Tourism of the historical kind—the kind to be encouraged in our 19th century historic town. Paul Goldfinger photo @ Blogfinger.net.
HUGH JACKMAN. “Don’t throw your past away; you might need it some rainy day.” From The Boy From Oz:
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Visiting Ocean Grove’s tent village..
Posted in Ocean Grove historical preservation, Ocean Grove history, Ocean Grove lifestyles, Ocean Grove tent colony, tagged Ocean Grove tents on December 10, 2019| 2 Comments »
Tenters gone. Silence remains.
Posted in Ocean Grove lifestyles, Ocean Grove tent colony, Ocean Grove tent village, Photograph by Paul Goldfinger, Photographic Gallery, Photographic Gallery: New Jersey, Photography by Paul Goldfinger, tagged MUSIC: Another Winter in a Summer Town.", Tenters gone in winter on December 10, 2018| Leave a Comment »
Quiet tents. Winter in Ocean Grove. 2014. Paul Goldfinger photo ©
DISTURBED: “The Sound of Silence.”
Lifestyles in the Grove: Exploring Tent Village.
Posted in Blogfinger Presents, Ocean Grove summer time, Ocean Grove tent colony, Ocean Grove tent village, tagged Ocean Grove tent village on July 28, 2018| Leave a Comment »
Tent Village in Ocean Grove. July, 2018. Paul Goldfinger photo. © Blogfinger.net. Click to enlarge.
BETTE MIDLER:
“The abode of the people…”
Posted in Blogfinger Presents, Ocean Grove tent colony, tagged Brenda Lee in Ocean Grove, Ocean Grove tents on January 10, 2018| Leave a Comment »
Ocean Grove tents. June, 2013. Paul Goldfinger photo © Click to read the sign.
By Paul Goldfinger, Editor @Blogfinger.net
In Morris Daniels’ book The Story of Ocean Grove, 1869-1919, he said, “Being primarily a camp ground, tents were the abode of the people. By the end of 1871, The CMA (‘The Association’) owned 201 tents, but these were not sufficient to meet the demand.”
By 1879, it was decided to rearrange the tents around and near the Auditorium. Then there were about 700 tents. The tents were divided into “blocks” which were given names such as Auditorium Circle, Bethany, and Bethesda. The tents were very popular, and if Rev. Stokes were around today, he would not be surprised by the competitive popularity of the tents in Ocean Grove.
In the photo above, the sign indicates to watch for pedestrians over the next 600 feet. In 1871, carriage drivers had to pay similar heed.
I bet that the pitter-patter of raindrops on the canvas roofs caught the attention of the tenters. It must have been a very reassuring sound to those religious pilgrims of the 19th century in Ocean Grove, and surely they thought of them as gifts from heaven.
Here is Tony Bennett regarding those gifts. He is at Carnegie Hall live on June 9, 1962 with the Ralph Sharon Orchestra—it can’t get better than that.
Here is a link “The Summer Tents” from August 2013
Tent Village, 2017. #6
Posted in Ocean Grove lifestyles, Ocean Grove tent colony, Ocean Grove tent village on August 2, 2017| Leave a Comment »
Tent Village. August, 2017. Kodachrome moment. Paul Goldfinger ©. Click to enlarge
RACHAEL CANTU “De Colores” (Tr. Made of Colors)
Tent Village, 2017. #5
Posted in Blogfinger Presents, Ocean Grove tent colony, Ocean Grove tent village, Photography at The Jersey Shore, Photography: Jersey Shore Gallery, Photography: Ocean Grove Gallery, tagged Ocean Grove tent village on July 29, 2017| 1 Comment »
Tent Village, Ocean Grove. July 29, 2017. By Paul Goldfinger, Blogfinger.net ©
By Paul Goldfinger, Editor @Blogfinger.net
It must be great fun to be a kid living in a tent during an Ocean Grove summer. Instead of bicycles to zoom around the sidewalks of the Village, there are now skateboards and scooters.
I saw a teenager coasting down Mt. Hermon Way on a skateboard, in her gravity defying short shorts, maintaining her decorum all the while speaking on a cell phone. It is certain—-someday she will have a tattoo, and her parents will approve. This is the new look of femininity.
But the Village girl, on her scooter, shows no sign of becoming anything but a proper young lady.
JUDY GARLAND from The Wizard of Oz.
“Somewhere over the rainbow bluebirds fly
Birds fly over the rainbow.
Why then, oh, why can’t I?
“If happy little bluebirds fly
Beyond the rainbow.
Why, oh, why can’t I?”
Tent colors. Maria Elena.
Posted in Ocean Grove art, Ocean Grove tent colony on June 11, 2017| Leave a Comment »
Around town with Jean: the back streets of tent city
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Ocean Grove Tent City. Photo by Jean Bredin, Blogfinger staff ©. 5/11/17.
Jean says, “The little paths between the rows of tents are quaint.
You walk down, and there’s the Great Auditorium in all her splendor.
“They soon will be occupied, and personal touches will embellish each tent.
It won’t be long now.”
RICKY NELSON from the movie soundtrack of Pulp Fiction. Tent City is a lonesome town until the occupiers begin to show up on May 15. Then it springs to life—it is a community within a community having its own rhythms and even its own customs. Kids love it there. By June 1, it is no longer a lonesome town. —-PG
A sign of spring: The tents are going up
Posted in Ocean Grove summer time, Ocean Grove tent colony, tagged Ocean Grove tents on April 11, 2017| Leave a Comment »
Tents in Ocean Grove, NJ. April 11, 2017 © By Stephen Goldfinger, staff, Blogfinger .net
LOUIS PRIMA The sheik knows what to do in a tent:
