Filtering by 1930 - 1939

Frieda Schwelke
Memories of growing up in Coney Island in the 1930s and '40s and moving to Luna Park Houses in 1962

Esther Delgado
Growing up in Gravesend and going to Coney Island in the 1940s and living there today

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

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

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
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