Vanderbilt Cup Races

Very enjoyable to watch and look closely, you can really see how the styling of the cars was changing from the early 1930’s.

From Videos of the Week: Then & Now rides on Fifth Avenue New York (1937 & 2020)

Art, The 1910 Motor Parkway Survey Mapbook may show who owned this area prior to 1927. Maps 14 & 15 would show Brentwood.

From Mystery Foto #43 Solved:Lou Austin's Commack Gas Station/Restaurant on the Long Island Motor Parkway

Congratulations Howard, that is one of the best stories I’ve heard in a long time. You are the perfect person to preserve and share the collection and the luggage will now have a home its been waiting for over half a century! It must be wonderful to have such good friends in the Ida’s and the Tucker families. All the best, stay safe and well.

From An Amazing Discovery: Brand new "still in the box" 73-year old Tucker luggage

On another thread, I took a ride up Lake Rd in Great Neck last week an saw that the WK Vanderbilt home had been torn down with a new house on the site. Was there mention of this that I missed?

From Update: Then (2017 and 2020) & Now (2026): A sad return to the Long Island Motor Parkway in Garden City

Howard, congratulation to you on your fabulous Tucker find. I know you will be very magnanimous and allow the automobile public to see a great bit of Tucker memorabilia. Thanks you for all you do to preserve history for all to share.

From An Amazing Discovery: Brand new "still in the box" 73-year old Tucker luggage

Wow! What a find!

From An Amazing Discovery: Brand new "still in the box" 73-year old Tucker luggage

This is a great find. It’s nice to see that Richard and his family preserved these pieces so well. Having the documents too is a bonus.

From An Amazing Discovery: Brand new "still in the box" 73-year old Tucker luggage

Howard,

What a great story and congrats on the luggage to complete the car.

Regards, Mark

From An Amazing Discovery: Brand new "still in the box" 73-year old Tucker luggage

Holy Cow!  What an amazing find.

From An Amazing Discovery: Brand new "still in the box" 73-year old Tucker luggage

The car depicted in the artwork that is the subject of this story was just pulled out of a barn in the Shenandoah Valley of Virginia. It sat for well over 80 years. Showing 11,000 miles on the odometer it was virtually untouched since it was parked in 1928. Phots of the car below show it at the New York Auto Salon in 1917, Parked in front of an estate in the Hudson River Valley near Hyde Park, and finally as it is today, running and driving.

From Helck Family Collection:Original Illustration by the "Vermeer" of Automobile Advertising-Earle Teale

Great story. Beautiful luggage!

From An Amazing Discovery: Brand new "still in the box" 73-year old Tucker luggage

Great slide show, the pictures show # 1044 from every angle.
Great way to spend seven minutes.
Thanks for putting this slide show together and sharing it, Jim Ryan LIBC

From Tucker 1044 at the 2020 Boca Raton Concours d'Elegance

Great weather for a car show!
The car shows well Howard!!

From Tucker 1044 at the 2020 Boca Raton Concours d'Elegance

Wow, how great….

From An Amazing Discovery: Brand new "still in the box" 73-year old Tucker luggage

Can sell vegetables, refreshments, gasoline on the Motor Parkway at Brentwood . . .
Anyone interested?  Wonder what’s there now! (“Brooklyn Citizen” Aug. 29, 1927)

From Mystery Foto #43 Solved:Lou Austin's Commack Gas Station/Restaurant on the Long Island Motor Parkway

Great addition to the Tucker collection, Howard!  Thanks for sharing.  i wonder if the brass plate on the luggage was often times engraved with the owner’s name.

From An Amazing Discovery: Brand new "still in the box" 73-year old Tucker luggage

This photo was taken looking north on Jerusalem Road (now Stewart Ave.) slightly north of the Central Branch of the LIRR in Central Park (now Bethpage). The buildings were the temporary field office / engineers office for the construction of the LIMP. The photo was probably taken around May, 1908 since the officials (including A. R. Pardington) were scouting for a good location to hold the LIMP ground-breaking ceremony on June 6, 1908.

From Mystery Foto #18 Solved: Motor Parkway officials at the Jerusalem Road field office circa May 1908

Looks like the Motor Parkway field office at the Barnes’ Tract in Bethpage (Central Park), also the location of the Ground Breaking Ceremony site of June 6, 1908. Photo is looking north on old Stewart Ave (Jerusalem Rd). Admiring all the wide-open spaces of early Long Island. The officials are walking towards the future ceremony site behind the photographer. Motor Pkwy will be built just behind the photographer as well. Photo taken about May 1908.
Below: 2020 image 113 years later.

From Mystery Foto #18 Solved: Motor Parkway officials at the Jerusalem Road field office circa May 1908

Great update Dave. Haven’t been there in a while but expected conditions to be worse with more downed trees. Looking forward to GC’s cleanup and hope they plan to reach the full length to Ring Rd.

From Dave's "Excellent Day on the Motor Parkway in Garden City"

The field office at the groundbreaking site in bethpage.  Looking north on stewart ave.  approx 1908.  surveying the site of the jerusalem ave bridge. 

https://www.vanderbiltcupraces.com/blog/article/surveyor_clinton_robertson_photo_albumthe_motor_parkway_engineering_field_o

From Mystery Foto #18 Solved: Motor Parkway officials at the Jerusalem Road field office circa May 1908