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Elliana Goldbergp's avatar

We share so many memories. When I was pregnant and didn’t worry as much about my weight, I treated myself to banana splits at Holstens.

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Dan Epstein's avatar

Who shot Tony Soprano?

I did.

Well, that is to say that one day when they were filming scene for the second season using my cousin's bird store as a location (you know, the scene where he buys the duck food) I did a shoot with James Gandolfini for a local magazine.

Now that I've got my 15 minute brush with Soprano fame out of the way, I want to mention that when I lived in Montclair, just on the other side of the park that sort of borders Holsten's I spent plenty of time there, with my son as he grew up. It was just the right kind of place to take a child, and the right kind of place in which to feel nostalgic about the kind of place it was, and of which there are now so very few. My son would happily have a hamburger and then some ice cream, and I would feast on the nostalgia remembering spending time in places like forty years earlier.

I live at the Jersey Shore now, so I don't get to Holsten's with any regularity anymore, but starting with my next birthday, wherever I am...I'm going to have a hot fudge sundae. While I'm eating it, I'll think about the anniversary of my birth, my childhood and that of my son, and also, a moment or two for my friend from Montclair who inspired this new tradition.

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