Filtering by 1970 - 1979
![SAS Italian Records at 7113 18th Avenue in Bensonhurst, Brooklyn](https://www.coneyislandhistory.org/sites/default/files/styles/oral_history_thumbnail_bw/public/interviews/7693/images/sas_records_exterior.jpg?itok=eQTJO9v9)
Silvana, Adrianne and Silverio Conte
Silvana, Adrianne and Silverio Conte, owners of 51-year-old SAS Italian Records in Bensonhurst
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Mindy Gress
Memories of growing up on Coney Island's first block and working in the Cyclone photobooth's darkroom
![Ajax the Great with his sword pin](https://www.coneyislandhistory.org/sites/default/files/styles/oral_history_thumbnail_bw/public/interviews/6616/images/ajax_with_sword.jpg?itok=8NzrCDPG)
Van Milana
Grandson of sword swallower Joseph "Ajax" Milana and DeWise Purdin "The Handless Sharpshooter"
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Karen Dawn Blondel
Environmental justice organizer who was born in Coney Island and raised here in the 1960s and '70s
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Jay Green (Gerald Greenberg)
Three-time International Jugglers Association champion and resident of Southern Brooklyn
![Daze in his studio. Photo © Coney Island History Project](https://www.coneyislandhistory.org/sites/default/files/styles/oral_history_thumbnail_bw/public/interviews/6393/images/2017-08-28_005.jpg?itok=zo2I2TpF&c=4eff42af27da53f561ae5554b735d90f)
Chris "Daze" Ellis
Artist whose Coney Island-themed work includes solo and community murals at Coney Art Walls
![Irene Karas](https://www.coneyislandhistory.org/sites/default/files/styles/oral_history_thumbnail_bw/public/interviews/6197/images/irene_karris_5810.jpg?itok=bveDy30v&c=4a89c0dcb924551246e7edafb7550336)
Irene Karas
Sea Gate resident on her girlhood memories of Coney Island and passing them on to her daughter
![Photo courtesy of Eric Safyan](https://www.coneyislandhistory.org/sites/default/files/styles/oral_history_thumbnail_bw/public/interviews/5821/images/eric_safyan_1_0.jpg?itok=p3tj-UFV&c=0a69988fbddb35e0592185427acca9b1)
Eric Safyan
Architect who grew up in Coney Island in the 1980s and designed the renovated Ruby's Bar & Grill
![Looch at work at his balloon game on Coney Island's Bowery](https://www.coneyislandhistory.org/sites/default/files/styles/oral_history_thumbnail_bw/public/interviews/6145/images/looch.2035.jpg?itok=K5UTVrzX&c=83f3dbdf1c6629d22b78270a9c367bd4)
Michael Goldstein (Looch)
Memories of growing up on Mermaid Avenue and working games in Coney Island from age twelve
![Charles Berkman. Photo courtesy of the Berkman family](https://www.coneyislandhistory.org/sites/default/files/styles/oral_history_thumbnail_bw/public/interviews/5585/images/charles_berkman_1.jpg?itok=No3g1eIC&c=6a0e535a079a8ec953adeca6802cbb6b)
Charles Berkman
Memories of growing up in Coney Island during the Great Depression and 55 years practicing law
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Dionne Brown (D.L. Jordan)
Lifelong Coney Island resident and author of Living Life Like It's Golden