Oral History Archive

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Jerry Omanoff

Memories of living in Coney Island from the late 1940s to the mid-1960s

Carol Polcovar

Writer and playwright who grew up in Coney Island from 1943 to 1956

John Philip Capello

Mystery artist who carved faces into rocks on the shoreline at Brighton Beach

Rachel Rosenberg Simon

Rachel Simon recalls her family's Deli Restaurant on Mermaid Avenue

Eric Schwelke

Memories of living in Luna Park Houses in the 1960s and again in the late 1970s

Frieda Schwelke

Memories of growing up in Coney Island in the 1930s and '40s and moving to Luna Park Houses in 1962

Fred Stern

Bus driver for 35 years on the B36 route and the shuttle bus inside Sea Gate

Orlando Mendez

Growing up in Coney Island in the 1970s and being the third generation of his family to live here today

Alan Kirschenbaum

Memories of growing up in Coney Island Houses in the 1950s and early '60s

Sharon Tera

Sharon Tera's family operated Ethel's Restaurant on the Boardwalk in the 1940s and '50s

Carol Barry

Memories of living in the newly opened Luna Park Houses in the 1960s

Jane McNeive Ennis

Memories of Ocean Tide Baths and Coney Island

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

Laura Numeroff

Children's book author's memories of Steeplechase, the Animal Nursery, and Brighton Beach Baths

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

Alan Fine

Memories of Washington Baths Annex in the 1950s and meeting his wife there when they were children