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Memory Lane
My thanks to the editors for creating a great newsletter, I look forward to reading it each month. This is a little before our time, but interesting Hicksville history...
Regards, Ann Grunewald , '59
1909 AMERICA'S PREMIER AUTOMOBILE RACE (Vanderbilt Cup), RUN ON THE LONG ISLAND COURSE.
A view of the course during the race, showing a stretch of road between Westbury and Hicksville
H.H. Harding, in the Apperson (Jack Rabbit), passing W. Brown, who had lost a rear wheel at the Westbury turn
Harry F. Grant in the winning ALCO machine, taking the turn at Hicksville. His average speed for the race was 62.9 miles an hour. Some of the attendees were Alfred G. Vanderbilt, Reginald Vanderbilt, Richarg McGrann, Harry Payne Whitney and August Belmont.
199th Street and 64th Avenue
Part of the repaved section somewhere in Queens
More paved road
Old Court House Road Overpass Manhasset Hills
Toll House Seventh St in Garden City
Now home of Chamber of Commerce
New Hyde Park Roadbed
The Grandstand Stretch, Levittown courtesy of Vince Fitzgerald
The prize...
plus there was some money involved
