Oral History Archive

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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

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

Carol Barry

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

Carlos Quinones

Memories of placing the Puerto Rican flag atop the Parachute Jump and driving the Mermaid Avenue bus

Jane McNeive Ennis

Memories of Ocean Tide Baths and Coney Island

Mark St Leon

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

Rena Stutman Rice

Memories of growing up in Brighton Beach in the 1950s and '60s

Arlene Oken Straus

Memories of living in Luna Park Houses in the 1960s and '70s

Tony Williams

Growing up in Coney Island as a teenager in the 1960s and '70s

Reverend Cliff Herring

The Roller Coaster Reverend shares stories of Cyclone weddings

Monica Ghee

Coney Island native and longtime independent game operator on Jones Walk

Jeffrey Berman

Longtime Sea Gate resident and watercolor artist who teaches at Seaside Innovative Senior Center

Carole Scheer

Her father, Anthony Cosmo Pomaro, owned Cosmo Topper's Beauty Parlor on Mermaid Avenue

Stanley Fox

Retired Coney Island arcade operator recalls his family's 30-plus years in the business