Filtering by Caterpillar, The
![Alonzo Kittrels on Coney Island Beach in the 1940s. Photo courtesy of Alonzo Kittrels.](https://www.coneyislandhistory.org/sites/default/files/styles/oral_history_thumbnail_bw/public/interviews/9115/images/alonzo_kittrels_2.jpg?itok=zdDvjBUi&c=dabfcd0cd14e00836a23907cd069b74c)
Alonzo Kittrels
Memories of bus trips to Coney Island with the Good Will Family Club from the 1940's through 1961
![Photo courtesy Laura Numeroff](https://www.coneyislandhistory.org/sites/default/files/styles/oral_history_thumbnail_bw/public/interviews/10260/images/laura_numeroff.jpg?itok=iD_pflBt&c=7de9904a5656be2d42ef9a3bc824cf65)
Laura Numeroff
Children's book author's memories of Steeplechase, the Animal Nursery, and Brighton Beach Baths
![](https://www.coneyislandhistory.org/sites/default/files/styles/oral_history_thumbnail_bw/public/interviews/7560/images/5_28_steeplechase_horse_in_sailor_hat_2.jpg?itok=a6aLUYEP)
Carmela
Growing up on West 16th Street between Mermaid and Neptune in a cold water flat in the 1940s and '50s