Vanderbilt Cup Races

2200 Northern Boulevard in East Hills is (or was last) owned by Pall Corp.  I was in there when they gutted it after Helena Rubenstein vacated it - what a vast, empty cavern!  I had a friend who, after her father, a Mill Neck police officer, always referred to the corner of Glen Cove Road and the North Hempstead Turnpike as Bull’s Head.  I also remember that one of my very first solo drives in February of 1950 was the full 24 mile length of Grand Avenue/Baldwin Road/Henry Street/Clinton Street-cum-Road/Guinea Woods Road/Glen Cove Road and the open grassy areas and white wooden fencing up north.  I feel I should instantly recognize the 1938 aerial but I just can’t place it - too rectangular and too much open land - this should be a “DUH”!  Sam, III

From Vanderbilt Cup Racers on Glen Cove Road & Old Westbury Road & Special Exhibit "Images of East Hills"

Buckminster “Bucky” Fuller’s prototype Dymaxion car ca. 1933 at Roosevelt Field.  What is of especial interest to us LIMPers is that the Dymaxion Corporation’s factory was in the defunct Locomobile dynamometer building at Tongue Pointe in Bridgeport, CT.  The amphibian appears to be a Curtiss-Wright CW-1 Junior (several survive, incl. at the Smithsonian’s NASM).  It’s hard to tell at such low res. but that seems to be Fuller at right, pointing.  Sam, III

From Mystery Friday #35 Solved: Buckminster Fuller's Dymaxion #1 on a 1933 Test Run at Roosevelt Field

Identify the automobile
Buckminster Fuller’s Dymaxion

Identify the airplane
Unsure-For a guess, I’ll say it’s a Curtiss since they were an airfield neighbor on Clinton Rd.

Where was the photo taken and in what year?
Roosevelt Field in 1933

From Mystery Friday #35 Solved: Buckminster Fuller's Dymaxion #1 on a 1933 Test Run at Roosevelt Field

Identify the automobile: Buckminster Fuller’s Dymaxion #1
Identify the airplane:  I know I’ve seen this before, but came name it (or find it).  Might be hanging at the Cradle of Aviation Museum in Garden City.  Similar military aircraft called the Walrus. 
Where was the photo taken and in what year?  Roosevelt Field, 1933 at the National Charity Air Pageant.

From Mystery Friday #35 Solved: Buckminster Fuller's Dymaxion #1 on a 1933 Test Run at Roosevelt Field

From Rich R.:

Amazing photos of history in my (our) backyard.

From Vanderbilt Cup Racers on Glen Cove Road & Old Westbury Road & Special Exhibit "Images of East Hills"

WOW look how small the trees are They are huge now I love the shot of the Mackay home w/ the statues [Thank you for saving one] Did Irving Berlin live there One of my friends has a Brougham carriage owned by Irving’s father in law who lived in Old Westbury

From Vanderbilt Cup Racers on Glen Cove Road & Old Westbury Road & Special Exhibit "Images of East Hills"

That’s R. Buckminster Fuller’s DYMAXION #1. Photo may have been taken on August 11, 1933 at Roosevelt Field. No clue on the plane.

From Mystery Friday #35 Solved: Buckminster Fuller's Dymaxion #1 on a 1933 Test Run at Roosevelt Field

WOW what a glimpse into the past Thank you so much for sharing

From John E. Roosevelt Family Photo Album: Action in Hicksville During the 1910 Vanderbilt Cup Race

The Dymaxion car by Buckminster Fuller.
Site could be Bridgeport, 1933. Maybe.
Can’t identify plane.

From Mystery Friday #35 Solved: Buckminster Fuller's Dymaxion #1 on a 1933 Test Run at Roosevelt Field

Looks like the Dymaxion three vehicle prototype near a Roosevelt Field hangar in
1933; either in August or October.

From Mystery Friday #35 Solved: Buckminster Fuller's Dymaxion #1 on a 1933 Test Run at Roosevelt Field

In the U. S., Packard most notably used the wheel held out by a wingèd Victory as their radiatpr mascot ca. 1931-33.  <https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/f0/‘31_Packard_833_(MIAS_’10).jpg> Sam, III

From The Michelin Wheel of Fortune Poster on the French 1905 Gordon Bennett Elimination Race Course

Wow,incredible pictures,thanks for sharing them

From John E. Roosevelt Family Photo Album: Action in Hicksville During the 1910 Vanderbilt Cup Race

Fuller Dymaxion

From Mystery Friday #35 Solved: Buckminster Fuller's Dymaxion #1 on a 1933 Test Run at Roosevelt Field

From David Stephan:

Howard-
Just returning from a West Coast trip, where, ironically, I met an exhibitor from the McCall’s Motorworks Revival (who unbelievably parked his collectable Ferrari in a parking spot next to my rental car). 

I posted a comment suggesting the mystery car from the August 22nd post is a custom car. Here is additional information that may be of some use to Gary Monti and Bill Barto.

The mystery car does not have a Delahaye badge and its grille matches the stylized illustration mentioned in the comment (which is not a correct Delahaye grill).

From other videos of the McCall’s show and from LA Times reporting, one can see other custom cars on display. The 1939   Delahaye Model 165 (sometimes misidentified on the Internet as 1938 because it was introduced at the ’38 Paris auto show) is in the Mullin Museum and on the museum’s website one can find a summary of the car’s history and its link to the World’s Fair” (see http://www.mullinautomotivemuseum.com/#!/discovery/car/42 ).  On the web, one can find at least one replica Model 165 car shown being constructed.

The McCall’s theme this year was old and new—how the old shows up in the new. The ’39 Model 165 was introduced at the World’s Fair as a “Car of Tomorrow” and its full pontoon fenders can be seen as an antecedent to later designs, including those of some race cars that videos of the show reveal are positioned behind the man in the blue shirt in the mystery photo. Another custom car—perhaps inspired by a Bugatti roadster—sits “in front” of the mystery car (see https://www.facebook.com/MCCALLEVENTS ). That car shows the mid 30’s separate teardrop pontoon fenders. In a sense, walking into the hangar towards the America flag, one would see the evolution of this feature, with the connected pontoons of the ’39 Delahaye as an intermediate form and the exotic Koeningsegg and McLaren cars located deepest in the hangar, as the latest form.

From Mystery Foto #34 Solved: Newly Opened Roosevelt Field Shopping Center on October 3, 1956

From a previous mystery, the mystery painting on the wall gets closer to a Michelin poster!
http://www.vanderbiltcupraces.com/blog/article/mystery_foto_friday_33_can_you_identify

From The Michelin Wheel of Fortune Poster on the French 1905 Gordon Bennett Elimination Race Course

Hello Howard, (and, by extension, all fellow Motor Parkway enthusiasts),

I’ve recently begun work on a documentary film about the Parkway and have been relying heavily upon your work as well as my own research.  I would very much like to meet with you to discuss the possibility of sitting down for an interview, either on camera or off.  Please feel free to email me at .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) to discuss.  Hope to hear from you soon.

Dean

From Mystery Foto #34 Solved: Newly Opened Roosevelt Field Shopping Center on October 3, 1956

Hey - two of those added aerial views are mis-captioned!  “Another view (looking west) of Roosevelt Field Mall also taken on October 3, 1956” is looking north-northeast, while “Still another view looking east” is looking south over the then-new Franklin National Bank building on Old Country Road.  Sam, III
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From Howard Kroplick I

Sam, good catches!

From Mystery Foto #34 Solved: Newly Opened Roosevelt Field Shopping Center on October 3, 1956

Yet again - try as I might, I can’t find my old files but a friend’s father owned the big printing plant and I think it was further east.  It was on an insanely-tight curve at the end of an LIRR industrial spur somewhere around the Raceway entrance and they had a hell of a time getting the more modern 60’ boxcars of paper into the plant.  They had to use an industrial tractor to tow the cars in and out.  AHA - found the spur; it runs NNE to the east of Zeckendorf Blvd.  I’ll let this go unless requested to look further.  Sam, III

From Mystery Foto #34 Solved: Newly Opened Roosevelt Field Shopping Center on October 3, 1956

WOW! These “buried in the vault” images are priceless, Impossible to obtain elsewhere.

From John E. Roosevelt Family Photo Album: Action in Hicksville During the 1910 Vanderbilt Cup Race

It’s been a while since I perused your websites, Mr. Berliner. My eyes appreciate your large print and enlarged images.

From Mystery Foto #34 Solved: Newly Opened Roosevelt Field Shopping Center on October 3, 1956