Vanderbilt Cup Races

In the last photo, the car on the left in the fourth rank back is a landaulet or some such closed car, not a touring car.  The Master Nitpicker (a.k.a. Sam, III)

From Watching the 1904 Vanderbilt Cup Race in Floral Park

You doubted ME, Howard?  Perhaps we should add that Lawrence B(urst). Sperry (born 22 Dec 1892; Chicago) was the third son of gyrocompass co-inventor Elmer Ambrose Sperry and his wife Zula, invented the first autopilot and the artificial horizon.  and died on a flight over the English Channel 23 Dec 1923.

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

One of these programmable bombs was on display at the Aviation Museum in Garden City some years ago.  Perhaps it’s still in its collection.

Best,
Art

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

Mitchel Field (aka Roosevelt Field)  - Looking North
VP crosses East - West over bridge Glen Cove Road
Stewart Avenue East-West
Garden City / Central RR East West

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

Curtiss Aircraft Factory with Curtiss Field in background?

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

Cero wire

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

My Error:
I am sorry about naming the street running left to right across the bottom as “Oak Street”.  It is actually Commercial Avenue.

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

In addition to Frank Croker, his riding mechanic, Alex Raoul, was killed in the accident.  Raoul was employed by Smith & Mabley Simplex.  He came to the U.S. in 1904, and brought his wife, Margaret, to the U.S. later that year.

Is the car’s number 12, or I2?  I suspect that it is twelve instead of roman numeral I, two.

From Driver Profile: Frank Croker (1878-1905)

I recognize the area,but can’t think of where it.,I’ve seen those buildings many times,don’t know whether it is Queens,Nassau or Suffolk. I’ll give it a try again when there’s some comments about it

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

Hi Jeff, never heard of this film before. Any chance of making a DVD copy. Please contact me at .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address).?

From Film "The Long Island Automotive Museum"

I have a well-worn old 16mm short subject that includes scenes of the Long Island Automotive Museum.  The buildings are as they looked in the 1950’s clips shown here.  The film runs 10 minutes in black and white.
However, the titles of the film are missing and I have no idea of its true identity or who made it.  Most of the reel deals with bizarre turn-of-the-20th-century driving laws, with re-enactments involving period cars probably from the LIRR.
The film may have been made by an industrial-film outfit, or by a newsreel company like Pathe’ or Movietone.  Anyone know what it is?

From Film "The Long Island Automotive Museum"

I now see the limp bridge passing over Clinton rd in garden city.

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

Silly question. Is the limp in this photo?

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

EAST GARDEN CITY CLINTON ROAD ON LEFT, CURTISS AIRCRAFT IN CENTER, CURTISS FILD/ROOSEVELT FIELD AT TOP. NOTE MOTOR PARWAY CROSSING OVER CLINTON SOUTH OF AIRFIELD. DATE OF PIC BETWEEN 1922 AND 1951 PROBABLY AROUND 1940

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

Garden City about 1940.
Looking north;  large columned building in center is Curtiss Aircraft
Roadway (left to right) across bottom is Oak Street
Roadway (left to right) on top of Curtiss building is Stewart Avenue
Roadway running top to bottom on left is Clinton Road
Bridge over Clinton (near top) is LIMP bridge)
On right side of roadway at the bridge is toll house
Across top of photo is Roosevelt Flying Field.
Roadway (left to right) across top is Old Country Road
At lower left, across from Curtiss, is former rail station, later to be firehouse

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

P.S. Of course th Motor Parkway is there just left of center crossing over Clinton Avenue and the General Manager’s home and the Toll house right next to the overpass.

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

The picture is in Garden City with the Curtiss factory in the front and Roosevelt Field in the background. Yearwise I would place sometime in the late 1930s. The Central Railrod line is the tracks.

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

I believe this is looking north up Glen Cove/Clinton Rd. in Garden City. The Motor Parkway bridge crosses Clinton just south of Roosevelt Field. Stewart Ave. runs right through the center of the photo, parallel to the abandoned Mitchell Field LIRR line. The station building, left center, is used by the Garden City Fire Dept. and is still there. I’m not sure who occupied the factory. Looks like it was taken in the late ‘30s. Thanks for posting these!

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

Clinton Ave looking North.  Roosevelt Feild in back.  Curtis Wright Factory in front.
LIMP crosses over Clinton Ave.

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

Great photo’s! Are there more photo’s you could post of the surrounding area too?

From Watching the 1904 Vanderbilt Cup Race in Floral Park