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The restaurant where the final scene of the hit HBO show The Sopranos was filmed recently offered the booth on eBay, where it sold for $82,600 to an anonymous buyer. The Washington Post reported an opening bid of $3,000 , but the price quickly skyrocketed to $30,000 six hours later. By the time of the final sale, the booth had received an impressive 238 bids. “If I didn’t have to do it, I wouldn’t be doing it,” Christopher Carley, a co-owner of Holsten’s, the New Jersey restaurant.
The final scene of The Sopranos showed lead character Tony Soprano putting a quarter into the jukebox at Holsten's to play Don't Stop Believin' by Journey and, ordering onion rings for the table after sliding into the now-famous booth. In the years following the show’s end, fans have flocked to Holsten’s, with the booth something of a tourist attraction. Carley even added a plaque to the dividing wall that states “This booth is reserved for the Soprano family.