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In both cases I think the right one is the original. The difference being the “rounded” mounting grommet on the rear vs the “cut” grommet on the left side plates.
From Fraud Alert Update: Guide to Identifying Authentic Versus Reproduced Long Island Motor Parkway and Roosevelt Field Porcelain Plates
Re: I. U. Willets Rd. Today the western terminus of I.U. Willets Rd. butts up against the south side on the Northern State Parkway west of the Buckley School complex beyond several residences. Prior to the building of the Northern State Parkway the western terminus was at today’s North Service Rd. of the LIE. Over the years maps have that roadway as the Old Westbury Rd., Powerhouse Rd. Nassau Blvd. Horace Harding Blvd. extension, Rte 25D, and even as I.U. Willets Rd. Take your choice. Hollow Road, between the South Service Rd. of the LIE and New Hyde Park Rd., was I. U. Willets Rd. pre LIE. Up until a couple of years ago, I. U. Willets Rd existed east of New Hyde Park Rd. on the north side of the north exit of west bound traffic of the Northern State Pky. It led to the Manhasset Lakeville Water District complex and to a residence beyond. There was even a street sign with that designation. It all disappeared with the construction of the condos and the office building. Prior to the construction of the LIE in that area, New Hyde Park Rd ended at I. U. Willets Rd. In those days, before Northern State Parkway was widened in the early 1960’s, there was only one Northern State Parkway exit at New Hyde Park Rd. It was on the south side of the Parkway and west of New Hyde Park and dumped you out onto I.U. Willets Rd. today’s Hollow Rd. I’ve been told that originally it was to be called just Willets Rd. but some felt it would be confused with Willis Ave. hence the adding of the intials.
From Mystery Foto #24 Solved: A 1952 Aerial View of Lake Success
Bridge was about 300 yards east of the Great Neck toll.
From Kleiner's Korner: The 1938 Regional Plan Association Update
This may help, Art.
From Mystery Foto #24 Solved: A 1952 Aerial View of Lake Success
Or, next
From Mystery Foto #24 Solved: A 1952 Aerial View of Lake Success
Resending again.
From Mystery Foto #24 Solved: A 1952 Aerial View of Lake Success
Art, also the Lake Success pole photo is looking approximately North or Northwest based on the pole’s shadow. Two possible locations on old I.U. Willets Road in Lake Success below.
From Mystery Foto #24 Solved: A 1952 Aerial View of Lake Success
From Art Kleiner:
Thanks Frank - good leads to do more research on.
From Mystery Foto #24 Solved: A 1952 Aerial View of Lake Success
From Art Kleiner:
Thanks, Gary!
From Kleiner's Korner: The 1938 Regional Plan Association Update
Art, possibly “Cellar Star”, and below it, “Garfield Tson…” I’ve seen the Garfield ad posted elsewhere in an early 1900s photo, and written the same way.
From Mystery Foto #24 Solved: A 1952 Aerial View of Lake Success
Here’s the matching real photo postcard.
From Kleiner's Korner: The 1938 Regional Plan Association Update
From Art Kleiner:
Speaking of Lake Success - I came across this undated Lazarnick photo in the Detroit Library Digital Collection and wonder if anyone can help date it. Possibly the advertising signs on the utility pole can offer some clues but I can’t make them out. If I didn’t know better I would have thought the top most sign is promoting a cellular start-up! Maybe someone was way ahead of their time!
From Mystery Foto #24 Solved: A 1952 Aerial View of Lake Success
Sam, sorry I meant pre LIE and NSP, where old IUW Rd meets today’s Bates Rd in Lake Success, just east of the Queens line
From Mystery Foto #24 Solved: A 1952 Aerial View of Lake Success
Love the proposed bike path from the western terminus to the Garden City lodge! Where can I sign up?
From Kleiner's Korner: The 1938 Regional Plan Association Update
Art, I believe the pictured bridge is the Smith farmway bridge just east of the Great Neck lodge.
From Kleiner's Korner: The 1938 Regional Plan Association Update
I finally found the missing 03 Apr 2000 pic of NSP from IUW and restored it at <http://sbiii.com/limpkwy4.html#oldcthrd>. Yes, you CAN see through to NSP, but not terribly well! Sam, III
From Mystery Foto #24 Solved: A 1952 Aerial View of Lake Success
Frank, the extant western end of IUW Rd. is the present driveway for the Buckley School and camp, a private way. My pic from the far end at <http://sbiii.com/limpkwy4.html#oldcthrd> is missing but, as I recall, you can see through to NSP there. It’s only some 50 yards from 90 IUW Rd. to NSP. Howard, care to start a new thread? Sam, III
From Mystery Foto #24 Solved: A 1952 Aerial View of Lake Success
Sam - IU Willets Rd history sounds an interesting subject. Its RoW was included on the Motor Parkway online map in pale blue, along with other roadways no longer existing. Appears Moses dismembered and paved over it with LIE and NSP. I would like to investigate if Bates Rd was once the same IU Willets. Perhaps an old Hagstom can clarify this.
From Mystery Foto #24 Solved: A 1952 Aerial View of Lake Success
I missed the origin of this thread but, since John M. reactivated it, take a gander at my Chrysler Page 5 <http://sbiii.com/chryslr5.html#powerwgn> and LI Page 3 <http://sbiii.com/longis-3.html#fultcant> re both Cantrell AND Campbell woodies. Whil(e)(st) there, please consider the term “Carryall” vs. “Suburban”, brake, van, etc. Did Dodge, itself, ever use “Suburban” as a tradename back then? Found this neat ‘49 Dodge Suburban woodie on line. Sam, III
From From the Hugh Nutting Collection: Insight into the Woodies of Huntington's J.T. Cantrell and Company
Dang - missed the guesthouse-cum-barracks! That VCR course map reminds me that we have studiously ignored ol’ Isaac Underhill Willets (although NOT his son, Edwin C. - Myst. Foto #17 of 30 Apr 2018) and the eponymous road that has been so truncated over the years; see my LIMP Page 3, <http://sbiii.com/limpkwy2.html#IUW>, for a bit more. [Just blew a Myst. Foto!] I, for one, would enjoy a blog just on the full length of the old I. U. Willets Road. Sam, III
From Mystery Foto #24 Solved: A 1952 Aerial View of Lake Success
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