Vanderbilt Cup Races

Great story and shout-out! 

Found a picture in the Peter Helck Family Collection of the socialite Gillies family of Syosset prior to taking off from Sands Point to participate in the LI Aviation Club’s Eighth Annual Seaplane Cruise.

From Newsday LI Life: High Society -Where the elite on Long Island learned to fly

March of 2021—- I have seen, in person, 11 Tucker ‘48s.
The Prototype, 1001, 1005, 1013, 1016, 1019, 1022,
1026, 1028, 1050, and the remains of 1042.
My plan? To see five more: 1012, 1015, 1024,
1025, and 1047. By then, I’ll be plum Tuckered out!

From Profile Series: Tucker 1005- The Green Tucker at the Tallahassee Automobile Museum

I was nine years old in ‘64 and have fond memories of the fair. I get a little sad when I see what the fairgrounds look like today.

I think Jay Leno owns one of the Chrysler turbine cars.

There are lots of Jam Handy films in the Prelinger Archives. Most are industrial and training films, and ads. They were based in Detroit, and their biggest client was General Motors.

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Frank, Just the opposite.  I hacked into the Hubbell Telescope Observatory, used the automotive aperture,  the heat sensing combustion engine option and the manufacturer app, was able to discover more than half the automobiles were GM and Ford products, followed by Chrysler. 3 Studebakers and one 1908 Alco.

From Mystery Foto #11 Solved: A view of Old Country Road (Salisbury) section of the 1909 and 1910 Vanderbilt Cup Race courses

Al - Most vehicles are from the 1940s? You must’ve used an electron microscope! :D

From Mystery Foto #11 Solved: A view of Old Country Road (Salisbury) section of the 1909 and 1910 Vanderbilt Cup Race courses

No problem, Frank. I like the Dino Mart name, they kept the tradition. The After the Fair documentary is very interesting. I was born a few years after the Worlds Fair, but been to Disney and Science Museums, where some of the attractions were relocated or maintained.

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Thanks Brian. The only service station I found is in Patchogue. The Hampton Bay location seems a corporate office.

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So as long as we are on this sidebar, the home of Harry Sinclair, founder of Sinclair Oil still stands on Sinclair Drive in Kings Point.

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2 more, Elliot.

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No problem, Elliot. Screenshots below show the locations I found on the web.

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The view is to the northwest from the Salisbury area. Major roads are Old Country Rd. running from left to right,  Merrick Ave. left center I can see Felice’s Restaurant.  North of Old Country Rd. it becomes Post Ave. with St. Brigit’s Church, 
  The road center of the photo is School St. north of Old Country Rd. and Salisbury Park Dr. south of Old Country Rd. The golf course is the Red Course at Eisenhower Park showing holes 7, 8 and 9. The large property above the golf course is the Cemetery of the Holy Rood. In 1909 and 1910 Old Country Rd was part of the Vanderbilt Cup Race course. Time frame ? I say early 1950’s, none of the automobiles are later than 1953 and most are from the 1940’s.

From Mystery Foto #11 Solved: A view of Old Country Road (Salisbury) section of the 1909 and 1910 Vanderbilt Cup Race courses

Question for Brian McCarthy: where are the four Sinclair stations on Long Island?

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Speaking of pools and Mitchel Field trivia, Uniondale High School was the first in Nassau County to have its own pool.  It was made possible by Federal Government subsidies to reimburse the School District for educating Military children living on the Base.  With no educational facility for kids on the Base at any time during its history, standard operating procedure was to send them to the nearest Public School. 

California Ave. Elementary School (known at the time as ‘East Hempstead Elementary School’) opened in 1928, just in time for the housing on Mitchel then under construction.  The Uniondale School District extends as far North as Old Country Road.  Accordingly, grades 1-8 went to CA Ave. while 9-12 graders attended Hempstead High School prior to 1954 when Uniondale High School opened.

Photos below: 

1) 1928 CA Ave. cornerstone.

2) 1954 UHS cornerstone.

3) UHS pool.

From Hot Post Alert & Update: Beneath the shadow of wings: Mitchel Field and the Motor Parkway (1924-1948)

Howie (& Roz):  This is cuzzin’ Steve (Green) from Calif.  I have great memories of attending the World’s Fair during my summer long visit to New York in 1965.  (I was 20 going on 21).  I took Uncle Hesh’s boys, Rob and Jeff, and still have a picture taken of me sitting below one of the Unispheres (in a red sweater).  Ironically, one of the Unispheres ended up going to California where it still, to this day, graces the entryway to Leisure World in Laguna Hills, the senior community where my mother (your Aunt Sylvia) lived for almost 40 years.  (She sarcastically and irreverently referred to the place as “Seizure World”).  I have fond memories of passing beneath the Unisphere every time I paid her a visit over the decades. . . . .

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Great high resolution photo!
Salisbury looking NW over former Emily Ladenburg’s Estate, once an oasis in the flat Hempstead Plains. 
Major roads include Old Country Rd, Newbridge Ave (formerly Bellmore Rd,  today’s Salisbury Park Dr), School St, Westbury Rd, Merrick Ave, Post Ave, and LIRR. Wellington Ct is the cul-de-sac at the bottom center. Motor Pkwy is just off the photo at the bottom, about half mile south of the water sump in the bottom left corner.
Salisbury Links Golf Course (today’s Eisenhower Park’s Red Course).
Holy Rood Cemetery with St Brigids Church on the west side of cemetery.
1909, 1910 Vanderbilt Cup Races used Old Country Rd as part of the race course.
Guessing 1955, when the houses in the foreground were built. The neighborhood looks new with little vegetation planted yet.

Bottom photo: Motor Pkwy in Eisenhower Park looking east towards “Oasis”, Emily Ladenburg’s Estate in 1908.

From Mystery Foto #11 Solved: A view of Old Country Road (Salisbury) section of the 1909 and 1910 Vanderbilt Cup Race courses

Brian, you’d be surprised at some of the prices of homes in Levittown and the surrounding areas in which Levitt built.  Homes are bought and then demolished to make way for much more elaborate homes (besides the homes built on previously undeveloped lots).  Its very hard to find an original Levitt home these days.

From Kleiner's Korner: UPDATE - Levittown Motor Parkway Site Being Excavated

Sinclair film says it all.  Look at where those corporate dinosaurs have gone today and ask our kids about the fate of Apple, Amazon, FB, Google, Microsoft.  Not to mention “lily” white male-focused America at that time.

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The Chrysler Turbine sold within 24 hours of being listed:
https://www.autoevolution.com/news/incredibly-rare-1963-chrysler-turbine-car-sells-in-under-24-hours-157470.html

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The actual Turbine car is up for sale as we speak.

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Thank you Howard and Roz!  Great memories! - What happened to all the service for ones car shown at the Sinclair Service Station?  Now at 84 years I am now pumping my own gas.  We sure have come a long way!

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