A mural that was once an iconic symbol of Asbury Park is a step closer to having a new home after being locked in a storage shed for more than 17 years.
“TIllie” — a grinning characture with a toothy grin — was moved Tuesday morning to a parking lot on the north side of Convention Hall in Asbury Park.
As of late Tuesday morning Tillie — along with two bumper car murals — were sitting in tarps steps from the building.
New storage sheds will soon be constructed to house all three murals in the parking lot, according to a Madison Marquette representative on site.
“Not long,” the rep said when asked how long it will take to build the new sheds. The rep declined to say if the murals will be hung on Convention Hall.
The original Tillie mural rests on a flatbed truck in Asbury Park on Sept. 28, 2021.Natalie Paterson/NJ Advance Media for NJ.com
Leslie Worth Thomas painted Tillie on the old Palace Amusements, an indoor arcade that sat at the corner of Cookman Avenue and Kingsley Street, before the summer tourism season of 1956.
On Tuesday morning, Tillie and the bumper car murals traveled just a short distance this morning along Kingsley Street and Ocean Avenue from the wastewater treatment plant where they had been housed since June 2004 when Palace Amusements was demolished.
All three murals were removed from the storage shed Tuesday morning with a crane, loaded onto a flat-bed truck and driven to the parking lot, where the crane unloaded them.
Crews from Burke Construction estimated Tillie and the steel frame holding him weigh about 17,000 pounds. The two bumper car murals and the steel frame holding both tip the scale at approximately 23,000 pounds.
A replica of Tillie has been on display above the Wonder Bar since 2004.
An file photo of the Palace Amusement building at the corner of Cookman Avenue and Kingsley Street.Noah K. Murray | The Star-Ledger
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