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The six Vanderbilt Cup Races held on Long Island from 1904 to 1910 were the greatest sporting events of their day, and the first international automobile road races held in the United States. The races had a far-reaching impact on the development of American automobiles and parkways. This site provides comprehensive information on the races, the Long Island Motor Parkway and current Long Island automotive events, car shows and news.
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this car is a real historical beauty
enjoy it howard
i guess well see it at this summer’s shows hopefully
From Tucker 1044 Featured in Newsday's "In The Garage"
The beginning of the Northern State Parkway at Lake Success looking west. The furthest bridge west overwhelmed by Mother Nature is the abandoned Motor Parkway, which continues diagonally southwest alongside the golf course (North Shore Country Club, formerly Willie K’s Deepdale Golf Club). The first bridge is Lakeville Rd. Ground breaking may have begun for Long Island Jewish hospital (white dirt), also alongside the Motor Parkway opposite the golf course, and the location of the Vanderbilt golfway bridge. Automobiles could be parked at the Sperry Gyroscope Plant (off the photo on left). The NSP exit/entrance at bottom is Lakeville Rd exit 25, later home of the NYS Police barracks. Around 1952 after the NYS Police barracks moved into the patch of trees in the foreground. The 1905 Vanderbilt Cup Race used Lakeville Rd for a tire changing station. Look out today for the red light camera on Lakeville Rd/Marcus Ave.
From Mystery Foto #11 Solved: Hundreds of Automobiles Seen in This 1952 Lake Success Aerial
looks like marcus av Lakeville rd northern state the 1st UN bldg later Fairchild?
From Mystery Foto #11 Solved: Hundreds of Automobiles Seen in This 1952 Lake Success Aerial
I have photos of the green Tucker owned by the Stahl Museum taken on the Ford Estate and the blue Tucker housed at the Gilmore. I believe that the blue car was #2 and this color chosen by his wife. (Yes, I also have photos of a red Tucker taken at the AACA Museum and some others they now own.) If you want a physical comparison, send me your email address as I don’t know how to attach them on your site.
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Howard Kroplick
Constance, thanks so much. My email address is .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) .
The green Stahls Collection’s Tucker is #1015 . http://tuckerclub.org/tuckers/tucker-1015/
The blue Gilmore Car Museum’s Tucker is #1047. http://tuckerclub.org/tuckers/tucker-1047/
The maroon AACA Museum’s Tucker is #1001. http://tuckerclub.org/tuckers/tucker-1001/
From The Automobile Quarterly 1976 Calendar Car: The Alco "Black Beast"
Mystery Foto #11…Location is around Lake Success. The aerial shows Fresh Meadows Golf Course. This area was western terminus of the LIMP. Don’t know why hundreds of cars were parked there. Don’t know what facility was being built.The Fresh Meadows Golf course pic was taken on June 10, 1952.
From Mystery Foto #11 Solved: Hundreds of Automobiles Seen in This 1952 Lake Success Aerial
Probably wondering where I’ve been,very busy lately,doing a lot of things,very active here now. I try to keep up with you on here,I have some spare time now,so I’ll take a crack at this. By the looks of the cars,the aerial was taken in the late 40s. Trying to figure out where this is and it’s very confusing,could be Northern or Southern State,I’m not good at this at all,am I? Probably have seen this area so many times too,it looks all the same to me. As to your Tucker,I’m glad to see that you were interviewed by Newsday,let be known that you have this car,it’s another historical thing for Long Island.
From Mystery Foto #11 Solved: Hundreds of Automobiles Seen in This 1952 Lake Success Aerial
Hi Dean, Howard did a slide show to a song I wrote. You may use it if you like. Thanks.
From Screen Test Request: Film "Green Light: The Story Behind the Long Island Motor Parkway"
http://www.vanderbiltcupraces.com/index.php/blog/article/sunday_april_11_2010_a_real_fast_ride-_a_musical_tribute_to_william_k._vand
Hi Dean, Howard did a slide show to a song I wrote. You may use it if you like. Thanks.
From Screen Test Request: Film "Green Light: The Story Behind the Long Island Motor Parkway"
Hi Dean, Great job!!! I wrote a song about the parkway that Howard put a slide show to. You can see it here:
http://www.vanderbiltcupraces.com/index.php/blog/article/sunday_april_11_2010_a_real_fast_ride-_a_musical_tribute_to_william_k._vand
You are welcome to use it in the film if you like. Thanks.
From Screen Test Request: Film "Green Light: The Story Behind the Long Island Motor Parkway"
How delightful to see the wonderful interest, in this Website, And your Great Photographs! Obviously many people look forward to your Historical memories!
Thank you Howard, For A job so very well done. I am certain that I am not alone in my thoughts here! Your contributions to Antique Autos, AS WELL as all that goes with the hobby! is nothing short of fabulous!
From Mystery Snowy Foto #10 Solved: The Great Neck Lodge in Lake Success Circa 1940 Update:3/14/17
Appears, most likely, temporary headquarters of UN at Lake Success, Northern State Pkway, with LIMP above (foto - 3/4 to right and slightly above center)... all, as earlier seen in July 11, 2016 issue of Vanderbilt Cup Races.
From Mystery Foto #11 Solved: Hundreds of Automobiles Seen in This 1952 Lake Success Aerial
Identify the location and orientation of the aerial: Lakeville Road, Northern State Parkway - Lake Success/New Hyde Park. View looking west, south of the parkway.
Relate the aerial to Long Island Motor Parkway and the Vanderbilt Cup Races: Motor Parkway is running parallel to the golf course and going over Marcus Avenue and the Northern State Parkway. Second bridge with trees on it is the Motor Parkway bridge. Area included in the 1905 Vanderbilt Cup Race course.
Why are hundreds of automobiles parked in the Mystery Foto? Parking lot for the Sperry plant located on Lakeville Road.
What facility was being built in the aerial? Long Island Jewish Hospital (originally planned as a 200 bed facility).
Identify the golf course. Glen Oaks Golf and Country Club
What year was the aerial taken? Provide a rationale. 1951 - groundbreaking for the hospital was in December, 1950.
From Mystery Foto #11 Solved: Hundreds of Automobiles Seen in This 1952 Lake Success Aerial
That’s amazing that you got a Tucker. I love that movie.
From Tucker 1044 Featured in Newsday's "In The Garage"
That’s almost Mystery Foto #28, the Sperry Gyroscope plant in Lake Success on 27 Sep 1952! This is earlier, probably during WWII, wherefore all the cars, looking southwest across Lakeville Road with the recently-closed LIMP just beyond and No. State Parkway up the middle. It’s well after Easter 1938 because heavy shrubbery is growing on the LIMP bridge over No. State. The golf course is the Glen Oaks Golf Club (now the North Shore Towers complex). The George Vanderbilt VCRs had been run just previously. Hillside Hospital (now LIJ/NS/Zucker-cum-Northwell) is going up across Lakeville Rd. My, you ask a lot of questions; I thought you knew all this stuff, Howard! :·) Sam, III
From Mystery Foto #11 Solved: Hundreds of Automobiles Seen in This 1952 Lake Success Aerial
Looking west over Northern State Parkway in 1952
LIMP bridge is topmost bridge left to right
The Sperry parking lot on the left is full of autos
Long Island Jewish Hospital is under construction, top left
The golf course is Deepdale
From Mystery Foto #11 Solved: Hundreds of Automobiles Seen in This 1952 Lake Success Aerial
Well 1st off, I don’t think that the center right side of the pic is a full 500 feet south of last weeks Great Neck Lodge in snow Mystery Foto #10!
We’re looking west, southwest at the Northern State Parkway in Lake Success. The lower overpass bridge (white) is Lakeville Road. Just above that (darker) is the abandoned LIMP bridge, to the left of the trees, at a diagonal to the top left corner of the pic is the route of LIMP. Not sure of the name of the golf course above that, I think Glen Oaks, but that’s where the hi-rise North Shore Towers is now. Back down toward the bottom, this eastbound Lakeville Rd exit out to Marcus Ave. was built in 1952. Before that it was just about 2 car lengths this side (east) of the Lakeville Rd bridge. I’ve seen pics during the construction of this exit/entrance with all of the heavy road grading/earth moving equipment, contractor sheds, etc. quartered on the east side of it & it looks like the ground is still scarred from it there. Also looks like a remnant of the original exit (dirt maybe) is still seen just this side of the bridge so I’m gonna guess the pic is from 1952 or ‘53. The UN went to Fresh Meadows in 1951 so the parking lot at left is Sperry Gyroscope, changed sometime in the ‘50s to Sperry/Rand Corp., bordered by Lakeville Rd. The triangle between Lakeville Rd. & LIMP is the Schumacher farm. To it’s left would be the start or expansion of the L.I. Jewish Hospital (formed 1949).
From Mystery Foto #11 Solved: Hundreds of Automobiles Seen in This 1952 Lake Success Aerial
Please provide some help. Is the picture in Mineola at the press box a mirror image of reality. You say the picture is looking east. Yet, the based on the way the crowd is facing, it appears the photo is looking for the cars coming from the west.
I am trying to figure out exactly where the photographer may have been standing.
-joe o.
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Howard Kroplick
Joe, the Mineola press box is on the left and the grandstands on the right. A racer has just passed the drow who are looking easterly down Jericho Turnpike.
From VanderbiltCupRaces.com Exclusive: A Vanderbilt Cup Race Scrapbook Discovered in Garden City
In this photo we’re over the Lake Success area looking west with the entrance / exit ramp of the Northern State Parkway onto Marcus Avenue in the foreground. The abandoned LIMP bridge over the NSP can be seen just above the Lakeville Road bridge with a LIMP remnant heading toward the upper left corner. This section of Lakeville Road was part of the course for the 1905 VC race. The cars in the parking lot probably belong to Sperry Gyroscope workers or possibly U.N. delegates (or workers) during the time that the U.N. temporarily used the Sperry plant for its headquarters. The facility under construction is the L. I. Jewish / Hillside Hospital. I think the golf course was the Glen Oaks Golf Club. Judging by the hospital construction and some of the visible cars, the photo is probably from the early 1950’s, maybe 1952.
From Mystery Foto #11 Solved: Hundreds of Automobiles Seen in This 1952 Lake Success Aerial
Northern state parkway, lakeville rd overpass, motor parkway overpass just north of it. Sperry property with the cars parked, LIJ hospital being built? 1945?
From Mystery Foto #11 Solved: Hundreds of Automobiles Seen in This 1952 Lake Success Aerial
-Identify the location and orientation of the aerial
Above the Northern State Pkwy looking West down at the two Robert Moses bridges built over the pkwy in Lake Success. One for the LIMP, the other for Lakeville Road.
-Relate the aerial to Long Island Motor Parkway and the Vanderbilt Cup Races
The bridge farther away is a LIMP bridge, as well as Vanderbilt original Deepdale estate being off to right of the photo.
-Why are hundreds of automobiles parked in the Mystery Foto?
Parking lot for the Sperry Plant ( where my Grandfather was employed as a gyroscope engineer)
-What facility was being built in the aerial?
The beginnings of The Long Island Jewish Hospital.
-Identify the golf course.
The former Glen Oaks Club is now the golf course for North Shore Towers.
-What year was the aerial taken? Provide a rationale.
1952 -starting construction of LIJ, Sperry plant, and original exit/entrance ramps help date the photo. It also helps that the aerial has been used numerous times in other posts.
From Mystery Foto #11 Solved: Hundreds of Automobiles Seen in This 1952 Lake Success Aerial
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