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Thank you for sharing this great video

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I did’nt realize that you listed when the film was taken in Havana of the classic cars,but still don’t know if they use them for everday driving now?

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Richard and Sam III:

According to Laurence Newcome and other UAV historians, the March 6, 1918 flight was launched from a deadweight catapult not the Marmon. Sometime from April 7, 1918 to May 17, 1918, the Flying Torpedo was tested on an unknown section of the Motor Parkway. Apparently , the Marmon acted more like a wind tunnel rather than a launching pad. On May 17, 1918, a launch was attempted with the Marmon car modified for an LIRR track. The launch failed when the airplance becgan lifting the Marmon “off the track as it approached its flying speed”.

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Great shot! That train station on St James still stands. Looking North on Clinton with the LIMP bridge, toll lodge and office and Roosevelt Field towards the top. Looks to be maybe 1928/9 ish?

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Earlier, Richard; the run with the Marmon was on 06 March 1918.  Sam, III

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We knew last week’s and we are guessing at this week’s.  Garden City/Roosevelt Field circa 1938.

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Hi Howard   Nice film of the classic cars in Havana,they most be very popular their. I’m curious to know as to when it was taken and if it is what they drive everyday

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Clinton LIMP overpass into Roosevelt airfield. Don’t know the year, but I’d guess it was the 1920s.

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Continued from my first response:
Oh, of course on the middle right is the Curtiss Engineering building, built in 1918.
And, the original train station was converted to GC fire Department Station no. 3. The Clinton Station opened in 1915.
My guess for date of photo is 1923

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

Looks to me that its Clinton Ave. in Garden City, looking north towards Roosevelt Field. The train station with brick pavement is shown in the middle to lower left of picture. I even see a concrete fountain, just north of the station. Its still there, but is semi hidden now. I always wondered what it looked like originally.
Further north you can clearly see the bridge going over clinton, as well as the buildings.

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

The photo looks like Garden City about 1930. The view is looking north with Clinton Road running north / south in the middle. The large complex in the center is the Curtiss Airplane Factory with Roosevelt Field north of that with the hangars along Old Country Road. Motor Parkway crosses over Clinton Road about 2/3 of the way up on the left side.

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

I think this is clinton road in garden city, approximate time period would be the 30’s.

the big big building on the right i believe is the pendaflex paper factory..somewhere in that shot should be the garden city gatehouse for the Motor Parkway

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

wow, such an amazing, high-quality photo…at first i was going to ‘guess’ what it was but upon further inspection, growing up in Garden City and now living in Carle Place (on Garson Rd. right next to the LIPA right-of-way and down the road from where they are digging the pit where the Westbury ave. bridge was) i can clearly see Roosevelt Field, the Clinton Rd. LIMP bridge, the empty field that would become Stewart School, the old Garden City rail station that is now a Firehouse, the big empty field to the top/north of the photo that would become Carle Place (the original Levittown), the big courthouse-looking building that would later become Esselete and/or a Newsday location/train stop.  i’m gonna guess 1925….wish i could zoom in on this photo…amazing…favorite pic so far….thanks…

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INTERESTING

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The photo was taken in Spring of 1928.

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

From Bob G.:

“Notwithstanding its Farmingdale address, Bethpage State Park is not located in Farmingdale; it is almost entirely within the boarders of Old Bethpage.  When the park was constructed, Old Bethage was known as Bethpage and Bethpage was known as Central Park.  When the villages successively changed their names, the State did not change the name of the park. “

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From Cyril Smith:

“View is north-northeast in Garden City.  Factory is the Curtiss Engineering Plant, where Glen Curtiss “Father of Naval Aviation” built aircraft, including NC 4, the first plane to cross the Atlantic (May 1919), Just above the plant is Stewart Ave, then the Motor Parkway with its bridge spanning Clinton Road.  LIMP running north-south to left of Clinton Road, the turning east-west.Beyond that is western end of Roosevelt Field / Hazelhurst Field. 
In lower right hand corner is where Camp Mills 1917-19 existed, large deployment and training base of World War I. Some houses starting to appear, the warehouses just opposite Curtiss plant and across railroad, now little used freight spur, were originally for Camp Mills.”

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

Facing NE along Clinton Rd. in Garden City to Roosevelt Field with the Motor Parkway crossing over Clinton. Curtiss Engineering plant at center right.

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

howard good morning love the site always read it completely member of the li buick club.  to answer the mystery pic it is a pic of roosevelt field looking north the street running through the pic from lower right to upper left is clinton rd and some of these houses in the pic stand today. the road on the lower left is chestnut st. just north of the tracks is an old train station that still exists but i believe is now used for a fire station, to the right just south of the tracks is comercial ave. and going north just past the large industrial bldg in the center of the pic is stewart ave and of course just north of that is the motor pkwy crossing over clinton, the right of way looks like it still exists today on the right and further north is old country rd with roosevelt field on the right of clinton south of old country rd. say hello to walt godsen for me thanks again for the great website

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From Richard W:

” Howard. I wrote you some time ago about a 1922 Marmon Model 34 Speedster that I once owned. The Marmon used by Sperry to test his autopilot looks like a model 34. I know they made that model in 1921 and maybe earlier. Any idea the date of the test on the Motor parkway?

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