Paul:
Shown here is an old advertisement of an annual train excursion held by the Union Transportation Company to Ocean Grove in August 1908.
This ad is 20 x 7 inches long and highlights this “A Full Day by the Sea”. A round trip of $1.50 for the Pemberton & Hightstown Railroad ride will get you to and from this seaside community.
“When we get there, can we stop at Days Ice Cream first daddy before we go to the beach?”
An ice cream cone, two buffalo nickels, great— make it vanilla!
Rich (Rich Amole is the staff historian of. Blogfinger)
“Pardon me boys……..” Julia West Howard, a Broadway star in the ’20’s, lived at 113 Mt. Hermon Way from 1937-1948. (now it is Blogfinger headquarters)
EDITOR’S NOTE:
In 1875, the closest train ended at Long Branch, so anyone wanting to go south to Ocean Grove had to take a stage coach or carriage. The Camp Meeting Association wanted to promote tourism, so they invested in a local railroad,the Farmingdale and New Egypt Line, and in August 1875, two trains arrived in the Grove from New York City. There was a “depot” in the Grove outside the gates, and soon after, there were connections to Philadelphia. In 1879, 300,000 visitors arrived by train that summer.
There was one problem. The CMA would not allow trains to stop at OG on Sundays. In 1910, the State Legislature overruled that blue law.
–Paul Goldfinger, Editor, Blogfinger.net.
Ref: The Story of Ocean Grove…1869-1919. By Morris Daniels (1919)
ANDREWS SISTERS: Click on “Watch on You Tube” if it doesn’t play.
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