(From The Hartford Courant -- By Pat Seremet)
Less than two weeks before it was to go on the auction block, ROSIE'S DINER, made famous by a series of paper-towel commercials, is being purchased.
RANDY AND JONELLE ROEST are buying the Michigan diner from artist JERRY BERTA, they said Thursday.
The Algoma Township restaurant, built in 1946 by
THE PARAMOUNT DINING CAR COMPANY, originally was named THE SILVER DOLLAR DINER and sat in Little Ferry, New Jersey.
It gained fame after being featured in a series of 1970s
TV commercials for Procter & Gamble Co.'s BOUNTY PAPER TOWELS.
In the ads, the late character actress NANCY WALKER played a waitress named ROSIE who regularly used the "quicker picker-upper" towels to clean up the spills of clumsy customers.
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