Filtering by 1970 - 1979

Steven Feinstein
Reflections on running Wilensky Hardware, a 100-year-old family business on Mermaid Avenue

Steve Campanella
Collector of 1950's and '60s memorabilia whose Bensonhurst home is known as the Statue House

Dennis Thomas
President of the Coney Island Polar Bear Club for the past 12 years and a member since the 1980s

Boan Lin (Master Lin)
Tai chi master who was born in China shares memories of practicing and teaching his art in Brooklyn

Yeva Novik
A 90-year-old Coney Island resident recounts her journey from Moscow to Southern Brooklyn

Alexander Vindman
Retired U.S. Army lieutenant colonel who emigrated from Ukraine to Brighton Beach as a child

Mary Engel
Filmmaker and archivist whose parents collaborated on the film Little Fugitive in Coney Island

Mort Shatzkin
Memories of growing up in Coney Island and the family business, Shatzkin's Famous Knishes

Irwin Temkin
Growing up in Coney Island and how learning French at Lincoln High School influenced his life

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