When I was nine, I borrowed a pair of tap shoes for a school play. I fell madly in love with those patent leather musical instruments. I was hypnotized by the noise they made on the wooden stage. I had to have a pair of my own.

When I was nine, I borrowed a pair of tap shoes for a school play. I fell madly in love with those patent leather musical instruments. I was hypnotized by the noise they made on the wooden stage. I had to have a pair of my own.

When I was nine, I borrowed a pair of tap shoes for a school play. I fell madly in love with those patent leather musical instruments. I was hypnotized by the noise they made on the wooden stage. I&nbsp;had&nbsp;to have a pair of my own.

Tap Shoes

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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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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