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Ocean Grove. 6:30 pm. July 26, 2018. A girl in her summer clothes. Click all photos for better view. Paul Goldfinger photographs © Blogfinger.net
Beach Patrol, late shift. OG 7/26/18. Rough seas. Lifeguard tournament will be next week. Paul Goldfinger portrait. ©
CONNIE EVINGSON From her album Gypsy in my Soul.
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Fletcher Lake from the OG side. January 11. 2014. By Paul Goldfinger © Click to enlarge.
A FOGGY DAY. Performed by Gregory Hines. George and Ira Gershwin wrote this song for a 1937 movie called “A Damsel in Distress.” Fred Astaire performed “Foggy Day” in that film.
We have a winner in our “name that singer” contest. It is Carl Swenson of OG who nailed it.
Gregory Hines was a brilliant performer who, early in his career, sang and danced with his brother Maurice Hines and his Dad. The act was called “Hines, Hines and Dad.” Eileen and I saw them live in New York, and they they were wonderful. 
Gregory Hines was a great star of movies, TV, and Broadway. He won a Tony and an Emmy. He died at age 57 of cancer. —PG
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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. Re-post from 2015 Pearl Harbor Day event in Ocean Grove.
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
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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 ©.
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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Ocean Grove beach. July 2013. OG lifeguard. Click to enlarge. Paul Goldfinger photo–on assignment at the lifeguard tournament.
FRANK SINATRA
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Ocean Grove 2008. By Paul Goldfinger © Early cell phone photo. Re-post 2015.
CITY OF PRAGUE ORCHESTRA. “Octapussy—All Time High” From the James Bond Gold Collection
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Founders’ Park, Ocean Grove, NJ. Paul Goldfinger photograph. © 2017
PEGGY LEE: “September in the Rain” from the album Ladies of the Great American Songbook.
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Colts Neck, October, 2013. Paul Goldfinger photograph. ©
BOB DYLAN:
“Where are you?
“Where have you gone without me?”
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Note: This church was purchased by the Borough of Bradley Beach last year from the Ocean Grove Camp Meeting Association for $1.3 million.
Now there is a controversy as to whether the property should be sold to a developer or renovated into a community center.
This week’s Coaster ran a front page piece on this topic. Blogfinger post below is from 2016.
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 in A. Park. ©
By Paul Goldfinger, Editor Blogfinger.net. Ocean Grove, NJ. 2015.
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:
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Deal Lake. Taken from the Loch Arbour side looking west. Paul Goldfinger photo. July 12, 2016 © Click for maximum glitter.
DEXTER GORDON. Recorded July 7, 1970 in New York City “The Christmas Song.”
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Fletcher Lake in Ocean Grove. By Rich Despins. © Special to Blogfinger.net click to enlarge.
BEBO VALDES and CHUCHO VALDES “Tres Palabras”
