Shot On Site – Yes, It’s True, This City Has No WienerWald
I ate at the Wienerwald in the Ramada Inn (Lowe’s Midtown Motor Inn)at Eighth and 48th back in Feb 1982. The menu seemed very narrow and there was only one waitress in the place. She was done up like a German Beer Frauline. She was blonde and may have been pretty, but she had such a sour look on her face. I’m sure Navy sailor from Nebraska in her establishment as the only customer didn’t thrill her either.
The Weinerwald can also be seen briefly in the background of a scene in “The Fan” (1981). In it, a deranged fan tries to follow Lauren Bacall around a dance studio in Times Square, hoping to hand deliver a fan letter.
i grew up in queens. there was a wienerwald restaurant on queens blvd in rego park. it was a few blocks east of what used to be alexanders. i never ate there. i used to go there just for the beer. they had dinklelacker on tap. it was served in a litre clay mug. to this day i still enjoy good beer and it all started at wienerwald.
I was searching Weinerwald because I came across it in a movie this weekend and found this page. I saw this restaurant in an old B movie called God Told Me To by Larry Cohen. Looks like the same location.
Hi Rob
What a coincidence that you mention “God Told Me To” because I just saw that movie last week on Showtime on demand. A pretty good movie, though half was like a police procedural, and the other was a bit sci-fi. It’s like Cohen didn’t know which genre he wanted the film to be.
Yeah, Wienerwald and the Embassy theater next door pops up at 49 minutes in the background. I want to track down a decent copy online to pull an image or two from.
A few Ghostbusters locations also pop up in Cohen’s “Q: The Winged Serpent”. Columbus Circle, the church and 55 Central Park West are glimpsed in a skyline shot right before the nude sunbather attack. Columbia University (the walkway where Egon gets the Crunch bar, and the statue seen in the Ghostbusters title shot) is in one brief scene of two people talking.
— Paul
You can also see the Times Square Wienerwald in the first couple of minutes of Cannibal Ferox, which I believe was shot in 80 or 81.
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