NEVADA COLLECTOR HAS INTERESTING FACEBOOK PAGE

WE were checking the various sites for something new and found a Nevada Collector who created a Facebook Page.

You can check that page by going to hard to see (sorry about that, unable to fix it) link, halfway to next paragraph, below:

 https://www.facebook.com/pages/Police-Collectors/109937279048236

This is a very nice site. Check it out. Sorry again about link color. It happens with every color tried here.

DON'T FORGET SIGN UP FOR ORLANDO COLLECTORS SHOW

Attention friends !!!

There is a Patch and Badge Show Sep. 14 in Orlando Florida.

It will be at the Rosen Plaza Hotel

Sign up soon as tables are 80% sold out.

MUNICIPALS : "W" IS FOR WEST ORANGE

This is number 39 in sequence. It is a "W" for the town of West Orange.

This municipality is one of new Jersey's  four Oranges. There is a plain old Orange, then a South and East Orange, and The one on the mountain West Orange.

There is also a "Valley Area" in this Township which is home to roughly 45,000 people. Many of them are on the bus or train every day into New York for work.

A planned community, is located in this Township  in the Valley Area. It was started prior to the Civil War as a "retreat" for wealth New Yorkers. It is Llewellyn Park. As you enter this community you   go up onto the mountain. Homes thus are afforded a great view of New York City.

A famous home, with the name "Glenmont," is in this community. It belonged to Thomas E. Edison. He also owned what is now the historical site just a short distance from this community. It is where he worked and did research. 

The house was built for his wife (second marriage) as a wedding gift. Mina was twenty years of age at the time of their marriage and wanted a country home. What she got was a huge, twenty-nine room, mansion.  

I am sure the home had some form of electrical service or gadgetry, but certainly no cable TV. I am sure Mina didn't have to worry about cleaning it or making coffee in the morning. Too bad because Cops like coffee, and this would be a great spot to do a little public relations.

This badge is from the top officer in the P.D. It is a named badge and also reads: West Orange; Police Dept; Chief. In the center is a standard size multi-color State Seal. It has been in the collection for around twenty-five years. It is in excellent condition and, naturally, is displayed under glass keeping it pristine. It hangs in my den and evokes many memories on a daily basis. I am fortunate to have it, and my memory of Mr Edison.