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Cynthia, thanks so much for the comment and photo. Much appreciated!
From Mystery Friday Foto #49 Solved:The 1958 Airplane/Three Car Crash on the Southern State Parkway
There’s weird and odd…and then there’s this! Great Post Art!
From Kleiner's Korner: Arthur R. Pardington's Queensboro Bridge Celebration Match Race
These pics are from last year….June 2022.
From Mystery Friday Foto #12 Solved; The Oyster Bay LIRR Bridge Williston Park & East Williston Abutment
Pics from 2019—- the last pic is once you cross the tracks and start heading east towards Roslyn Road, one of the most beautiful LIMP remnant locations.
From Mystery Friday Foto #12 Solved; The Oyster Bay LIRR Bridge Williston Park & East Williston Abutment
Then continuing east from that point, you get to this:
https://www.vanderbiltcupraces.com/blog/article/sam_daves_excellent_motor_parkway_hike_ix_the_finish_line_half_hollows_hill
From Exploring the Motor Parkway in Wheatley Heights
Pics from our 2017 Vanderbilt Day in this zone:
https://www.vanderbiltcupraces.com/blog/article/sam_daves_excellent_motor_parkway_hike_viii_wheatley_hills_half_hollows_hil
From Exploring the Motor Parkway in Wheatley Heights
Thanks for continuing to explore, Eric.
Frank - here’s my web page for the area west of Bagatelle (probably did that exploration around 15 years ago). Not sure what’s still there.
https://limparkway.webs.com/bagatelle-road-west
From Exploring the Motor Parkway in Wheatley Heights
Nice photo of you and your dad, Cynthia : )
From Mystery Friday Foto #49 Solved:The 1958 Airplane/Three Car Crash on the Southern State Parkway
Nice going, Eric. This area of the LIMP say from Colonial Springs Rd then northerly to the LIE is interesting because of the original roadway being more and less hidden. Some of us have braved the ROW that’s east of Bagatelle, then north to the LIE. Like you said, the pavement is just below the soil.
Don’t know if anyone has been able to explore the ROW that is north of Butterfly Park, up to Threepence Dr. Realize this would require permission, about 1/2 of it is rear property of Bagatelle, other 1/2 curves to rear property of Farmington. Maybe it has been demolished, perhaps not. It would be interesting to investigate.
Maps below are 1984 and Current. Kind of hard to see, but the LIMP is visible in 1984 through the rear properties.
From Exploring the Motor Parkway in Wheatley Heights
Could be the Oyster Bay- LIRR parkway bridge in Williston Park. Taken down in 1983
From Mystery Friday Foto #12 Solved; The Oyster Bay LIRR Bridge Williston Park & East Williston Abutment
mayan ruins.
Bridge was never built.
2018
From Mystery Friday Foto #12 Solved; The Oyster Bay LIRR Bridge Williston Park & East Williston Abutment
I don’t know the pics from the early 1900s, but I know all of the current ones!
This is the remaining bridge abutment on the railroad tracks between Willis Ave and Roslyn Rd.
The stretch from this abutment to Roslyn Road is a great LIMP location.
From Mystery Friday Foto #12 Solved; The Oyster Bay LIRR Bridge Williston Park & East Williston Abutment
My dad was charged, but then it was dropped. He later was a pilot for Capitol International Airways until they went bankrupt and then he flew with United until he had to retire. He loved flying. Pictue is from 1969 with his cessna 195.
From Mystery Friday Foto #49 Solved:The 1958 Airplane/Three Car Crash on the Southern State Parkway
Good one Greg. Thought I could figure it out but can’t after too much time spent. Probably going to be a head slapper.
From Mystery Friday Foto #12 Solved; The Oyster Bay LIRR Bridge Williston Park & East Williston Abutment
This is the LIRR Bridge in Albertson. Long ago it connected the remnants that now lead to the Williston Park Pool with the section running next to the Roslyn Toll Lodge. I found this bridge when I was about 11 years old in 1977. Immediately I could see, as if clouds parted, the pieces of the LIMP line up. The pool entrance, the road behind Albertson Park, the pavement and sidewalks (at 11 years old I called them sidewalks) all through the back yards behind Schley Avenue. The way my dad told me the parkway went right through the VFW. And finally, the remnants in the old estate across Old Searingtown Road my brother showed me. I was so fascinated that day. I just wanted to follow the old road in both directions and see what I could find. The bridge was removed in 1983. A sad day when I saw it had come down. It was solid. Not like the Mineola LIRR Bridge which was not. I am not sure what you are looking for that was ‘special.” To me it was super special. And it ignited me to want to know more.
From Mystery Friday Foto #12 Solved; The Oyster Bay LIRR Bridge Williston Park & East Williston Abutment
Looks like the abutment for the LIMP bridge that crossed over the LIRR in Williston Park. Taken down in the ‘80’s.
From Mystery Friday Foto #12 Solved; The Oyster Bay LIRR Bridge Williston Park & East Williston Abutment
Just a pure guess. The end of the stretch from Peck Avenue to Winchester Blvd at Creedmor, which I rode regularly as a kid in the late 50s and early 60s while on my English 3-speed Ross racing bike. If this is correct, the bridge was probably taken down when the Cross Island Parkway opened in ‘38-‘39, which required the reconstruction of nearby street roads including Winchester Road.
From Mystery Friday Foto #12 Solved; The Oyster Bay LIRR Bridge Williston Park & East Williston Abutment
He also published a second “Log of My Motor” 1908-1911. It describes his touring adventures in Europe. It found it on-line in 2013 in pdf format.
From Greg O's Garage; Willie K.'s Racing Records
This is the Oyster Bay LIRR Bridge abutment that carried the Motor Parkway over the tracks between Williston Park and East Williston. It was special in the fact that it was the second Motor Parkway bridge over a railroad. It was demolished in 1983. For a moment I thought this could have been the unfinished “Mayan Ruins” bridge in Garden City. But I believe the fencing and amount of graffiti here in this picture lead me to decide that its the Oyster Bay LIRR bridge.
From Mystery Friday Foto #12 Solved; The Oyster Bay LIRR Bridge Williston Park & East Williston Abutment
Wonderful article. My Grandfather, Ralph Derr was the owner of the Marine Construction and Dry Dock Company, Staten Island and was the builder of the “Standard”.
From Willie K.'s "Hard Boiled Egg" Auto Boat
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