Oral History Archive

Filtering by sign painters back to all

Randy Profeta

Great grandson of Coney Island sign painter Harry Wildman and grandson of Steeplechase's Vito Onorato

Stephen Gaffney

Artist and educator who restored the old signs and painted new ones for Paul's Daughter

Sam Moses

Sign-painting legend, musician and Sea Gate resident

Hector George Wallace

An immigrant sign painter recounts his journey from Jamaica and the UK to Coney Island.

John Rea

Began his career as a sign painter in Coney Island