Front entrance to the Gasparilla Inn located in Boca Grande on Gasparilla Island, Florida. All photos by Paul Goldfinger © 2014.   Click all photos to get bigger views.   Side view.  Condé Nast rated the Gasparilla Inn among the top resorts in Florida. The Boca Grande beach is number two of Travel and Leisure’s “best little beach towns in America.” By Paul Goldfinger, travel editor @Blogfinger.  Re-posted from 2014. If you were a big shot one hundred years ago, like Henry Ford, Thomas Edison or Harvey Firestone, you would have wanted a high-tone place off Florida’s Gulf ..read more

      Medical News Today   By Paul Goldfinger, MD, FACC, board certified in two specialties,  Editor Blogfinger.net.  Co-author of Prevention Does Work: A Guide to a Healthy Heart. Still available on Amazon–just type in my name. The last edition of our book is from 2011  and is still largely correct in the medical part, while all of Eileen’s “heart healthy–evidence based” recipes still are wonderful.—all 35 of them.  The book is a good source to keep in the kitchen. It is about $12.00 in paperback.   If we sell one book we get about $.40. &n ..read more

This still image of a fire-bombing in Nazi Germany is by Paul Goldfinger from the latest Netflix color documentary about WWII.      Blogfinger  photograph and editorial:   4/18/24 Towards the end of WWII, the United States and other members of the Allies embarked on an aggressive effort to close down the Nazi state in Germany. Even though it was clear that the Allies would emerge victorious, they did not want the death throes in Germany to drag on and on. So they initiated a devastating  airborne assault with thousands of planes, and the goal was to fire bomb ma ..read more

Central Park. Silver gelatin darkroom print by Paul Goldfinger ©. By Paul Goldfinger, Editor @Blogfinger Winter can be lonely anywhere it’s cold.  In the City the bleakness factor is diminished by the presence of so many people who can live or visit  there and enjoy the warmth of it all, with simple pleasures like ducking into a corner coffee shop, wandering in a snow driven Central Park , going to Lincoln Center to see the Bolshoi, feeling the crunch of snow underfoot while coming and going from  small shops on Madison Avenue,  visiting Rockefeller Center at Christmas, o ..read more

WASSUP??    By Paul Goldfinger, editor Blogfinger. net.   a. This is how Neptune takes care of Firemen’s Park at Mt. Hermon and Delaware. Blogfinger photo.  Click to see how tall the man-eating grass gets.   b. Relaxing on Main Avenue. Paul Goldfinger photo 4/17/24.  Alley shop offers sandwiches on that black board.   Ocean Grove desperately needs a gourmet sandwich shop which is located in the downtown shopping area.  The Pathway Market is hopelessly useless. They had a professional cook making good take-out, but not now.  We have been hearing ..read more

Paul Goldfinger. Ocean Grove, NJ, USA   “It’s a Hard Knock Life”    From the original cast of Annie.        https://blogfinger.net/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/03-Its-a-Hard-Knock-Life.m4a ..read more

Blogfinger photo of Terry’s shop from 2011.Historic OG:    Here is an article about that part of Main Avenue in 2011 Main Avenue vs. Cookman Ave. at Christmastime 2011   April, 2024: Gingerbreads, a shop featuring Victorian lace, knick knacks for Victorian houses, hand towels, tea pots and ceramics with Victorian period style has gone out of business in April, 2024, Ocean Grove, NJ Terry Lepore had a unique business on Main Avenue, and tourists loved her shop.   Gingerbreads. Photo by Lee Morgan. Main Avenue. Ocean Grove,  NJ. © April 2024.   Gingerbreads: Empt ..read more

Source: “Ocean Grove 2018 Summer Program Guide.”   Paul Goldfinger, Editor @Blogfinger.   Shaboom, Shaboom. The Doo Wops used to usher in the summer season in OG and then return in September with a different lineup. But in the last couple of years, the CMA has eliminated most pop concerts from the summer schedule—except for the Beach Boys. But now, in a surprise announcement, the CMA has taken seriously the adage “See You in September” with a “Doo Wop Extravaganza” on September one in the Great Auditorium.  The program contains all excellent choices, so this concert should not ..read more

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By Mark Neumann. Special to Blogfinger.   Sue Gioulis cartoon. Special to Blogfinger. 2017.©   By Paul Goldfinger, MD   Editor Blogfinger.net.  Re-post. from Feb. 2017. In 2017, the CMA announced that it was cutting back on secular programs in the Great Auditorium on Saturday nights. Eventually they stopped all such events in favor of more religious programming. This was a disappointment to many in town and to many of the tourists who loved to come to Ocean Grove for those events. We heard from one: “This is sad. We live in Highlands and enjoyed driving down to Oce ..read more