Filtering by 1940 - 1949
![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
![Gargiulo's Restaurant](https://www.coneyislandhistory.org/sites/default/files/styles/oral_history_thumbnail_bw/public/interviews/6165/images/gargiulo_restaurant.2.jpg?itok=xfJSTgHp&c=eaa736d181aa8ee3e6284405b1ba0483)
Josephine Gargiulo Cassata
Daughter of Gargiulo's founder was born in an apartment above Coney Island's famous restaurant
![Photo of Lu Zhao by Sylvia Ching Man Wong for the Coney Island History Project.](https://www.coneyislandhistory.org/sites/default/files/styles/oral_history_thumbnail_bw/public/interviews/8732/images/img_7581.jpg?itok=W6F8JVP5)
Lu Zhao
Calligrapher recounts his artistic journey from China's Guangdong Province to Brooklyn's Bensonhurst
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Juanhua Zhao
Tai chi teacher at Coney Island's Seaside Innovative Senior Center shares her life story
![Postcard: Coney Island History Project Collection](https://www.coneyislandhistory.org/sites/default/files/styles/oral_history_thumbnail_bw/public/interviews/9515/images/steeplechase_pool_2.jpg?itok=818V6UQe&c=19be1538dcf139e61eb84f0025b83c51)
Nancy Gabriel
Memories of visiting Uncle Pete, who ran a food concession at Steeplechase Pool in the 1930s-50s
![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
![Alonzo Kittrels on Coney Island Beach in the 1940s. Photo courtesy of Alonzo Kittrels.](https://www.coneyislandhistory.org/sites/default/files/styles/oral_history_thumbnail_bw/public/interviews/9115/images/alonzo_kittrels_2.jpg?itok=zdDvjBUi&c=dabfcd0cd14e00836a23907cd069b74c)
Alonzo Kittrels
Memories of bus trips to Coney Island with the Good Will Family Club from the 1940's through 1961
![Photo: Astroland Archive](https://www.coneyislandhistory.org/sites/default/files/styles/oral_history_thumbnail_bw/public/interviews/8904/images/star_flyer_medium_2.jpg?itok=QbFApOXi&c=ea75ee3a63f462172e8ffc9e73e1b556)
Richard Termini
Memories of growing up at Bensonhurst's Termini's Bakery and riding Coney Island's Astroland Rocket
![Photo credit: John Duprey/ New York Daily News, 1954.](https://www.coneyislandhistory.org/sites/default/files/styles/oral_history_thumbnail_bw/public/interviews/8992/images/lois_mclohon.jpg?itok=LZZOnPWL&c=0be523909ee4f0311ee71e2594c5af0b)
Lois McLohon
Brooklynite who posed for a now iconic 1950's NY Daily News pin-up photo on Coney Island Beach
![Photo courtesy of Richard Glazer Danay](https://www.coneyislandhistory.org/sites/default/files/styles/oral_history_thumbnail_bw/public/interviews/8787/images/richard_glazer_danay_2.jpg?itok=rEEqjLcA&c=a27d57f7a2fb9e2e42b97fb51b21e0ff)
Richard Glazer-Danay
Artist who grew up in Coney Island and whose artwork celebrates his Mohawk iron worker ancestry
![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