Filtering by 1920 - 1929
![Photo courtesy of Anatoli Kardiukov/JASA/Scheuer House of CI OAC & Luna Park Annex.](https://www.coneyislandhistory.org/sites/default/files/styles/oral_history_thumbnail_bw/public/interviews/10831/images/jeanette_bigelson_3.png?itok=MZhtcJ3D&c=cfaf97ce0afad6acab758e0e12da5539)
Jeanette Bigelson
At age 103, Coney Island resident shares her memories and secrets to a long and happy life
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Frank Gurrera
Machinist at MTA's Coney Island Overhaul and Repair Shop and oldest active TWU Local 100 member
![Greg Birbil as a boy with his sisters Katina and Fevronia. Photo by Tilyou Studio Photographers. Courtesy of Greg Birbil.](https://www.coneyislandhistory.org/sites/default/files/styles/oral_history_thumbnail_bw/public/interviews/9484/images/birbil_3_1.jpg?itok=MLrr7WLV)
Greg Birbil
Greg Birbil's father, Paul, was a candy maker who owned the Paradise Ice Cream Parlor on Surf Avenue
![Steven Feinstein, owner of Wilensky Hardware store. Photo © Charles Denson.](https://www.coneyislandhistory.org/sites/default/files/styles/oral_history_thumbnail_bw/public/interviews/8842/images/steve_6575.jpg?itok=0uc8tIJJ)
Steven Feinstein
Reflections on running Wilensky Hardware, a 100-year-old family business on Mermaid Avenue
![The St Leons, Acrobats and Equestrians at Luna Park, on the cover of Billboard, August 6, 1910. Photo courtesy of Mark St Leon.](https://www.coneyislandhistory.org/sites/default/files/styles/oral_history_thumbnail_bw/public/interviews/10348/images/nypl_st_leon_items-1-border_crop_2.jpg?itok=Sv1AbZjW&c=2b7e090866f7a4733d04ea0a899aee63)
Mark St Leon
Australian circus historian whose family performed at Coney Island's Luna Park in the early 1900s
![Photo courtesy of Esther Delgado.](https://www.coneyislandhistory.org/sites/default/files/styles/oral_history_thumbnail_bw/public/interviews/10325/images/esther_delgado_border.jpg?itok=I4t2Iojb&c=7fc703ad53b9c950a00b19720952e1ea)
Esther Delgado
Growing up in Gravesend and going to Coney Island in the 1940s and living there today
![Ajax the Great with his sword pin](https://www.coneyislandhistory.org/sites/default/files/styles/oral_history_thumbnail_bw/public/interviews/6616/images/ajax_with_sword.jpg?itok=8NzrCDPG)
Van Milana
Grandson of sword swallower Joseph "Ajax" Milana and DeWise Purdin "The Handless Sharpshooter"
![Charles Berkman. Photo courtesy of the Berkman family](https://www.coneyislandhistory.org/sites/default/files/styles/oral_history_thumbnail_bw/public/interviews/5585/images/charles_berkman_1.jpg?itok=No3g1eIC&c=6a0e535a079a8ec953adeca6802cbb6b)
Charles Berkman
Memories of growing up in Coney Island during the Great Depression and 55 years practicing law
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Joel Zika
The founder of the Dark Ride Project on documenting Spook-A-Rama and other historic dark rides
![Charles Robert Feltman](https://www.coneyislandhistory.org/sites/default/files/styles/oral_history_thumbnail_bw/public/interviews/5053/images/charles_feltman.jpg?itok=cAOLa0YM&c=f5646e8ff83c3113b3b4b31fa44fbe66)
Charles Robert Feltman
Great-grandson of Feltmans Restaurant founder and hot dog inventor Charles Feltman
![Totonno's, Coney Island](https://www.coneyislandhistory.org/sites/default/files/styles/oral_history_thumbnail_bw/public/interviews/4795/images/totonno.jpg?itok=ulo6SJNS)
Antoinette Balzano
Granddaughter of Anthony "Totonno" Pero tells the story of how he founded Totonno's Pizzeria in 1924
![Carolina Restaurant, 1975](https://www.coneyislandhistory.org/sites/default/files/styles/oral_history_thumbnail_bw/public/interviews/3498/images/carolina.intvw_.jpg?itok=elSG0GJU&c=212d38626433d77167a28dad84a47a23)
Louise Milano
Louise Milano's mother, Carolina, operated Carolina Restaurant on Mermaid Avenue for 60 years
![Judge Steve Arniotes](https://www.coneyislandhistory.org/sites/default/files/styles/oral_history_thumbnail_bw/public/interviews/3099/images/steve_arniotes_0010.jpg?itok=vgYBrfXr)
Judge Steve Arniotes
The story behind the Boardwalk Lido Restaurant and the family who operated it from 1927 until 1960