Filtering by 1950 - 1959
![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
![Photo by Giulia Hjort for the Coney Island History Project](https://www.coneyislandhistory.org/sites/default/files/styles/oral_history_thumbnail_bw/public/interviews/8797/images/steve_campanella_1.jpg?itok=HUrJShn4&c=f5df176d7fba616514f0dedc00ab1c52)
Steve Campanella
Collector of 1950's and '60s memorabilia whose Bensonhurst home is known as the Statue House
![Photo of Master Lin performing at Coney Island Talent Show, July 31, 2010. © Jim McDonnell](https://www.coneyislandhistory.org/sites/default/files/styles/oral_history_thumbnail_bw/public/interviews/8519/images/master_lin_july_31_2010_2_photo_by_jim_mcdonnell.jpg?itok=dT8_74Yi)
Boan Lin (Master Lin)
Tai chi master who was born in China shares memories of practicing and teaching his art in Brooklyn
![Yeva Novik, 2019. Photo by Julia Kanin for the Coney Island History Project.](https://www.coneyislandhistory.org/sites/default/files/styles/oral_history_thumbnail_bw/public/interviews/8510/images/yeva_novik_1_.jpg?itok=-LZKnkqr)
Yeva Novik
A 90-year-old Coney Island resident recounts her journey from Moscow to Southern Brooklyn
![Connie Scacciaferro (bottom left) and friends Ann, Marilyn and Terry on the beach at Coney Island in the 1940s. Photo courtesy of the Scacciaferro family.](https://www.coneyislandhistory.org/sites/default/files/styles/oral_history_thumbnail_bw/public/interviews/7686/images/connie_scacciaferro_1.jpg?itok=2kGvWSjW&c=a73bdf29aecc9723bf62aaf57a2650bc)
Connie Scacciaferro
Memories of going to Coney Island Beach as a child in the 1930's and a teenager in the '40s
![Portrait of Mary Engel at the Orkin/Engel Archive, NYC, 2021. Credit: Janette Beckmann](https://www.coneyislandhistory.org/sites/default/files/styles/oral_history_thumbnail_bw/public/interviews/10845/images/mary_engel_photo_by_janette_beckmann.png?itok=9f8oCSdr&c=d7ecde22cce276f277224b254513937e)
Mary Engel
Filmmaker and archivist whose parents collaborated on the film Little Fugitive in Coney Island
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Mort Shatzkin
Memories of growing up in Coney Island and the family business, Shatzkin's Famous Knishes
![Villanova Court in the 1950s. Coney Island History Project Collection](https://www.coneyislandhistory.org/sites/default/files/styles/oral_history_thumbnail_bw/public/interviews/10825/images/villanova.jpg?itok=tUm_xKvN&c=0fc440e089bda80a10ff3e9c03289f42)
Ben Roubin
Memories of growing up at Villanova Court, a bungalow resort in Coney Island, in the 1950s and '60s
![Photo courtesy Tina Mednicoff Smokler](https://www.coneyislandhistory.org/sites/default/files/styles/oral_history_thumbnail_bw/public/interviews/10850/images/tina_mednicoff_smokler.jpg?itok=TDtoNWM-&c=84e5def7947865060b090b7137c03890)
Tina Mednicoff Smokler
Growing up in Coney Island and being elected to Leon Friend's Art Squad at Lincoln High School
![Photo courtesy of Irwin Temkin](https://www.coneyislandhistory.org/sites/default/files/styles/oral_history_thumbnail_bw/public/interviews/10848/images/irwin_temkin_french_art_theatre_2.jpg?itok=LaEJlIqQ&c=79df2a5103e04ab5e570a2a78a900c39)
Irwin Temkin
Growing up in Coney Island and how learning French at Lincoln High School influenced his life
![Photo courtesy of Diana Wiener](https://www.coneyislandhistory.org/sites/default/files/styles/oral_history_thumbnail_bw/public/interviews/10816/images/2016_03_02_10_09_130005.jpg?itok=bdarS2W3&c=43f87a9b3465f6cc0477cd8745a74322)
Diana Wiener
Growing up in Sea Gate and Coney Island in the 1940s and '50s and moving back in the mid-1960s