![Billy Echeverria's 21-foot-long horse kites flying over Coney Island Beach](https://www.coneyislandhistory.org/sites/default/files/styles/oral_history_thumbnail_bw/public/interviews/4925/images/kite_festival_1a.jpg?itok=y1kZ0kMh&c=54dc8a3da2f67845ff410be54419ad9a)
Kite Flyers at Coney Island Kite Festival
Kite flyers Billy Echeverria, Nicholas Rowe, Kurtis Jones and Charles Stewart at Coney Island's Kite Festival
![](https://www.coneyislandhistory.org/sites/default/files/styles/oral_history_thumbnail_bw/public/interviews/4779/images/julio_sauce_1.jpg?itok=Q5BkviBK&c=06d8c604779615a052131deb17f9253c)
Julio Sauce
Ecuadorian-born Gravesend resident is among NYC's fastest long-distance runners in his age category
![Totonno's, Coney Island](https://www.coneyislandhistory.org/sites/default/files/styles/oral_history_thumbnail_bw/public/interviews/4795/images/totonno.jpg?itok=ulo6SJNS)
Antoinette Balzano
Granddaughter of Anthony "Totonno" Pero tells the story of how he founded Totonno's Pizzeria in 1924
![Gene Ritter on the job.](https://www.coneyislandhistory.org/sites/default/files/styles/oral_history_thumbnail_bw/public/interviews/4794/images/gene_diver.jpg?itok=n4Hr0ERd&c=fdca85a40fdf3e9877391197e98f9c20)
Gene Ritter
Founder of Cultural Research Divers shares his knowledge of oceans, estuaries, and Coney Island Creek
![Aldo Mancusi playing Hofbauer street organ at 5th Annual History Day at Deno's Wonder Wheel Park and Coney Island History Project](https://www.coneyislandhistory.org/sites/default/files/styles/oral_history_thumbnail_bw/public/interviews/4523/images/aldo_mancusi_history_day.jpg?itok=DrqNiSVz&c=32efcc1bdf18e6f539c7fdf287ed6f6d)
Commendatore Aldo Mancusi
Memories of Coney Island in the 1930s and '40s and growing up in Brooklyn in an Italian family