School closures, stay-at-home mandates, visitor restrictions in long-term care facilities, barricaded parks, household- and institution-imposed bubbles, and other measures drastically shrank the geographies of children, teens and older adults living in Canada and the United States during the COVID-19 pandemic. The pandemic catalyzed major shifts in the physical, digital and social environments in which these cohorts lived their lives, bounding the spaces of childhood, adolescence and older adulthood. Consequently, the lines that previously separated first (home), second (school/work) and third (informal public physical and virtual sites of social connection) places became blurred. Drawing on a five-year mixed methods study examining the pandemic experiences and im/mobilities of children, teens and older adults, this paper reports findings on the spaces and places young and old inhabited during the pandemic. The paper draws specifically a series of intergenerational conversations between young people (5-18) and older adults (65+) recorded for a research podcast. It examines the confluence of first, second and third places in children’s, teens’ and older adults’ lives during the COVID-19 pandemic, and how these places grew, shrunk and shifted. These places included not only the physical environment, but also the people with whom they interacted and the social relations that transpired in such physical spaces. Hybrid physical-digital worlds expanded as their physical worlds became ever-more restricted, shifting the cast of characters present in their lives. The paper considers the differentiated changes to the spaces and places where young and old lived their lives during a key moment in recent history, and how these groups exercised agency in responding to such changes.