In 1934, an Ocean Liner (SS Morro Castle), was traveling from Havana to New York when it caught fire and beached on the shores of Asbury Park. There were 137 deaths.
A handful of survivors washed up at the Zombie Walk in Asbury Park (October 2013)
Paul Goldfinger photo. Blogfinger.net. Asbury Park Zombie Walk, 2013. Click once to enlarge.
MARTHA WAINWRIGHT From the soundtrack of The Aviator:
This is the first (pre-season) Blogfinger edition of “Girls In Their Summer Clothes.” Perhaps you were expecting short shorts, bikinis, black leggings, thongs, or summer dresses, but these runners were having fun with their colorful campy outfits, just right for running 2.2 miles in public.
REMINDER: THE NJ MARATHON will breeze through Ocean Grove on Sunday morning, April 28.
The race begins in Long Branch at 7:30, and Ocean Pathway/boardwalk will be near the end, so around 9-9:30 am in the Grove.
The market will be open every Saturday until Thanksgiving when the corn will be sold as maize, and historic Grovers will come from Pilgrim Pathway with their friends the Lenni Lenapi and the Delaware (for whom an OG street is named.) The Indians will be selling squash and pumpkins.
This photo and all the rest are by Paul Goldfinger, Blogfinger.net. 8/22/20. Sunset Market. Here we see Bernie Sanders with a real job at Jake’s Pickles.
Got nine minutes for Joshua Bell and Mendelssohn’s Violin Concerto in E Minor, opus 64. II, Andante? It is with Neville Mariner and the Academy of St. Martin in the Fields (London)
This photo (A Sunday in July 2016) was part of a NY Times article; photo by Tony Cenicola. Asbury Park had a Mermaid Parade (a la Coney Island). Posted 2018 in Blogfinger.
BEIRUT: “A Sunday Smile.”
“All I want is the best for our lives, my dear
And you know my wishes are sincere
What’s to say for the days I cannot bear
A Sunday smile, you wore it for a while…”