Filtering by 1950 - 1959
![Aldo Mancusi playing Hofbauer street organ at 5th Annual History Day at Deno's Wonder Wheel Park and Coney Island History Project](https://www.coneyislandhistory.org/sites/default/files/styles/oral_history_thumbnail_bw/public/interviews/4523/images/aldo_mancusi_history_day.jpg?itok=DrqNiSVz&c=32efcc1bdf18e6f539c7fdf287ed6f6d)
Commendatore Aldo Mancusi
Memories of Coney Island in the 1930s and '40s and growing up in Brooklyn in an Italian family
![Carolina Restaurant, 1975](https://www.coneyislandhistory.org/sites/default/files/styles/oral_history_thumbnail_bw/public/interviews/3498/images/carolina.intvw_.jpg?itok=elSG0GJU&c=212d38626433d77167a28dad84a47a23)
Louise Milano
Louise Milano's mother, Carolina, operated Carolina Restaurant on Mermaid Avenue for 60 years
![Mary Hood as Tirza, circa 1940s](https://www.coneyislandhistory.org/sites/default/files/styles/oral_history_thumbnail_bw/public/interviews/3100/images/maryhood3.tirza1_.jpg?itok=oeMOaA_s&c=be48cba61fa76e4db1b7c29017d70c93)
Mary Loretta Hood
Mary Hood came to Coney Island as a child and worked on the Bowery well into her 90s
![Judge Steve Arniotes](https://www.coneyislandhistory.org/sites/default/files/styles/oral_history_thumbnail_bw/public/interviews/3099/images/steve_arniotes_0010.jpg?itok=vgYBrfXr)
Judge Steve Arniotes
The story behind the Boardwalk Lido Restaurant and the family who operated it from 1927 until 1960