Filtering by 1930 - 1939

Connie Scacciaferro
Memories of going to Coney Island Beach as a child in the 1930's and a teenager in the '40s

Van Milana
Grandson of sword swallower Joseph "Ajax" Milana and DeWise Purdin "The Handless Sharpshooter"

Deena Metzger
Writer, poet and healer who grew up in a Yiddish literary family in Sea Gate during World War II

Josephine Gargiulo Cassata
Daughter of Gargiulo's founder was born in an apartment above Coney Island's famous restaurant

Charles Berkman
Memories of growing up in Coney Island during the Great Depression and 55 years practicing law

Joel Zika
The founder of the Dark Ride Project on documenting Spook-A-Rama and other historic dark rides

Charles Robert Feltman
Charles Robert Feltman, great-grandson of Feltmans Restaurant founder and hot dog inventor Charles Feltman

Antoinette Balzano
Granddaughter of Anthony "Totonno" Pero tells the story of how he founded Totonno's Pizzeria in 1924

Commendatore Aldo Mancusi
Memories of Coney Island in the 1930s and '40s and growing up in Brooklyn in an Italian family

Louise Milano
Louise Milano's mother, Carolina, operated Carolina Restaurant on Mermaid Avenue for 60 years

Mary Loretta Hood
Mary Hood came to Coney Island as a child and worked on the Bowery well into her 90s

Judge Steve Arniotes
The story behind the Boardwalk Lido Restaurant and the family who operated it from 1927 until 1960

Jay Green (Gerald Greenberg)
Three-time International Jugglers Association champion and resident of Southern Brooklynr