Tillie of Asbury Park: Who owns the iconic face of the resurgent city?
Ron Maletich purchased the Road Ad Sign Co. in Neptune in 1985 and promptly began to clean house, discarding the renderings of projects from long ago, ready to start anew. When he came across a drawing of Tillie, the smiling, clown-like figure that the company designed for the facade of the famed Palace Amusements in Asbury Park some 30…