Another building which haunts my dreams. This is the old Neptune High School, now a performing arts center and theater. I have been in this building to see shows, but I can hardly sit in my seat so strong is the urge to wander through the building. There is an addition on the right hand side , if you drive past it (on Main Street) and look in to the classroom, the clock is always at 12:05. This part of the building was not rehabbed with the performing art center. I like to think if I could get into that classroom, and slide into a desk, that time would stop for as long as I care to stay...

1910 Photo of Broadway and Chattle Memorial

On the right of this postcard (1910) you can see the memorial which now stands behind the police station in Long Branch. How anyone came to decide upon such a shitty place to put it is beyond me. I think this picture is right at the intersection of Broadway, Bath and Norwood.

Greystone State Hospital, Morris Plains, NJ

Greystone Insane Asylum, Morris Plains, NJ. A nice place to visit, but...

Garfield Grant Hotel, Long Branch NJ

The Garfield Grant Hotel at 279 Broadway in Long Branch. The building now serves as the local courthouse. Sometimes I have dreams that it's still a hotel and I get lost in long, marble floored hallways.

Church of the 7 Presidents

A photo of St. James Chapel prior to the overhaul it is currently undergoing.

Long Branch Public Library 1920's

The Long Branch Public Library...as it was. It's now about triple the size, but this facade is still competely intact, windows and all. The old city hall is the top shot of this postcard, the new city hall is the UGLIEST building you can imagine. It's supposed to be being re-built, and seriously, it can only be improved upon.
I work in the library and it's one of the only jobs I've ever had where I love going to work. It is an extremely quirky place, full of quirky people. It would, at times, make for a GREAT reality show. Like the moment a guy claiming to be a city fireman came in and wanted to know if he could look at porn on the internet. Well, he said, not like the real hard core stuff or anything. Oh.

Saint Michael's Church, Long Branch NJ

Saint Michael's Church, Ocean Avenue West End Long Branch NJ
Evidently I'm cultivating a quasi obsession with the churches in the town I live in. Hmmm....

St. James Chapel Long Branch NJ

Work is well under way now at St. James Chapel on Ocean Avenue in Long Branch. It's almost as though a haunted house is being brought back to life. I feel like I've been waiting my entire life to have the opportunity to go inside this church.

Dare Wright The Lonely Doll

For an extremely quirky, engaging read I highly recommend this biography. If you were lucky enough to have known The Lonely Doll as a child, the whole story is a thousandfold more interesting to an adult reader. Pretty much a heartbreaker.

Mose Tolliver

Mose Tolliver 1920-2006

The Farm House, Little Silver, NJ

This is a great postcard of the Roosevelt Tea Room, which ultimately became The Farm House, which ultimately burned to the ground. I ate dinner at the Farm House May 28, 1989 and after dinner my boyfriend asked me to marry him. It must've been a pretty good meal, we'll be celebrating our 17th wedding anniversary this year.

Little Silver, NJ

I keep finding kind of cool old postcards of the Little Silver area, so I thought I'd start sticking them on here. If anyone has any images they can send me I would love it! The RR Station and the Globe Hotel are from the early 1900's and Sickle's Market is before it became fancy Sickle's Market.