View Full Version : Thomas Edison Nat'l Historic Park (baseball display)
LuckyLarry
10-18-2018, 07:04 AM
One of my kids lives in West Orange NJ, home of the Thomas Edison National Historic Park (National Park Service). Can you imagine the excitement of the things being invented and produced here in early 1900s (phonographs, motion pictures etc etc)? You can watch a PBS documentary on YouTube "American Experience" "Edison" it's really good. A portion of the original buildings remain, some just got converted into condos too. There was a baseball display inside.
https://i.imgur.com/AZ3GnBFl.jpg
https://i.imgur.com/jYwCvaxl.jpg
https://i.imgur.com/DFYR0Ctl.jpg
https://i.imgur.com/PtMTHodl.jpg
https://i.imgur.com/qxHtsSPl.jpg
https://i.imgur.com/05ASxOBl.jpg
Edisons son Theodore collected cards:
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https://i.imgur.com/EUS6CmBl.jpg
Cool stuff, thanks for posting it. I especially like the Bloomer Girls letter.
BruceinGa
10-18-2018, 09:23 AM
Thanks for sharing!!
Snapolit1
10-18-2018, 09:31 AM
I've been there. Very cool spot. Usually empty except for the occasional school class.
jerseygary
10-18-2018, 09:40 AM
I remember going there many times as a kid growing up in Jersey, but I don't recall the baseball connection. Gives me an excuse to go there next time I am in NJ.
If you'd like to know more about the New York Bloomer Girls, I wrote/illustrated an article on the which you can read HERE (https://studiogaryc.com/2018/05/08/stella-friss-babe-ruth-in-bloomers/)
Snapolit1
10-18-2018, 09:41 AM
I remember going there many times as a kid growing up in Jersey, but I don't recall the baseball connection. Gives me an excuse to go there next time I am in NJ.
If you'd like to know more about the New York Bloomer Girls, I wrote/illustrated an article on the which you can read HERE (https://studiogaryc.com/2018/05/08/stella-friss-babe-ruth-in-bloomers/)
Yogi Berra Museum at Montclair State University is a short drive from there.
jerseygary
10-18-2018, 11:18 AM
Yogi Berra Museum at Montclair State University is a short drive from there.
I actually lived in a apartment across the street from his bowling alley for a few years when I was a kid. Haven't been to the museum though. Closest I got was several email exchanges and phone conversations when I was doing some research for something, and the people I had contact with were not very nice or helpful. Seems like they hired the opposite personality types than of what Yogi was like in real life. This was years ago, so maybe they are different now.