Human Interest

Jim writes about personal and generic life factors, with a special interest in the idiosyncrasies of human nature.

Asbury Park, NJ

Asbury Park Back Then Fifth Avenue Bandstand-Pavilion, 1961 Home of Howard Johnson’s and Frank Bryan’s Asbury Park Municipal Band, one of an amazing number of new buildings built in rapid succession, aimed at reviving the city’s beachfront, the economic driver of the city’s progress. In the early to mid 1960s, Asbury Park was on a rapid

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Station for Life

A Station for Life The pay phone kept ringing downstairs in the darkened store. Whoever was calling knew it would eventually be heard and answered. Phone calls late at night usually meant bad news. Daddy hustled down the back stairs. It was the police. “We just got word. They’re going to try sending the newspapers

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