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Almost forgot; if we get into it, why “Power House” in some instances and “Powerhouse” in others? ‘Tis a puzzlement. Sam, III
From Mystery Foto #24 Solved: A 1952 Aerial View of Lake Success
Ha, Al! Two minds; one thought. If we DO go there, though, folks/HK, new thread, please. Sam, III
From Mystery Foto #24 Solved: A 1952 Aerial View of Lake Success
Art, Thanks for posting the maps, they clearly show where I. U. Willets Rd. ended on Power House Rd. At the request of a couple of curious neighbors of mine with an interest in local history, I’m putting the location at a little west the main entrance of today’s Deepdale Country Club. Back to I.U. Willets Rd. east of New Hyde Park Rd., the address on the Manhasset- Lakeville Water District building says 65 I. U. Willets Rd. So, at least technically, it still exists. Ok…. Power House Rd., any interest in where that came from?
From Mystery Foto #24 Solved: A 1952 Aerial View of Lake Success
This 1908 photo likely taken from on top of the Jerusalem Ave bridge looking west in Levittown’s open prarie (Island Trees). Though similar to the 1908 Carman Ave bridge view (below), this photo is missing both the Ladenburg windmill on the horizon and the water feed hose on the south side of the roadway. Guessing the two-seated vehicle possibly Motor Parkway photographer Nathan Lazarnick and associate in their Buick, driving into the sunset at about 3pm. If correct, that would place the future Long Island Aviation Country Club airfield to the immediate right, with its hangars further down on the right, and the future Levittown Grandstand (1908-10) more further down to the left. Great photo, Art
From Mystery Foto #25 Currently Under Dispute: Joe Tracy Testing the Motor Parkway in September 1908
O. K., as long as we’re diverging, I’ll bite; why “Powerhouse” Road? This can be a “Mystery Question”. Sam, III
From Mystery Foto #24 Solved: A 1952 Aerial View of Lake Success
Great info by all, much thanks! Below is a 1926 aerial of IUW Rd, before Moses’ parkway came to town. It was a winding country road in the Lake Success/Manhasset Hills section.
From Mystery Foto #24 Solved: A 1952 Aerial View of Lake Success
From Art Kleiner:
Scratch the first pic above should have been this one showing the Dolph & Stewart cover page.
From Mystery Foto #24 Solved: A 1952 Aerial View of Lake Success
From Art Kleiner:
Sam, I would have thought that also but I double checked and found the order to be correct. I did find that the first one (1939) was actually a Dolph & Stewart map. That one and the 1946 Hagstrom are found on-line at historicmapworks.com.
http://www.historicmapworks.com/Atlas/US/692/
http://www.historicmapworks.com/Atlas/US/32436/
The 1954 Hagstrom is in my collection and clearly says 1954.
From Mystery Foto #24 Solved: A 1952 Aerial View of Lake Success
Art, I never unpacked my old Hagstrom’s but I’d respectfully (who - ME?) suggest that they’re in reverse order. Thanks, though. How about a current/latest Hagstrom’s/McMillan/Langenscheidt’s/Kappa/whatever of the same area? My image processor is on the fritz or I’d do it from Google Maps. Sam, III
From Mystery Foto #24 Solved: A 1952 Aerial View of Lake Success
From Art Kleiner:
At the request of Al Velocci, I’m posting some Hagstrom maps adding to his comments. First is 1939, second is 1946 and the third is 1954. The 1954 map shows I.U. Willets Road as the northern border of the Link Golf Course, continuing west past the Northern State and New Hyde Park Road and meeting Power House Road (notice it missing “Old). Does this clear things up or make it more confusing!
From Mystery Foto #24 Solved: A 1952 Aerial View of Lake Success
From Art Kleiner - Thanks Al - as a previous LIRR commuter to Penn Station, sounds like the amount of time they’ve been talking about an east side terminal! Except in my case it was getting people on and off Long Island.
From Kleiner's Korner: The 1938 Regional Plan Association Update
The freight tunnel from Greenville (Jersey City) to Bay Ridge was proposed way back then? Needless to say, it was never built. They’re still talking about building it! Lack of the tunnel is part of the reason that it’s so expensive getting goods on and off Long Island.
From Kleiner's Korner: The 1938 Regional Plan Association Update
Thanks Art! The recipe will be helpful if I can’t find this at CVS. : )
From Mystery Foto #24 Solved: A 1952 Aerial View of Lake Success
Sam, I. U. Willets Road dates back to 1870. The first section built, about four miles long, was from the Old Westbury Post Office westward to Herricks area. I’m thinking to Shelter Rock Rd because at the time Issac had a farm in that area. Confusing the issue is that Shelter Rock Rd. at the time, was also called Old Court House Rd. It appears I. U. Willets Rd. was named after him as he was a strong proponent of more and better roads.
From Mystery Foto #24 Solved: A 1952 Aerial View of Lake Success
From Art Kleiner:
Brian, thanks for the enlargement - we’re getting a bit off topic but here’s some final info. on Garfield’s Tea Syrup which was on the sign post.
From Mystery Foto #24 Solved: A 1952 Aerial View of Lake Success
Ditto to all the above. Sad to see people are pushing garbage for profit. This is nothing new.
Brian D, that would be interesting to see
From Fraud Alert Update: Guide to Identifying Authentic Versus Reproduced Long Island Motor Parkway and Roosevelt Field Porcelain Plates
The font on the #20 is wrong. The authentic number #25 plate from 1935 uses the font copperplate.
From Fraud Alert Update: Guide to Identifying Authentic Versus Reproduced Long Island Motor Parkway and Roosevelt Field Porcelain Plates
Re IUW/Bates, I have just spent an inordinate amount of time looking for documentation I simply could not find; I documented the entire stretch of the N. Service Road/Fairway Drive/Horace Harding Boulevard/Bates Road east to west some 20 years ago. DING! As I started writing this, it hit me - it’s *NOT* LIMP related at all but, rather, on my NYC Odd Streets page, <http://sbiii.com/oddstrts.html#nassblvd>, and it was on 16 May 2002. It follows the N. Svce. Rd. west past HH Blvd./(yet another)Nassau Blvd. to HH Expressway w/b just west of Little Neck Pkwy. What a tangle of roadnames at the county line! I’m appending my map of all this herewith. Sam, III
From Mystery Foto #24 Solved: A 1952 Aerial View of Lake Success
My thoughts are the same as Brian above. There’s probably other clues to know a real or fake plate. I read Al’s article from 20 yrs ago in the Long Island Forum. Wonder if anyone has the ‘disc plates w/ 2 mounting holes’?
From Fraud Alert Update: Guide to Identifying Authentic Versus Reproduced Long Island Motor Parkway and Roosevelt Field Porcelain Plates
I agree with Brian C. on the fronts but can’t speak to the rears w/o seeing a known real one. My instant feeling was because the left or “new” ones show no wear around the grommet heads whereas all “old”’ ones (or, at the very least, original ones that were mounted) do. Sam, III
From Fraud Alert Update: Guide to Identifying Authentic Versus Reproduced Long Island Motor Parkway and Roosevelt Field Porcelain Plates
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