By Paul Goldfinger. © Left click for full view.
THE CHARIOTEERS. (An American gospel and pop group from 1930-1957) ”Sweet Lorraine”
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Jersey Shore Gallery. Spring Lake
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At Long Last Love
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Wedding in the Casino. Asbury Park, New Jersey. 2010. By Paul Goldfinger. © Left click for full view
FRANK SINATRA: (Romance–Songs From the Heart) Is it Granada? No, but it is the real McCoy.
Boardwalk—Casino: August, 2012.
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Asbury Park at border with Ocean Grove. August 2012. © Paul Goldfinger photo
JOHN CAFFERTY AND THE BEAVER BROWN BAND. ”Boardwalk Angel” (From Eddie and the Cruisers)
Manalapan Spring at Dusk
Posted in Jersey Shore gallery on April 23, 2013 | Leave a Comment »
Manalapan, New Jersey. April, 2013 By Paul Goldfinger © Leica D-Lux 6 photo
REGINA CARTER. ”Spring Can Really Hang You Up the Most.’
Magnolia Tree: Wanamassa section of Ocean Township
Posted in Jersey Shore gallery, Music from the movies, tagged Spring is here--cherry tree in bloom on April 20, 2013 | 2 Comments »
Sunset Avenue. April 20, 2013 PG photo. Left click for full view
PEREZ PRADO. “Cherry Pink and Apple Blossom White” It’s a cha-cha from The Best of Perez Prado. Prado was Cuban, and of the famous musicians who performed with his band, only one was not Cuban—that was Maynard Ferguson, a Canadian who was known for hitting very high notes with his trumpet. —-PG
Jersey Shore Gallery: Long Branch
Posted in Jersey Shore gallery, tagged Arthur Pryor trombonist, composite materials for boardwalk, land-based jetties, Pier Village (Long Branch) on April 18, 2013 |
View from Pier Village (Long Branch) looking south. Note the composite boards and the large land-based rock jetties. Paul Goldfinger photo. April, 2013. Click left for full view.
ARTHUR PRYOR was the greatest trombonist ever. He lived in West Long Branch. At age 22 he was discovered by John Phillip Sousa and he became famous as Sousa’s lead trombonist. It is estimated that he played 10,000 solos during his years with Sousa. From 1904- 1917, he performed in Asbury Park on the boardwalk. Those concerts were famous. He probably was the owner of the John Phillip Sousa painting which hangs in the museum of the Historical Society of Ocean Grove. Here is the link to the Blogfinger article about that painting and how it wound up in the Grove. BF Sousa link
ARTHUR PRYOR. Trombone solo ”Exposition Echoes. “dated 1893″, although this recording is by another trombonist reproducing Pryor’s style.
Jersey Shore Gallery: Wanamassa (Ocean Township)
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Wanamassa. 2010. By Paul Goldfinger. © Click left for full view
KIMMIE RHODES. ”Windblown”
Jersey Shore Gallery: Avon-by-the-Sea
Posted in Hurricane Sandy recovery, Jersey Shore gallery, tagged Avon-by-the-sea on April 2, 2013 |
Today we feature the town with the most hyphenated town in America. Their boardwalk rebuild seems to be slow—lots of footings.
Avon-by-the-sea. April 2, 2013. Paul Goldfinger photo. Click left to make the hyphens bigger.
URI CAIN ENSEMBLE:
Jersey Shore Gallery. Trinity Episcopal Church in Asbury Park, New Jersey
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Jim Eberle correctly identified this as the Trinity Episcopal Church in Asbury Park. . PG photo March 30, 2013. Click left for full view
SOUNDTRACK:. From the Norwich Cathedral Choir in England:
Progress Note: Spring Lake Boardwalk, March 12, 2013
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Spring Lake, N.J. March 12, 2013. Paul Goldfinger photo
Jersey Shore Gallery: Long Beach Island
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“Two Boys” Long Beach Island. By Paul Goldfinger
SOUNDTRACK: From the original Broadway album of ”Annie:”
Jersey Shore Gallery: West Long Branch
Posted in Jersey Shore gallery, tagged An architectural revelation, How now brown house? on January 20, 2013 | 2 Comments »
West Long Branch, New Jersey. November, 2012. Paul Goldfinger photo
By Paul Goldfinger
Did you ever see a house that called to you—a place where there is something about it that makes you feel that you could live there? The best architecture blends into its environment and draws human beings to it. Our initial reaction stems largely from our subconscious. I had that sort of experience when we visited “Falling Water” the cantilevered concrete masterpiece that Frank Lloyd Wright designed and built in the woods of southwestern Pennsylvania.
Houses have that effect on me, and I suspect it has something to do with a childhood where we always lived in apartments. So when I see a house that says, “You would like to live here,” I sometimes try to figure out why I have that feeling.. Oftentimes I conclude that it is about the setting and/or the design. Sometimes it is just the recognition of something beautiful. But if it is a house that feels like a home, you can also imagine what the inside looks like.
This past November we were driving along Cedar Avenue in West Long Branch, near Monmouth University. I glanced to my left and immediately reacted to an old brown house. So I stopped the car, got out, and walked around. No one seemed to be home. It was a brown Victorian on a large lot and it seemed to be a very comfortable place. It had a quiet peaceful mood. I’m sure the snow on the ground and the trees influenced my assessment. Maybe it was the brown color or the fact that it was old, like some place that might have sheltered generations of families. It also was probably about the solid symmetry of the design, which, like a photographic composition that you respond to immediately and find the order of it is agreeable, so you press the button.
Probably others would find it to be fairly ordinary and wouldn’t give it a second glance. Eileen’s reaction was “ho-hum.” But no need to pursue the analysis any further. It’s like most art— you react emotionally and leave it at that.
Nothing to do but take its picture, enjoy the moment and drive on.
SOUNDTRACK. Miranda Lambert: “The house that built me”
