Filtering by 1970 - 1979

Frieda Schwelke
Memories of growing up in Coney Island in the 1930s and '40s and moving to Luna Park Houses in 1962

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

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

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

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