Leaving Ocean Grove to explore A. Park 2014. This route heads north through the beloved indoor-outdoor Casino to the AP boards. To the left is the ocean. Will the planned OG North End be as welcoming as it is in this photograph–open air, views all around, open to all? Meet and greet in all directions. Or will it become Asbury Park South? Click to enlarge. Note the White Whale (pink in this photo) burned down on April 13, 2019. This is an alternate route after midnight connecting AP and OG without any locks . A. Park owns the Casino building. Paul Goldfinger photograph. 2014.
As for girls in their summer clothes, since 2014 when this image was obtained, the bottoms have gotten higher and the tops more revealing. ..It’s’ all good and now rated PG–at least in A. Park; maybe PG- 13 in the Grove.
Above we see what looks like summer at the Jersey Shore but is actually winter on Sanibel Island in southwest Fla.
In case you didn’t notice in Ocean Grove the last few seasons we had the summers of gravity-defying short shorts for women. The fashion caught on like wildfire and also probably got caught elsewhere as well.
Who knew that such shorts were physically possible? As a student of human anatomy and gravity, I found it difficult to explain, but no more difficult than jeans worn halfway down a guy’s backside which manage never to fall down.
Butt, it also was the summers for thong bathing suits, rarely seen in the Grove, but more common over in Asbury or a quick jog south to Belmar. However, last summer we saw a young woman in a thong walking her dog right past Days Ice Cream and then past the Camp Meeting Association world headquarters. She wore no coverup. Needless to say, some ice cream did drip down the shirts of the Days crowd.
Here we see it in Fla La Land, giving new meaning to the Gulf of Mexico.
However the most evident women’s fashion look, seen everywhere, are the black spandex pants that rarely make it down to the ankle, but they are so revealing, that despite covering all critical parts, they leave nothing to the imagination as they show every curve. Why do that, when a bit of mystery is always more tantalizing?
The funny thing is that men’s summer clothes don’t change much. The “drop your pants and reveal your boxers” fashion seems to be fading. For men, jackets and ties have been gone for some time, except maybe for funerals, weddings, playing in a symphony, or working in a law firm or financial corporation.
For the summer of ’19, Blogfinger will bring back the “girls in their summer clothes.”
A girl in her summer clothes. Central Park, Upper East Side. Paul Goldfinger photo August 2014. Click to enlarge and see her tug on her dress. Was she primping for the photographer? Is she with the others, and what does the little smile mean? Ask Paul McCartney—he wrote the song and included the piccolo.
“Penny Lane is in my ears and in my eyes
There beneath the blue suburban skies
Penny Lane.”
NAT KING COLE (requested by Kevin Chambers) The song is by Ray Noble from 1941, and there was a movie of the same name that featured this song. Re-posted—A girl in her summer clothes.
Between May 16 – Sept. 14: Asbury Dog beach. Dogs are welcome on the dog beach between 6 p.m. and 8:30 a.m. Use the Deal Lake Drive north or Fisherman’s Parking Lot entrance to reach the beach. Dogs are not allowed on the boardwalk at all.
Keyboardist Paul Eichlin of Ocean Grove loves to perform in and around the Asbury Park Casino on the boardwalk. Paul may seem to be in St. Louis at the fair, but he is right here in A. Park near the Ocean Grove border. We missed him in 2023, but perhaps he will resurface this summer.
