Filtering by beaches
![Photo courtesy of Anatoli Kardiukov/JASA/Scheuer House of CI OAC & Luna Park Annex.](https://www.coneyislandhistory.org/sites/default/files/styles/oral_history_thumbnail_bw/public/interviews/10831/images/jeanette_bigelson_3.png?itok=MZhtcJ3D&c=cfaf97ce0afad6acab758e0e12da5539)
Jeanette Bigelson
At age 103, Coney Island resident shares her memories and secrets to a long and happy life
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Gabriel Valencia
Twenty-five years at Gregory & Paul's and Paul's Daughter on the Coney Island Boardwalk
![Connie Scacciaferro (bottom left) and friends Ann, Marilyn and Terry on the beach at Coney Island in the 1940s. Photo courtesy of the Scacciaferro family.](https://www.coneyislandhistory.org/sites/default/files/styles/oral_history_thumbnail_bw/public/interviews/7686/images/connie_scacciaferro_1.jpg?itok=2kGvWSjW&c=a73bdf29aecc9723bf62aaf57a2650bc)
Connie Scacciaferro
Memories of going to Coney Island Beach as a child in the 1930's and a teenager in the '40s
![Photo courtesy Tina Mednicoff Smokler](https://www.coneyislandhistory.org/sites/default/files/styles/oral_history_thumbnail_bw/public/interviews/10850/images/tina_mednicoff_smokler.jpg?itok=TDtoNWM-&c=84e5def7947865060b090b7137c03890)
Tina Mednicoff Smokler
Growing up in Coney Island and being elected to Leon Friend's Art Squad at Lincoln High School
![Photo courtesy of Irwin Temkin](https://www.coneyislandhistory.org/sites/default/files/styles/oral_history_thumbnail_bw/public/interviews/10848/images/irwin_temkin_french_art_theatre_2.jpg?itok=LaEJlIqQ&c=79df2a5103e04ab5e570a2a78a900c39)
Irwin Temkin
Growing up in Coney Island and how learning French at Lincoln High School influenced his life
![Photo courtesy of Diana Wiener](https://www.coneyislandhistory.org/sites/default/files/styles/oral_history_thumbnail_bw/public/interviews/10816/images/2016_03_02_10_09_130005.jpg?itok=bdarS2W3&c=43f87a9b3465f6cc0477cd8745a74322)
Diana Wiener
Growing up in Sea Gate and Coney Island in the 1940s and '50s and moving back in the mid-1960s
![Karen Wilcox on the terrace of Luna Park Houses, 1965. Photo courtesy of Karen Wilcox.](https://www.coneyislandhistory.org/sites/default/files/styles/oral_history_thumbnail_bw/public/interviews/10776/images/karen_wilcox.jpg?itok=zTbXLMa-&c=982920309626f88b89c590a00a083e84)
Karen Wilcox
Memories of living in Luna Park Houses and going to Coney Island bathhouses in the 1960s
![Tymell Murphy played with the FIU Panthers from 2012-2014. Photo courtesy of Tymell Murphy.](https://www.coneyislandhistory.org/sites/default/files/styles/oral_history_thumbnail_bw/public/interviews/10354/images/fqvkjcgxsa00rbp.jpg?itok=y4YUa5kJ&c=21ed0939d7b0d424bd9f06a57cee8296)
Tymell Murphy
Professional basketball player and author of a book of poems and stories who grew up in Coney Island
![Photo courtesy of Esther Delgado.](https://www.coneyislandhistory.org/sites/default/files/styles/oral_history_thumbnail_bw/public/interviews/10325/images/esther_delgado_border.jpg?itok=I4t2Iojb&c=7fc703ad53b9c950a00b19720952e1ea)
Esther Delgado
Growing up in Gravesend and going to Coney Island in the 1940s and living there today