Ocean Grove pier: A Blogfinger timeline

Modern OG history—2023. New OG pier opened after 11 years of waiting. Now, October 9, 2025, the Coaster announces that the pier is officially “closed for the foreseeable future due to structural concerns.”

The last ride on the non-fishing pier…

“Oh Happy Day….remember the pier opening”. Re-post

Diversity Math—it adds up.

It’s a boy! Family had been waiting patiently. He’s too good to be true…

Girls in their summer clothes. The answer is blowin’ in the wind.

Jack Bredin: “no fly-by-night” protester. Re-post from 2020

“Writ for Prerogative and Writ for Mandamus”: This is some of the opaque language having to do with the “2nd Amended North End Redevelopment Plan.” Can someone translate for We-The-People?

Echoes of 1926 China: “The Sand Pebbles”

Spiders arrive ahead of witches for Halloween in the Grove.

Woody Allen: A PBS documentary. Ocean Grove gets a cameo appearance in Stardust Memories.

Cinema in Ocean Grove: Stardust Memories (1980) and the Blogfinger Film Festival #2. 2013.

Granddaughter reviews the Grove. We prefer Madeleine’s. (Best of: from 2014)

All the way from Georgia to the Grove. But right now it’s not Georgia on her mind.

Guest photographer for our collection of female image-makers: Andrea Modica

Dusk: Lake Avenue looking towards A. Park.

Joe Temperley on baritone sax: “Polka Dots and Moonbeams…”

Remember our parade… Ocean Grove

“If you were mine….”