Ocean Grove boardwalk being ripped up at the North End. Paul Goldfinger photo. Jan. 15, 2016. Blogfinger.net Click to make the scene bigger.
By Paul Goldfinger, Editor @Blogfinger. 2016.
Ripping up history is the antithesis of archaeology, but here is a destructive endeavor for a good cause. Here is an ambivalent sight of those old boardwalk boards being ripped out after Sandy did her evil deed in October, 2012. Asphalt will also be chopped up.
How many of you have walked on that old North End boardwalk and have happy memories of it? How many of you have sat on that nearby beach writing love letters in the sand while gazing up at the families and children and visitors biking, strolling, socializing or jogging by?
But in the end we will have a new Trex boards there, except for the most northern part where cheap wood will be placed in anticipation of the implementation of the North End Redevelopment Plan; that planned monstrosity will undoubtedly crowd out the nostalgic historic north end memories and some of the lingering happiness over there.
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