![]() Sabrina Winter Denmark of Lafayette Hill, Pennsylvania, formerly of East Brunswick said she and her sister Jenny celebrated their Bat Mitzvah at The Wooden Nickel. Spacious, there was room for events and rite of passage events, such as christenings, sweet sixteens and Bar and Bat Mitzvahs. "Didn’t they put a small tub of pickles on the table? I still have a wooden nickel token." "I remember it being good food and atmosphere," he said. Now living in Clermont, Floria, Walter Gilliland, originally from Spotswood, started going to The Wooden Nickel in the '70s. ![]() "Loved Wooden Nickel," said JoAnn Mccloskey, formerly of East Brunswick, and now a resident of Norwich, New York. ![]() "The Wooden Nickel used to show movies while you ate and had the best chocolate moose in a chocolate bowl," she said. Julie Larkin, who lived in East Brunswick and now resides in Monroe, used to go to The Wooden Nickel with a friend and that friend's father. "I had totally forgotten about the crazy chicken prize machine until I saw this picture today! Birthdays at Farrell's were always my favorite because they would come out banging a huge drum! They also had the best ice cream sundaes!" "I had a birthday party there when I was about 5 or 6 years old," Kochis said. Like hundreds, perhaps thousands, of locals, Corey Kochis of East Brunswick spent many a birthday celebration at Farrell's. "When I graduated from college and got a full-time job, I continued to work there part-time until it closed shortly afterward - that's how much fun it was. "I started working from Farrell's during summer break from college," Forbes said. It was fun to seat all my friends from school."Īs an adult, Szawaryn-Rivera took her own children there when they were small for birthday parties.įorbes, who lived in Old Bridge at the time, had two stints working for the popular family venue during the late 1980s and early 1990s. I was living in Sayreville and going to Sayreville High School when I worked there. "The people were so good to us and it was just a fun environment to be in! Free food too! My favorite was the Gibson Girl. It had a bunch of sherbet on top. "I had the best time working there," Szawaryn-Rivera said. In 1977, Rivera was a hostess and worked in the candy store area as she was only 15. It was a great place to hang with teen friends."ĭina Forbes of Red Bank and Michelle Szawaryn-Rivera of South Amboy worked at Farrell's. "I also love the candy you could buy and the creepy fortune telling machine! There also was the self playing piano too. "It was embarrassing if it was your birthday because everybody sang, but the ice cream sundaes were delicious," she said. Having grown up in East Brunswick, less than a mile from the Brunswick Square Mall, Sheri Watson remembers Farrell's being "great fun." The East Brunswick Farrell's in the Brunswick Square Mall closed in December 1991 and stood approximately where Tilted Kilt is now there was another entrance from the inside of the mall on the J.C.Penney's side.
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