Filtering by 1940 - 1949

Steve Burke
Memories of working at Coney Island's pony track as a boy in the 1940s for "no pay, just tips"

Yeva Novik
A 90-year-old Coney Island resident recounts her journey from Moscow to Southern Brooklyn

Connie Scacciaferro
Memories of going to Coney Island Beach as a child in the 1930's and a teenager in the '40s

Mort Shatzkin
Memories of growing up in Coney Island and the family business, Shatzkin's Famous Knishes

Tina Mednicoff Smokler
Growing up in Coney Island and being elected to Leon Friend's Art Squad at Lincoln High School

Irwin Temkin
Growing up in Coney Island and how learning French at Lincoln High School influenced his life

Diana Wiener
Growing up in Sea Gate and Coney Island in the 1940s and '50s and moving back in the mid-1960s