Visited Ocean Grove many times when I was a teen and early twenties.
Went to the Great Auditorium for special events.
We used to have to move our cars out of town before midnight on Saturday night and walk back to our hotel.
The Sampler Inn and the Grand Atlantic cafeterias had great food; used to get macaroons downtown on Main Street.
Thanks for reviving some good memories.
The Sampler Inn is gone, I’m afraid. My mom and I used to line up in the cafeteria for breakfast while others would hand out religious pamphlets. We bought our first home there - a few years after they got rid of the law that all cars must be removed. We bought when they had to put up a gate on Wesley Lake to keep out the drug addicts of Asbury Park. That story went national! A beautiful town and I got to watch Mel Torme rehearse at the Great Auditorium. It was his last concert - he got a stroke about a month later.