Vanderbilt Cup Races

Really, to all-of-you-folks, did we need CHAT GPT, to tell us this, as We ALL knew already, who THE person was!!
What more can-I say, but Thank You to Howard for all that YOU do (for all of the worthy and very intersesting endeavors of-which you are involved)!
Richard

From Ask ChatGPT: Who is the world's expert on the Vanderbilt Cup Races?

With the Huntington Lodge in this story, I { and sure others } recalled Maureen Standish and her family residing in this former lodge in the 195O’s. Fun looking back, in 2O18 blogs.

From Kleiner's Korner: A Look Back at a Motor Parkway Toll Keeper and His Wife

Limani Grille now. Been quite a few establishments since Brentwood Lodge #2 Kiosk

From Video of the Week: Looking Back-2012; Long Island Online News Reports on the Long Island Motor Parkway Preservation Society

Sure Howard felt goosebumps with this declaration ( : My sister was actually showing me today how useful ChatGPT is. Felt like Tony Stark/Ironman seeking advice from Jarvis ( :

From Ask ChatGPT: Who is the world's expert on the Vanderbilt Cup Races?

From Bob:

I appreciate all you do to preserve Long Island’s automotive history ... I am a teacher and I use a lot of your articles and videos to teach my students and they love learning about things they don’t get to learn about in other classes… I teach what used to be called Shop, now its called Technology ... My background is automotives so I relate many of my lessons to Technology related to cars. My students love and learn a lot from the information you provide.

From Ask ChatGPT: Who is the world's expert on the Vanderbilt Cup Races?

The photo was taken in front of the Duesenberg factory in Indianapolis, IN in 1921. The Duesenberg racing team had recently won the 1921 French Gran Prix making it the first American team to do so. Jimmy Murphy was the winning driver. The two men in the white shirts are the Duesenberg brothers. I believe that’s Fredrrick on the left with August on the right.

From Mystery Friday Foto #13 Solved: A Winning Pair of Duesenbergs

No surprise there! Thank you Howard for keeping all the history alive!

From Ask ChatGPT: Who is the world's expert on the Vanderbilt Cup Races?

YES we agree with ChatGPT. Without you and this site this history may well have neen lost forever Kudos to you Howard

From Ask ChatGPT: Who is the world's expert on the Vanderbilt Cup Races?

Amazing motor parkway history. An unfortunate event at the Bethpage lodge causing permanent psychological trauma. Glad no one was physically hurt. The huge stop sign at Great Neck resembles that of Brentwood #1 on Washington Ave. Perhaps designed by same manufacturer, though the fonts are slightly different

From Kleiner's Korner: A Look Back at a Motor Parkway Toll Keeper and His Wife

As always, great research Art. Gypsies must’ve been a real problem back then. Just helping themselves to everything.

From Kleiner's Korner: A Look Back at a Motor Parkway Toll Keeper and His Wife

I came upon your site while wondering the internet with old family photos through Google Image search feature.

Imagine my delight to find an exact match for my Great, Great Grandpa Julius Kassig.

He was born on September 13, 1877, in Sopron, Hungary.  He had one son, Julius, Jr., with Theresa Landl in 1902. He died on December 19, 1969, in Brooklyn, New York, at the age of 92.

I remember him well - especially the scent of his pipe tobacco.  I was told he would ride with a driver during races.  I hope these attachments will open.  The first is an article verifying he worked for the Columbia Car Company.  The second is the portrait photo that is on your site.

I hope this email has found you well and very much appreciate the oppotunity to learn from your efforts to record this history.

Regards, Julia Kassig McCormick - .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address)

From Mystery Foto #27 Solved: Drivers and Mechanicians of the 1910 Vanderbilt Cup Race & Sweepstakes

Lee, back again, From time to time there were parachute jumping displays over the airfield.  On November 13, 1929 sixteen parachutists jumped out of a plane over the airfield. The majority of the jumpers landed on the airfield, at least four of them landed on the golf course.

From Mystery Friday Foto #12 Solved: A 1938 Aerial...In Color!

Lee, With regard to the problem of low flying planes over the local golf courses, between 1928 and 1930 there were at least four occasions where planes ended upon the abutting Old Westbury Golf Course.

From Mystery Friday Foto #12 Solved: A 1938 Aerial...In Color!

Steve, The golf course near the Clinton Ave, bridge was the Old Westbury Golf Course. Closed 1943.

From Mystery Friday Foto #12 Solved: A 1938 Aerial...In Color!

Thank you Frank!

From Mystery Friday Foto #12 Solved: A 1938 Aerial...In Color!

Hi Ernie M - The green oval at top right was once the horse track on the Emily Ladenburg estate. Today the oval serves as the backyard play field for the East Meadow School District. Note the 1914 map below shows some inaccuracies

Below:
1914
1938
2023

From Mystery Friday Foto #12 Solved: A 1938 Aerial...In Color!

Congratulations on your appearance in that magazine!
You have an incredible collection.

From Old Cars Weekly Article: "Quality Over Quantity -The Small But Mighty Collection of Howard Kroplick"

This photo which was colorized with AI by noted Military Historian and researcher Zachary Hudson shows the LIMP, Stewart Avenue and the Central Railroad of Long Island (later, LIRR) all following a parallel course running left to right.  Then, all three in unison curve in a Southeasterly direction as they pass Merrick Ave. and cross what were the Salisbury Links Golf Club.

Also nearby was the original course of Roosevelt Raceway (for cars), long before horses made the scene.  The series of twisting, looping curves (ala a Grand Prix course) were later modified into a simpler pattern of elongated straightaways (ala Indy tracks) for maximum speed craved by race fans.

Elsewhere, the Grandstands which held about 40,000 people at the Polo Grounds can be seen at the middle right of the photo. The LIRR ran special service through Mitchel for the matches, dropping off spectators just before what became Endo Blvd. From there, they would walk over to the playing field.  Today, that property is the location of NCC’s East campus built over a ten year period in the 1970’s.

Immediately East of Mitchel Field was the Meadow Brook (two words) Golf Club who offered pro-bono memberships to Officers and to Enlisted Men if they agreed to caddie for the Officers.

Below Hempstead Turnpike and also hugging Merrick Ave. was the Cold Stream Golf Club, immediately to the East of the Santini area. LI was a golfer’s paradise back then (but for the planes flying at low altitude overhead!).

From Mystery Friday Foto #12 Solved: A 1938 Aerial...In Color!

Howard what a wonderful story about your “Shorty” We had a Shorty also but he was one horsepower and burned hay and oats instead of gasoline. He and his brother Max were movie and TV stars and were in “The Greatest Showman” painted as Zebras and in” Little women” He’s the one on the left. JeRita

From Video of the Week: This Rare 2-Seater Mustang Was Supposed to Be Destroyed

As always this is very interesting.  But it gets me to thinking, where would Roosevelt Raceway overlay on this plot?  And another question, I had always thought that Linkbergh took off from this end (call it east of the Roosevelt Field Mall) of the area we’re talking about.  Can you clarify where he took off from?

From VanderbiltCupRaces.com Exclusive: Then & Now of the 1936 Course- A Request from the Tazio Nuvolari Museum in Mantua, Italy