Oral History Archive

Filtering by Nathan's Famous back to all

Randy Profeta

Great grandson of Coney Island sign painter Harry Wildman and grandson of Steeplechase's Vito Onorato

Norman Stock

Poet who grew up in Coney Island and was one of Dr. Couney's incubator babies

Melody Andorfer

"Hot Dog Queen" and Winner of the 1972 Nathan's Hot Dog Eating Contest

Richard Glazer-Danay

Artist who grew up in Coney Island and whose artwork celebrates his Mohawk iron worker ancestry

Anne Green

Memories of growing up in Coney Island in the 1930s and '40s

Norman Finkel

Boyhood memories of visiting Coney Island in the 1930s and getting lost on the beach

Kathy Fenyves

Memories of growing up in the newly opened Luna Park Houses in the 1960s and 1970s

Randy Kasper

Memories of living in the newly opened Luna Park Houses in the 1960s

Maria Schwab

Growing up in Gravesend and going to Coney Island in the 1960s and living there today

Stanley Shapiro

Memories of growing up in Coney Island in the 1940s and going back four times a year

Rosalie Diamond

Memories of going to Steeplechase Park as a teenager in the 1950s

Susan Hochtman Creatura

Memories of growing up in a Jewish household in Coney Island

Marie Martorano

Bensonhurst native recalls riding Spook-A-Rama and playing Fascination in the 1970s

Commendatore Aldo Mancusi

Memories of Coney Island in the 1930s and '40s and growing up in Brooklyn in an Italian family

Dave Galler

Took the 13th Ave. trolley

Sal Corona

Coney Island businessman

Steve Garone and Dan Pisark

Friends since Mark Twain Junior High years

Marty Reich

Locker Boy at Oriole Baths who hung out at Washington Baths with his friends