Vanderbilt Cup Races

Meadowbrook Parkway construction - January 28, 1955, bisecting the former Meadow Brook Golf Club.  Robert Moses gained access to the property through Eminent Domain.  Construction was funded by the toll on the Southern State Parkway.   

A large arc can be seen where the path of the roadway was being graded but concrete not yet laid down.  The LIRR Central line had recently been cut to accommodate the roadway.  Runways at Mitchel had not yet been extended.

From Mystery Friday Foto #5 Solved: A 1930's view of the Motor Parkway area around Merrick Avenue in Westbury and East Meadow

Al,

Confirmed.  I’ve walked across the third bridge.  On the other side of Meadowbrook Parkway was the terminus of the LIRR’s Central line after it was cut for Parkway construction in mid 1955 and which happened to be literally inside the dump once used by the USAF and later by NCC adjacent to Perimeter Road.

From Mystery Friday Foto #5 Solved: A 1930's view of the Motor Parkway area around Merrick Avenue in Westbury and East Meadow

Al,
The 3rd photo is looking west across Meadowbrook Parkway towards the old LIRR Central Branch right of way behind the Nassau Academy of Medicine.

From Mystery Friday Foto #5 Solved: A 1930's view of the Motor Parkway area around Merrick Avenue in Westbury and East Meadow

Frank Regarding the three bridge photos you posted, I don’t think the third photo is the same bridge as the other two.

From Mystery Friday Foto #5 Solved: A 1930's view of the Motor Parkway area around Merrick Avenue in Westbury and East Meadow

Tarabiscoté means unnecessarily complicated. I understand why he writes that ...

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Al - the Meadow Brook Hunt Club east access road was just one half-mile in length and accessible only from Merrick Ave (map below)

From Mystery Friday Foto #5 Solved: A 1930's view of the Motor Parkway area around Merrick Avenue in Westbury and East Meadow

Al - The bridge is filled beneath and overgrown. One would have to park the car nearby and walk up to it. Once there, you can see frame of the bridge and walk on top a bit. White X on this map.

From Mystery Friday Foto #5 Solved: A 1930's view of the Motor Parkway area around Merrick Avenue in Westbury and East Meadow

I grew up in Merrick, and this one stumped me! What threw me off was the Meadow Brook Hunt Club access road, which doesn’t exist today. Did this road connect with Westbury Blvd. to the southwest? I have never seen the CRR bridge, even though I’ve passed that way many times.

From Mystery Friday Foto #5 Solved: A 1930's view of the Motor Parkway area around Merrick Avenue in Westbury and East Meadow

The Links Golf Course just to the west, 1926

From Update:Kleiner's Korner - An Interesting Long Island Map from 1929 & the KKK in Queens

Here’s a 1926 of the area

From Update:Kleiner's Korner - An Interesting Long Island Map from 1929 & the KKK in Queens

More CRR bridge
Top: Courtesy Dave Keller, 1955
Mid: Courtesy Dick Makse, 1964
Bottom: Courtesy Dick Makse, 1964

From Mystery Friday Foto #5 Solved: A 1930's view of the Motor Parkway area around Merrick Avenue in Westbury and East Meadow

Great photo! About 1925 in Uniondale, flying over the Meadow Brook Hunt Club (future Mitchel Field) looking NNE.

Major roads from top to bottom; Motor Pkwy, Stewart Ave, CRR.
From left to right; Meadow Brook Hunt Club east access rd, Merrick Ave.

Meadow Brook golf course west of Merrick Ave.
Salisbury Links’ Red Golf Course covers most of the top photo east of Merrick Rd. (photo below).

Meadow Brook Lodge just west of Merrick Ave, and the Merrick Ave bridge.

The Salisbury Plains CRR station is seen. The CRR bridge still stands today abandoned by the Meadow Brook Pkwy. Easy access for explorers!

Lower right building is the Salisbury Links clubhouse west of Merrick Ave.

From Mystery Friday Foto #5 Solved: A 1930's view of the Motor Parkway area around Merrick Avenue in Westbury and East Meadow

This sites’s Jun 18 2013 blog post talks about The Links Golf Course, designed by Macdonald & Raynor. This a Emmet & Tull course, the Emmet that my Walter Travis comment on this page mentions.
Emmet did not take on Tull as a partner until 1929, seven years after the Shelter Rock Club opened. So Al’s guess about morphing is wrong even as the Shelter Rock course was also designed by Emmet!
The Parkway Country Club does not show up on any list of Emmet-designed courses and is not mentioned as a recently completed course in Emmet’s obituaries from December 1934 (the 1931 Huntington Crescent course was mentioned).
My best guess is that this course was never built, but, as Art asks, it would be interesting to learn where Leo found this!

From Update:Kleiner's Korner - An Interesting Long Island Map from 1929 & the KKK in Queens

Eisenhower red was called Salisbury golf club i think.

From Mystery Friday Foto #5 Solved: A 1930's view of the Motor Parkway area around Merrick Avenue in Westbury and East Meadow

looking n/ne over the hempstead plains.  motor parkway, stewart ave, merrick ave(whaleneck), meadowbrook hunt club access road and bridge.  The meadowbrook lodge can be seen.  present day eisenhower red course is the golf course.  Central RR and meadowbrook station are visible and so is the bridge over the clubs access road.  Photo taken around 1930.  I got nothing on the building on the bottom.

From Mystery Friday Foto #5 Solved: A 1930's view of the Motor Parkway area around Merrick Avenue in Westbury and East Meadow

Art, The Links Golf Club was located on the west side of Shelter Rock Rd. The Parkway Country Club rendering has their course located on the east side of Shelter Rock Rd. on property owned by the Cedar Heights Association at the time the Motor Parkway was built. Perhaps the Parkway Country Club morphed into the Shelter Rock Country Club which opened in the early 1920’s and was located at the north west corner of I. U. Willets and Searingtown Rds. There was a Southern Parkway Golf Club in north Valley Stream during the 1930’s.

From Update:Kleiner's Korner - An Interesting Long Island Map from 1929 & the KKK in Queens

Thank you Leo.  Where did you find it?

From Update:Kleiner's Korner - An Interesting Long Island Map from 1929 & the KKK in Queens

Plate #777 1929

From Updated: My Long Island Motor Parkway License Plate Collection (11/7/2025)

This map shows what eventually became the Links Golf Club in Searingtown.

One of the 2 Private entrances to Motor Parkway depicted.

From Update:Kleiner's Korner - An Interesting Long Island Map from 1929 & the KKK in Queens

Thank you for insight. I’m going to pass on it.

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