Filtering by roller coasters
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Lorraine Ross
Resident of Coney Island for 47 years and retired transit cleaner at Stillwell Terminal
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John Hunt
Model builder of roller coasters and amusement rides including the Cyclone and Deno's Wonder Wheel
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Michael Liff
Memories of working at the Tornado roller coaster and other Coney Island rides and games in the 1970s
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Angbeen Saleem
A poet and roller coaster lover describes her weekly ritual of riding the Coney Island Cyclone
![Sheila with her sister Sally on the beach in Coney Island. The caption says: Two bathing beauties? Freckle puss and pickle puss. "She wrote the caption being 15 years older than I was then." Photo courtesy of Sheila Levrant de Bretteville.](https://www.coneyislandhistory.org/sites/default/files/styles/oral_history_thumbnail_bw/public/interviews/8446/images/sheila_levrant_de_bretteville_6.jpg?itok=2jJ-spMA)
Sheila Levrant de Bretteville
Memories of growing up a block from the ocean and being head of Lincoln High School's Art Squad
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Mindy Gress
Memories of growing up on Coney Island's first block and working in the Cyclone photobooth's darkroom
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Don Ferris
Carpenter, mechanic, and showman who started his career operating roller coasters and road attractions
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Linda Kramer Evans
Girlhood memories of visiting Great-Aunt Molly who lived in the house under the roller coaster
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Harold J. Kramer
Boyhood memories of visiting relatives at the house under the Thunderbolt roller coaster
![David Head at the Coney Island History Project, 2009](https://www.coneyislandhistory.org/sites/default/files/styles/oral_history_thumbnail_bw/public/interviews/3468/images/david_head.2.jpg?itok=dat7BBJS)
David Head
David Head tells the story of African-American inventor Granville T. Woods and his electric roller coaster