Talk:Glen Ridge, New Jersey
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[edit] Gas lamps
The statement that there are ony 3,000 gas lamps in the US is baseless. There are over 2,000 in Boston's neighborhoods alone. Does anyone who lives there have a count of the number of gas lamps? Or a published reference to a useful count? Thanks!
Rikahlberg 19:30, 27 August 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Unsubstantiated claims
Odd that there's no mention of either Tom Cruise or the town's famous rapist student-athletes. Kind of sad, really, in the case of the latter; but typical.
- As a resident, I can attest that the town as a whole is upset about the generalizations made. If this is to be included (and I think it should, for completeness), it would have to be done tastefully and objectively. I am interested in your "kind of sad" refrence; it is natrual and fair to be defensive when most of the people that know your town know it as a rapist haven, which is not true at all. Everybody I know is mortified that such an atrocity could be comitted. They are only defensive because of generalizations and implications made
- --An inhabitant
Tom Cruise only lived in Glen Ridge for a "short" time (what, two, three years at most?), and his career was on it's way before then.
-- A former resident. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 67.84.228.189 (talk) 22:49, 11 February 2008 (UTC)
[edit] New York, Montclair and Greenwood Lake Railroad
My source (http://njmidland.railfan.net/history.htm) says the railroad was the New York & Greenwood Lake Railway, not the New York, Montclair and Greenwood Lake Railroad.
[edit] CCC
I'll see if we can get someone to write up the Civic Conference Committee.
[edit] Notable residents
What about Joe Dubuque?
He has climbed about as high as one can in the wrestling world, as an NCAA champion (considering there is no professional level).
See http://iuhoosiers.cstv.com/sports/m-wrestl/mtt/dubuque_joe00.html for a list of his accomplishments...
I realize that he was not a true resident, but as he attended 4 years at the high school and represented the town on the state level in high school wrestling, I feel he deserves a place in GR history. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 141.161.98.117 (talk) 09:16, 22 April 2008 (UTC)
