Photo by Jean Bredin. 2019. Blogfinger.net
Paul Goldfinger, MD. Editor. Blogfinger.net. Ocean Grove, New Jersey.
NJ.com has reported that the Asbury Park developers are closing the casino until further notice. Pedestrians can no longer enter. Click on link below. How will Grovers get to the Asbury boards? I guess they can cross the Lake at Founder’s Park and walk east. Or there are other routes, but not via the OG boardwalk unless we swim over. NJ.com report below–click on the link.
NJ.com: “Madison Marquette, the company overseeing the redevelopment of the site, posted a notice on its website that the Casino will be closed until further notice. After a scheduled inspection of the Casino Building arcade, we have made the difficult decision to close that pass through temporarily,” the notice said. Pedestrians on the boardwalk were previously able to walk through the Casino, which links Asbury Park to Ocean Grove.”
May 8, 2023
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Casino. 2022. Paul Goldfinger photograph.
Casino. Paul Goldfinger photo. As seen from the Asbury side of the divide. Two way pedestrian traffic has been the rule. Blogfinger.net
Paul Goldfinger photograph. As seen from the Ocean Grove side. The boundary between the two towns is approximately from the Casino to the building on the right. The”White Whale” building burned down in April 2019. The Casino is totally the property of Asbury Park.
“It Was Almost Like a Song”. Johnny Hartman from Clint Eastwood’s Bridges of Madison County
It will be interesting to see what the numbers will be on the boardwalk this summer. Hopefully a little quieter.
Salt air and salt water can be very damaging to buildings. We had the condo collapse in Florida. Locally, the Boardwalk Pavilion at Ocean Pathway had steel I-beams that were so corroded that they had holes in them. These were replaced some years ago despite its being two decades younger than the Casino.
I very much regret the passing of old structures, but sometimes they become obsolete with no use. We had a movie palace near me in NYC that featured a Spanish Baroque courtyard auditorium with project stars and drifting clouds, and nearly 3,000 seats. It was demolished several years ago after being closed for decades and only the lobby preserved as a landmark protected structure. That was suppose to be incorporated into a new building, but nothing as been done to date.