Asbury Park, January 2015

Drove down to Asbury Park to catch the sunrise from the beach and photograph the buildings along the boardwalk, Convention Hall anchors the north end of the boardwalk and the decaying "Casino" building and neighboring abandoned Boiler House (power plant) anchor the south end.

There are few classic structures remaining along the boardwalk. Most were torn down and replaced with more modern structures. Construction of Convention Hall, the Casino, Boiler House and the Carousel House dates back to the 1920s and they were built in the Beaux-Arts style. The Convention Hall complex, which includes the Paramount Theater, is still in use. The Casino is a gutted building that is in bad shape. There is a large mural inside of a 1920's era attired woman/octopus creature painted by Mike La Vallee (aka Porkchop) in the past 10 years.
The tail f the painting was destroyed by Superstorm Sandy.

Tim McLoone's Supper Club, located on the Boardwalk next to Convention Hall, is in a building that used to be a Howard Johnsons and looks like it may have been constructed in the 1950's in what was then thought of as a modern style.

Just off the Boardwalk are the Stone Pony (famous because Springsteen played there) and Wonder Bar (another music venue). Wonder Bar has a painting of Tillie, a 1950's symbol of the Asbury Park amusement park, on the exterior of the building. The originally Tillie murals are gone but one was supposedly preserved and stored in Convention Hall.