Oral History Archive

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Betty Fair

Lifelong Coney Island resident

Marina Molina

Has lived in Coney Island for 41 years

Wendolyn Bundy

Retired teacher

Charles Tesoro

Former president of the Coney Island Chamber of Commerce

Paul Krassner

Author and key figure in the counterculture of the 1960's shares his Coney Island memories

Trav S.D.

Actor, author, and modern-day vaudevillian

Philomena Marano

Artist and co-founder of the Coney Island Hysterical Society

Matt Kennedy

Longtime Director of the Coney Island Chamber of Commerce

Bobby Nagy

Roller coaster aficionado

Rosa Escolin

Came from Puerto Rico to show Coney to her family

Binky C.

Describes living on Coney Island Creek

Meg Feeley

Memories of her grandfather's frosted food business and a renegade ride on the Thunderbolt

Liivia Westervelt

Two generations are interviewed

Anne Greenspan

Lifelong Coney and Sea Gate resident

Glenn King

Actor, performer, artist, teacher

Harold Blumenthal

Offers perspectives on both the heyday and decay of Coney Island

Lauragay Scarnaco-Albergo

Grew up in Coney Island

Max Nowicki

Band organ expert