Bayville, New Jersey: The Bayville Dinosaur

Concrete thunder lizard has stood here since 1935 -- the midpoint between New York City and Atlantic City. Frequently decapitated by trucks. Most recent makeover in Dec. 2018.

Although still headless (and tailless, and footless) the Bayville Dinosaur has been returned to its base along Route 9, where it's stood since the 1930s. The body has been cleaned and repaired, and the next step is for a trio of artists to re-form the saurian's various appendages, attach them, and then give the entire dino a paint job that will give it the look of aged bronze. This final work will take place next to the highway. No completion date has been announced yet, but the evolution in the dinosaur's appearance seems to have avoided its near-brush with extinction.

And it's gone!

The green dinosaur is now a light purple with white and red hand prints all over it.

If you have a thing for the giant champagne bottle, be sure to go a half mile further south on Route 9. On your right you will see a approximately twelve foot sculpture of a green dinosaur. It's a landmark here.

Someone crashed into the dinosaur a few years ago. Once it was repaired they painted it purple to give it a new, modern, Barney look?! I believe they painted it green again, because no one could give proper directions without the "green" dinosaur -- the purple dinosaur just didn't cut it.