UPDATE: The smiling clown sign at the Circus Drive-In in Wall has been removed. WALL - The iconic Circus Drive-In sign that greeted Route 35 motorists — or haunted their nightmares, depending on how ...

WALL - The clown is gone. After 67 years, the iconic smiling clown that welcomed motorists to the Circus Drive-In restaurant was removed by crews from the Rex Sign Company on Friday. The sign has been ...

WALL - Could a new home be coming soon for the old Circus Drive-In sign, a Route 35 landmark that was saved from the scrap heap after it was taken down to make way for a new shopping center? "I'm ...

The “ringmaster” of the Circus Drive-In diner, a recently demolished Monmouth County landmark remembered for its 12-foot-tall clown sign, has died at the age of 95. Richard J. “Dick” Friedel, the ...