What a walk down memory lane! The last time I was here was as a college freshman with my family, and it is just as I remembered (quaint, friendly, comfy and perhaps the same old rocking chairs on the porch). Now that I’m a senior (I’m not talking school-age here), it was a very nice experience. I really connected with the manager, who grew up in a town adjacent to mine where I rode my bike to the popular pool, went to a university across the street from mine, and also spent time in the same industry. We enjoyed delicious meals at nearby restaurants, had terrific ice cream sundaes at a small shop just a block away whose owner was from the city where I went to college, and walked on the boardwalk to the Asbury Park Convention Center during tropical storm Ophelia (a wet, but fun stroll...pix to prove it). We shall return, given the opportunity.