Rosie’s on the move

From northjersey.com:

Rosie’s Diner, the iconic former Little Ferry [New Jersey] landmark that gained national fame as the setting for a series of paper towel commercials in the 1970s and was later moved to Michigan, has been sold to a Missouri couple who plan to restore the diner to its past glory.

When I was a college student working at Valley Fair, a now-defunct Little Ferry discount department store, I drove around the Little Ferry traffic circle and past Rosie’s, or the Farmland Diner, as it was then called, countless times. I never went inside. But I did once watch Nancy Walker (“Rosie”) preparing to film a Bounty paper towels commercial in Valley Fair’s supermarket section. She exuded intensity, chain-smoking and looking not especially happy to be there.

Here’s a 1978 commercial with Nancy Walker and the diner. And here’s a 2008 post with some choice vignettes from my life as a housewares stock-clerk: Going on break.

Thanks, Brian.