New Jersey Trip - Day 2

To continue with my New Jersey trip... On return from Liberty walk, we visited the India of Edison. Oak Tree Rd. This is a 4-5 mile streach of road that has only Indian stuff. Indian stores, Indian hotels etc. You have Indian fasion stores, the Indian paan shop, Indian hotels and ofcource only Indian people living near by that place. You will see a sort of compitition between the Punjabi store person and a Gujrati store person... who builds the bigger store might be the compition. Me and my uncle stopped by an Indian store and Its name was guess what??? 'Sabji Mandi'. This store had everything and much more than you might find in any Indian store back in India. from fruits, veggies, aatta, basmati rice, sona masouri rice, to dals to even our very own Indian broom. Idli stands, Mango cutting knives for making pickels, puja items etc...
You might even find the Hajmola stull or the Vicco toothpaste. I dint go and search for it though.
Probably all the Indians around Edison and neighboring cities in New Jersey might be shopping from that street. I truly felt that I was in India, well almost!!!!
The next day, we had plans to go to Philadelphia to pick up my uncles daughter who studies there. We started early reached the University of Pensilvaynia by 11 might be. The UPenn campus is not like a campus but almost like a small downtown area of Cincinnati. It's huge. We then went around for a quick tour of the University... The most striking thing about the University being its architecture. Beautiful I tell you...
The Amphitheatre of the University known for hosting many news shows etc...

It has one very huge Piano too...
Along the way we say some very old and beautiful buildings which were either the Administrative buildings or hostels for the people studying...

After watching Slumdog Millionaire movie now everybody knows who is on the 100 $ bill right. Well I got a chance to share some knowledge with him... He looked very impressed with the progress in IT you see...

Benjamin Franklin... He sits right in front of the Administrative building tooo.

We then headed towards the Philadelphia downtown and some historic places of US. The Liberty Bell is I believe of great singinificance for the people of US w.r.t. liberisation and right opposite that is the Constotution centre...

This is the view of the New Town Hall and the view of Philladelphia downtown...

The Liberty Bell...

The old Town Hall.

The National Constitution Centre

After a good time in Philli we head back to Edison and visited the Edison memorial. This is known to be the first Research and Development centre in the world. It is the place where Thomas Edison started his work of Inventing things and had made a sort of Reseach centre for himself... They still have preserved some of his original inventions of the 400 inventions patented.

One of the very first voice recording instruments invented by Edison.

He also invented many mediums of storing recorded sound like the cylinders... Here on display some of this instruments or music players of his time....

Thomas Edison also made his own set of Batteries, Electric fuses etc...

Thomas Edison as we all know is famous for his Invension of the bulb... Here are some of his early bulbs and his notes...

Below is the very bulb that Thomas Edison created after 192 attempts to make it work. He used a bamboo string as filament inside the bulb. When people mocked him for his 192 failures... he remarked saying that He has found 192 ways to make a bulb not work...


The left one is the replica of his street lamps of 1879 giving brightness to his snap of that time. I just liked the way the lamp had its reflection on Thomas Edison's Photo. It reflected his contribution...

This tower or lamp tower is built as the memorial for Thomas Edison. It has a 15 foot high lamp at the top which lights bright at night.

After visiting the Thomas Edison memorial, we visited the Roosavelt park and a shopping mall. We had a good time there. At the shopping mall we visited a book store. I saw something really great there. This book store had at many different places along the windows chairs put up, where people sit and read any book of thier choice. Be it either books related to their academics or some book from the store. People who did not find a chair were happy enough to sit on the floor of the store and read books. A very good thing to see. They find it very apt place to sit calmly and read.

I had a very tiring and enjoyable time that day and slept early. The next day woke up a bit late and left for Cincinnati.

On the whole I had a great trip. I saw so many places and the most important thing is I had a good time at my uncles home...