<p>Every generation loves to treat its children to lectures about the toys, technology, entertainment and conveniences they didn't have back in their day. Whether it was because of our elders' encouragement or simply because we were kids, our imaginations served us very well.</p>

Every generation loves to treat its children to lectures about the toys, technology, entertainment and conveniences they didn't have back in their day. Whether it was because of our elders' encouragement or simply because we were kids, our imaginations served us very well.

When a Toilet Was a Motorboat

<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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When a Toilet Was a Motorboat

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