Oral History Archive

Filtering by 1910 - 1919 back to all

Randy Profeta

Great grandson of Coney Island sign painter Harry Wildman and grandson of Steeplechase's Vito Onorato

Rachel Rosenberg Simon

Rachel Simon recalls her family's Deli Restaurant on Mermaid Avenue

Mark St Leon

Australian circus historian whose family performed at Coney Island's Luna Park in the early 1900s

Joel Zika

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

Charles Robert Feltman

Great-grandson of Feltmans Restaurant founder and hot dog inventor Charles Feltman

Joseph Svehlak

Fond memories of Coney Island

Marie Roberts

A painter with a Coney Island legacy

Chris Davies

Great-grandson of strongman The Great Sandow