Oral History Archive

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Stuart Waldman

Memories of growing up in Coney Island in the 1940s and '50s and fun summer jobs

Karen Wilcox

Memories of living in Luna Park Houses and going to Coney Island bathhouses in the 1960s

Liz Unger

Memories of Coney Island in the 1950s and a family's candy factory on Mermaid Avenue

Jerry Omanoff

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

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

Amparo Garcia

Lifelong Brighton Beach resident shares stories of Brighton Beach then and now

Randy Kasper

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

Orlando Mendez

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

Alison Cintorrino

Memories of growing up in Luna Park Houses in the 1960s and 1970s

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

Mark St Leon

Australian circus historian whose family performed at Coney Island's Luna Park in the early 1900s

Maria Schwab

Growing up in Gravesend and going to Coney Island in the 1960s and living there today