Oral History Archive

Filtering by 1970 - 1979 back to all

Silvana, Adrianne and Silverio Conte

Silvana, Adrianne and Silverio Conte, owners of 51-year-old SAS Italian Records in Bensonhurst

Mindy Gress

Memories of growing up on Coney Island's first block and working in the Cyclone photobooth's darkroom

Ron Vernon

Lifelong stickball player and Coney Island lifeguard for 48 years

Edith Storch

Memories of growing up on West 36th Street in Coney Island's West End in the 1930s

Billy Blitzer

Longtime baseball scout for the Chicago Cubs and Sea Gate resident

Sam Moses

Sign-painting legend, musician and Sea Gate resident

Van Milana

Grandson of sword swallower Joseph "Ajax" Milana and DeWise Purdin "The Handless Sharpshooter"

Karen Dawn Blondel

Environmental justice organizer who was born in Coney Island and raised here in the 1960s and '70s

Jay Green (Gerald Greenberg)

Three-time International Jugglers Association champion and resident of Southern Brooklyn

Chris "Daze" Ellis

Artist whose Coney Island-themed work includes solo and community murals at Coney Art Walls

Irene Karas

Sea Gate resident on her girlhood memories of Coney Island and passing them on to her daughter

Eric Safyan

Architect who grew up in Coney Island in the 1980s and designed the renovated Ruby's Bar & Grill

Michael Goldstein (Looch)

Memories of growing up on Mermaid Avenue and working games in Coney Island from age twelve

Charles Berkman

Memories of growing up in Coney Island during the Great Depression and 55 years practicing law

Susan Hochtman Creatura

Memories of growing up in a Jewish household in Coney Island

Eliot Wofse

A Coney Island native's memories of running amusement games

Dionne Brown (D.L. Jordan)

Lifelong Coney Island resident and author of Living Life Like It's Golden

Barry Yanowitz

Growing up in Coney Island in the 1970s and '80s and coming back to photograph it