Oral History Archive

Filtering by hot dogs back to all
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
Mort Shatzkin
Memories of growing up in Coney Island and the family business, Shatzkin's Famous Knishes
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