Vanderbilt Cup Races

Nice game, unfortunately it doesn’t appear to have helped its creators stay in business too long.  Here’s some additional documentation.  Original article is from The San Francisco Examiner of Oct. 13, 1907.

From Hemmings Classic Car: The Vanderbilt Cup Race Game- The holy grail of vintage auto racing board games

I worked at my uncle Henry Austin Clark Jr.‘s Long Island Automotive Museum for three summers in the early 1970’s and it’s a genuine pleasure to see photographs of what stands on its grounds today.  Reading about the enthusiasm for it and for Uncle Austin and his collection of antique autos, trucks, buses, and automobiliana is also a pleasure.  Thank you.

From The Long Island Automotive Museum Southampton Location Today

Wayne Duprez, it would be amazing if you could get photos of the iconic Olds curve dash!! With the owners’ permission, I would love to include it in my upcoming posts about “Where are they now?; the LIAM cars today “

From The Long Island Automotive Museum Southampton Location Today

Art,  Regarding a producer for the movie, might have a lead for you, The Vanderbilt Cup Race play on Broadway is ending it’s run end of this month. The producer is looking for another related project to take on.

From Kleiner's Korner: Another Murder on the Motor Parkway!

The Olds is in a private small collection.  I will see the owner this weekend.  I’ll take photos and ask him if I can publish his name.

From The Long Island Automotive Museum Southampton Location Today

Al - auditions begin soon!  I’m contracting with Kienzle to use the Motor Parkway in the fall.  Having a hard time finding a producer!

From Kleiner's Korner: Another Murder on the Motor Parkway!

@Wayne Duprez Where in Hauppauge is this curved dash Olds? I know there used to be another one at the Riverhead Historical Society Museum.

From The Long Island Automotive Museum Southampton Location Today

Could this be the Motor Parkway House, now part of a larger house on Barbara St?

From Mystery Friday Foto #3; Solved; The Powell Ave. Bridge Under Construction

Thanks to Gary Hammond, it’s the Motor Parkway Hotel on Powell Av in Central Park (Bethpage), built by Mathias Romscho of Germany, age 42. View is looking north on Motor Parkway during Powell Av bridge construction, Aug-Sep 1908.
Alternate view below of Powell Av bridge construction through the Nibbe’s farmway bridge construction

From Mystery Friday Foto #3; Solved; The Powell Ave. Bridge Under Construction

I was a student at the junior high school across the street from the hotel and witnessed the destruction. I had some appreciation for history even at that young age. Many Garden City residents obtained bricks from the hotel. I still have the one my family obtained. It is wrapped with a needlepoint image of the hotel. The fate of another Garden City historic treasure, St. Paul’s School, is currently in the hands of the residents of Garden City.

From Mystery Foto #17 Solved: The Garden City Hotel Being Demolished in 1973

The curved dash Olds that once hung from the ceiling at the Southampton museum resides in Hauppauge.

From The Long Island Automotive Museum Southampton Location Today

The structure is on rt 39 in Southampton the article states rt 24 which is west of the are

From The Long Island Automotive Museum Southampton Location Today

Art, Please cast me as A. J. Kienzle, the Parkway’s GM. He he lived in Mineola almost walking distance from my home in New Hyde Park. The building still exists.

From Kleiner's Korner: Another Murder on the Motor Parkway!

The bridge in question was the construction of the longest bridge under construction in Central Park/Bethpage north of Dead Mans Curve. The Central Park Historical Society has a Historic Marker documenting the area.

From Kleiner's Korner: Another Murder on the Motor Parkway!

Thanks Steve for the nice words and suggestion about a book - I was thinking more like a movie! lol.  Starring Howard as Willie K., and Al as Pardington!  Will think about that. 

By the way, I made contact with the NCPD Police Museum for any additional info they could find on the Marano case but nothing came up.  An interesting topic for anyone interested in law enforcement back in the Motor Parkway days.

From Kleiner's Korner: Another Murder on the Motor Parkway!

Harold Seaman, Marty Himes, Ken Spooner and Reggie Himes at the Himes Museum (photo by James King)

From Update- Sad News: We have lost a Long Island racing icon and good friend Marty Himes

That’s the Smith Farmway Bridge in the distance in Great Neck, just 1/3 mile east from the Great Neck Lodge entrance. I just learned of two “Bayside” sections in Queens still existing today, one by the Rocky Hill Rd entrance (Springfield Blvd). Unfortunately, criminal activity persist today

From Kleiner's Korner: Another Murder on the Motor Parkway!

If we take the articles at their word that the location is near the Great Neck Lodge, then we’re probably looking north on Lakeville Road with the LIMP parkway bride in the distance. It was a railroad trestle style bridge. The lodge entrance would be on the right, just past the bridge. Great article, Art. In my opinion, you should compile the articles into a book. You already have the title; “Murders On The Motor Parkway”.

From Kleiner's Korner: Another Murder on the Motor Parkway!

We are looking north at the intersection of Powell Avenue and the LIMP in Central Park (Bethpage). The Powell Avenue highway bridge is under construction sometime during the summer of 1908. The building on the left is the Motor Parkway House, a hotel owned and operated by Mathias Romscho.

From Mystery Friday Foto #3; Solved; The Powell Ave. Bridge Under Construction

This is the Powell ave bridge being built near Central Park (Bethpage), probably around July or August of 1908.  The photographer is facing north and the “Motor Parkway house” building is visible on the left.  Maybe the building was owned by the “Nibbe” family who owned the farm nearby.

From Mystery Friday Foto #3; Solved; The Powell Ave. Bridge Under Construction