Memory tells me they closed off the streets with chains on Sundays...though I'm not sure that's true today.
Nonetheless, my friend Helen up Jersey way has sent me an article about the tent camp that springs up there each Summer...and here it is! My friend David, who still lives part of the year up that way, raves about the huge pipe organ in the auditorium and the concerts he has attended there. Helen heard Johnny Mathis sing there recently!
Anyway, just a little travelogue through my past.
[*And yes, The Boss's Mom called me to request I play his songs on the Saturday night show I did. And I would. True story! I'll bet some of Bruce's songs were influenced by the presence of Ocean Grove!]
My wife's family had cottages on Long Beach Island, NJ, until the 70s. We enjoyed going there in the off-season. (We couldn't go during july and August because they were rented out.)
ReplyDeleteEspecially during the Nixon era, I enjoyed our vantage point at 40 Alabama Avenue. I could look across the bay to the mainland and say to myself, "I'm here and Nixon is way over there!"
LBI is between Ocean Grove and Atlantic City.
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