Oral History Archive

Filtering by 1950 - 1959 back to all

Richard Termini

Memories of growing up at Bensonhurst's Termini's Bakery and riding Coney Island's Astroland Rocket

Lois McLohon

Brooklynite who posed for a now iconic 1950's NY Daily News pin-up photo on Coney Island Beach

Richard Glazer-Danay

Artist who grew up in Coney Island and whose artwork celebrates his Mohawk iron worker ancestry

Steven Feinstein

Reflections on running Wilensky Hardware, a 100-year-old family business on Mermaid Avenue

Steve Campanella

Collector of 1950's and '60s memorabilia whose Bensonhurst home is known as the Statue House

Anne Green

Memories of growing up in Coney Island in the 1930s and '40s

Boan Lin (Master Lin)

Tai chi master who was born in China shares memories of practicing and teaching his art in Brooklyn

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

Dr. Ina Bendis

Tales of her father's Mermaid Avenue pharmacy, from the 1940s to 1969

Norman Finkel

Boyhood memories of visiting Coney Island in the 1930s and getting lost on the beach

Betya Shenker

Memories of World War II in Ukraine and immigrating to Southern Brooklyn

Mary Engel

Filmmaker and archivist whose parents collaborated on the film Little Fugitive in Coney Island

Judith Densky

Memories of growing up in Coney Island and Sea Gate in the late 1940s and 1950s

Larry Marquit

Growing up in Sea Gate and Coney Island in the 1930s and '40s

Mort Shatzkin

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

Ben Roubin

Memories of growing up at Villanova Court, a bungalow resort in Coney Island, in the 1950s and '60s

Tina Mednicoff Smokler

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