Filtering by 1970 - 1979
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Orlando Mendez
Growing up in Coney Island in the 1970s and being the third generation of his family to live here today
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Carlos Quinones
Memories of placing the Puerto Rican flag atop the Parachute Jump and driving the Mermaid Avenue bus
![The St Leons, Acrobats and Equestrians at Luna Park, on the cover of Billboard, August 6, 1910. Photo courtesy of Mark St Leon.](https://www.coneyislandhistory.org/sites/default/files/styles/oral_history_thumbnail_bw/public/interviews/10348/images/nypl_st_leon_items-1-border_crop_2.jpg?itok=Sv1AbZjW&c=2b7e090866f7a4733d04ea0a899aee63)
Mark St Leon
Australian circus historian whose family performed at Coney Island's Luna Park in the early 1900s
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Jeffrey Berman
Longtime Sea Gate resident and watercolor artist who teaches at Seaside Innovative Senior Center
![Cosmo Topper's storefront on Mermaid Avenue.](https://www.coneyislandhistory.org/sites/default/files/styles/oral_history_thumbnail_bw/public/interviews/9372/images/cosmo_shop.2.jpg?itok=Br-pWCKc)
Carole Scheer
Her father, Anthony Cosmo Pomaro, owned Cosmo Topper's Beauty Parlor on Mermaid Avenue