Ave. and the Meadowbrook Parkway run parallel - as documented here: 
http://www.freewebs.com/limparkway/stewartavenuegardencity.htm. I haven’t been back there in a few years so I’m hoping its still there.

From Long Island Motor Parkway Bridge Series #33: The "Roosevelt Field" Motor Parkway Bridge in Westbury

Wow. I’m pretty clueless about this one. Douglaston Golf Club?

From Mystery Foto #18 Solved: The Links Golf Club's Private Entrance to the Long Island Motor Parkway

Beautiful! But I think I’ll pass on this one since it doesn’t have a sunroof, power windows or A/C.

From In Search of Alcos: #12 1912 Alco 4-Cylinder Touring Car Being Sold on eBay

I think that’s the entrance to the Links Golf Course. It would have been on the north side of the LIMP between New Hyde Park Road and Shelter Rock Road. The golf course is no longer there but has been developed into “The Links” gated community.

From Mystery Foto #18 Solved: The Links Golf Club's Private Entrance to the Long Island Motor Parkway

Reserve $238,000; highest bid $229,000 - Not Sold.

From In Search of Alcos: #12 1912 Alco 4-Cylinder Touring Car Being Sold on eBay

Wrap it up.  I’ll take it.  Seriously, that’s one magnificent car.  I wonder what the reserve is.  Just curious.
Rog

From In Search of Alcos: #12 1912 Alco 4-Cylinder Touring Car Being Sold on eBay

they had a 1912 alco in the seal cove auto museum in maine. that was last week, but on 5/27 they were hosting the alco that won the 1908 world race. i didn’t get to see it. i can send photos of the one i saw

From In Search of Alcos: #12 1912 Alco 4-Cylinder Touring Car Being Sold on eBay

I see the plaque that says American Locomotive New York. Were the cars built in Rhode Island but sold in N.Y. or was the company headquarters in N.Y. ?

Phil

From In Search of Alcos: #12 1912 Alco 4-Cylinder Touring Car Being Sold on eBay

From Willy K’s Deepdale Estate?

From Mystery Foto #18 Solved: The Links Golf Club's Private Entrance to the Long Island Motor Parkway

I think the red circle is in the wrong place - the 56 aerial looks like the south drive of roosevelt field’s south eastern corner and what appears to look like the polo fields is really a huge storm drain and Akbar Indian rest. is right there - the red circle would be west of the polo fields and the Merchant Concourse closer to the mall. Good puzzle !! Mike

From Long Island Motor Parkway Bridge Series #33: The "Roosevelt Field" Motor Parkway Bridge in Westbury

Links golf course.  That gate has been gone a long time.

From Mystery Foto #18 Solved: The Links Golf Club's Private Entrance to the Long Island Motor Parkway

Oh well,I missed a good show,I could have joined those three Vietnan Vets in that photo.

From Smiles and Thumbs Up From the Wounded Warrior Car Show at Martha Clara Vineyards in Riverhead

I think I need to revise my earlier comments. I based my comments on the ‘56 aerial, but now looking at the 1938 aerial, it does indeed look like the bridge would be near where the Merchant’s Concourse bridge is currently, (judging by where Mitchell Field’s central lawn is located-now the Quad for NCC) It looks like I was also wrong about the Meadow Brook Club property location.

Could the red circle placed on the 1956 aerial be in the wrong location?

From Long Island Motor Parkway Bridge Series #33: The "Roosevelt Field" Motor Parkway Bridge in Westbury

Howard,
Correct me if I’m wrong, but in the June 16, 1927 Lindbergh Reception aerial photo, it looks like you can see the faint ROW line where the Meadowbrook is going to be. Had construction or surveying already started taking place at that time?
Greg

From Long Island Motor Parkway Bridge Series #33: The "Roosevelt Field" Motor Parkway Bridge in Westbury

Wayne, I believe you are correct. Looking at the current Google Earth view shows that the the Meadow Brook Club’s property is still there, and amazingly for that area, is still undeveloped. At the lower East corner of the property where South street turns 90 degrees South, is where I also think the LIMP bridge was.
At that exact spot also is an abondoned Central RR spur that I assume was only used for a short time. The fairly new for that time RR testle bridge over the Meadowbrook Pkwy is clearly seen in the ‘56 aerial. Part of the tracks are also still visible in between the RR bridge and Stewart Ave in current Google views. Driving East on South Street, there is actually still a RR crossing sign just as you come to the curve in the road even though the tracks have been paved over years ago. To see that sign drive down the road in Google Street View. I’m a little puzzled since it looks like a new sign on a modern light post.

From Long Island Motor Parkway Bridge Series #33: The "Roosevelt Field" Motor Parkway Bridge in Westbury

Thanks Howard. Amazing coverage of this difficult to access area! I know there was a bridge in here somewhere but thanks to all to help pinpoint it! ( I’ve seen pics of it somewhere ) And the twin bridge was a surprising revelation and very cool. There must’ve been a certain feeling driving under those double bridges, making a location reference point of some sort for LIMP go’ers. Sort of like a race track reference point. Never would have known they existed. Brian is right about tough access. Everything barbwired and locked down. I often wonder what could have caused this high security.  Also incredible is the amount of work progressing into the MSP. Robert Moses definately had a plan!

From Long Island Motor Parkway Bridge Series #33: The "Roosevelt Field" Motor Parkway Bridge in Westbury