Oral History Archive

Filtering by 1940 - 1949 back to all
Frieda Schwelke
Memories of growing up in Coney Island in the 1930s and '40s and moving to Luna Park Houses in 1962
Sharon Tera
Sharon Tera's family operated Ethel's Restaurant on the Boardwalk in the 1940s and '50s
Jane McNeive Ennis
Memories of Ocean Tide Baths and Coney Island
Esther Delgado
Growing up in Gravesend and going to Coney Island in the 1940s and living there today
Rena Stutman Rice
Memories of growing up in Brighton Beach in the 1950s and '60s
Sam Person
Family memories of Nat Faber's Fascination arcade and amusement business empire
Stanley Shapiro
Memories of growing up in Coney Island in the 1940s and going back four times a year
Joyce Chopra
Groundbreaking filmmaker grew up in Sea Gate and on Mermaid Avenue
Ellen Abrams
Memories of growing up on West 29th Street and meeting her lifeguard husband on Coney Island Beach
Jeffrey Berman
Longtime Sea Gate resident and watercolor artist who teaches at Seaside Innovative Senior Center
Robert Levrini
Memories of growing up on West 5th Street and grandfather's shoe repair shop on Ocean Parkway
Chris Cuomo
Memories of riding the Steeplechase Horses, Human Roulette Wheel and Parachute Jump 70 years ago
Stanley Fox
Retired Coney Island arcade operator recalls his family's 30-plus years in the business
Sheila Levrant de Bretteville
Memories of growing up a block from the ocean and being head of Lincoln High School's Art Squad
George Ancona
The art of growing up Mexican American in Coney Island in the 1930s and '40s
Carmela
Growing up on West 16th Street between Mermaid and Neptune in a cold water flat in the 1940s and '50s
Edith Storch
Memories of growing up on West 36th Street in Coney Island's West End in the 1930s
Gloria Nicholson
Memories of growing up in a Jones Walk rooming house in 1940s Coney Island