Oral History Archive

Mark Breyer

Outside talker at the World in Wax Musee and lifeguard in the 1950's and 60's

Cesar Rafael

Coney Island game operator

Lily Binder

Artist and photographer

Freda Aron

Radio broadcaster and Coney Island native

Joel Minesquero

Helping his Dad run a dark ride called the House of Horrors

Thomas R. Jablonski

Planner behind the new Stillwell Avenue subway terminal

Namomi Gorin

Summer resident of Sea Gate

Naomi M

Experiences at the Mermaid Parade

Reginald Sweeny

Life-long resident of Coney Island

Arthur Melnick

Coney Island concessionaire

Goldie Durlester

Depression-era resident and survivor of the 1932 fire

Terry Silverman

Cousin of Beth Allen, incubator baby

Lennie Fogel

Son of West End and Sea Gate shopkeepers in the 1940's and 50's

Dnynia Armstrong

Co-founder of the Brooklyn newspaper The Phoenix remembers living in Coney Island in the 1960s

Margaret Ross

Coney Island resident and member of the 1960's girl group, The Cookies

Moire Cuite and Elizabeth O'Boyle

Recollections of summers spent at the Ocean Tide beach club near Sea Gate

Roslyn Tromer

Incubator baby

Neal Kavakos

Memories of Tunnels of Love ride operator John Kavakos