Vanderbilt Cup Races

Old Northern Boulevard in Roslyn, looking east.

The cars on the north side, from foreground: 1960 Olds, Chevy or GMC truck, Olds or Merc (hard to tell), 1964 Chevy, 1961 Merc, 1949 Merc, 1950 or 1951 Chevy, 1956 Chevy. After that the picture is too blurry for my eyes.

The Entenmann’s truck on the south side looks like a DIVCO.

The tea house is surely the old grist mill.

I recall going up to Roslyn from my home on the South Shore to see concerts at My Father’s Place. One of the buildings on the north side of the street, I don’t remember which one, was the “U.S. Blues” club during that time.

From Mystery Foto #17 Solved: Old Northern Boulevard, Roslyn in the Early 1960s

Growing up in Merrick with cousins in Locust Valley, I would frequently ride in the car up Merrick Avenue/Post Avenue with my parents and siblings for visits. The stables were an unforgettable landmark.

From VanderbiltCupRaces.com Profile: Harry Payne Whitney

It was great seeing you at different car events!  Enjoy Florida!

From John Cuocco Heads to Florida After 19 Years of Great Work

Good luck to you John!

From John Cuocco Heads to Florida After 19 Years of Great Work

Dick Stokes:

Good luck at your new endeavors, really enjoyed the time at Amelia.

From John Cuocco Heads to Florida After 19 Years of Great Work

John good luck in Florida it was nice talking to you all these years

From John Cuocco Heads to Florida After 19 Years of Great Work

I recognize the location. I was just working there this week. Today, the road is known as Old Northern Blvd. At the time it was just Northern Blvd., in Roslyn.
The photographer is in the middle of the street, facing East. The Clock Tower is behind the photographer. The building that is the Tea House, is actually the original Grist Mill and the water from Hempstead Harbor flowing through the mill and underneath the road.
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Howard Kroplick

Phil, it was a pleasure meting you in person last Wednesday on Old Northern Boulevard!

From Mystery Foto #17 Solved: Old Northern Boulevard, Roslyn in the Early 1960s

Jerry and Rita Trapani:

Bouna Fortuna

From John Cuocco Heads to Florida After 19 Years of Great Work

Eddie Muro:

Enjoy your next phase John.

From John Cuocco Heads to Florida After 19 Years of Great Work

Ellen Vigneaux:

Great team

From John Cuocco Heads to Florida After 19 Years of Great Work

Rob Ida:

Congrats and good luck John Cuocco. It was a pleasure to work with you buddy.

From John Cuocco Heads to Florida After 19 Years of Great Work

Look at the pics from two years ago. I don’t know what they are doing here, but it seems inevitable that this stretch of LIMP is on it’s last leg.

From Sam & Dave’s “Excellent 2019 Vanderbilt Day”- #4 Albertson

Old Northern Blvd in Roslyn facing East. It’s technically known as the historic building district.
The Tea House is the old Grist Mill.

From Mystery Foto #17 Solved: Old Northern Boulevard, Roslyn in the Early 1960s

later in the 70’s one of those buildings on the left was US Blues

From Mystery Foto #17 Solved: Old Northern Boulevard, Roslyn in the Early 1960s

Roslyn Village looking east north east, Anchorage Bar & Grill, US Post Office in the distance

From Mystery Foto #17 Solved: Old Northern Boulevard, Roslyn in the Early 1960s

Walker & Gillette c. 1924.

Built for Harry Payne Whitney and wife Gertrude after they gave ‘The Manse’ to son Cornelius Vanderbilt Whitney.

From VanderbiltCupRaces.com Profile: Harry Payne Whitney

Great post. The horse / polo history of LI is not understood. So many of these Gold Coast tycoons were into horses in some form or another. Not many people know the oldest club in the US is located in Old Westbury right off of—get ready for it—- Whitney Lane. It’s also known as Hitchcock field, which was another huge polo family, and also Old Westbury residents whose property after hundreds of years is now being decimated to become a graveyard for the Catholic church. So Wonderful. The Hitchcock stables (2 pictures attached) still stand, but not for long. It wasn’t quite as huge as the Whitney stable, which is just tremendous and beautifully preserved although nobody knows it was a stable. 

Pic of the Whitney water tower / guard tower is attached. Amazing that this is still standing. The club currently uses this to park the golf carts and all of the other levels are simply storage. I’ve been up there 😊

It’s said that one of the Vanderbilt children committed suicide by jumping off of this tower.

From VanderbiltCupRaces.com Profile: Harry Payne Whitney

Do you know where I can purchase a a high resolution print/photo of the attached William Luttgen 1906 Vanderbilt Cup photo? This is a great photo.
  - Peter
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Howard Kroplick
I will send you my best resolution that I have of this image. In exchange, please take out a $25 membership in the Roslyn Landmark Society. Enjoy,
Howard

https://www.roslynlandmarks.org/ecommerce/membership.html

From Mechanician Joe Marx in the 1906 Vanderbilt Cup Race

The rear property of the brick house looks to be elevated, then sloping down to the flat LIMP ROW on the past images, too. The additional dirt mound where Sam is had to come from somewhere. Maybe the house foundation is being expanded? Probably just spread the dirt down towards the LIMP.

From Sam & Dave’s “Excellent 2019 Vanderbilt Day”- #4 Albertson

Great walk down memory lane.  Walking home from Herricks Junior High (remember when),  my friends and I “hung out” at the 3 foot eastern wall that stood over old Searingtown Rd on our way home.  What the hell did we know about this historic road back in ‘61!!!  Bob Andreocci

From Sam & Dave’s “Excellent 2019 Vanderbilt Day”- #3 Searingtown