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.
“Through the Looking-Glass and What Alice Found There” is the name of Lewis Carroll’s 1872 book. (just a few years after OG was founded.)
Alice found a wondrous world. (as we find every day at our beautiful open-to-the-ocean North End) but also Alice found that logic was reversed, as it is in the hands of all the North End culprits who are supposed to be doing right for the people of Ocean Grove.
Ya know: If you walk on our boards, for most of the distance, you cannot see the beach or the ocean. That is because of the dunes created after Sandy. People used to set up chairs near the boardwalk railing or towels to relax, get some sun and admire the view. The same for the benches that face east. But you can still do that at the North End of Ocean Grove…”for the people, of the people, and by the people .”
The beach and ocean front are supposed to be reserved for we-the-people for recreation, swimming, fishing, etc by order of laws going back to Roman times.
But the forthcoming North End development will block the views and the flow of breezes, and the light for visitors and those who live in that neighborhood.
And can this re-development plan stand up to our Master Plan? Let’s hope that the HPC can stand its ground,
But don’t depend on the Home Groaners. They have been on the wrong side of all this since 2008. And as for the Romans, their ancestors now are no longer saving our beachfront places for the folks ; no, now they are making pizza on Main Street in Asbury Park.
RYAN GOSLING AND EMMA STONE from La La Land: “A Lovely Night.”
