Vanderbilt Cup Races

Fantastic story behind the Garden City Lodge and the pictures. Wish all the LIMP structures had the same result.

From The Motor Parkway Toll Collection Structures: #9 Garden City Lodge

Hi it would be interesting to see a yesterday / today view for comparison. Mike

From Mystery Photo Solved #3: The 1908 Vanderbilt Cup Race on Ellison Road (Avenue) in Westbury

The width of this road is comparable to the LIMP in this time period ( 16 ft ) .  The road curves in the background. And the surrounding area looks neat, manicured. I’m only guessing once, and I think this running through Salisbury Golf Course; furthest east section. I don’t see guardrails. Guardrails and boundary posts were probably installed after the entire LIMP was constructed. There was likely a lower speed limit in the golf course areas anyway,  when the cup races stopped of course.

From Mystery Photo Solved #3: The 1908 Vanderbilt Cup Race on Ellison Road (Avenue) in Westbury

It looks like it may be Salsbury Park Dr. in East Meadow heading east toasted the finish line in what is now Levittown.

From Mystery Photo Solved #3: The 1908 Vanderbilt Cup Race on Ellison Road (Avenue) in Westbury

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From Searching for a Piece of a 1921 Crow-Elkhart Sedan to Honor Her Family

This one is a challenge.  I could not find many clues.  I say it is not the motor parkway, which eliminates almost half the course.  The only bend on Northern Blvd includes a railroad crossing, so that is not it either.  At the top of Woodbury Ave the land does not seem as flat as the picture.  So I am saying it is not there either.  I suspect the picture is just north of the modern day Old Country Rd on Manetto Hill Road.

From Mystery Photo Solved #3: The 1908 Vanderbilt Cup Race on Ellison Road (Avenue) in Westbury

Watched that film again and if I’m not mistaken I saw some from the late 1800s or early 1900s,like 01-03,am I right or wrong on that one?,don’t know what kind they are,just by looking at them and remembering seeing them one time or another elswhere.

From Update: The 1946 VMCCA Jubilee Anniversary at the Mineola Fair Grounds

As well as enjoying the film, I liked reading the article. It was written with flair.

From Update: The 1946 VMCCA Jubilee Anniversary at the Mineola Fair Grounds

That was a pleasure to watch.  Thanks for posting it.

Ken Harris

From Update: The 1946 VMCCA Jubilee Anniversary at the Mineola Fair Grounds

Thanks again for another great film. Boy there were a lot of old cars in that one,I’ll have to watch it again and take a better look at them. If I only knew about this back then,I would know more about the Vanderbilt Cup now,back then I was only 5yrs old and we had a 1946 Plymouth 4door delux,which I learned to drive and my parents gave it to me and I drove it to the ground,that goes to show how long the car lasted,about 20yrs I’d say,probably would have lasted longer if I didn’t get a hold of it

From Update: The 1946 VMCCA Jubilee Anniversary at the Mineola Fair Grounds

Watching the film and seeing how the car was bouncing around,then flipped shows you that these cars aren’t for sure made for conditions like that,especially going fast like he was. Thanks for the film. I enjoyed that chase.

From Film: W.C Fields Driving On the Long Island Motor Parkway in "Sally of the Sawdust"

That was neat.

From Film: W.C Fields Driving On the Long Island Motor Parkway in "Sally of the Sawdust"

L.W.F. ENGINERRING CORP OF COLLEGE POINT FIRST FACTORY ON LONG ISLAND CONSTRUCTED FOR THE SOLE PURPOSE OF BUILDING AIRCRAFT COMPLETED IN 1917.

From Mystery Friday Photo #2 Solved: Clinton Road, Curtiss Field and the Curtiss Engineering Corporation

Wonderful footage!  Thanks for posting!

From Film: W.C Fields Driving On the Long Island Motor Parkway in "Sally of the Sawdust"

Looking at https://www.bethpageproshop.com/red-course-page-13/chapter/2 - it’s the Red Course in the foreground

From Mystery Friday Photo #1 Solved: The Bethpage State Park in Old Bethpage and Farmingdale

Wowww! You guys certainlly know alot,it’s amazing,I had no idea of the area,but I’ve been around that area a lot of times and I know where it is now,thanks guys. Like I said once before,I’m new at this,I only realized where it was while I was reading all about it just now,Oh,that’s where it is,I kept saying to myself,then looking at the pictures. My uncle use to live around that area,I should have known it

From Mystery Friday Photo #2 Solved: Clinton Road, Curtiss Field and the Curtiss Engineering Corporation

The following movie, Sally of Sawdust, shows film of the parkway at time 1:39:23

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lhm8MysL8oA&list=PL27B857093454F4B9

From Archives: Long Island Motor Parkway- Queens

Your commitment to the history is GREAT and hopefully soon Nassau County will realize you are preserving a “historical log for them’
Great work on all parts

jim

From Updated: Long Island Motor Parkway Bridge Series #30: Old Country Road Motor Parkway Bridge

I would say it looks like old Roosevelt Field in the background.  If so then the bridge would be the Motor parkway crossing Clinton Rd.

From Mystery Friday Photo #2 Solved: Clinton Road, Curtiss Field and the Curtiss Engineering Corporation

Art, I am meeting later this week with Josh Stoff, the curator of the Cradle of Aviation, and will check out their archives and exhibits.

From Updated:The Role of the Motor Parkway in the Development of the Cruise Missile