Oral History Archive

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Frederick Brosen

Artist whose watercolors of the Astroland Rocket and Wonder Wheel sign are emblematic of Coney Island

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

Courtney King

Jamaican-born artist and Coney Island resident

Gabriel Valencia

Twenty years as part of the family at Gregory & Paul's and Paul's Daughter on the Coney Island Boardwalk

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