The Long Island Automotive Museum
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- Опубликовано: 4 окт 2024
- The place to go to view vintage cars and trucks in the New York area soon after World War II was Austie Clark's Long Island Automotive Museum in Southampton. This amazing 5-minute film documents the opening of the museum on August 27, 1948 and a typical day at the museum in the early 1950s. The film was provided from the archives of the Long Island Old Car Club by Walter McCarthy and is being shown to the public for the very first time.
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I was Born in Southampton,grandmother managed-office-front-reception area,at the L/I- Auto-Museum.As a child in the early 60’s,I went with her to work,spent summer days wandering in,under,around,through,Bugatti’s,Mercer’s,Packard’s,Pierce Arrow’s,Simplex,Stanley Steamer,Thomas Flyer,etc.(Wonder why I'm a car buff,hmmm) Rode La France fire truck, 4thJuly parade.Had enviable position:turning crank to make the siren wail.Austie Clark was like family.I now realize, how special all that was.
I worked there in high school and am on many post cards..loved my boss, a great man
You were very lucky! Henry Austin Clark Jr. was a real live wire. I always enjoyed reading his column, Young Nuts and Old Bolts, in Old Cars Weekly from when I first subscribed in 1974 to the late 1980s. He had a way with words! Old car hobbyists like myself know that we owe Clark a lot of gratitude for his many contributions to the old car hobby.
I remember this being right next to my house when i was little.
I was first interested in seeing this place when I was a kid of 7 and my dad got the book 'Treasury of the Automobile,' by Ralph Stein. I put the museum on my bucket list then and kept it on my bucket list until I came across this film some years ago. Such a tragedy to see that collection split up, some of it never to be seen again. I see photos taken by those who have stopped by the property recently. So very sad...
This is a fascinating compilation. It's interesting to note that the way the clips were assembled, as a part of the opening day portion from August 1948, there's a well-used 1949 Ford parked next to the museum sign.
I remember visiting in the 1970s. I was visiting the Stumpf family and they had an old car on loan to the museum. Very sad that it no longer functions as a museum.
In the '70's, the Sunbeam Car Club arranged a run and a tour of the museum. I kept looking for my mentor, Les Cutting. Thank you Howard.
I remember the museum, my Uncle Lou had 2 homes out there and we would visit the museum when ever we were out there. Austin gave us a ride in a fire engine he had. Good times then, sorry it is gone.
I have been to visit back in the '70s. It was a nice place
Oh! Many were the times I visited there, and in the summer of '77, Mr. Clark gave me a job sorting and cataloging parts, in the warehouse, that he had purchased in the liquidation of an old parts house. I spent more time flirting with Maureen and Anne, though. What a place - and what a loss.
Nice interesting film, in color and pretty clear also!
I loved those helicopter shots of Southampton in the late '40s, long before it was developed all to hell. Especially those asphalt roads.
Fantastic.. I was there many times in the 60's & 70's. I miss all the great cars & trucks they had there. Especially "Emaline" The Old 2014 Fire Chiefs Car that is now owned by the Southampton Fire Department under the stipulation that they NEVER sell her..
I walked by the ruins up close today. It's really neat to see what it was!
My dad worked there for a bit
The buildings are still there, but sadly no museum
they knocked it down.. its all gone.. :( i got too explore the abandon site before they knocked it down... soo sad another piece of history gone.
Howard, when did the museum close? And what happened to its contents?
I have a beat-up old 16mm short subject containing scenes of the L.I. Auto Museum, leading into re-enactments of 100-year-old driving laws. But the titles are missing and I have no idea of its true origin. Looks like it may have been made by an industrial-film outfit or a newsreel company like Pathe'. Anyone know what this film is?