When I was in grade school thru High School. I played in the Ocean Grove Summer Band and which had many concerts in that pavilion. It is right on the beach and directly in front of the Great Ocean Grove Auditorium. This small town, which borders Asbury Park to the North, is unlike any other place in NJ. My wife and I lived in the Grove for our first two years together.
When I was very young, the Blue Laws in the town forbade any vehiculat traffic on Sunday and you couldn’t even have your car parked on the streets on Sunday. The town has a number of entrances and those entrances were clogged with cars over the weekend.
Ocean Grove also contains numerous Victorian Style Homes and the tents for the old camp meeting in the vacinity of the auditorium. The town is referred to as “God’s square mile”. Nice place to visit but expensive. If you are at the jersey shore in Monmouth county, it is worth the time to visit. Hopefully this lawsuit will go in the favor of the Camp Meeting Association. Some traditions should remain traditions.
We had friends who lived in Ocean Grove, when we lived in Jersey 20 years ago. It was a quaint little place. Houses were WAY too close together for my taste, but folks who lived there seemed to like it. I liked Avon-by-the-Sea, myself.