Received in my email inbox.   By Paul Goldfinger, MD, Editor, Blogfinger.net, Ocean Grove, NJ, USA.   Home of the Blogfinger Off-Shore School of Medicine in OG. Once again a document from the CMA refers to itself as “Ocean Grove.”  Look at the cover of the summer guide above.    In much smaller letters below it says,  “Camp Meeting Association” and “God’s Square Mile at the Jersey Shore.” We have complained about that mis-use of language, but what the hey! And there are other titles which make it clear that this “Summer Program Guide” is mostly but not exclusvel ..read more

Ocean Grove’s southern skyline along Fletcher Lake. Paul Goldfinger photo © 7/7/20.  What will our northern skyline look like when OGNED gets done with it?   Click to enlarge. And then there is the 16 story high rise in A. Park.   LEA SALONGA AND BRAD KANE FROM ALADDIN.  “A Whole New World”  The album is:  Julie Andrews Selects Her Favorite Disney Songs.   https://blogfinger.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/08-a-whole-new-world-from-_aladdin_-1.m4a ..read more

Paul Goldfinger photograph Sunset Lake.  December 2, 2018. Click to enlarge.   THE BLUEJAYS with “So Long Lover’s Island”  (Soundtrack Green Book)   https://blogfinger.net/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/03-so-long-lovers-island.m4a ..read more

The unfinished and abandoned Esperanza on Ocean Avenue in Asbury Park. Definitely the “Wrong Way.”    March 26, 2015.   Photo by Paul Goldfinger.   Click to enlarge.  Blogfinger.net.   2007:   The first iteration of 1101 Ocean Avenue failed and  was imploded.   2015: :      Above is the 1101 Ocean Avenue wreckage  in Asbury Park. Two failed projects called “Esperanza”  had occurred there  and it had stood as a marker of lost hope in A. Park.   2017,   A  third project is  announced  and t ..read more

Lincoln Center. Paul Goldfinger. 2022.   SHIRLEY BASSEY:   NY MEDLEY   https://blogfinger.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/09-new-york-new-york-medley-4.mp3 ..read more

Bring your dog to the sales.   Our sales are social events—about our porch culture and our community.   THE CHORDS:    “SH-BOOM” is the magic word in the Grove.   https://blogfinger.net/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/27-Sh-Boom-2007-Remastered-LP-Version.m4a ..read more

Thomas Edison estate in Fort Myers, Florida.  There were good lights in his house.   By Paul Goldfinger © Click to enlarge   Link to our post on this subject one year ago: https://blogfinger.net/2015/06/24/thomas-edison-hung-out-on-the-shores-of-the-caloosahatchee-river/   BEVERLY KENNEY https://blogfinger.net/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/01-tea-for-two-1.mp3 ..read more

  Asbury Park dog beach. Late afternoon.  By Paul Goldfinger. July, 2015. ©   Click to enlarge. Between May 16 – Sept. 14:  Asbury Dog beach.    Dogs are welcome on the dog beach between 6 p.m. and 8:30 a.m. Use the Deal Lake Drive north or Fisherman’s Parking Lot entrance to reach the beach. Dogs are not allowed on the boardwalk at all.   ENGLEBERT HUMPERDINCK:   https://blogfinger.net/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/01-this-moment-in-time-1.m4a   ..read more

Signs of the times:  Oakhurst, NJ. Paul Goldfinger. photo. 11/15/18 PETER FRAMPTON:   https://blogfinger.net/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/06-baby-i-love-your-way-2.mp3 ..read more

The Aurora on Surf Avenue, beach block. Paul Goldfinger  photo  May 30, 2013.   The Coast Guard song  Semper Paratus:   In honor of my cousin Marty Litinger, a Coast Guardsman who defended the convoys along the North Atlantic during WWII.   THE US COAST GUARD BAND:   https://blogfinger.net/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/2-22-semper-paratus-the-u-s-coast-guard-song.mp3 ..read more