Oral History Archive

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Tina Mednicoff Smokler
Growing up in Coney Island and being elected to Leon Friend's Art Squad at Lincoln High School
Irwin Temkin
Growing up in Coney Island and how learning French at Lincoln High School influenced his life
Diana Wiener
Growing up in Sea Gate and Coney Island in the 1940s and '50s and moving back in the mid-1960s
Stuart Waldman
Memories of growing up in Coney Island in the 1940s and '50s and fun summer jobs
Kathy Fenyves
Memories of growing up in the newly opened Luna Park Houses in the 1960s and 1970s
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