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NJ Turnpike near Newark Airport. Paul Goldfinger photo. 9/15/21. Click once to enlarge

THE NIGHTHAWKS.  “You Made Me Love You”

Asbury Park.   Cookman Avenue.  6/24/23.  Pride.  Click once to enlarge the festivities. Paul Goldfinger action photos.

Some gams! Paul Goldfinger photo.

NEIL YOUNG AND CRAZY HORSE:   “Sail Away.”

Ocean Grove June 13, 2026. Blogfinger photo,

AL JOLSON:

Paul Goldfinger still from Netflix documentary with colorized still photos Children survivors were returned to their home countries.  Many were Jews.

This soldier was held in a POW camp for 5 years. He left for war when his daughter was 1, and in this photo he sees her as a six year old in 1945.    Paul Goldfinger still image from the colorized video.

In Paris, French women who had fraternized with Nazis had their hair shorn. Some had swastikas drawn on their foreheads. From the Netflix doc. Still photo by Blogfinger.

After WWII was over there were millions of children alone throughout Europe.    Children often survived without their parents, and those who were alone were taken under the wings of allied European nations and returned in huge numbers to their original countries, usually via restored train tracks.     Survivors were mostly  young women, elderly, and children.   Many survived because they had been shipped out to rural areas  with other children.

In some cases they were found by their parents after the war, but many were orphans.

Men died in the war or they survived in POW camps.  Emotional reunions occurred all over.

BEATLES:

Paul Goldfinger photo.. Nagle’s:    I had a chocolate float with vanilla ice cream. 6/10/26. Ocean Grove.  MYA.  The restaurant was closed then.

BEACH BOYS:

Hope Tower.  Hackensack-Meridian Jersey Shore University  Health. Neptune, NJ.

Jersey Shore–Neptune, NJ.   6/10/26

There has been a surge in hospital admissions around here today resulting in the HMH   filling up and diverting any further admissions as of late afternoon today June 10, 2026.

EMS units are being instructed to take admissions elsewhere.

Tonight the Neptune Emergency Department is overflowing with patients on gurneys lined up along the walls of that ER.      Staff is rushing around, and there is a sense of chaos there.  The way that new cases are routinely handled in  that ER  should be studied for quality results. I hope to discuss that soon on Blogfinger.

When I practiced in Morris County years ago, the only time we went on divert  was during flu season.

The explanation today here  is unclear.

Paul Goldfinger, MD

6/12/26    The “divert”  event on June 10 was temporary lasting for  about 4 hours.   As of  6/13, the crowding of the hospital has  been alleviated.

Ocean Grove boards. Close cropping and sharp focus. St. Rose.  Click once.  Paul Goldfinger photo.  ©

JACQUES BREL IS ALIVE AND WELL AND LIVING IN OCEAN GROVE:   “Madeleine”

Paul Goldfinger. 8/23/22. Ocean Grove near Wesley Lake.  Click to enlarge.

Paul Strand made a photo over 100 years ago called “White Fence. Port Kent, 1916.”

That photo inspired me to create the  image above. (2022). This is the second time on Blogfinger that we honored Strand for his  “White Fence.”

JOHN COLTRANE QUARTET.      From the album Ballads.   “I Wish I Knew.”

Illumination Night 8/4/17. Ocean Grove. Paul Goldfinger photograph ©  Click to enlarge.

JACK TEAGARDEN   “Stars Fell on Alabama.”

6/4/2026.

By Paul Goldfinger,  Editor,  Blogfinger.net, a source originating in Ocean Grove, and a web site with nearly 5 million hits since its founding.   We know OG.  And our posts are not  anonymous.

We have avoided paying much attention to the  Tri-City News just as they have avoided Ocean Grove despite our proximity to the Asburians.   I once asked an editor at the TCN why they never mention Ocean Grove in their self-important paper, and he denied that they ignore us, but despite the undeniable geography of the situation they would probably say to us, “drop dead”.

TCN: This what they may offer

But now, in the anonymous pompous Nagle’s  article shown above dated 6/4/26,  the publisher of the TCN,  probably the author  of this  “mystical” piece,  is busy showing off his adjectives regarding  a local glorified  diner being promoted beyond its actual importance only because the new owner, Kelly Ryan, a Grover, is friends with him.

So he is now falling all over himself to make sure that her version of Nagle’s is predetermined to be a “mystical” success.    Has anyone in the Grove ever considered their town as being a “mystical beauty?”  Many of us know “Lenny”   and many of us know his circumstance, but this TCN  show-off cannot help but inappropriately exploit Len Steen’s current situation.   If you read the piece, you will find no insights into the real feelings that many  have about the Nagle’s legacy or even about the historic town of Ocean Grove and it’s dubious relationship to A. Park.

Yes we in the Grove are happy to see Nagle’s re-open, but we should be the judges of possible “mysticism” arising at that location and in our town,   I don’t think we who live here would consider “mysticism” to be a good proscriptor—maybe  “local roots” would be more accurate.

But the Asburians are oblivious when it comes to the Grove. In fact they are a force for evil when it comes to our “relationship” with them.  I recall when the AP town council refused to support us in our quest for FEMA assistance at our boardwalk after Sandy .    Do you all recall why those A. Parkers  said “No” to us?

And how about the Asbury planners who would not consider our side when coming up with grandiose ideas for their side of the Casino.  And you may recall when the mystical town council over there refused to help us with our parking issues related to their tourists  and workers. And then there was the obscene complaints about the security locks at the WL bridges, and somehow the Parkers got their way recently on that subject.

So go to Nagle’s and decide for yourselves. Then let us know at Blogfinger@verizon.net.

DON JULIAN AND THE MEADOWLARKS