Posted in Around town with Jean, Ocean Grove Woman's Club, Photographs by Jean Bredin, tagged Ocean Grove Woman's Club on March 30, 2026| Leave a Comment »
Ocean Grove Woman’s Club. Feb. 14, 2016. By Jean Bredin, Blogfinger staff. ©
From Jean Bredin: “Miss Pegi ( Costantino) opened her home, the Ocean Grove Woman’s Club, today to an afternoon of decoupaging. A few of us came out on this very cold day, and we had fun!
“As the song goes, “What good is sitting alone in your room…..Life is a Cabaret!”
LIZA MINNELLI:
Posted in Asbury Connection, Asbury Park Connection Photo Gallery, Blogfinger Presents, Photographs by Jean Bredin, Photography at The Jersey Shore, Photography in Asbury Park, tagged St Patrick's Day parade in Asbury Park NJ on March 8, 2026| 2 Comments »
March 13, 2016. Asbury Park. By Jean Bredin © Blogfinger staff.
St Patrick’s Day parade. By Jean Bredin , Blogfinger staff. Asbury Park 3/13/16 ©
THE DUBLINERS “Whiskey in the Jar:”
Posted in Blogfinger Presents, Ocean Grove lifestyle, Photographs by Jean Bredin, tagged Al Jolson on Blogfinger on November 8, 2025| 1 Comment »
A special treat at Nagle’s in Ocean Grove. Photo by Jean Bredin working the inside-out shift for Blogfinger. May 30, 2015
So you stand in line at Nagle’s, and when you get to the ordering window, you say something like: “a double dip cone with cherry-vanilla and chocolate-chip-mint ice cream with rainbow sprinkles on a sugar cone.”
It sounds delicious and makes your ice cream yearning double in intensity. You pay the $3.05 for the cone.
Then you move forward towards the pickup window . On the way, you begin to drool a bit. So when you get there, and they hand you the cone, what is the first thing you do? Check out Jean’s photo above.
AL JOLSON from the album April Showers
Posted in Around town with Jean, Photographic Gallery, Color, Photographs by Jean Bredin, Photography: girls in summer clothes, tagged Around town with Jean, Street musicians on April 29, 2025| 1 Comment »
Provincetown, Mass. By Jean Bredin. With that dress on, who’s looking at the stars? Blogfinger staff © Click to enlarge.
From Jean:
Hi Paul,
Street musicians are plentiful in Provincetown.. I took this picture today.
She was singing country folk, and darned good at that.
Jean
ps I liked the pic of Boardwalk Entertainer you just posted….
THE ROULETTES “I See a Star.” Who says these ’50’s songs sound alike? But who cares, this is a slow number, so lower the lights in the gym and find Gloria for this dance.
Posted in Around town with Jean, Blogfinger Presents, Photographs by Jean Bredin, tagged Jean Bredin around town in Ocean Grove on January 7, 2025| 1 Comment »
Jean Bredin Ocean Grove. September 27, 2017. Click once on the photo to see the details. Blogfinger.net staff.
“Around Town With Jean”: “Today’s beach scene was very atmospheric. The huge waves kept rolling in. Beach lovers dotted the sand.
“It was a hazy, warm, and quite beautiful day for late September.”
OMARA PORTUONDO “Mariposta de Primavera.” Buena Vista Social Club.
Posted in Around the Grove with Jean Bredin, Blogfinger Presents, Ocean Grove boardwalk, Ocean Grove events, Ocean Grove Gallery, Ocean Grove lifestyles, Photographic Gallery: Ocean Grove, Photographs by Jean Bredin, Photography: Nocturnal Ocean Grove, tagged Ocean Grove Summer Band on August 9, 2024| 2 Comments »
Around town with Jean Bredin, Blogfinger staff reporter. Boardwalk Pavilion in Ocean Grove, NJ © That’s Harry Eichhorn holding the trumpet with his back to us. Click to enlarge. Photo by Jean. 7/13/16
Jean Bredin: “Every Wednesday night, the Ocean Grove Summer Band plays at the Beach Pavilion at 8 pm.
“Tonight the band was celebrating 64 years of playing in Ocean Grove.
“Harry Eichhorn does not conduct anymore, but he was in the brass section playing his trumpet.
“Old fashioned fun, what a treat!”
Yo Harry!! Girls in the trombone section! Photo by Jean Bredin. Blogfinger staff action shot.
A little night music. Jean Bredin photo outside the Boardwalk Pavilion in Ocean Grove, NJ Blogfinger.net
GUY LOMBARDO
Posted in Photo News, Photographs by Jean Bredin, tagged Up on the roof in Ocean Grove on March 23, 2024| 1 Comment »
We recently posted a photography article about rooftops, featuring a print by a professional New York photographer. So we offered a prize if someone would send us a photograph of Ocean Grove rooftops. But no one participated. So that left an entry by Blogfinger photographer Jean Bredin (lovely photo Jean) and one by me. We can’t win a prize, but here are our entries:
Rooftops of Tent Village in Ocean Grove. By Jean Bredin, Blogfinger.net staff.
North End rooftops in the Grove. By Paul Goldfinger, Editor.
THE NYLONS (with an a cappella version of “Up on the Roof”)
Posted in Around town with Jean, Asbury Park Connection Photo Gallery, Photographs by Jean Bredin on January 1, 2024|
Jean Bredin © Asbury Park. 2014 . Blogfinger staff. New Years Day.
THE HARPTONES: Wolfman Jack sends this out to Blogfinger fan Perry Young up in the New Hampshire North Country.
Posted in Ocean Grove weather, Photographs by Jean Bredin, Photographs presented on Blogfinger, tagged Cold and snow in Ocean Grove on October 16, 2023| 3 Comments »
Ocean Grove. March 6, 2015. By Jean Bredin, Blogfinger staff. © (Click on image to turn the gulls into eagles.)
MARIAN McPARTLAND “Blackberry Winter” from her album Twilight World
Editor’s note: Marian McPartland (1918-2013) , a Grammy winning jazz pianist and composer, was one of the few women to become famous in the male dominated jazz star firmament. She lived in the jazz world being married to cornetist Jimmy McPartland. From 1978 to 2011 she hosted a jazz show on NPR called “Piano Jazz.”
We heard her play live in the 1970’s in a small theatre in South Hampton. We became fans immediately and saw her play live on other occasions.
There was a sweet heart-felt romanticism in her music, and I couldn’t help but think that she brought some deeply rooted feminine expressiveness to her playing. She had a long career, and her bio. is worth Googling.—-Paul Goldfinger Blogfinger.net
Posted in Around town with Jean, Photographs by Jean Bredin, Photography show and tell on Blogfinger, tagged Jean in Provincetown on September 1, 2023| 1 Comment »
Around town with Jean Bredin (Blogfinger.net staff) in Provincetown where boys will be boys and girls will be boys; and where the fine arts are really fine arts. Click to read the bike ad. Re-post from 2016.
LORENZO FULLER from Kiss Me Kate:
Posted in Around the Grove with Jean Bredin, Historical Society of Ocean Grove, Ocean Grove history, Photographs by Jean Bredin, tagged Centennial Cottage in Ocean Grove on August 1, 2023| 1 Comment »
Centennial Cottage “abuzz with ladders” by Jean Bredin, Blogfinger staff. June 3, 2015. © Be careful Patrick—the bucket’s got a hole in it.
Centennial Cottage is maintained as a historical museum by the Historical Society of Ocean Grove. It is at Central Avenue and McClintock Street. Tours are given in-season; just contact the HSOG.
The cottage was built in 1874 and is of the “carpenter’s gothic style.” It was donated to the OGCMA by the Robert Skold family.
A Victorian garden adjoins the cottage.
Credit: All the information above is courtesy of Wayne T. Bell of Ocean Grove. He is the author of Images of America: Ocean Grove, published in 2000.
PRESERVATION HALL JAZZ BAND (New Orleans)
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Ocean Grove Tent Village. 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 Village 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
Posted in Blogfinger Presents, Grovers Around Town gallery, Photographic Gallery: Ocean Grove, Photographs by Jean Bredin, tagged Grovers around town, Ocean Grove portrait on February 5, 2023|
An Ocean Grove portrait. “Lou Ann.” By Jean Bredin, Blogfinger citizen photographer ©
ERICH KUNZEL and THE CINCINNATI POPS ORCHESTRA: “Lara’s Theme” from Dr. Zhivago