Mystery Foto #36 Solved: The P43 Racer Taking a Turn in the Hamlet of Jericho
Did you solve this weekend's Mystery Foto?
Answers to the Mystery Foto questions:
Identify the following:
- The location of the Mystery Foto and the orientation of the photographer
On Jericho Turnpike in the hamlet of Jericho. The photographer is looking east withe the W. Powell Hotel on the left.
- The building in the background
The S.J. Underhill Store/Jericho Post Office
- The race, race car and its driver
The Motor Parkway Sweepstakes held on October 10, 1908. The P43 Simple driven by Frank Lescault.
Comments (6)
Congrats to Dick Gorman and Brian McCarthy for correctly identifying the P43 in the hamlet of Jericho.
Kudos to Brian McCarthy for identifying the Underhill Store/Post Office.
Enjoy,
Howard Kroplick
Close-Ups
Location
1914 Belcher Hyde
1908 Course
Powell's Hotel on the left and the Underhill Store/Post Office on the right.
Underhill Store/Post Office
Courtesy of Betsy Murphy.
P43 Simplex
At Deadman's Curve in Central Park (Bethpage)
Comments
Mystery Foto #36… The location of the photo is the Jericho turn in front of W.B. Powel’s Jericho Hotel. The race was the Motor Parkway Sweepstakes help on October 10, 1910. This was opening day of the Motor Parkway. The car was the #P43 Simplex and the driver was Frank Lescault. He finished fourth.
The photographer was viewing generally East in the Hamlet of Jericho. The building was the Underhill Store. This was during the Motor Parkway Sweepstakes- 10/10/1908. Frank Lescault & Mech in a Simplex heading west on Jericho Tpke. If the photographer turned the camera to the left, the Jericho Hotel would be in view.
Assuming it is in fact the P43 car, then it should be Frank Lescault driving a Simplex in the Motor Parkway sweepstakes on October 10, 1908. The rest is just a guess but the location could be Colyers Corner with Lescault having just turned right from Plainview Road onto Woodbury Road. If that’s true, then the photographer should be facing approximately southwest. Maybe the building is the Colyer Hotel?
I also noticed on a older map that ‘Underhills Store’ was a post office, too.
The #P43 Simplex driven by Frank Lescault in the 1908 Motor Parkway Sweepstakes.
Still trying to ID the location and building.
Too many chores to do and have no research time, so my guess on the building Is it’s the Maine Maid Inn in Jericho.
P43 with mech at wheel in front of Unser’s General Store Mineola, corner of Wills and
Harrison Avenues