Filtering by 1960 - 1969

Silvana, Adrianne and Silverio Conte
Owners of Bensonhurst's SAS Italian Records, founded in the 1960s

Carmela
Growing up on West 16th Street between Mermaid and Neptune in a cold water flat in the 1940s and '50s

Mindy Gress
Memories of growing up on Coney Island's first block and working in the Cyclone photobooth's darkroom

Bill Zeidenberg
Memories of growing up on Brighton First Court and a summer job renting beach chairs in Coney Island

Van Milana
Grandson of sword swallower Joseph "Ajax" Milana and DeWise Purdin "The Handless Sharpshooter"

Karen Dawn Blondel
Environmental justice organizer who was born in Coney Island and raised here in the 1960s and '70s

Jay Green (Gerald Greenberg)
Three-time International Jugglers Association champion and resident of Southern Brooklyn

Andy Fuhrman
Memories of growing up in Coney Island Houses and on Mermaid Avenue in the 1950s and '60s

Irene Karas
Sea Gate resident on her girlhood memories of Coney Island and passing them on to her daughter

Susan Meyer
Memories of growing up in the 1940s and '50s in a tight-knit Jewish community in Coney Island

Michael Goldstein (Looch)
Memories of growing up on Mermaid Avenue and working games in Coney Island from age twelve

Father Eugene Pappas
On growing up in Coney Island in the 1940s and the history of Greek-American businesses in the area