Here’s an a little clip from an oral history interview from our collection (circa 1987) with Lillian Santangello, former owner of the Coney Island Wax Museum. The interviewer, Benjamin Filene, asks Lillian about a bunch of things from the Wax Museum that became part of the BHS’ collection, including a wax Nat King Cole head!
Click on the link below to listen:
photos by Sady Sullivan
Today, I attended the 2008 Coney Island Hall of Fame Induction ceremony at the Coney Island History Project museum located under the ever-invigorating Cyclone roller coaster. Carol Albert accepted a plaque on behalf of Astroland Park and three post-mortem inductees were honored: Woody Guthrie, Granville T. Woods, and William Ward.
The Coney Island History Project has a great growing Oral History Archive and they invite visitors to the museum to leave 1 minute memory videos.
1-minute memory recorder
I ran into one of the Interpreting Brooklyn artists, playwright Michael Schwartz, and my friend Peter Kleeman, curator of the Space Age Museum.
Peter and Michael
And lucky for us, a wild coney made a rare appearance.
Sea Rabbit!
