Submitted by Ocean Grover Vincent Cannavo. Special to Blogfinger. Click to see more (or Seymour.)
Grover Vincent Cannavo found a number of Wesley Lake photographs on line which carry a copyright date of 1903, although the photos may have been taken earlier. In this image you are standing on the OG side of the Lake. We can see boats for hire as well as the A. Park amusements.
Vincent points out how different Asbury looked back then, although the OG side looks unchanged in other views. Notice how Lake Avenue was a walkway back then. No horse poop in sight.
That’s not surprising because the OG side managed to be a planned town, and the Victorian houses were somehow preserved even though there was no zoning, HPC or historical designations.
Thanks to Vincent for these images.
Paul Goldfinger, Editor @Blogfinger
ANDY FARBER AND HIS ORCHESTRA WITH JOHN HENDRICKSON AND TERRY DONGIAN
NYT (10 August 1891)
“The residents of Ocean Grove who own cottages on the shore of Wesley Lake have been kept awake nights by the noise emanating from a merry-go-round on the Asbury Park shore of the lake. The proprietor of the place owns a steam organ that grinds out tunes… The organ is a powerful one, and can be heard plainly in Ocean Grove…The Ocean Grove people next consulted a lawyer, and the outcome of the matter was an injunction restraining the owner of the organ.. The injunction was served today and tonight the organ is silent.”
OMG!
I just remembered my previous life. After service on Sunday, we would stroll over to Wesley Lake and take a boat ride on Daisy (boat on left). There were 8 of us in the boat. We paid Billy 25 cents for the whole boat for a one hour ride. Then, we’d walk home to our cottage on Lake Avenue and have a big Sunday dinner around 2 pm.
I want Seymour!