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Tiana Camacho
A voice actor's reflections on how growing up in Coney Island in the 1990s shaped her imagination
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Robert Whitney
Memories of a gorilla show, a bungalow colony, and an underground city beside the beach
![Ajax the Great with his sword pin](https://www.coneyislandhistory.org/sites/default/files/styles/oral_history_thumbnail_bw/public/interviews/6616/images/ajax_with_sword.jpg?itok=8NzrCDPG)
Van Milana
Grandson of sword swallower Joseph "Ajax" Milana and DeWise Purdin "The Handless Sharpshooter"
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Irene Karas
Sea Gate resident on her girlhood memories of Coney Island and passing them on to her daughter
![Mary Hood as Tirza, circa 1940s](https://www.coneyislandhistory.org/sites/default/files/styles/oral_history_thumbnail_bw/public/interviews/3100/images/maryhood3.tirza1_.jpg?itok=oeMOaA_s&c=be48cba61fa76e4db1b7c29017d70c93)
Mary Loretta Hood
Mary Hood came to Coney Island as a child and worked on the Bowery well into her 90s