Filtering by 1970 - 1979
![Steve Larkin and his son visiting the Coney Island History Project in 2015](https://www.coneyislandhistory.org/sites/default/files/styles/oral_history_thumbnail_bw/public/interviews/5047/images/2015-09-05_001.jpg?itok=OT-gxzWo&c=f5df176d7fba616514f0dedc00ab1c52)
Steve Larkin
Memories of working at a Coney Island beach chair and umbrella rental company as a teen in the 1970s
![Johanna Gargiulo Sherman with fortunetelling Grandma's Predictions and Zoltar in Deno's Wonder Wheel Park](https://www.coneyislandhistory.org/sites/default/files/styles/oral_history_thumbnail_bw/public/interviews/4957/images/johanna_1.jpg?itok=nJIvxukF&c=d8de49823834857840e71e62f867a99c)
Johanna Gargiulo Sherman
Artist and Coney Island resident recalls growing up on Mermaid Avenue above Carolina Restaurant
![Totonno's, Coney Island](https://www.coneyislandhistory.org/sites/default/files/styles/oral_history_thumbnail_bw/public/interviews/4795/images/totonno.jpg?itok=ulo6SJNS)
Antoinette Balzano
Granddaughter of Anthony "Totonno" Pero tells the story of how he founded Totonno's Pizzeria in 1924
![Gene Ritter on the job.](https://www.coneyislandhistory.org/sites/default/files/styles/oral_history_thumbnail_bw/public/interviews/4794/images/gene_diver.jpg?itok=n4Hr0ERd&c=fdca85a40fdf3e9877391197e98f9c20)
Gene Ritter
Founder of Cultural Research Divers shares his knowledge of oceans, estuaries, and Coney Island Creek
![Aldo Mancusi playing Hofbauer street organ at 5th Annual History Day at Deno's Wonder Wheel Park and Coney Island History Project](https://www.coneyislandhistory.org/sites/default/files/styles/oral_history_thumbnail_bw/public/interviews/4523/images/aldo_mancusi_history_day.jpg?itok=DrqNiSVz&c=32efcc1bdf18e6f539c7fdf287ed6f6d)
Commendatore Aldo Mancusi
Memories of Coney Island in the 1930s and '40s and growing up in Brooklyn in an Italian family
![](https://www.coneyislandhistory.org/sites/default/files/styles/oral_history_thumbnail_bw/public/interviews/3522/images/georgie_deas.2.jpg?itok=6JN0a-Kc&c=fb0915f6cee253257f1c7edc744ab211)
Georganna Deas
Coney Island resident Georganna Deas has spent forty years advocating for a better Coney Island
![Carolina Restaurant, 1975](https://www.coneyislandhistory.org/sites/default/files/styles/oral_history_thumbnail_bw/public/interviews/3498/images/carolina.intvw_.jpg?itok=elSG0GJU&c=212d38626433d77167a28dad84a47a23)
Louise Milano
Louise Milano's mother, Carolina, operated Carolina Restaurant on Mermaid Avenue for 60 years