<p>Once upon a time, there were no such things as zip codes. The post office identified neighborhoods by their zones. Any mail addressed to me or my neighbors came to Brooklyn 25, New York. We liked our zone.</p>

Once upon a time, there were no such things as zip codes. The post office identified neighborhoods by their zones. Any mail addressed to me or my neighbors came to Brooklyn 25, New York. We liked our zone.

Brooklyn 25, New York

<p>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.</p>

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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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Brooklyn 25, New York

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