Looking towards Sunset Ave.—-one of the most beautiful places in A. Park. Feb 1, 2016. Paul Goldfinger photo Click once to enlarge
WE did a “name that town” contest in 2016. That explains the comments.
GAL COSTA and CAETANO VELOSO “Que Pena”
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Sunset Lake, Asbury Park.
Posted in Blogfinger contest, Photography at The Jersey Shore, Photography in New Jersey, Photography: Jersey Shore Gallery, tagged Paul Goldfinger photography on December 19, 2023| 7 Comments »
Ocean Grove Jewel: 47 Heck Avenue.
Posted in Blogfinger contest, tagged Name that OG Jewel address on December 12, 2023| 4 Comments »
How cute is this cottage? Blogfinger photo August, 2018. ©
KEVIN CHAMBERS (OG historian):
A moving history:
This cottage was first built on the North End by the OGCMA and used as a tool shed in the early 1870’s.
It was then moved to Main Ave and used as a ticket booth for the Circle Bus Line than ran in O.G. and then moved to the back of the lot facing Heck Ave where it stands today.
It is one of about ten cottages built in the style of a tent that have survived in the Grove.
JAMIIROQUAI: From his Valentine’s Day album
Jersey Shore Gallery: Our Lady of Mt. Carmel in Asbury Park
Posted in Asbury Connection, Asbury Park Connection Photo Gallery, Blogfinger contest, Music from the movies, Music from the stage, tagged Our Lady of Mt. Carmel church in Asbury Park on September 21, 2023| 6 Comments »
Our Lady of Mt. Carmel on Asbury Avenue. December 7, 2014. By Paul Goldfinger.
By Paul Goldfinger, MD. Editor Blogfinger,net
I have passed this church so many times, but this day it really caught my eye as the sun, low in the sky at about 4:30 pm, illuminated it and made it glow.
It reminded me of the colors of Tuscany in Italy.
Congratulations to Jersey Jane who was the first of several to guess this location. —PG
RENATA SCOTTO with LEONARD BERNSTEIN. From West Side Story
MUSIC: “This is All I Ask” Can you name the singer?
Posted in Blogfinger contest, Music, tagged MUSIC. Name the singer on July 20, 2023| 10 Comments »
Re-post.
We have a winner. She is Vera Catalli of New York City. Congratulations Vera—this was a tough one.
Gordon Jenkins wrote this song and he considered it his finest. It was recorded by Frank Sinatra, Nat King Cole, Tony Benedetto (aka Tony Bennett) and here, it is Telly Savalis who, although known best for his acting, did some singing during his long career.
—Paul Goldfinger, Editor Blogfinger.net.
Yard Sale Story: A true conversation in Ocean Grove.
Posted in Blogfinger contest, Blogfinger feature article, Blogfinger guest reporter, Blogfinger Presents, tagged Kenny Vance new album, Ocean GRove Town-wide yard sale, Yard sale stories on May 4, 2023| 1 Comment »
Two generations join the Town-Wide Yard Sale on Heck Avenue in Ocean Grove. 2016. Paul Goldfinger photo ©By Paul @Blogfinger:
I had purchased a new Garmin GPS, so I placed my old one out on a table at our yard sale—- marked $10.00. A man came by and spent about 15 minutes studying it carefully.
Man: Does this GPS have night-time lighting and does it work?
Me: Yes
Man: How old is it?
Me: About 3 years.
Man: It’s too much money.
Me: (feeling charitable:) OK $5.00
Man (taking out his wallet and staring into it) I don’t have $5.00
Me: You can have it for free.
Man: No, I don’t want it. I want one with all the latest features.
Me: Sorry, but you need a new one for that.
Man: Walks away.
KENNY VANCE from his new album. Kenny—We miss you in Ocean Grove: —–PG
Central Park conversation.
Posted in Blogfinger contest, Caption contest. Participate, tagged Blogfinger caption contest on May 4, 2023| 11 Comments »
If you eat all the blueberries in that bag you will regain your memory, your energy and your libido. (Penny wins the caption contest) Paul Goldfinger photo.
ORIGINAL BROADWAY CAST OF SOUTH PACIFIC:
Memorable contests: BF “Name That Vegetable” contest. (Pat George wins. It’s a black radish. See the comments). 2016
Posted in Blogfinger contest, Blogfinger Presents, tagged Name that vegetable contest on Blogfinger on March 25, 2023| 9 Comments »
This vegetable sits in a bed of cranberries at Delicious Orchards in Colts Neck on Rt 34, off rt 18. I placed the mysterious black creature there, and yes, I have eaten it many times—always raw, with salt. Blogfinger photo ©
Delicious Orchards has an amazing selection of produce along with fabulous baked goods (espec. their famous pies,) coffee, chocolates, soups, and first class meats and fish. In some cases their prices are better than Wegmans, as with scallions: one bunch for $1.29 at Wegmans; two bunches for $1.25 at D.O. But the green beans were much more expensive at D.O.
The first reader who correctly identifies the vegetable above wins a signed black and white print by me. These prints are mounted on an art board and can be displayed without a frame—just sit it on a shelf. A selection of these prints is available for sale. Contact me if interested for more information.
Paul Goldfinger, Editor @Blogfinger.
AIMEE MANN from Season II of the HBO series Girls. “How Am I Different?”
Modern OG history: Ocean Grove non-fishing pier photo by Bob Bowné. 2015.
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“Toto, I don’t think we are in Kansas anymore.” Winning caption by Caesar. Ocean Grove non-fishing pier. September 26, 2015. Photo by Bob Bowné. © Click to enlarge. Special to Blogfinger. Posted last 2022.
EVA CASSIDY Live at Blues Alley (A wonderful jazz club near Dupont Circle in D.C. which I used to frequent with Eileen during our college years in Washington.)
At the shore: Deal, New Jersey.
Posted in Blogfinger contest, Jersey Shore gallery, Photograph by Paul Goldfinger, tagged Name that town contest on December 15, 2022| 2 Comments »
Jersey Shore. “Is it yes, or is it no?” By Paul Goldfinger in September, 2014. © Blogfinger.net. Click to enlarge
THE ELDORADOS “I’ll be Forever Loving You.”
The First United Methodist Church in Bradley Beach. Who was James Bradley?
Posted in Blogfinger contest, Photograph by Paul Goldfinger, Photographic Gallery: New Jersey, Photography: Jersey Shore Gallery, tagged Blogfinger name that town contest on July 16, 2022| 12 Comments »
Note: This church was purchased by the Borough of Bradley Beach last year from the Ocean Grove Camp Meeting Association for $1.3 million.
Now there is a controversy as to whether the property should be sold to a developer or renovated into a community center.
This week’s Coaster ran a front page piece on this topic. Blogfinger post below is from 2016.
The First United Methodist Church (1886) at the corner of Lareine and Madison Avenues in Bradley Beach. There is no sign outside. Paul Goldfinger photograph. October, 2015. © The wing shown below is visible along the right edge of the building.
This is a wing of the church on Madison Avenue. We don’t know what its function is, but now you almost know the rest of the story. Paul Goldfinger photos. 2015 ©
This is James Bradley, the founder of Asbury Park, who was also a pioneer in OG and Bradley Beach. Paul Goldfinger photo Feb 7, 2016. This is at the foot of Sunset Park, with James facing the Paramount Theatre in A. Park. ©
By Paul Goldfinger, Editor Blogfinger.net. Ocean Grove, NJ. 2015.
James Bradley, a wealthy businessman from New York, founded Asbury Park. He was an admirer of Ocean Grove and bought the first lot from the Camp Meeting in 1870. He liked the area so much that he purchased 500 acres south of Fletcher Lake along the ocean. That land became Bradley Beach.
In 1886 he dismantled an Asbury Park Dutch Reformed church and somehow brought it to Bradley Beach and created the First United Methodist Church.
As many of you Grovers know, if you bike or walk in this area, you can discover many neat things. Stephen Goldfinger came upon this landmark during a walk last week. He was following Pennsylvania Avenue into BB where it became Madison Ave. We went over to check it out and “found” this beautiful historic church.
—Paul Goldfinger, Editor @Blogfinger
HOT CLUB OF SAN FRANCISCO. “It’s Not Exactly a Sonata—-For Renata.”
From their album Claire de Lune:
A fitting location for a mural depicting literary giants Hemingway, Orwell, Nabokov and Joyce.
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Paul Goldfinger photo: Click once to enlarge. Literary giants and literary girls out for coffee at Barnes and Noble. Ft. Myers, Fla. No, the mural does not depict a scene from Woody’s Midnight in Paris. But those literary figures on the mural are reminiscent of that film.
By Paul Goldfinger, Editor Blogfinger.net
Hemingway said: “If you are lucky enough to have lived in Paris as a young man, then wherever you go for the rest of your life it stays with you, for Paris is a moveable feast.”*
Joyce said, “His heart danced upon her movements like a cork upon a tide. He heard what her eyes said to him from beneath their cowl and knew that in some dim past, whether in life or revery, he had heard their tale before.” An erotic sentence if ever there was one.
* A Moveable Feast is a 1964 memoir by American author Ernest Hemingway.
ALEXANDER DESPLAT—— from the movie Julie and Julia “Leaving Paris.”
Genghis Khan on the steppes of Central Asia? No, it’s Fort Hancock at Sandy Hook.
Posted in Blogfinger contest, Blogfinger Presents, Jersey Shore gallery, Photograph by Paul Goldfinger, Photography at The Jersey Shore, tagged Blogfinger Jersey Shore Gallery on May 11, 2022| Leave a Comment »
Sandy Hook. Paul Goldfinger photograph. Jersey Shore. 2015. © Wedding day. Click on image to see the road runners roasting on the roaring fire.
RUFUS WAINWRIGHT “If Love Were All” Live at Carnegie Hall: “Rufus Does Judy”
This coin is from the wreck of the Spanish treasure galleon Atocha which went down in a hurricane in 1622.
Posted in Blogfinger contest, tagged Blogfinger contest on February 20, 2022| 1 Comment »
17th century silver Spanish coin. The gold “frame” is not part of the coin. When I wear this coin Eileen says I have the Tony Soprano look. Paul Goldfinger photos. Side one.
Side 2 Not exactly pocket change. PG
By Paul Goldfinger, MD. Editor@Blogfinger.net
The Atocha was loaded with treasure (gold, silver, jewels and jewelry) when it sunk in a hurricane off Key West in 1622. The wreck was scattered, and most of the treasure was not found until 1985 by American treasure hunter Mel Fisher, who searched for years. Among the loot were rosaries with emeralds–destined for the Vatican, gold carved rings, gold coins and silver coins.
The silver was mined in Peru and rolled into lengths like a tootsie roll that could be cut into coin blanks. Then a wooden form with an engraving on the end was used to hammer the carvings into the silver, much as they did during the Roman Empire. This coin was minted in Potosi, Peru (now Bolivia)
The coins were shipped in wooden chests. The wood dissolved leaving an amalgam of silver coins all stuck together. It was a huge job to separate them while preserving the coin details.
Many people invested in his search, and when the bulk of the riches were found, they received a portion.
I purchased this silver coin from the family of one of the original investors. It is “grade one” which means that much of the detail is preserved.
One side depicts the symbols of the two royal houses of Spain: the castle and the lion. It is about 1 1/2 inch in diameter.
The writing has to do with King Phillip III and where the coin was minted.
Comment from Rosemary of Ocean Grove who sends us an interesting account of Mel Fisher:
“It is a compelling story and I continue to be amazed by the tenacity of the Fisher family, they searched for the Atocha for 16 years before finding it, Mel started every day by saying “Today’s the day” and, one day, it was indeed the DAY. Others had searched for the this vessel but what made the difference is that Mel Fisher sent someone to Spain to research the original 17th century documents which pinpointed the location of wreck in a different area slightly away from where other would be treasure hunters were looking.
“Even after finding it, he litigated for 6 years or so with the State of Florida which tried to claim the treasure.
“The case worked its way up though the Appellate Courts eventually winding up in the Supreme Court which found in favor of Mel Fisher and his investors. Really a fascinating story.”
Thanks, Rosemary.
MILES DAVIS AND GIL EVANS. “The Maids of Cadiz”. From the Miles Davis album Sketches of Spain. This album is perhaps his most famous and most beautiful. Cadiz is a port in southwest Spain which had been the home of the Spanish navy.