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Carlos Quinones
Memories of placing the Puerto Rican flag atop the Parachute Jump and driving the Mermaid Avenue bus
![Tymell Murphy played with the FIU Panthers from 2012-2014. Photo courtesy of Tymell Murphy.](https://www.coneyislandhistory.org/sites/default/files/styles/oral_history_thumbnail_bw/public/interviews/10354/images/fqvkjcgxsa00rbp.jpg?itok=y4YUa5kJ&c=21ed0939d7b0d424bd9f06a57cee8296)
Tymell Murphy
Professional basketball player and author of a book of poems and stories who grew up in Coney Island
![The St Leons, Acrobats and Equestrians at Luna Park, on the cover of Billboard, August 6, 1910. Photo courtesy of Mark St Leon.](https://www.coneyislandhistory.org/sites/default/files/styles/oral_history_thumbnail_bw/public/interviews/10348/images/nypl_st_leon_items-1-border_crop_2.jpg?itok=Sv1AbZjW&c=2b7e090866f7a4733d04ea0a899aee63)
Mark St Leon
Australian circus historian whose family performed at Coney Island's Luna Park in the early 1900s
![Photo courtesy of Esther Delgado.](https://www.coneyislandhistory.org/sites/default/files/styles/oral_history_thumbnail_bw/public/interviews/10325/images/esther_delgado_border.jpg?itok=I4t2Iojb&c=7fc703ad53b9c950a00b19720952e1ea)
Esther Delgado
Growing up in Gravesend and going to Coney Island in the 1940s and living there today
![Photo courtesy Laura Numeroff](https://www.coneyislandhistory.org/sites/default/files/styles/oral_history_thumbnail_bw/public/interviews/10260/images/laura_numeroff.jpg?itok=iD_pflBt&c=7de9904a5656be2d42ef9a3bc824cf65)
Laura Numeroff
Children's book author's memories of Steeplechase, the Animal Nursery, and Brighton Beach Baths
![Dr. Roland Summit](https://www.coneyislandhistory.org/sites/default/files/styles/oral_history_thumbnail_bw/public/interviews/10266/images/summit.3.jpg?itok=EP8gQjTW&c=7b69a490af9f118eda68337df9352b0d)
Roland Summit
Author and historian of carousel horses and carvers and co-founder of the National Carousel Association
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Stanley Shapiro
Memories of growing up in Coney Island in the 1940s and going back four times a year