Oral History Archive

Filtering by bathhouses back to all

Marty Reich

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

Joseph Albanese

87-year-old remembers the Nickel Empire

Melissa Rosson Rappaport

Architectural preservationist

Harold Blumenthal

Offers perspectives on both the heyday and decay of Coney Island

Moire Cuite and Elizabeth O'Boyle

Recollections of summers spent at the Ocean Tide beach club near Sea Gate