Days Kazoo Band. July 4, 2016. Main Avenue, OG. Paul Goldfinger photo © Click to enlarge this image. Blogfinger.net
DOROTHY STANLEY AND JOEL BLUM from Showboat.
Archive for the ‘Ocean Grove July 4’ Category
July 4, 2016. 23 Kazoo. Days symphonic orchestra. If you can hum it, they’ll play it.
Posted in Ocean Grove Camp Meeting Association Activity, Ocean Grove July 4, Ocean Grove lifestyles, tagged Independence Day parade Ocean Grove New Jersey on April 14, 2026| Leave a Comment »
Modern OG lifestyles—–July 4, 2016.
Posted in Blogfinger Presents, Ocean Grove July 4, Ocean Grove lifestyles, Ocean Grove magic moments on January 28, 2026|
No ugly ducklings in the OG July 4 Parade—just lovely swans.
Posted in Ocean Grove downtown Main Avenue, Ocean Grove July 4, Ocean Grove lifestyles, Photo news from Ocean Grove, Photograph by Paul Goldfinger, Photographs July 4 parade in Ocean Grover, tagged July 4 parade Ocean Grove 2016 on December 20, 2025|
Paul Goldfinger photo. July 4 parade, 2016, in Ocean Grove. Wesley Lake swan boats. Main Avenue. Blogfinger.net
BRIAN WILSON: From Brian Wilson Reimagines Gershwin. It’s about a “cunning cottage.”
Modern OG history—A July 4, 2015 parade memory–a decade ago:
Posted in Ocean Grove July 4, tagged Independence Day parade Ocean Grove New Jersey, July 4 parade in Ocean Grove New Jersey 2015 on July 2, 2025|
Jean Bredin joins the band and gives us a kazoo eyeful. Their motto is “23 kazoo.” July 4, 2015. Blogfinger.net. Click on photos to enlarge then return with back arrow. ©
Re-post 2025:
Says Jean, “Today was the ultimate kazoo experience. If you want to have more fun than a barrel of monkeys, join the Kazoo band. We were greeted enthusiastically on every street…there’s nothing that compares to hearing Yankee Doodle Dandy played by over one hundred kazooers!! Days Ice Cream Parlor sponsored us and fed us after the Parade with sandwiches, soda and ice cream!”
This kazoo lady attracts a lot of attention. She is talented, but she can’t play the kazoo upside down. Somebody get her an upside down cake. By Prosper Bellizia, Blogfinger staff. © July 4, 2015.
Parade audience puts on a show for photographer Prosper Bellizia, Blogfinger staff. July 4, 2015 ©
She’s watching the parade begin. Two minutes later a guy jumps off a fire truck and helps her aboard. Seeya! Paul Goldfinger photo. July 4, 2015. Girls in summer clothes series at Blogfinger.net
July 4 parade. Boys in summer clothes for Blogfinger.net Paul Goldfinger photo
Mauro Bacolo of Asbury Avenue in OG leads a military contingent. July 4, 2015. Blogfinger.net ©
Jean Bredin photographs the boys in the band. Blogfinger.net ©
ORIGINAL CAST OF “THE LAST FIVE YEARS.”
Modern OG history—July 4, 2014. Our pride and joy, etc.
Posted in Ocean Grove events, Ocean Grove July 4, Ocean Grove lifestyle, Photograph by Paul Goldfinger, Photographic Gallery: Ocean Grove, tagged Ocean Grove July 4 Parade on June 27, 2025|
Ocean Grove July 4 parade. 2014. Paul Goldfinger photo. Blogfinger.net Click once to enlarge
THE TURTLES:
Patriotism in the Grove
Posted in Blogfinger Presents, Ocean Grove July 4, Ocean Grove lifestyles, Ocean Grove magic moments, Ocean Grove Main Avenue photo news on May 25, 2025|
July 4 parade in Ocean Grove, NJ. 2009 photograph by Paul Goldfinger © click to enlarge.
GLEE CAST:
Ocean Grove lifestyles: the July 4 parade.
Posted in Ocean Grove July 4, Ocean Grove lifestyles, tagged July 4 parade in Ocean G on July 1, 2023|
July 4, 2014, on Main Avenue along the Ocean Grove parade route. Paul Goldfinger photograph. This is a re-post. Parental approval.
TANGLEWOOD FESTIVAL CHORUS:
No ugly ducklings in Ocean Grove on July 4.
Posted in Ocean Grove July 4, Ocean Grove lifestyles, Photography by Paul Goldfinger, Photography in New Jersey, Photography: Jersey Shore Gallery, Photography: Ocean Grove portraits, tagged Ocean Grove lifestyles, Swan boats Wesley Lake on June 30, 2023| 1 Comment »
July 4 parade on Main Avenue in Ocean Grove. Running the swan show is proprietor Linda Occhipinti. Paul Goldfinger photo. 2017
From historian David H. Fox of the Historical Society of Ocean Grove: 7/2/23
“The use of Swan Boats on Wesley Lake has a surprisingly long history. The OGCMA authorized their use on 24 May 1889. They were presumably human powered as sail and steam boats were prohibited on the lake. I see there are a number of offerings in the current boats including swans, cranes, flamingoes, and even a dragon. Following the lead of Loch Ness, it seems every lake has to have some sort of monster.”
MEL TILLIS:
Lifestyle moments in the Grove: the July 4 parade.
Posted in Blogfinger Presents, Ocean Grove July 4, Ocean Grove July 4 Parade, Ocean Grove lifestyles, Ocean Grove magic moments, tagged July 4 parade in Ocean Grove on June 30, 2023|
Paul Goldfinger ©. Ocean Grove, N.J. Independence Day parade. 2015. Click to enlarge.
WILBERT HARRISON:
Like the wind…
Posted in Blogfinger Presents, Ocean Grove Camp Meeting Association Activity, Ocean Grove events, Ocean Grove July 4, Ocean Grove lifestyles, tagged July 4 2017 parade on February 18, 2020|
Paul Goldfinger © July 4, 2017. Main Avenue in Ocean Grove. For MLA. Get well soon.
NEIL DIAMOND:
On Saturday, July 6, Malaina Kuczynski celebrates her 4th birthday along with Ocean Grove’s 150th.
Posted in Ocean Grove events, Ocean Grove July 4, Ocean Grove lifestyle, tagged July 4 in Ocean Grove New Jersey on July 4, 2019| 1 Comment »
Malaina (R, age 4 on Saturday) and sister Addison (age 1) pose in Firemen’s Park. 7/4/19 Photo by Dad Adam Kuczynski © Special to Blogfinger.net
These two were enjoying a visit to the park with Dad on July 4, when Malaina Kuczynski spotted the planter with the flag. She went up to it, conjured up this pose, and asked Dad to take a photo. He complied, and then one year old Addison joined the photo-shoot. for another take.
When we asked Malaina how old she was, she raised three fingers, but Dad showed her four, however technically Malaina was correct. Her birthday is on July 6.
The girls are visiting Gram’s house for the holiday weekend.
JAMES BASKETT from Disney’s “Song of the South.”
Betsy Ross flag flies in the Grove
Posted in Ocean Grove July 4, Ocean Grove lifestyles, Ocean Grove photographs, tagged Ocean Grove patriotism, Stars and Stripes Forever on July 4, 2019|
Mt. Hermon Way at Delaware Ave.. Ocean Grove. Betsy Ross Flag. July 4, 2019.©
JOHN WILLIAMS AND THE BOSTON POPS ORCHESTRA Sousa’s “Stars and Stripes Forever.”
Katherine Pracht (mezzo soprano) and Gordon Turk (organist) in the Great Auditorium on July 4, 2018
Posted in Ocean Grove July 4, Ocean Grove Musical Event, tagged Gordon Turk musician, Hope-Jones organ on July 5, 2018| 1 Comment »
Introduction to Irving Berlin’s “God Bless America.” Ms. Pracht’s beautiful voice blended with the Hope Jones organ. After this, the audience rose to join in singing Mr. Berlin’s loving tribute to America. Berlin was an immigrant who came here and magically understood the greatness of the USA such that he could write music like this.
This performance was part of Mr. Turk’s organ concert, “Pipes and Stripes.”