Simplify the following text for a Grade 5 native English-speaking person.
Original: In the first flashback showing Alvy as a child , we learn he was raised in Brooklyn ; his father 's occupation was operating a bumper cars concession and the family home was located below the Thunderbolt roller coaster on Coney Island .
Simplified: Alvy says his Brooklyn house was below a roller coaster on Coney Island . His father was the owner of a place that had bumper cars .