Despite the fact that it is only 6 days till the big day, there were few shoppers on Main Avenue in Ocean Grove on a sunny, cold Saturday. What the Heck Avenue is happening to our commercial district? But it wasn’t a total loss: The Wall High School Fabulous Four were playing carols in front of Favorite Things, but music lovers everywhere were elsewhere.
We did get the the recording in only two takes. The first was a warm-up. A bandstand fell over during the taping, and the flute player had to fake the entire song, but she amazingly came through without showing signs of stage panic. A few wrong notes don’t bother this marvelous ensemble. Their motto is, “good enough for jazz.”
The second piece was “Oh Come all Ye Faithful.” What a marvelous performance. You must see them at half time sometime, these Knights of the Wall High School. Martin Scorsese would have said “cut” and shown the first take as an example of cinema verité, so we are posting both takes.
The so called Pizza Shoppe (above) still has the sign on the door that says “open weekends” but it was still closed. What’s up with that? The surf and skate shop was open, but Sam wasn’t having much traffic today. But she had her cheerful face on, as always, as she waited for some skaters or surfers to fly into her Main Avenue shop where the newstand/toy shop used to be.
Here’s a link to our original post on Sam and her shop: Surf and Skate in OG
Other shops were also open including Seasons, Favorite Things, Cheese on Main,OG bakery, The Emporium, Nagles, and The Comfort Zone.
BEVERLY KENNEY from Guys and Dolls
Had a bad experience at the pizza shop last weekend right after the Live Nativity.. Only one worker who said he only could make pizza . This was st 5:45 pm on a Saturday night. A lot of people can in and quickly left and went to Nagels.. They certainly won’t be in business for long if they keep this up.. Sad. I was happy to have them in town.