BADGE COLLECTOR: HAPPY NEW YEAR 2023

Tuesday, January 3, 2023

HAPPY NEW YEAR 2023

HAPPY 2023

2023 is here. Best wishes to all.

I trust this will be a good and a healthy year for those of us in the hobby. I have in the past enjoyed going to the various shows in the South Eastern US, and hope to do so again. Health is the key, and it is becoming a challenge.

I broke my shoulder and arm in March of 2022. Now after two surgeries, and ten months in a sling I think I see a light at the end of the tunnel. I will start Physical Therapy in late February of this year (2023).

Thank God we had Health Insurance. The wife and I will still be changing who rides "Shotgun" soon.

I hope this is a better year than last. Health issues have been to close to home. We hope you have a great 2023.

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ORIGIN OF MY COLLECTION

1967 was the year of the Newark Riots. My Dad was a Newark Detective near the end of his career; and I was just beginning a career as a Probation Officer. Shortly after the riots my Dad gave me a couple of badges he acquired over the years. They sat around in a desk drawer for a couple of years. Eventually I put them on a shelf - never knowing that this was the beginning of my collection. My father died in 1974 leaving me his retirement detective shield. The word "Retired" had been put in the number panel. He didn't like that and knocked it off. He had the original number put back, but this was absolutely "no work of art." None the less I am proud to have it. It stands today "under glass" in my den along with other items from Newark and other NJ communities. I have been "The" Badge Collector ever since (50+ years).

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