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Monmouth and Ocean County Awning contributed a bit of the vintage look to the Bruce Springsteen movie Springsteen: Deliver Me from Nowhere, which came out in late October 2025. The company, founded in 1940 and based in Asbury Park, N.J., created a backdrop for the Down a Clown carnival game and fabricated and installed several custom awnings for filming.
“The opportunity arose when a national production company—owned by the daughter of one of Monmouth and Ocean County Awning’s longtime customers—reached out just weeks before local shooting was set to begin,” say the notes about the project, sent in by company owner Chris Zatorski.
The team provided Serge Ferrari and Sunbrella® fabric samples to the filmmakers to capture the early 1980s feel. Fabric selection for the carnival game backdrop was completed on a Tuesday, with the project needing to be done before shooting on Saturday, leaving no room for error. “While simple in design, it was not something we make every day,” Zatorski says, noting that the mounting was a bit out of the norm and welds had to be perfect.
Because of its quick, prompt work and attention to detail, the team was invited to tour the movie set, “a nostalgic arcade filled with Space Invaders, Asteroids and pinball machines,” Zatorski’s notes describe.
The awnings, produced on a four- or five-day timeline, were installed on a restaurant in Freehold, N.J., Springsteen’s hometown.
“It was chaotic at times,” Zatorski says of the work, noting the amount of different trades on the set at the same time, “but our crew handled it beautifully. I couldn’t have been prouder.”