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Mort Shatzkin
Memories of growing up in Coney Island and the family business, Shatzkin's Famous Knishes
![Villanova Court in the 1950s. Coney Island History Project Collection](https://www.coneyislandhistory.org/sites/default/files/styles/oral_history_thumbnail_bw/public/interviews/10825/images/villanova.jpg?itok=tUm_xKvN&c=0fc440e089bda80a10ff3e9c03289f42)
Ben Roubin
Memories of growing up at Villanova Court, a bungalow resort in Coney Island, in the 1950s and '60s
![Photo courtesy Tina Mednicoff Smokler](https://www.coneyislandhistory.org/sites/default/files/styles/oral_history_thumbnail_bw/public/interviews/10850/images/tina_mednicoff_smokler.jpg?itok=TDtoNWM-&c=84e5def7947865060b090b7137c03890)
Tina Mednicoff Smokler
Growing up in Coney Island and being elected to Leon Friend's Art Squad at Lincoln High School
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Ronald Kannatt (The Prince of Coney Island)
Twenty years at Deno's Wonder Wheel Park's Karaoke on the Boardwalk
![Photo courtesy of Irwin Temkin](https://www.coneyislandhistory.org/sites/default/files/styles/oral_history_thumbnail_bw/public/interviews/10848/images/irwin_temkin_french_art_theatre_2.jpg?itok=LaEJlIqQ&c=79df2a5103e04ab5e570a2a78a900c39)
Irwin Temkin
Growing up in Coney Island and how learning French at Lincoln High School influenced his life
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Diana Wiener
Growing up in Sea Gate and Coney Island in the 1940s and '50s and moving back in the mid-1960s
![Karen Wilcox on the terrace of Luna Park Houses, 1965. Photo courtesy of Karen Wilcox.](https://www.coneyislandhistory.org/sites/default/files/styles/oral_history_thumbnail_bw/public/interviews/10776/images/karen_wilcox.jpg?itok=zTbXLMa-&c=982920309626f88b89c590a00a083e84)
Karen Wilcox
Memories of living in Luna Park Houses and going to Coney Island bathhouses in the 1960s