Filtering by Coney Island Beach
![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 of one-year-old Marie Navarro with her mother in Coney Island, 1960. Photo courtesy of Marie Navarro.](https://www.coneyislandhistory.org/sites/default/files/styles/oral_history_thumbnail_bw/public/interviews/8572/images/marie_navarro.jpg?itok=BxLz88no&c=ea6d8de7837734fb7c372d34bf77b735)
Marie Navarro
A lifelong resident's memories of growing up in Coney Island's Gravesend Houses and Kaiser Park
![Photo credit: John Duprey/ New York Daily News, 1954.](https://www.coneyislandhistory.org/sites/default/files/styles/oral_history_thumbnail_bw/public/interviews/8992/images/lois_mclohon.jpg?itok=LZZOnPWL&c=0be523909ee4f0311ee71e2594c5af0b)
Lois McLohon
Brooklynite who posed for a now iconic 1950's NY Daily News pin-up photo on Coney Island Beach
![Dennis Thomas. Photo © Jim McDonnell. December 6, 2015.](https://www.coneyislandhistory.org/sites/default/files/styles/oral_history_thumbnail_bw/public/interviews/8627/images/dennis_thomas_by_jim_mcdonnell_dec_6_2015.jpg?itok=9pLMm1Bt)
Dennis Thomas
President of the Coney Island Polar Bear Club for the past 12 years and a member since the 1980s
![Connie Scacciaferro (bottom left) and friends Ann, Marilyn and Terry on the beach at Coney Island in the 1940s. Photo courtesy of the Scacciaferro family.](https://www.coneyislandhistory.org/sites/default/files/styles/oral_history_thumbnail_bw/public/interviews/7686/images/connie_scacciaferro_1.jpg?itok=2kGvWSjW&c=a73bdf29aecc9723bf62aaf57a2650bc)
Connie Scacciaferro
Memories of going to Coney Island Beach as a child in the 1930's and a teenager in the '40s
![Photo courtesy Tina Mednicoff Smokler](https://www.coneyislandhistory.org/sites/default/files/styles/oral_history_thumbnail_bw/public/interviews/10850/images/tina_mednicoff_smokler.jpg?itok=TDtoNWM-&c=84e5def7947865060b090b7137c03890)
Tina Mednicoff Smokler
Growing up in Coney Island and being elected to Leon Friend's Art Squad at Lincoln High School
![Photo courtesy of Esther Delgado.](https://www.coneyislandhistory.org/sites/default/files/styles/oral_history_thumbnail_bw/public/interviews/10325/images/esther_delgado_border.jpg?itok=I4t2Iojb&c=7fc703ad53b9c950a00b19720952e1ea)
Esther Delgado
Growing up in Gravesend and going to Coney Island in the 1940s and living there today
![Ellen and Martin Abrams on Coney Island Beach when they were dating in the 1950s. They got married in Coney Island in February 1961. Photo courtesy of Ellen and Martin Abrams.](https://www.coneyislandhistory.org/sites/default/files/styles/oral_history_thumbnail_bw/public/interviews/9836/images/marty_and_ellen_abrams.jpg?itok=IBJi2AHr)
Ellen Abrams
Memories of growing up on West 29th Street and meeting her lifeguard husband on Coney Island Beach
![Lifeguard Martin Abrams on Coney Island Beach in the 1950s. Photo courtesy of Ellen and Martin Abrams.](https://www.coneyislandhistory.org/sites/default/files/styles/oral_history_thumbnail_bw/public/interviews/9835/images/marty_abrams_photo.jpg?itok=u21CnlUX)
Martin Abrams
Brooklynite who was a lifeguard in the 1950s and met his wife of 60 years on Coney Island Beach
![Engagement photo of Gina and Freddy by Jody Christopherson. Courtesy of Gina Femia](https://www.coneyislandhistory.org/sites/default/files/styles/oral_history_thumbnail_bw/public/interviews/8619/images/gina_and_freddy_photo_by_jody_christopherson-236.jpg?itok=A-dFHSgR)
Gina Femia
Brooklyn-born playwright on her plays set in Coney Island and a marriage proposal on the beach