1. Oral History Archive
  2. Joe Franklin

Joe Franklin

Radio and television personality

Interviewer:
Charles Denson
Interviewee:
Joe Franklin
Interview Date:
August 26 2007

Languages

English

Places

Feltmans
Steeplechase Park

Interview Highlight Bookmarks

  • First live TV remote including Walter Winchell
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  • Showing movies outside Feltman's Restaurant
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  • Cary Grant's start at Steeplechase
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  • Being King Neptune
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  • Tony Machine
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  • Favorite entertainers
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    "The King of Nostalgia" shares his memories of Coney Island. In 2007, he visited Charles Denson at the Coney Island History Project to record his Coney Island memories, which include doing the first live TV remote in the early 1950s of the Mardi Gras Parade and showing movies outdoors at Feltman's while perched in a tree.

    Joe Franklin passed away on January 24, 2015 at the age of 88.

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