Where Is East Orange..?

Hi guys...Was looking at this pre cancel and saw a city/town/county of "East Orange"...Never heard of it..Any information..?

Robert

Just east of Orange New Jersey, USA (northern part of NJ)

LOL, seriously.

Don't know anything about the postal history associated with East Orange, but it's a town located just west of Newark proper in New Jersey, USA. I used to live not too far away in Montclair, NJ.

Gee thanks Don...haha

Robert

Although this has nothing to do with stamps, the reference to that city reminds me of the old "I Love Lucy" 1950s sitcom where Ricky was teaching Lucy how to drive and gets all flustered getting out the car ... Ethel asks Lucy what happened and she responded "How did I know there wasn't enough room to make a U-Turn in the Holland Tunnel! The police said traffic was backed up all the way to East Orange, New Jersey!"

I have a great website for you Robert

East Orange NJ Maps

Thanks Kirk...I made fool of myself inn front of Don and now the whole USA......haha

Essentially it's part of the suburbs of NYC.

Ouch

Hi

Just add my 2 cents. The Jersey Oranges, Orange and East Orange is becoming the center of a large Colombian population, or so we have been told.

It amazes me that Colombians coming from a mild climate, about 70 all year round in the mountains, gravitate towards cold climates, ie; New Jersey USA and Toronto Canada.

Jerry B

I don't know why you say ouch to the suburbs remark, it's only about 13 miles from Manhattan. Many people commute from there to NYC every day by bus. Newark airport is considered the third NYC airport, at least hundreds of NY'ers fly from there daily.

Ah, the orange groves of New Jersey. Presumably this is named after Orange in Provence?

I suspect it was after William of Orange, but there seems no precise info on why that name was taken in 1780.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Oranges


William the Orange it is!

In the philatelic world, East Orange is best known as the home of A. C. Roeseler , a.k.a. A. C. Roe, a prolific creator and dealer in aerophilately during the 1930s and 1940s.

@wert: No fools here, Robert; just good friends having a little fun with one another

East Orange is still a bit of a "nebulous" region -- even looking at a map.

Kirk