Mt. Hermon Way, Ocean Grove. Dec. 5, 2016. By Paul Goldfinger ©
JOE BROWN:
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Nocturnal Grove
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An Ocean Grove portrait: Kathy Bray of VFW Post 2639, Neptune Township, New Jersey. Pearl Harbor Day.
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Kathy Bray formerly of the US Army Military Police. December 7, 2015. Pearl Harbor Day. Ocean Grove, NJ. Paul Goldfinger portrait. ©
By Paul Goldfinger, Editor @Blogfinger
Kathy is a member of the Neptune Township Post #2639 Veterans of Foreign Wars.
In the past she was an active duty member of the Army Military Police for nine years, stationed in Korea, Germany, Texas and Alaska—she was in a special investigations unit.
Today she joined her friends and comrades, men and women who came to the Grove to honor the 2,400 military victims of the surprise attack by Japan that resulted in our entering World War II.
VERA LYNN with a nostalgic song from WWII
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 June 19, 2021| 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?”
Church lights
Posted in Asbury Connection, Asbury Park Connection Photo Gallery, Photography at The Jersey Shore, Photography by Paul Goldfinger, Photography in America, Photography in Asbury Park, Photography: Jersey Shore Gallery, Photography: The Other Side of Asbury, tagged Trinity Church Asbury Park on May 29, 2021| Leave a Comment »
Trinity Church. Asbury Park, January 17, 2016. Paul Goldfinger photo. © Click to further illuminate.
LOUDON WAINRIGHT III (From HBO’s Boardwalk Empire) “Carrickfergus”
You can depend on me.
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Nov. 4, 2012. (6 days after Sandy) Neighbors discuss the storm. Ocean Grove. Paul Goldfinger photo © Blogfinger.net
TONY BENNETT AND K.D. LANG
The First United Methodist Church in Bradley Beach. Who was James Bradley?
Posted in Blogfinger contest, Photograph by Paul Goldfinger, Photographic Gallery: New Jersey, Photography: Jersey Shore Gallery, tagged Blogfinger name that town contest on May 12, 2021| 12 Comments »
The First United Methodist Church (1886) at the corner of Lareine and Madison Avenues in Bradley Beach. There is no sign outside. Paul Goldfinger photograph. October, 2015. © The wing shown below is visible along the right edge of the building.
This is a wing of the church on Madison Avenue. We don’t know what its function is, but now you almost know the rest of the story. Paul Goldfinger photos. 2015 ©
This is James Bradley, the founder of Asbury Park, who was also a pioneer in OG and Bradley Beach. Paul Goldfinger photo Feb 7, 2016. This is at the foot of Sunset Park, with James facing the Paramount Theatre. ©
James Bradley, a wealthy businessman from New York, founded Asbury Park. He was an admirer of Ocean Grove and bought the first lot from the Camp Meeting in 1870. He liked the area so much that he purchased 500 acres south of Fletcher Lake along the ocean. That land became Bradley Beach.
In 1886 he dismantled an Asbury Park Dutch Reformed church and somehow brought it to Bradley Beach and created the First United Methodist Church. As many of you Grovers know, if you bike or walk in this area, you can discover many neat things. Stephen Goldfinger came upon this landmark during a walk last week. He was following Pennsylvania Avenue into BB where it became Madison Ave. We went over to check it out and “found” this beautiful historic church.
—Paul Goldfinger, Editor @Blogfinger
HOT CLUB OF SAN FRANCISCO. “It’s Not Exactly a Sonata—-For Renata.”
From their album Claire de Lune:
Church bells will ring. The Choir Festival, classical music series, and organ recitals will return to the embrace of the Great Auditorium in 2021.
Posted in Great Auditorium Musical Event, Ocean Grove Gallery, Ocean Grove Musical Event, Photograph by Paul Goldfinger, Photography: Jersey Shore Gallery, Photos from the Great Auditorium, tagged Church Bells May Ring in Ocean Grove, Ocean Grove Great Auditorium on May 7, 2021| Leave a Comment »
Choir Festival in the Great Auditorium. By Paul Goldfinger. © Undated.
We have learned from a CMA official that the events mentioned above will return this season “as they were before the pandemic.”
We don’t know if that means no distancing, masks, etc, but there will still be some constraints coming from Trenton this summer.
However, this is good news assuming it is all done according to Health Dept. guidelines.
THE FIREBIRDS:
A tale of two boardwalks
Posted in Asbury Connection, Blogfinger Presents, Photography by Moe Demby, Photography: girls in summer clothes, Photography: Jersey Shore Gallery, tagged Marvelous Wonderettes on April 11, 2021| Leave a Comment »
Asbury Park boardwalk. June, 2015. By Moe Demby,Blogfinger staff. ©
Moe Demby has his eyes on more than pepperoni as he visits the A. Park boards.
We don’t know if Moe actually ate pizza or if he was using that café as a duck blind, hunting for chicks.
If any of you get some great shots of girls in summer clothes, we are working on a center fold edition, so send them to us before you settle for Playboy.
Thanks Moe—as they say in baseball, “good eye, good eye.”
THE MARVELOUS WONDERETTES:
September in the rain…
Posted in Photography Nights in Ocean Grove, Photography: Black and White gallery, Photography: Jersey Shore Gallery, Photography: Nocturnal Ocean Grove, tagged Founders' Park on April 7, 2021| Leave a Comment »
Founders’ Park, Ocean Grove, NJ. Paul Goldfinger photograph. © 2017
PEGGY LEE: “September in the Rain” from the album Ladies of the Great American Songbook.
End of day. South Beach Ocean Grove
Posted in Blogfinger Presents, Ocean Grove beachfront, Photography: Jersey Shore Gallery, Photography: Ocean Grove Gallery, tagged Photo: Ocean Grove south beach on March 18, 2021| Leave a Comment »
Ocean Grove. Undated. By Paul Goldfinger. Blogfinger.net © Click to enlarge. Reposted from 2017.
PAOLO NUTINI and the PRESERVATION HALL JAZZ BAND (New Orleans)
