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irishtimes.com > life-style > travel > 08/03/2026 > chicago-calling-at-85-my-mother-wasnt-convinced-this-was-the-moment-to-be-crossing-the-atlantic

Chicago calling? At 85, my mother wasn’t convinced this was the moment to be crossing the Atlantic

1+ day, 1+ hour ago   (1018+ words) The first record my mother ever owned was a 78 of Route 66 by Nat King Cole. It was sent to her when she was 15 by a man she met on a train going from Florence to Konstanz in 1955. She didn’t think…...