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Hatikvah (the Hope)

Paul Goldfinger ©

 

“Hatikvah (The Hope)”  is the national anthem of Israel.   This version is conducted by John Williams from the soundtrack of the 2005 film Munich.

Paul Goldfinger photo. Blogfinger.net.  Dec. 2015.

 

The M.U. Library sits on a vast open field with planting and statuary.   Formerly the Beaux Arts summer cottage of Murry & Leonie Guggenheim.

Photograph in the rain by Paul Goldfinger. Click to enlarge.

 

 

Monmouth University Library grounds. Paul Goldfinger ©. Dec. 1, 2015.

Paul Goldfinger photo. 2015.

 

DINAH WASHINGTON.  Dinah thinks it’s September in the rain, but actually it’s December.

 

October 30, 2012. 8:00 am. The next day. Paul Goldfinger photo © Blogfinger.net

October 30, 2012. 8:00 am. Ocean Grove.  The day after Sandy made landfall  in the OG  area on 10/29/ 12.     Paul Goldfinger photo—- Blogfinger.net     Click once  to enlarge.

 

 

LUCIA MICARELLI  (violin)  “Oblivion.”    From her album  Music From a Farther Room.

 

 

Do you see OG trash pickup schedule for “this week”?    This notice is from the Neptune Township 3/1/26.  web site, DPW section.

 

FYI.   RECYCLABLES.   2026. NT WEBSITE:

 

 

 

 

Here is a Blogfinger post 6/11/22 where OG trash talk can be found. There are comments

 

OG trash talk.

 

You will be surprised as to the complexity of garbage rules in Neptune Township.

If you have any concerns, call Melvin Fitzpatrick, DPW director.    732 775 8797.  Will he call you back?

 

So better not be misbehaving…..

 

HANK WILLIAMS:

 

Paul Goldfinger. Ocean Grove. September, 2022.  Click once.

 

LILLIAN ROTH:

 

 

Chapel of Love

Ocean Grove, New Jersey. Paul Goldfinger photo ©

Thornley Chapel, Ocean Grove, New Jersey.  USA,  Paul Goldfinger photo.  2013. Blogfinger.net.

 

THE DIXIE CUPS:

 

Los Angeles. Paul Goldfinger.  Click to enlarge.  2022.

 

GATO BARBIERI.  “Girl In Black.”     From the movie soundtrack of  “The Last Tango in Paris.”

 

OG Underground Paul Goldfinger photo. 8/31.  Asbury Avenue at New Jersey Avenue,  the North End. Click once to enlarge .

 

OG Boards, 8/16/25. See what I mean? Paul Goldfinger photo.  After I took this photo, I said to the girl on the right, “Nice pants.”  And she replied, “Nice hat.”  It is a new Ocean Grove indeed.  Click once to enlarge.

 

By Paul Goldfinger, MD, Ocean Grove, NJ, USA.

 

Do you notice the changes?  More kids, more teens, more 20’s, and 30’s. There are more  young couples–with or without kids.  There are more bikers, more coming and going with Asbury Park, and more New Yorkers. And greater appreciation of Ocean Grove as a place of beauty, history, class, culture, education, dogs, and short term renters, etc.

But there is a shortage of affordable housing, parking in season, unsustainable tax increases, more exploitation by the Chamber of Commercials and more crowded tourism.  And finally the CMA continues to try and dominate the town in the face of  increasing secularism.

Change is inevitable, and the folks who live here should form an organization devoted to the new cultures and demographics.  And Neptune Township should pay attention to who lives here now. They should do studies of the town and report on where we are heading.

 

BILLIE HOLIDAY.    “Easy Living”

 

Auntie Jean Litinger (L) and sister   (my mom)  Myrna Demby Goldfinger. Location unknown. Date c.1938.  At that time I never entered her mind.  Photographer unknown.  Goldfinger family album.

 

BENNY GOODMAN:

 

Paul Goldfinger. Still image from the movie “The Big Fake” set in Rome.

 

“Vieni a Firenze”

 

Eileen: A Portrait

Taken on a slow boat to China. By Paul Goldfinger ©

Taken on a slow boat to China. By Paul Goldfinger © From the Eileen series.

NORA JONES:  This song, “The Nearness of You” was written by Hoagie Carmichael in 1938 for the movie “Romance in the Dark.”   It was sung in the film by an actress, but the hit version on the charts was by the Glenn Miller Orchestra with the vocal by Ray Eberle.

 

Norah Jones recorded it in 2002 for her album “Come Away With Me.”

 

Ain”t she sweet?

Julia West Howard, a Broadway star, retired to OG from 1937 till her death in 1948. She lived at 113 Mt. Hermon Way–our house. This was a publicity photo  (see the stamp). We wrote an article about her on Blogfinger last year. —PG

Link to the Julia article on Blogfinger:  Julia Link

 

Here’s a musical tribute to Julia–a song from the Roaring Twenties by Gene Austin:

Barra de Navidad

Barra de Navidad, Mexico. 1988. Award winning photograph © Paul Goldfinger

Barra de Navidad, Mexico. 1988. Award winning photograph  Paul Goldfinger.  Click image to enlarge.

This image  (scanned from the published print) won first prize for the Pfizer Labs Calendar  contest for 1987-88—–I was Miss August.  The calendars were distributed around the world.   I won six times, the most for any physician.

After that I gave up color for the world of black and white photography;  returning to color only after seeing the results on-line and starting Blogfinger in 2009.

As a member of the visiting faculty at the University of Guadalajara Medical School, Eileen, the 2 boys, and I got to spend a weekend at Barra de Navidad, a non-touristy farming and fishing community on the Gulf, in the State of Jalisco, near the school. This door caught my eye while walking down a dirt street.

Below is the “blurb” that was part of the calendar.  There was one for each of the 12 winners.  I was a bit more rotund back then.

From the Pfizer Labs calendar 1988.

From the Pfizer Labs calendar

 

MARIACHI REAL DE SAN DIEGO: