Diner booth from ‘The Sopranos’ final scene heading to auction
Holsten’s diner in New Jersey, the location of the final scene in the HBO hit series The Sopranos, is selling the booth that James Gandolfini’s Tony Soprano used.
The ice cream shop and restaurant gained a level of fame after being part of the final scene of the iconic series, and now the establishment is being renovated, with its booth being put up for sale.
A note from the seller reads, “Own the famous Sopranos booth from Holsten’s in Bloomfield, NJ! We are currently renovating our booths at Holsten’s.”
They add, “This is your once in a lifetime chance to own the original booth that the Soprano Family sat in for the final scene of the famous show!”
The listing says that whoever buys the booth will receive both seats, the table and a divider wall that reads, “Reserved for the Sopranos Family.” The current highest bid stands at $31,000 at the time of writing, and the winner must pick it up or arrange for shipping themselves.
There’s a mystery that surrounds the final scene of The Sopranos, with some wondering whether or not Tony dies. However, creator David Chase once referred to the moment as a “death scene” when being interviewed for The Sopranos Sessions.
“Yes, I think I had that death scene around two years before the end…” Chase noted. “Tony was going to get called to a meeting with Johnny Sack in Manhattan, and he was going to go back through the Lincoln Tunnel for this meeting, and it was going to go black there and you never saw him again as he was heading back.”
He added, “The theory being that something bad happens to him at the meeting. But we didn’t do that. [The point was] that he could have been whacked in the diner. We all could be whacked in a diner. That was the point of the scene.”
