If you’ve walked the boardwalk in Asbury Park, you’ve seen Tillie: that huge, grinning, slightly unsettling face that shows up on t-shirts, coffee mugs, and the side of the Wonder Bar. But here’s the part almost nobody tells you until you go looking for it — the Tillie you can photograph today isn’t the original….
Tag: Jersey Shore
Lucy the Elephant: Inside New Jersey’s Six-Story Pachyderm You Can Actually Walk Through
Lucy the Elephant is a six-story, elephant-shaped building on the beach in Margate City, New Jersey, that you can actually walk through, climb inside, and stand on top of. Built in 1881 as a real estate stunt, she’s now a National Historic Landmark and, by most accounts, the oldest surviving roadside attraction in the country….

