TONY BENNETT
Posted in Ocean Grove photographs, Photograph by Paul Goldfinger, tagged Once upon a time in Ocean Grove on December 28, 2022| Leave a Comment »
Posted in Girls in summer clothes Ocean Grove, Girls in their summer clothes, Ocean Grove photographs on December 13, 2022| Leave a Comment »
Posted in Ocean Grove photographs, Photograph by Paul Goldfinger, tagged Girls in their summer clothes on December 12, 2022| Leave a Comment »
Posted in Music: The Power to Enchant, Ocean Grove photographs, tagged "Looking Back" at Ocean Grove, MUSIC: Bruce Springsteen, View from the OG fishing pier on November 26, 2022| 2 Comments »
This image is permanently exhibited on Blogfinger in the “about” section above. It appeared in Maine Ahead, a magazine which featured it in their January 2011 anniversary collectors edition. It is no longer possible to re-create this view — at least until they rebuild the pier.
Note that this special uncropped commemorative “print” of it includes a piece of the OG fishing pier in the lower left hand corner.
Here’s Bruce Springsteen; a musical hero here at the Jersey Shore. He appeared in the 12/12/12 benefit concert in NYC with the E Street Band — raising money for the hurricane victims. Below is a live recording of “Girls in Their Summer Clothes” — from the 2008 album “Magic.”
This song reminds me of the shore — you can almost smell the surf and see the girls walking on the boardwalk and the fishing pier.
“And the girls in their summer clothes
In the cool of the evening light
The girls in their summer clothes
Passing by.”
— PG
Posted in Ocean Grove lifestyles, Ocean Grove photographs, Ocean Grove things we did last summer, Photograph by Paul Goldfinger, Photography Girls in their summer clothes on November 19, 2022| Leave a Comment »
Posted in Ocean Grove photographs, tagged Auditorium Square in Ocean Grove, The Fountains of Wayne on November 4, 2022| Leave a Comment »
Posted in Music: The Power to Enchant, Ocean Grove photographs, tagged Auditorium Square, The Christmas Waltz on September 25, 2022| 4 Comments »
Photograph: Auditorium Square Park. Silver gelatin print. Paul Goldfinger photo. Click left to enlarge.
SOUNDTRACK: “The Christmas Waltz.” Sir George Shearing (1919-2011) and his quintet in three-quarter time :
Posted in Ocean Grove art, Ocean Grove beachfront, Ocean Grove photographs, OG wildlife news, Photographic Gallery: Ocean Grove, Photography at The Jersey Shore, Photography by Moe Demby, Photography Nights in Ocean Grove, Photography: Nocturnal Ocean Grove on August 25, 2022| 1 Comment »
A.R. RAHMAN From the film The Hundred Foot Journey. “You Complete Me.”
Posted in Blogfinger Presents, Ocean Grove beachfront, Ocean Grove photographs, Photograph by Paul Goldfinger, Photographic Gallery: New Jersey, Photography at The Jersey Shore, tagged By the sea in Ocean Grove, Ocean Grove beach rules on August 8, 2022| 2 Comments »
Lifeguards in action on the Ocean Grove beach. 2014/ © Paul Goldfinger photo Click to make bigger. Re-post. 2021.
By Paul Goldfinger, Editor @Blogfinger
A mailing was sent out today (2021) for those who want to obtain their beach “tags” now. If you order by mail, there will be a $7.00 mailing fee. The cost for 2016 will be the same as 2015. You have to sign and return the enclosed card which promises that you will “follow all of the beach rules and regulations.”
Is this unique, or do other towns require that you sign a pledge to follow the rules? Do you think these rules are stated clearly? I wonder how many of you have actually read the rules. If you haven’t, here are a few that are of particular interest.
Note that Ocean Grove CMA controls most of these rules, not the Neptuners, even though the beach, boards, and parks are considered “public thoroughfares”
Well, you get the idea. There are 45 such rules and regulations; you have to decide which ones you want to obey fully, which ones you will gracefully ignore, and which ones you will obey selectively.
Oh, and who gets to enforce all these rules, especially if they are 24/7? And how does the CMA insure equal justice under the law?
JOHNNY DEPP and HELENA BONHAM CARTER “By the Sea” from Sweeney Todd-the Demon Barber of Fleet Street. Stephen Sondheim (music and lyrics 1979)
“By the sea, Mr. Todd, that’s the life I covet
By the sea, Mr. Todd, ooh, I know you’d love it
You and me, Mr. T, we could be alone
In a house what we’d almost own
“Down by the sea, anything you say
Wouldn’t that be smashing?
“With the sea at our gate, we’ll have kippered herring
What have swum to us straight from the Straits of Bering
Every night in the kip, when we’re through our kippers
I’ll be there slipping off your slippers”
Posted in Music from the Broadway stage., Ocean Grove photographs, Photography by Paul Goldfinger, tagged Painting the Ocean Grove tents for spring on May 17, 2022| 2 Comments »