New Jersey Route 88 crosses the Point Pleasant Canal, the Veterans Memorial Bridge, opened in 1986 replacing an obsolete bascule lift bridge completed in 1928. Route 88 was referred to in the 1973 song "Spirit in the Night" by Bruce Springsteen on his debut album "Greetings from Asbury Park, N.J.". New Jersey Route 88 Route 88 is a state highway in the northern part of Ocean County, New Jersey, United States. It runs from an intersection with U.S. Route 9 (US 9) and County Route 547 (CR 547) in Lakewood Township to an intersection with Route 35 in Point Pleasant. It is a two-lane
Martin Asbury Martin Asbury Martin Asbury is a British comic and storyboard artist, best known for drawing the "Garth" strip in the "Daily Mirror" from 1976 to 1997, and for his colour TV adaptations in "Look-in". Asbury was educated at Merchant Taylors School and at Saint Martin's School of Art, London, and started work in strip cartoons, including assisting Dan Barry on "Flash Gordon" in Austria. After a period designing greetings cards, he got work at D. C. Thomson, drawing "Secret of the Sheridan Sisters" for "Bunty" and "Soldiers of the Jet Age" and "The Crimson Claw" for "Hotspur", before moving to