Oral History Archive

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Mike Boodley

Award-winning roller coaster designer looks back on riding the Cyclone 1,001 consecutive times in 1975

Zohra Saed

Poet and writer from Afghanistan who grew up in Southern Brooklyn

Shavon Meyers

A poet and storyteller on growing up in Coney Island at Gravesend Houses, the beach and Astroland

Marie Navarro

A lifelong resident's memories of growing up in Coney Island's Gravesend Houses and Kaiser Park

Patrick Phillips

Memories of working at Astroland's Neptune Diving Bells in the summer of 1964

Josh Wolfe

Chairman of Coney Island Prep on growing up in Coney Island and the charter school's first 15 years

Kathy Fenyves

Memories of growing up in the newly opened Luna Park Houses in the 1960s and 1970s

Eric Schwelke

Memories of living in Luna Park Houses in the 1960s and again in the late 1970s

Amparo Garcia

Lifelong Brighton Beach resident shares stories of Brighton Beach then and now

Randy Kasper

Memories of living in the newly opened Luna Park Houses in the 1960s

Alison Cintorrino

Memories of growing up in Luna Park Houses in the 1960s and 1970s

Alan Kirschenbaum

Memories of growing up in Coney Island Houses in the 1950s and early '60s

Reverend Cliff Herring

The Roller Coaster Reverend shares stories of Cyclone weddings

Lou Nasti

Mechanical display creator who redid the tricks for Astroland's Dante's Inferno dark ride in the 1990s

Paul Sanchez

Coney Island singer/songwriter who wrote "A Coney Island Song"

Shirley Aikens

Community activist and president of the Carey Gardens Tenants Association

Wally Roberts

The King of Jones Walk

Walter "Shorty" Arsenault

Long-time manager of Astroland's Kiddieland