The Sopranos' Final-Scene Booth Sold for $82,600. The Owner Had Reportedly Hoped for $10,000.
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The booth where The Sopranos shot its cliffhanger final scene, screened in 2007, sold at auction for $82,600, more than 15 years later. Co-owner Chris Carley had asked for opening bids above $3,000 on eBay and reportedly aimed for a price of $10,000.
It is the one with deep red benches and a yellow Formica table at Holsten's, a real-life ice-cream parlor in Bloomfield, New Jersey.
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The ask was above $3,000 and the reported hope $10,000, for a booth whose charge comes entirely from a scene in which a man drops a quarter in a table-top jukebox, orders onion rings, and then the show cuts to black. No appraiser prices a bench that way; the premium is for the moment.
It isn't only a moment. It's the room the series ended in — Soprano at the jukebox, the picture cutting to black — and being in that room for ninety seconds is the product. Nostalgia with a receipt is still nostalgia, and the receipt is the point.
The buyer also got the divider with its plaque reserving the booth for the Soprano family: a reservation held by people who do not exist, and the only kind that never gets cancelled.