Oral History Archive

Filtering by Washington Baths back to all

Susan Meyer

Memories of growing up in the 1940s and '50s in a tight-knit Jewish community in Coney Island

Jeffrey Eisenmesser

Former teacher at Mark Twain Junior High School recalls his Coney Island memories

Jose Beth Smolensky

Juilliard trained musician whose family owned Washington Baths

Jan Brown

A Brooklyn native's boyhood memories of Washington Baths and Steeplechase Park

Joseph Albanese

87-year-old remembers the Nickel Empire

Marty Reich

Locker Boy at Oriole Baths who hung out at Washington Baths with his friends