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Paul Eichlin in the Casino . He has a cigarette dangling from his lips as if he made his bones in some speakeasy on Bourbon Street. Paul Goldfinger photo July, 2016. 

 

We (Blogfinger.net)  wrote about Paul last year when Bob Bowné photographed him on Ocean Avenue in the Grove with his 1961 Thunderbird (see link below).

But Paul is really famous because he plays an electric organ in the Casino, featuring old merry-go-round style music.  It is such a delicious throwback to another era, and Paul just goes on and on, rarely missing a beat.  He nods happily when someone tosses some dough into his plastic pail.  He seems to be there all the time, as if that is all he does. Stop by and say hello to a fellow Grover.

https://blogfinger.net/2015/10/08/paul-eichlin-and-his-61-thunderbird/

LEON BERRY

 

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Nagel's Apothecary Cafe. Main Avenue in Ocean Grove. July, 2014. Paul Goldfinger photo ©

Nagel’s Apothecary Cafe. Main Avenue in Ocean Grove. July, 2014. Paul Goldfinger photo. Blogfinger.net

 

Nagle’s is scheduled to reopen in April 2026. The new owner is a restaurateur . We expect that Nagle’s will return embellished with fond memories and  plans for a glorious eatery. And let there be live music!  We do need that in the Grove.

 

THE BOBBETTES:

 

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Paul Goldfinger photo .  Monmouth Park, Oceanport, NJ.   Undated.

 

ANITA O’DAY:

 

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Casino photo by Paul Goldfinger. Photo shoot.  Click once to enlarge.

 

The name Casino conjures up life in 1950’s Havana.

This song is from the Casino Life album featuring  Don Azplazo and the Havana Casino Orchestra with “Amor Sincero”  (True Love)

 

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Happy 150th birthday, Ocean Grove. Paul Goldfinger photo 8/19. © Click to enlarge.

 

 

FRANK SINATRA:

 

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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. Asbury Park Zombie Walk, 2013. ©

Paul Goldfinger photo. Blogfinger.net.   Asbury Park Zombie Walk, 2013.  Click once  to enlarge.

 

 

MARTHA WAINWRIGHT     From the soundtrack of The Aviator:

 

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Auditorium Square Park. July, 2016. Paul Goldfinger photo ©

Auditorium Square Park. July, 2016. Paul Goldfinger photo ©   Click image to enlarge.

 

NORAH JONES  “Carnival Town”      From her album Feels Like Home.

 

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Trinity Church.  Asbury Park, January 17, 2016. Paul Goldfinger photo. ©  Click once  to further illuminate.

 

 

LOUDON WAINRIGHT III   (From HBO’s Boardwalk Empire)  “Carrickfergus”

 

 

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4th Avenue. P. Park. Friday morning Feb 5 for all these photos © Paul Goldfinger

4th Avenue. Asbury Park. Friday morning, Feb 5, for all these photos. Click to enlarge. © Paul Goldfinger Blogfinger.net

 

How sweet it is. Wesley Lake. Paul Goldfinger photo. ©

How sweet it is. Wesley Lake, Ocean Grove side. Paul Goldfinger photo. ©

 

Single family OG. No condos to spoil the beauty of Lake Avenue. (a walk way, not a street.) Paul Goldfinger ©

Single family homes OG. No condos to spoil the beauty of Lake Avenue. (a walkway, not a street.) Paul Goldfinger ©

 

An Asbury Park landmark by the ocean. © No plows needed. Paul Goldfinger photo.

An Asbury Park landmark by the ocean. © No plows needed. Paul Goldfinger photo.

 

PEGGY LEE

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Bob Bowné took a right turn today and wound up in Spring Lake. Nov. 21, 2015. Special to Blogfinger ©.

Bob Bowné took a right turn and wound up in Spring Lake. Nov. 21, 2015.    Where do you go for a cup of Joe?   Special to Blogfinger ©.   Click one to enlarge.

 

 

ADELE:   From her  hit album “25”       This selection is “All I Ask.”  She was a big winner at the 2017 Grammy awards, and this song is from her 2017 album of the year.

 

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Spring Lakes. Photograph by Paul Goldfinger      Spring Lake Art Gallery collection at  Blogfinger.net.

 

BOB DYLAN   from his 2017 album Triplicate

 

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Beachfront Sunrise. By Paul Goldfinger. Ocean Grove. Blogfinger.net ©

 

Hi Paul:

Greetings from Manhattan. I was struck by your quietly beautiful photo, “Beachfront Sunrise,” (posted recently on Blogfinger), and your statement that you preferred sunrises to sunsets because “beginnings are happier than endings.”

Here is the poem, “Dawn,” from my 2008 collection, Father of Water.

 

Best wishes,

Charles Pierre

 

 

Dawn

By Charles Pierre

 

The first hint of morning on the ocean

is a trembling of shadows,

 

a dark hovering of muted tones

that moves with imperceptible pace,

 

a vanishing medium through which

the day brightens and widens,

 

the new light going on for miles and miles

in the shine of emerging surf.

 

BILL FRISELL. “Across the Universe.”

 

 

 

 

 

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Main Avenue, Ocean Grove. British Car Show. Paul Goldfinger ©  Click to enlarge

 

BEVERLY KENNEY

 

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