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![Slava Polishchuk in studio. Photo © Asya Dodina](https://www.coneyislandhistory.org/sites/default/files/styles/oral_history_thumbnail_bw/public/interviews/3122/images/slava_polishchuk_in_studio_2.jpg?itok=D7vW8Qb-&c=b1b5c56ca2466c459b7a0f7521db1b69)
Slava Polishchuk
Russian-born artist preserves the past as book and paper conservator at Brooklyn College Library
![Mary Hood as Tirza, circa 1940s](https://www.coneyislandhistory.org/sites/default/files/styles/oral_history_thumbnail_bw/public/interviews/3100/images/maryhood3.tirza1_.jpg?itok=oeMOaA_s&c=be48cba61fa76e4db1b7c29017d70c93)
Mary Loretta Hood
Mary Hood came to Coney Island as a child and worked on the Bowery well into her 90s
![Judge Steve Arniotes](https://www.coneyislandhistory.org/sites/default/files/styles/oral_history_thumbnail_bw/public/interviews/3099/images/steve_arniotes_0010.jpg?itok=vgYBrfXr)
Judge Steve Arniotes
The story behind the Boardwalk Lido Restaurant and the family who operated it from 1927 until 1960
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Hector George Wallace
An immigrant sign painter recounts his journey from Jamaica and the UK to Coney Island.
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Carmen Arcendiga
Memories of family picnics under the Boardwalk and making new memories at Spook-A-Rama
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Jodie Bell
Jodie Bell discovers a 1950s photograph of her aunt as Miss Coney Island at the History Project
![Levent Demirgil inside his soon-to-open new Magic Gyro restaurant in Stillwell Terminal](https://www.coneyislandhistory.org/sites/default/files/styles/oral_history_thumbnail_bw/public/interviews/2505/images/ld_1.jpg?itok=wc7F_H2m&c=6a0e535a079a8ec953adeca6802cbb6b)
Levent Demirgil
Turkish store owner returns to Coney Island as restaurateur three years after Hurricane Sandy