Oral History Archive

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Gabriel Valencia

Twenty-five years at Gregory & Paul's and Paul's Daughter on the Coney Island Boardwalk

Melody Andorfer

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

Liz Unger

Memories of Coney Island in the 1950s and a family's candy factory on Mermaid Avenue

Stanley Shapiro

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

Charles Robert Feltman

Great-grandson of Feltmans Restaurant founder and hot dog inventor Charles Feltman

Lawrence Mach

Chef and owner of the Vendy Award winning Coney Shack food cart

Dalia Vazquez and Raymundo Bardomiano

Dalia Vazquez and Raymundo Bardomiano own Tacos Doña Zita on Coney Island's Bowery

Joseph Albanese

87-year-old remembers the Nickel Empire

Sol Handwerker

Nathan's son recounts his memories of growing up in the family business