Oral History Archive

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Joe Franklin

Radio and television personality

Alvin Dorfman

1944 Lincoln HS graduate and former West Brighton resident

Ray Leibowitz

Lincoln HS graduate and former West End resident in the 1940's and 50's

Mark Breyer

Outside talker at the World in Wax Musee and lifeguard in the 1950's and 60's

Cesar Rafael

Coney Island game operator

Lily Binder

Artist and photographer

Freda Aron

Radio broadcaster and Coney Island native

Arthur Melnick

Coney Island concessionaire

Namomi Gorin

Summer resident of Sea Gate

Naomi M

Experiences at the Mermaid Parade

Reginald Sweeny

Life-long resident of Coney Island

Louis Scarcella

Longtime resident of Coney Island and former President of the Polar Bear Club

Jimmy Prince

Proprietor of Major Markets, Coney Island's oldest butcher shop

Daniel Blake (Africasso)

Artist and Champion Break-Dancer

Goldie Durlester

Depression-era resident and survivor of the 1932 fire

Terry Silverman

Cousin of Beth Allen, incubator baby

Lennie Fogel

Son of West End and Sea Gate shopkeepers in the 1940's and 50's

Dnynia Armstrong

Co-founder of the Brooklyn newspaper The Phoenix remembers living in Coney Island in the 1960s