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Grandma's Been There
Host and creator Siobhan Barry takes listeners back to the 1950s and 1960s. Her stories, sometimes funny and sometimes serious, are time traveling trips through the days of penny candies, neighborhood ice cream parlors, fifty-cent movie tickets, air raid drills, summers without air conditioning, street games, homemade toys, football weddings, transistor radios, Beatlemania, and a cultural revolution.
Grandma's Been There
The Fabric of Life
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Siobhan Barry
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Season 1
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Episode 35
In the 1950s and early '60s, looking and acting exactly like your neighbors wasn't a trend or a fad. It was a national obsession. For some, uniformity afforded comfort and security. For others, conformity was as comfortable as a straitjacket.
