1. Oral History Archive
  2. Andy Fuhrman

Andy Fuhrman

Memories of growing up in Coney Island Houses and on Mermaid Avenue in the 1950s and '60s

Interviewer:
Charles Denson
Interviewee:
Andy Fuhrman

Themes

music
stores

Languages

English

Places

3029 West 24th Street
Abraham Lincoln High School
Coney Island Creek
Coney Island Houses
Gravesend Bay
Harbor Hospital
Mermaid Avenue
Tell Chocolate

Periods

1960 - 1969
1950 - 1959

Interview Highlight Bookmarks

  • Born in Harbor Hospital, the former Half Moon Hotel
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  • His grandmother's house on West 24th St. still standing
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  • Silvers Baths
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  • Tell Chocolate factory in the Childs Building
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  • Memories of stores on Mermaid Avenue
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  • Bused to school in Bensonhurst
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  • Working as a balloon boy on the Bowery at age 13
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  • Coney Island Creek
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  • Going sailing on the Creek and Gravesend Bay
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  • Singing with friends
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  • Football team at Lincoln High School
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  • Growing up in Coney Island Houses
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  • Camping and surfing
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    Musician Andy Fuhrman grew up in Coney Island Houses and on Mermaid Avenue and remembers every store in the neighborhood. Andy was on the football team at Lincoln High School in the 1960s, worked games on the Bowery, and was a pioneering surfer at Rockaway Beach long before surfing became legal there. 

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