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I’m guessing it’s the Westbury Road East Meadow bridge looking west.
Might be Mrs. Ladenburg’ windmill in the distant right.

From Mystery Friday Foto #45 Still Open for Discussion: A Motor Parkway Bridge Built on a Curve

My above comment, Nov 8th, is wrong. The 3 gates on the NORTH are likely meant for the Trotting Association.

From Kleiner's Kolumn: Removal of the Roosevelt Field Motor Parkway Bridge

Just guessing here…The surrounding area looks to be the Westbury Road Motor Parkway bridge, but I have some reservations about the guardrails.

From Mystery Friday Foto #45 Still Open for Discussion: A Motor Parkway Bridge Built on a Curve

Frank,  I tried looking at the 1906 E. Belcher Hyde Atlas for a possible location, but the Hewlett community at that time had a ton of frame structures, many unidentified as to owners or purpose.  Based on the photo, I don’t think the business was located in a “modern” style garage, but possibly even in a converted residence.

From Mystery Saturday Auto #1: A Very Early Automobile

just a somewhat educated guess but I think we’re looking north at the Westbury Avenue bridge because it looks like there’s no road under the bridge yet and that could be the water tower on East Williston Avenue off in the distance.

From Mystery Friday Foto #45 Still Open for Discussion: A Motor Parkway Bridge Built on a Curve

Great finds Brian and Gary! The only service station on Franklin Ave in Hewlett today is at Five Towns Auto Center, located at 1205 W Broadway, intersecting Franklin Ave. The rest of Franklin remains residential. This could quite possibly be the location of the old bike shop.

From Mystery Saturday Auto #1: A Very Early Automobile

I dunno and am not about to do the research to find out but my gut feeling is Central Avenue looking west.  ???  I do want to point out, though, the terrific detail of how the gravel was dumped (probably by wheelbarrow) in piles on the graded subsurface and then spread out and leveled by hand, prior to pouring the cement slurry.  Now, Al or somebody, do we know how they kept the slurry from running out laterally?  Board forms?  How I wish that missing photo album, <http://sbiii.com/limpkwy0.html#limpbklt>, would turn up!  It documented all such work.  Sam, III

From Mystery Friday Foto #45 Still Open for Discussion: A Motor Parkway Bridge Built on a Curve

Your carrying forward of the Conroy images omitted my comment (or Bob’s?) that you could still see the old painted center line on some of the pix.  Frank, I won’t fence with you - that’s a fantastic pun.  Sam, III
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Howard Kroplick

Sam III, thanks for sharing the photos and correcting the copy.

Howard I

From Sam Berliner III: A 1970 Walking Tour of the Motor Parkway in Queens

Love that Isotta but there’s all that Detroit and Wolfsburg iron and that strange green thing that keeps showing up on these VCR/LIMP pages (along with some old Chrysler).  Just can’t understand it; is a puzzlement.  :·)  Well done, again, Howard; thanks.  Sam, III

From Hemmings Motor News: Show Coverage 2019 Hemmings Concours d'Elegance

Based on Brian’s results I discovered in the 1910 Census for Hewlett, Arthur L. Adsit, occupation Automobile Machinist on Franklin Ave., and not far away on Broadway Frederic Ward, Automobile and Bicycle Repair.  Therefore, it appears they might have had a brief partnership in Hewlett just prior to c.1910

From Mystery Saturday Auto #1: A Very Early Automobile

As a point of reference, the proposed Mitchel/ Hempstead Spur would have run north / south along the approximate route of West Road on Mitchel Field (notice the misspelling of Mitchel with two ‘L’s’ on some maps), about a block east of and running parallel with Oak Street (known as ‘Ave. E’ on Camp Mills). 

West Road runs on, or ridiculously close to, what may have been Ave. F or G on Camp Mills, very close to the easternmost border of the Camp, necessitating the spur to cross Army property (not to mention crossing the LIRR right of way on the Central Line).  One wonders, might that have been a factor in it never being built if the Federal Government refused to part company with it at the time? 

In any event, the spur would have continued southward, skirting the property of Hofstra and rendezvousing with Hempstead Turnpike just east of the college, lining up with a proposed extension of Uniondale Ave. as seen in this map of February, 1908.

From Kleiner's Kolumn: Removal of the Roosevelt Field Motor Parkway Bridge

The title above the doorway is ‘Adsit & Ward’. I didn’t have any luck searching both surnames together. I did find Ads for ‘A.L. Adsit Hewlett, Hewlett Garage’. Advertisement for tires and gasoline. No specific address unfortunately, I’ll keep looking. Ads below.

From Mystery Saturday Auto #1: A Very Early Automobile

Thank you very much! I have sent this page to the patron who was looking to identify the vehicle.

From Mystery Saturday Auto #1: A Very Early Automobile

I run the Internet Checker Taxicab Archive (ICTA) the first five cars depicted in the postcards are Commonwealth Moguls produced in Jolliet, Illinois.  They are not Yellow Cabs produced by John Hertz. The bodies are similar, but Mogul cowl is more curved than the flatter Yellow Cab cowl. The Mogul and renamed Checker Cab of this type was produced until 1928.
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Howard Kroplick

Joe, Thanks!

From Update: Mystery Foto #37 Solved: The Bethpage Lodge Under Construction in September 1908

Meadow Brook bridge (Newbridge Ave/Bellmore Rd), and Long Island Aviation Country Club hangars

From Mystery Friday Foto #45 Still Open for Discussion: A Motor Parkway Bridge Built on a Curve

I’m guessing the car could be early 1900’s Cadillac or Packard,but is more likely a Winton.No clue as to the location,Mineola bike store??? LOL

From Mystery Saturday Auto #1: A Very Early Automobile

The car is a 1903 or 1904 20hp Winton. It is not a truck however, but has the standard tonneau body. The body is concealed partly by the basket on the side of the car (a regular accessory), partly because of the photo cut-off. Attached a few examples of similar models.
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Howard Kroplick

Thanks Ariejan!

From Mystery Saturday Auto #1: A Very Early Automobile

Another great mystery photo, thank you Al. I think I see the Long Island Aviation Country Club hangars in the distance. If correct, the only LIMP bridge configuration to match is the Newbridge Ave Parkway Bridge (Bellmore Rd), once located in Eisenhower Park. Newbridge Ave once traveled through the park and proceeded north into what is today’s Salisbury Park Dr. What’s funny is how the LIMP Stewart Ave Highway Bridge, just beyond the mystery photo is not visible, but it’s there. Also, the iconic Ladenburg wind mill is just to the left of the photo, and also can’t be seen.  Photographer was looking East. Great stuff guys! Keep it going!

From Mystery Friday Foto #45 Still Open for Discussion: A Motor Parkway Bridge Built on a Curve

Great image, Al!

I’ll have to say this is Clinton Rd bridge during construction. The view is broadly west and north. I recall this bridge needed to be wider than originally planned due to the future widening of Clinton Rd, so maybe that’s why Clinton Rd isn’t noticeable. I also see a steam engine westbound on the LIRR - Mineola Line.

Thought maybe that this could be the Westbury Ave Bridge viewing south, with the train eastbound on the LIRR. But I don’t see a any utility poles or wire above for the trolley line.

So my answer is the Clinton Rd location.

From Mystery Friday Foto #45 Still Open for Discussion: A Motor Parkway Bridge Built on a Curve

Yes Sam III, I noticed this. LIMP Corporation must of donated these maps to Nassau County. I only noticed what was Sheep Dr on older Topo Maps. Must of been a livestock route : )

From Kleiner's Kolumn: Removal of the Roosevelt Field Motor Parkway Bridge