Grandma's Been There
Siobhan Barry
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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.
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S2E61 School Days Part 1
The mornings always felt two times longer than the afternoons, and Mondays always felt twice as long as Fridays. But lunchtime recess? Well, that flew by faster than we could rip open a candy bar…
S2E60 Going Viral
In the 1950s and early ‘60s, there was a laundry list of what were referred to as “childhood illnesses” that every single one of us were going to get at some point. Viruses that all came with pink…
S2E59 Hey Mom, Can The Beatles Stay Here Tonight?
As pre-teen rock and roll fans in the mid 1960s, we were passionate followers and defenders of our musical idols. Laugh if you want, but we were totally sincere. With the kind of joy these young…
S2E58 Rock and Roll
Since we just passed the 67th anniversary of the date that's come to be known as "the day the music died," I thought I'd spend a few minutes talking about my earliest memories of rock and roll and my…
S2E57 The Media Push
The television shows made during the 1950s and '60s helped shape the way we felt about Brooklyn. Those shows presented an image of family life in American towns that were totally unrecognizable to…
S2E56 A Bench For All Seasons: Winter
Winter is a season of multiple personalities. When we were kids, we loved some of its personalities, but hated others. Its long cold days were depressing. Just the length of the season tried our…
S2E55 Where's Your Tie??
Today, I'm going to tell you all about my school uniforms. They were outdated, impractical and humiliating. I hated them.
S2E54 Goin' Up The Country
This week, I think we need a vacation. And where do Brooklyn people go to get away from the congested dirty city? To the Catskill Mountains, of course. We're goin' up the country!
S2E53 The Brooklyn Botanic Gardens
As I've said many a time, life in Brooklyn sometimes left a bit to be desired. On the other hand, it had some very special and unique places that plenty of other cities didn't have. This week, I want…
S1E52 Local Calls
Since "Grandma's Been There" is turning one year old in about another month, I thought I'd make the last episode of 2025 about the podcast itself.
S1E51 A Flatbush Christmas
Now the seasons pass with the speed of shooting stars, but at a time when a year represented one tenth of my entire life, it always felt as if holidays would never come. And out of all the holidays,…
S1E50 Anatomy of a Shooting Star
Sometimes shooting stars appear to us in human forms. They get caught in our gravitational fields and produce streaks of light across the heavens of our lives. The imprints they leave remain with us…
S1E49 Unknown Legends
This week, as we tumble down the wormhole, we're going straight past the 1960s and 1950s and time traveling back to the early 1940s. Today's episode brings us to the Brooklyn Skating Rink on Empire…
S1E48 Life in the Temperate Zone
A temperate zone is defined as an area that has a moderate climate and distinct seasons with relatively mild temperatures. "Mild?" That is a relative term. Even though I knew there were plenty of…
S1E47 November 22nd
It's often said that anyone who's old enough to remember the day can tell you exactly where they were on November 22, 1963. As trite as it may sound, it's the truth. For me, the memory of that…
S1E46 Pictures of Joni
I was fourteen years old the first time I saw Joni Mitchell. She was simplicity and intricacy, and she was beautiful. She was like no other artist I'd ever seen or heard before. Let me share some of…
S1E45 Elementary School Political Science
John Kennedy entered the White House five months after I entered the first grade. When I saw that the new president was a young man with a daughter around my age, I knew things were looking up. But…
S1E44 Halloween
This week, I want to tell you how much I enjoy Halloween in this new millennium. Before I do that though, I need to tell you what Halloween was like when I was a little girl because it…
S1E43 The Locomotive and the Caboose
As a young kid, I was awkward, self-conscious and devoid of confidence. I was lucky to have the support of a friend who was a self-propelled leader. She was the locomotive and I was the caboose.
S1E42 World Without End Part 2
Here's the second half of "World Without End." If you haven't listened to Part 1 yet, please go back and listen to that first.
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Grandma's Been There has published 62 episodes since February 2025, covering topics in Comedy, History.
Grandma's Been There is currently highly active with new episodes weekly. Average episode length is 21m.
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