Three dollars for a cup of coffee. Seven dollars for two scoops of ice cream. Two dollars for a candy bar... Outrageous? It certainly is, but unless you're closer to my age, you have no idea just how insane today's prices are. Let's go back to the 1950s and talk about "The Price of Life."

Three dollars for a cup of coffee. Seven dollars for two scoops of ice cream. Two dollars for a candy bar... Outrageous? It certainly is, but unless you're closer to my age, you have no idea just how insane today's prices are. Let's go back to the 1950s and talk about "The Price of Life."

The Price of Life

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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The Price of Life

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