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Entries for August 2008




Two Thumbs Up

August 18, 2008 06:02 PM ET | Eric Levin | Permanent Link

As I passed the refreshment stand (see yesterday's Plain Sight) and continued my stroll up the Long Branch boardwalk, a boy ran after me, waving a white piece of paper...

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Tags: Long Branch | boardwalk | photography



Pretzel Logic

August 17, 2008 11:26 AM ET | Eric Levin | Permanent Link

Justine Pecora, a sophomore at Caldwell College, has spent the summer selling soft pretzels and ice cream and drinks and candy to people on the Long Branch boardwalk. It's a hard job, but there are compensations...

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Tags: Long Branch | boardwalk | photography



Bench Warmed

August 15, 2008 11:22 AM ET | Eric Levin | Permanent Link

Sleep on a park bench, even at high noon, and a cop is likely to tap you on the shoulder and tell you to move on.

Do the same thing on the boardwalk and you are left to your sweet dreams...

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Tags: Long Branch | boardwalk | photography



Keeper of the Kiosk

August 14, 2008 12:51 PM ET | Eric Levin | Permanent Link

You feel you will mess with the dude's vibe if you ask him to okay your beach badge.

Skateboarders get in free if they can grind the handrail alongside the stairs to the beach.

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Tags: Long Branch | boardwalk | photography



Brooding on the Boardwalk

August 12, 2008 07:21 PM ET | Eric Levin | Permanent Link

While this fellow took the measure of the waves, two young women stood on the boardwalk, lost in thought.

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Tags: Long Branch | boardwalk | photography



Jump For Joy!

August 12, 2008 04:35 AM ET | Eric Levin | Permanent Link

Sunday on the boardwalk at Pier Village in Long Branch...

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Tags: Long Branch | boardwalk | Pier Village



Beachless

August 10, 2008 06:18 AM ET | Eric Levin | Permanent Link

And nearly wordless.

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Tags: photography