Tillie Traditional Cache

Greetings from Asbury Park. You must be on the beach to reach the container, so be prepared to step in sand.

During summer beach season (late May to early Sep), you need a beach badge to access this cache during the day between 9:00am and 5:00pm.

Congrats to Jo.Cap on the FTF!

About Tillie

Tillie is an iconic figure from the Jersey Shore beach town Asbury Park.  Tillie is actually the nickname of two murals of a grinning figure painted on the side of the Palace Amusements arcade building in Asbury Park, NJ, USA over the winter of 1955-56.

Tillie is an example of an amusement park "fun face".  The Palace Amusements building was in operation from 1888 to 1988.  The building no longer stands and the business no longer operates, so this cache is not violating any Geocaching anti-promotion rules.  When the building was slated for demolition in 2004, a Save Tillie campaign was launched to save the murals.  The left-side Tillie was saved and still sits in storage, but the right-side was lost along with the Palace itself.