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Sign up for the June 27, 2026 Town-Wide yard sales.  Contact us  (Eileen and Paul Goldfinger)   by email;      Blogfinger@verizon.net.

 

JUNE 04, 2026 MEMO:   Sign-ups are a little slow now, but that is not unusual early.   Pick up flyers at our porch 113 Mt. Hermon Way at DelawareAve..  Bring some to merchants to place in windows.  Some will cooperate,while others won’t.  And word-of-mouth would also help. Please take some fliers and take a walk downtown.

 

 

This Grover has gone head over heels to support our Town-Wide Yard Sales. Paul Goldfinger photo near Stokes’ Statue. 2024.

 

OG Town-Wide yard sales. Heck Avenue

 

 

OG yard sale

 

Anne was the only authentic Groverican I met at the Spring Market,  home of cold $16.00 sandwiches. But our authentic yard sales will have real bargains offered by real Grovers.

 

 

By Eileen and Paul Goldfinger, Editors, Blogfinger.net.    Contact;   Blogfinger@verizon.net.    As of June 1, the list is small, but it will grow as June 27 approaches.

 

We are beginning to collect addresses for the June 27, 2026  Town-Wide Yard Sale.  Send us sale addresses, cross street, and name.  (Name will not web posted unless the seller wants that.).  Send us your lists of items at any time…You can send updates until June 26.

We anticipate an enjoyable and rewarding  sale as we have had for the last 14 years.

From now until the sales, we will have this post  in place,  and this will be where we will communicate information and this is where we will begin posting “THE LIST.” which  will contain the addresses of all participants including cross streets and, eventually  items for sale.  If. you want to have a sale, contact us by email at Blogfinger@verizon.net.

We will post the “LIST”  here  and add new addresses as they come in to  Blogfinger@verizon.net        New participants can be added to “The List”  as the addresses arrive to us from now through June 26.   Tell your friends;   give them Blogfinger.net to find this basic information. 

Send us your address sign-up now,  and add your items for sale  whenever you wish.  We will save the item “List”  until 1-2 weeks before.  We don’t want early birds knocking  on your doors.   The List will be published here starting in mid-  June.   But you can start signing up now. We will not post your names unless you request that. Send your list to Blogfinger@verizon.net

Only addresses and, later,  sale items will be on the list.  The latter will be revealed about one week before touch down.

We are leaving this post here until June 27  so that those who go to Blogfinger.net for yard-sale information will not get lost.   The content of this post will vary until the sale.

About parking it should be OK. If you drive into town, bring a bike and park anywhere.

This an Ocean Grove event run by We-The-People,  and we expect that mostly Grovers will show up as before, but out-of-towners are always welcome to our historic town .  Bring the kids, the dogs, your band, or your saxophone or  flugelhorn.    Have music at your sale.

Sellers will need a Neptune Township yard sale permit for $5.00. Get them at the Neptune Township Town Hall-building dept.

We have  fliers now to help publicize the event and we welcome efforts by participants to publicize the sales.  If you want to have some fliers, stop at our porch at 113 Mt. Hermon Way at Delaware.  Help yourself to fliers which will be in a box.  You can attach them legally to your porch columns.

 

Blogfinger headquarters 5/28/26.  Click once to read.  Ocean Grove:  Pick up flies at 113 Mt. Hermon on the porch.

Seller groups of neighbors or friends will enhance the success, fun and games.   We can use some volunteer citizen reporters  with bikes who could monitor and photograph  the sales and report back to the Blogfinger headquarters.

QUESTIONS?   Email to Eileen and me:     Blogfinger@verizon.net

This post will be evolving, so stay tuned.

Eileen and Paul Goldfinger. Editors at Blogfinger.net

 

 

PAUL McCARTNEY.   “JUNK”

 

 

 

 

KENNY ROGERS AND THE FIRST EDITION.    “Just Dropped in(to see what condition my condition was in).”  From: THE BIG LEBOWSKI

 

 

Photograph by Tony Vaccaro on the set of Federico Fellini’s La Dolce Vita c. 1960.  Filmed near Rome.

 

 

Paul Goldfinger, MD. Editor Blogfinger.net   Re-post from 2020.

 

Tony Vaccaro is celebrating his 98th birthday with the opening of his latest fine art photography show at the Monroe Gallery in Sante Fe, New Mexico.

His photography career dates back to the D-Day landings in Normandy and carries forward to now.  He still teaches and photographs.

Photograph magazine posted some of the prints from the Santa Fe show , and the Fellini image is one of them.

Nino Rota is the prolific Italian composer who wrote the music for La Dolce Vita (1960)  and for the Godfather I and II, for which he won an Oscar.  During his long career,  he composed music for over 140 movies.

 

ORIGINAL MUSIC FROM LA DOLCE VITA SOUNDTRACK.  Composed by Nino Rota.

 

 

By Paul Goldfinger, MD. Editor Blogfinger.net. 12/5/24. Ocean Grove, NJ

The Demby family sent 4 brothers to serve during WWII.  The parents Helen and Chaim came from Poland early in the 20th century.  Most of their 9 children were born here.  Duke, Marty, Al and Ben were in the Pacific except Marty who was with the Coast Guard  on ships traveling the North Atlantic bringing critical supplies to England and Russia.  Ben won a Bronze star for valor, and when I was a kid visiting Bayonne, I loved to read his certificate on the wall…over and over again.  Uncle Al was a union electrician who served with the Sea Bees.

The family home was a row house on the Boulevard in Bayonne.

George Demby’s Dad Saul  was another brother who served—- in  the home civil defense. We will display all their photos.

The Demby brothers were my uncles on my Mom’s side.

This is truly a saga, and Blogfinger will continue to present these  photographs especially as Pearl Harbor  Day approaches on Dec. 7.

D-Day, the invasion of  Fance took place on June 6, 1944.

 

 

Paul Goldfinger still photo from a Netflix documentary film . Americans march on the Champs Elysees  to the Arc de Triomphe.

 

Hitler marched his Nazi army down the Avenue Champs-Elysees on June 14, 1940. He thought he would rule the world.

But finally the Allies liberated France in  1944 beginning with D-Day June 6, 1944.

 

U.S Army  28th Infantry during the Paris Victory Parade. August 29, 1944. National Archives.

 

VERA LYNN with a song from that wartime era.

 

OG Boardwalk. June 29, 2017 10:00 am. Blogfinger photo © If you were considering biking at 2 am, the law sees you as a danger of some sort. But 3 am is just fine.

 

LARRY CHANCE AND THE EARLS  “That Sunday  That  Summer”   (Can you ride a bike on the boards on Sunday morning?)

 

Summer Saturday night in the Grove. Paul Goldfinger photograph © c.2015

Summer Saturday night in the Grove—-at Nagle’s.  Paul Goldfinger photograph © 2015.

 

THE DANLEERS   (1958)

 

From “The Way Back” Paul Goldfinger photo  movie still.  2021.

 

 

A TRIBUTE TO STEPHEN SONDHEIM:

 

Ocean, New Jersey. 2013. By Paul Goldfinger©

Were you ever taken to the cleaners?     Ocean, New Jersey. 2013. By Paul Goldfinger©

 

STEPHEN SONDHEIM.   From ” Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum”    (the album is Putting It  Together)

 

 

2022 Pride Parade in Asbury Park reposted below.   The 2026 version will be on Sunday June 7 at 11 am.  20,000 visitors are expected.

Paul Goldfinger photo. 6/5/22  A. Park. Pride. Blogfinger.net  Click once to enlarge all photos,

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Paul Goldfinger photo. Asbury Park 6/5/22 ©  Blogfinger.net

 

So, what’s her story? Paul Goldfinger photo. Blogfinger.net ©

 

By Paul Goldfinger, MD, Editor, Blogfinger.net   Ocean Grove, NJ, USA

I know that the rainbow is the symbol of LGBTQ pride, and everyone around me would be shooting in color, so I decided on black and white for my photo coverage this time.

There were thousands of people assembled on Cookman Avenue for the Pride parade that kicked off at noon sharp.  As predicted, various gay factions were represented, and there were plenty of garter belts, leather, ripped muscles, smiley and tough lesbians, tattoos out the wazoo, marching bands, floats and souvenirs handed out along the route. There were gay cops,, high school kids, and gay seniors marching.

 

High school kids from Rumson. Paul Goldfinger photo. © Blogfinger.net

 

Girls just want to have fun. Paul Goldfinger photo. 6/5/22 ©

 

The noise was pervasive with lots of hoots, hollers, and whistles.  There were few Asbury cops around, and no sign of trouble.

Since I am hopelessly hetero, I could not appreciate all the nuances of the costumes, gestures,  and insider banners.  Rainbow flags were all around, and what’s with the dog theme above?  And I have to look up all those letters in the name LGBTQ–no banner in the parade explained that.

I saw some really cute girls marching and holding hands, and I’m thinking “Really?”

Looking at the crowds in and around the parade, I couldn’t help but wonder how many LGBTQ people were there per square yard–maybe a new record.

As a photographer, I was having difficulty with the noon start time because the light is so contrasty that it was messing with my exposures.  But I did get a few good shots.

I did see a few Grovers at the parade, but I thought there would be more since there is a good sized gay community in the Grove; so much so that I imagined a change in our street name to “Mt. Hormone.”

The parade lasted about 45 minutes, and I found myself people watching, not only in the parade but walking and laughing on the sidewalk.

I was impressed with the happiness and enthusiasm of everyone there.  It was a wonderful parade, and we all could use some cheer these days.

 

EMMY ROSSUM from her album  Sentimental Journey

 

Cold War…

Paul Goldfinger still image from a post WWII film  “Cold War,”  a historic drama–a love story,  won 3 Academy Awards for Foreign Film.

 

SARAH BRIGHTMAN.   “Dans La Nuit.”   (Tr: “In the Night”)     From her Classics album.

 

Ocean Grove. Built 1880. Beersheba Award winner. Paul Goldfinger ©

Ocean Grove. 113 Mt. Hermon Way.  Click to enlarge.   Built 1880. HSOG Beersheba Award winner. Paul Goldfinger photo.  Our house. Visit us  and other Victorian jewels at the June 27, 2026  Town-Wide Yard Sale.

 

 

Gull wing roof.  This Victorian home was much smaller when it was built. It once had up and down wrap-around porches. Over the years it was turned into a mishmash with a masonry lower porch floor, stairs,  and wrought-iron railings.

Brought back (literally to 1880) in two stages: 2002 and 2005.  The frame of the original front door was found where the middle downstairs window is now.  A hidden staircase was found in the kitchen.  Visit our backyard garden by Eileen.

 

BILL FRISELL and PETRA HADEN

 

 

Millbrook, NY. 2019. Click once.

 

ALFREDO VIANNA   “Rosa” from Music of the Brazilian Masters  with Laurindo Almeida and Charlie Byrd.

 

 

 

Captiva Island, Florida.   By Paul Goldfinger     Undated  Tri-X collection.

 

“What a difference a day makes
Twenty-four little hours
Brought the sun and the flowers
Where there used to be rain.”

 

BIG MAYBELLE:

 

 

Members of Neptune United busting chops on  Sunday morning after calling the cops. Blogfinger action photo 8/27/23

 

By Paul Goldfinger, Editor Blogfinger.net.   9/07/23. Ocean Grove, NJ.

 

They call it  “An Ocean Grove Story” but it is as stale as yesterday’s dead whale.   The Coaster must be desperate.

It is about a woman who has been swimming in the Ocean on some Sundays mornings since 2020. She clashed with the CMA and eventually was offered a deal by Michael Badger who would personally escort her onto the beach each Sunday as long as she kept quiet about the deal.

In April, 2023 Ms. Pamela Valentine confessed her secret during an HOA meeting where the Groaners wanted to talk  about Sunday closures.  We reported on it then.

 

Blogfinger June report on this subject.

 

Meanwhile others were also crashing the beach on Sunday mornings, and we all heard about it lately when a new radical group, Neptune United,  took up the cause and started making a public fuss and an unruly stink.

Recently a number of local news sources have reported on the situation including NJ.com, Patch, and Asbury Park Press. Each of them did a careless job and printed inaccurate facts about the Grove. This is part of a journalistic tradition of covering our history and workings going back to when the National Geographic painted us as a hangout for religious zealots.

The Sunday beach  situation got some more attention when NU complained to the DEP about the chain/lock impediment to Sunday beach access, but actually anyone, including Ms. Valentine,  could have gone on the beach in a variety of ways with or without the chain/locks.

The Neptune Police refused to intervene, and the DEP warned the CMA to remove the chains and locks.   That matter is still under discussion with the Trenton busybodies.

There was an opportunity for major civil disobedience, but that never happened, and  the NU flash-in-the -pan concerns are  going nowhere, and now summer is over and full  Sunday access has returned, thanks to Mother Nature:  the passing of the seasons.

Why is Ms. Valentine’s story so fascinating now to the Coaster or to anyone else?  So what if Michael Badger made a friendly agreement with Ms. Valentine?  Who  cares and why do they care?

The Coaster should get a Pulitzer for this article,  aka “Much Ado About Nothing.”

But the real news is that this sequence confirms the relationship between the Home Groaners and Neptune United.  Because the Neptune United agitators foresee attacking the CMA from all fronts. (see their web site and their recent public obnoxious behavior) the HOA should divorce itself from this dangerous group or risk losing much of its membership who want no part of the NU tactics and slippery public relations.

Ocean Grove citizens  need  to get focused on what’s really important. Paul Goldfinger photo.  Blogfinger.net.    2023.

DAVID LEONHARDT