In the old days, many police stations were furnished with blue lanterns, mounted on the outside wall next to the door, to guide those seeking emergency assistance after dark. These were probably gas lamps originally, with blue glass panes, and the idea carried over into the electric age (mostly in the name of tradition) with all sorts of lamp designs. The shape is less important to me than the color of the light emitted, and no need for a "police" text element, although some lamps certainly have that. Sorry - I'm currently unable to provide an example photo, but I think it's fairly straightforward: as long as it can go on a wall, and put out a decent strength of blue light, I'll take it.

A second-best option would be pole-mounted, like those lamps that can be put on fence posts and such. Thanks!

P.S. - I realize that there is a blue police-badge-shape neon light out there somewhere... but I'm looking for a more traditional lamp.

I thought that sounded interesting enough to look up, so seeing that I was there anyway, have a picture.

Yeah, that's a nice example.

Some - even in the Victorian era - were just round globes, sometimes two white ones with a blue in the middle. In New York, they sometimes had green ones - maybe because of the high percentage of Irish cops on the force? Just a theory. Here in Chicago, a lot of the cop shops are more modern-looking these days, but fire stations still have red and green lights beside the truck doors (the fire trucks also have red and green, like ships or airplanes). I tried just now to get my image site to upload some photos, but no dice. So thanks, Charity, for the photo.

What do you think of this one?



The lantern isn't mine; it's here. https://modthesims.info/d/55958/tes...or-lantern.html

The green recolour is here. https://modthesims.info/d/56065/rec...ntern-quot.html

I just made the blue (and the red) recolours.

Yeah, that would work! Thank you.

They are beautiful colours!

Are you uploading them to MTS through the queue?

I wonder if I'm the only one here, who immediately thought of "Dixon of Dock Green"? It was a BBC Television serial about a London policeman called George Dixon, that ran for over twenty years, which covered most of my childhood and early adulthood. The part of P.C. George Dixon was played by actor Jack Warner in every single episode. Each programme started and finished with him addressing the TV audience, standing on the front steps of the fictional Dock Green Police Station, with the Station's blue lamp in the background. He would greet us at the start of the programme with "Good evening, all" and sign of at the end of the programme with "Goodnight, all!" Of course for most of us, throughout the programme's long run, we could only see the famous "blue lamp" in black and white. By the time the serial ended, Jack Warner was eighty and was beginning to look a trifle unconvincing as a serving policeman, though he had got promoted to Sergeant by then.. The programme was something of a British institution in the fifties, sixties and seventies. Actually the first time that Jack Warner played the part of P.C. George Dixon was in a film called "The Blue Lamp ", made in 1950 -- the year before I was born. George Dixon was actually shot dead in that film, but it didn't stop Jack Warner returning to the role in the mid-fifties and playing for over two decades on TV!

So, seeing Charity's blue lamp made me feel quite nostalgic. I'll have to make a police station in my game with that lamp outside it.