Satriale's Pork Store

The building in 2007

Satriale's Pork Store is a fictional establishment on the HBO series The Sopranos. During the 1970s, the pork store was taken over by Johnny Boy Soprano, a member of the DiMeo crime Family, when Francis Satriale failed to make payments on a gambling debt. Since then, it has become a regular hangout for current members of the DiMeo crime Family.

Location

Satriale's Pork Store is a meat market in Kearny, New Jersey. The interior walls of the storeroom where Emil "E-Mail" Kolar is murdered by Christopher Moltisanti has black and white framed photographs of classic actors and entertainers, like Humphrey Bogart, Frank Sinatra, Edward G. Robinson and Dean Martin hanging on the walls. These actors were also known to portray anti-hero mob characters, and in some cases even associated themselves with real mobsters, during their careers which gained them their fame.

Although a mob-owned establishment, Satriale's runs a legitimate business selling a variety of meats, pork and sausage, along with deli-style sandwiches. There is a careless driver known as 'Carmine' who speeds his Chevrolet Camaro up and down the street in front of the market to the disdain of Tony and the others, eventually being involved in a small fender bender outside the front of the store that Silvio Dante and Furio Giunta deals with in the episode 'House Arrest'. FBI Agent Dwight Harris who investigates Tony Soprano and the members of his family throughout the show love their veal Parmesan sandwiches. The store also has a coffee bar which sells pastries and espresso as seen in several episodes. In the large storefront windows hung cured hams and trussed pig carcasses, coils of pink-and-beige sausages, including a denuded chicken with its beak still in place. It is also prominently featured in the video game The Sopranos: Road to Respect. Satriale's is based on Sacco's Meat Market located at 806 3rd Avenue in Elizabeth, New Jersey which served as the unofficial criminal headquarters of "Uncle Joe" Giacobbe, a veteran made man in the DeCavalcante crime family. The Sopranos character, Junior Soprano is based on Giacobbe.

Important events that have occurred in the pork store

Production

In the pilot, Satriale's was originally known as Centanni's Meat Market, a real butchery located at 815 2nd Avenue in Elizabeth, New Jersey. The meat market was supposed to be a recurring location but because it was a real business it could not keep closing for shooting. After the show was picked up by HBO, the producers leased a building with a store front in Kearny, New Jersey, a former automotive-parts business, which housed Satriale's throughout the series. The exterior and decor of Satriale's is based on that for Centanni's.

The filming location was at 101 Kearny Ave in Kearny, NJ. In October 2007, the building was demolished and remains vacant. It is used as a public parking lot.

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