Ocean Grove: Jersey Shore's Unique Victorian Town

In the mid-1970s, my friend and I were riding along Route 71, south of Asbury Park, New Jersey, ready to explore the Jersey Shore. I was riding in her green Camaro on Sunday afternoon, when we drove past a community entrance road that was chained shut with a safety barricade out front. “That’s Ocean Grove,” my friend said. “You can’t drive in there on Sunday; they have a law against it.” I was quite familiar with the Old Order Mennonites and Amish who don’t drive cars at all, but it...