This bride-to-be got lost searching for her car in OG. Months later she turned up sitting on a bench outside the Pathway Market playing scratch-off. Blogfinger photo. Summer, 2017.
By Paul Goldfinger, Editor @Blogfinger.net
Scene: An Ocean Grove corner on a perfect beach day, July 16, 2017. Parking gridlock. A women drives around and sees no open spaces. She sees a man walking along a long row of parked cars, looking around.
She: “Are you leaving?”
He: “I need to find my car first.”
Does this happen? It sure does. I saw two befuddled women stymied. One told me that her car was parked “by the church.”
M (for me) “Oh,” I said, “Do you mean the Great Auditorium?”
S (for she): “No, I mean the church.”
M: “Oh. It probably was St. Paul’s Church?”
S: “Uh, which way is the Ocean?”
M: “OK, here’s the story. Cross Main Avenue and then walk three blocks to Webb Ave. You will see the church. The bells are ringing. ” (Now you know for whom the bell tolls.)
S: “Thank you, thank you, thank you.”
BLIND BOYS with directions to the “Promised Land.”
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According to this map it’s not just the ‘area in need of development’ that’s been ceded to AP. It looks like the walkway known as Lake Av and part of Founder’s Park (original name was Thompson btw) has been ceded as well. I thought the official northern boundary was the middle of the lake/detention basin. Oh well.