“Easiest Game on the Boardwalk.” Seaside Heights, New Jersey. Paul Goldfinger

I grew up in Bergen County. When we were in high school, we went to Seaside Heights in the summer. We were focused on the girls.

If this were a weather report, we would describe an erogenous zone coming in from the north. We were too young to drink, so we would stand outside the Chatterbox on the boardwalk and hope for the best.

If we did meet some girls, we often thought of them metaphorically in terms of dessert. Take this song for example—by John Pizzarelli, a Jersey Boy, a performer who always has a gleam in his eye:         —PG