Days. Ocean Grove. 2026. Paul Goldfinger photo. Click once to enlarge.
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Neptune High Marching Band. It seems that the flute section has emerged from the shadows, so watch out. Paul Goldfinger photos. 5/30/22. Video by Jean Bredin.
Neptune High ROTC. They’ve got class. Blogfinger photos by Paul Goldfinger.
We have the most fun photographing the viewers. All on Main Avenue, OG
Watch the parade from your front porch.
Are they New Yorkers or what?
What could be better? 4 year old Kyle on the town with Dad at the parade.
Tammy is a nurse from outatown. She’s here for fun with friends. Will she find it in the Grove? Of course she will !
Speaking of flutes, in my day our high school band flute section had all girls and one boy. Anthony didn’t mind at all.
They sat in front in concert band, at the feet of the conductor. They had to avoid titillation in how gracefully they held their instruments.
I could never figure out the flute section because no one could hear them as we marched across the field during football season.
But those sweet flautists were eye candy that you would be afraid to touch for fear they would break. So I asked one of them, Janice, a lovely sophomore, to go to the Junior Prom. She was so delicate, like that flute music she played.
When she sat down in the car, her crinolines went “boing” heading north. She had little to say that night, but she was beautiful. After that I went for older women.
Guys, if you are in the NHS band, try to date a flute player, but be careful–don’t be mislead by those delicate instruments or those red shirts. As it says on his shirt: “Fear the Flutes.”
BARRY WHITE:
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Paul Goldfinger still from the opening scene of Dirty Dancing.
THE RONETTES: Fom the motion picture soundtrack: Dirty Dancing.
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Sunflowers: Delicious Orchards. Colts Neck, NJ. Paul Goldfinger © Photograph with an Apple iPhone 6. 2022.
Romance among the sunflowers: It’s Bob Dylan:
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8/30/26. Paul Goldfinger photos. . Blogfinger.net. Click once to enlarge all photos.
JOHN MAYER
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This Wegwoman wears her summer clothes today. She looks beautiful. Saturday, 8/27/22. Paul Goldfinger photo.
By Paul Goldfinger, Editor, Blogfinger.net
Aderike is an African name. I saw her by the “Ready-to-Cook Entrées.”
I admired her wonderful “girls in their summer clothes” outfit, and she explained that the pleated skirt was made for her by a friend.
And the white top is part of her bathing suit.
Aderike is from Neptune. (The town, not the planet.)
NANCY WILSON:
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Paul Goldfinger photo. Asbury Park, NJ. Click to enlarge. 2021 Blogfinger.net
JERRY ORBACH. From The Fantasticks. This was the opening song from a show that would run for 42 years.
The Fantasticks
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Chicagoland. Paul Goldfinger still photo from a movie called “The Bear.”
FRANK SINATRA: “CHICAGO.”
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Ocean Grove Pier. By Bob Bowné. October 29, 2013. Sandy hits the Grove, and Bob is there. Special to Blogfinger.
By Paul Goldfinger, Editor @Blogfinger. Reposted from 2013.
On October 29, 2012, when Super Storm Sandy hit Ocean Grove, Bob Bowné climbed to the top of the Windamer Hotel and went out on a small balcony at the left side. The wind was ferocious, but he managed to remain there while he gathered his photo gear. Bob is a professional photographer, so when he saw the furor of the ocean and the beginning of flooding, he knew that he had to document this huge event.
The Windamer Hotel on Ocean Avenue facing the pier, in Ocean Grove near Embury Ave. 10/29/12. Bob was on a small balcony–upper left. Photo by Paul Goldfinger @Blogfinger.net ©
It was about 4:00 p.m., and the peak of the storm had not yet hit, but the sight of that tumultous ocean was awesome. That is when he obtained the photograph that would become an iconic image of the storm. He said that he preferred making the image while the pier was intact, so that it would document what was, rather than what would be after.
The full strength of Sandy came to bear at about 9:00 pm. after the winds shifted and roared in from the south. Bob was the only person in his building and he watched as the devastation evolved including the loss of most of the fishing pier and the boardwalk. He went downstairs to check his apartment which was in the basement and he came face to face with a large piece of the Hotel’s roof. Water was pouring in over the boardwalk area and onto Ocean Avenue, heading west.
Sandy: Ocean Avenue. By Bob Bowné. © Special to Blogfinger.
Bob Bowné is a life long Grover and he currently works as a carpenter. In the past he was a commercial photographer who specialized in product imagery. He also was a surfer for many years and he used to photograph for surfing publications.
In preparation for a major exhibit about the storm at the Museum of the City of New York, 10,000 photographs were evaluated. Bob’s spectacular shot of the ocean boiling over the OG pier was judged one of the most dramatic images.
The pier picture is the only one of his in the exhibit, but he has allowed us to publish a few more from that storm day. These gorgeous images are now exhibited publicly for the first time. Bob said that the light was unusual and transient, enabling him to obtain the photographs that we are now showing, without any software manipulation.
Opening of “Rising Waters: Photographs of Sandy.” Bob used a fish-eye lens for this shot.
The exhibit opened on October 29, 2013. Bob was there, and people asked for him to sign his photo. The exhibit is called “Rising Waters: Photographs of Sandy”
Bob Bowné, Photographer. Ocean Grove Pier, October 30, 2013, © Photo by Paul Goldfinger @Blogfinger.net © One year and a day after Sandy.
For anyone interested in purchasing one of Bob’s Sandy prints, here is his email: bownephoto@optimum.net
BOB DYLAN “Blowin’ in the Wind”
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Jersey tomatoes are peak now and delicious. This is from Matt’s market Belmar. 8/20/26. They will be around into October.
Yellow white Jersey corn. Delicious Orchards. Colt’s Neck. Spectacular selections especially baked goods and a huge variety of produce. Also homemade soups and chocolates, candies, teas and coffees. Their field of sunflowers is in full bloom
Don”t forget the Asbury Fresh Farmers and Makers Market; Press Plaza right over the Jersey Avenue bridge from OG. Sunday 9-2.
Antonio’s Market on Sunset Avenue in Asbury. The best Italian delicacies including sandwiches on wonderful bread. They also have fresh octopus–great in Capri salads. For salads use olive oil from Italy. Closed Wednesdays.
“Hey Peach” bakery in Bradley. Spectacular selection. Try sour dough breads, croissants, and cream filled desserts. Coffee is first rate.
Vic’s in Bradley is still tops in pizza.
Uva’s is our favorite Italian restaurant. Bradley Beach.
ice cream try the Cookman Creamery in A. Park
Odyssey Coffee in OG has some special food items.
Online: Check “Goldbelly” to order authentic NYC deli foods such as pastrami from Zabar’s.
MICHAEL GIACCHI. Movie theme from Ratatouille
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August 2026. Blogfinger.net. Paul Goldfinger photo
Muppets:
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Blogfinger photo 8/29/2026
By Paul Goldfinger, MD, Editor Blogfinger.net
The Historical Society in the Grove used to award honors to the best restorations of original OG houses. The Beersheba Awards were stopped some years ago. The most public recognition now comes for those homes which participate in the historic house tours.
But now, as we have been observing the restoration going on at the old funeral home at Main and Delaware, it looks like that intersection may become the most beautiful and authentic and magnificent in town—if we were to judge according to intersection addresses.
For one thing it is the first eye-catching location that visitors see as they drive into the historic town of Ocean Grove, New Jersey. Our location definition of course does not include the part of town with the best reproductions: Ocean Pathway.
The “fun house” looks like it will be restored into a magnificent single family Victorian home, but we have no documentation now. Opposite the old ghost house is the relatively new and beautiful reproduction at Main and Delaware south (see above) and you all know that home, done by Albert and Jeffrey, complete with functioning gaslights.
The other striking house at that intersection is the wonderful Alday mansion which has been meticulously brought back by Steve and Victor and has more colors than Crayola. We wrote about that history recently on Blogfnger.net.
And of course the other property at the intersection is the Firemen’s Park, also known by us at Blogfinger as “Heroes Park.”
With regards to the Park, last week the Township got our attention when, for the first time we have seen a crew performing some much needed pruning on the trees, and they did a fabulous job. Too bad they didn’t remodel the center of the park: Creche-land, dead bell land, and dangerous iron spikes and shrub-land reminiscent of a concentration camp.
In fact, the park could use a consultation by a landscape architect. Too bad they couldn’t hire the artist who designed Central Park.
So let’s watch that latest reconstruction together. Don’t forget that judging architecture in town pertains only to the exteriors. And where is the Historical Society when this and other projects get underway? Thank goodness for the HPC and the legal team who challenged the North End mish-mash.
PAUL McCARTNEY. “HOME”
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Paul Goldfinger. Sunday, Sundown, Winter. Central Park South, NYC. Click to enlarge.
THE HARPTONES (A 50’s New York City Doo Wop group. Remembered by Cousin Brucie who has a Saturday night show on 770 am.)
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