Oral History Archive

Filtering by candy stores back to all

Greg Birbil

Greg Birbil's father, Paul, was a candy maker who owned the Paradise Ice Cream Parlor on Surf Avenue

Steve Campanella

Collector of 1950's and '60s memorabilia whose Bensonhurst home is known as the Statue House

Norman Finkel

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

John Dorman

Owner of Philips Candy Store

Peter Agrapides

Owner of Williams Candy and past owner of Fascination Arcade

Philomena Marano

Artist and co-founder of Coney Island Hysterical Society