By TOM SHORTELL
Freddie Paiva anchored his 6-foot two-inch, 370 pound frame to the stool in front of Caroline O’Toole’s Friday at 5 p.m. He’s been a regular doorman since the bar opened earlier this summer. His arms are covered with tattoos, and an earpiece rests in his right ear so he can communicate with the doorman at the Beach Bar on the other end of Asbury Park’s Convention Hall.
Don’t be fooled by appearances, though. Paiva uses reading glasses to check IDs, two of his tattoos are of Calvin & Hobbes and The Little Mermaid and for his dream job, he’d open up a Portuguese Barbeque. Someone once called him “a teddy bear in a gorrila suit,” and Paiva approves of the description. (more…)