Oral History Archive

Filtering by bungalows back to all
Keith Suber
Community activist and reformed gang member
Zohra Saed
Poet and writer from Afghanistan who grew up in Southern Brooklyn
Ronald Stewart
Community activist and resident of Coney Island for more than 50 years
Theresa Veldez
Bungalows and fires in the West End in the 1960s
Sheldon Krimsky
Memories of growing up on West 29th Street in Coney Island in the 1940s and '50s
Anne Green
Memories of growing up in Coney Island in the 1930s and '40s
Ben Roubin
Memories of growing up at Villanova Court, a bungalow resort in Coney Island, in the 1950s and '60s
Jerry Omanoff
Memories of living in Coney Island from the late 1940s to the mid-1960s
Esther Delgado
Growing up in Gravesend and going to Coney Island in the 1940s and living there today
Robert Whitney
Memories of a gorilla show, a bungalow colony, and an underground city beside the beach
Karen Dawn Blondel
Environmental justice organizer who was born in Coney Island and raised here in the 1960s and '70s
Kathy Duke O'Melia
Girlhood memories of summering in a Coney Island bungalow in the 1950s
Tommy Smith
Grew up in a Coney Island bungalow
Betty Fair
Lifelong Coney Island resident
Lennie Fogel
Son of West End and Sea Gate shopkeepers in the 1940's and 50's