Say goodbye to sleeplessness and the "Sunday Night Dreads." Direct from Circa19xx.com comes Circa Sunday Night, a quirky little show that explores an idealized version of yesterday as an escape from the turmoil of today. Come along as we discover intriguing stories from history, shop amazing antique stores and markets, explore beautiful mansions and places of note in yesteryear, immerse ourselves in the forgotten music of times gone by, and get acquainted with the glittering personalities, a ...
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Gather 'round, everybody. Class is now in session. Our subject: a lesson in vocabulary. Yes, Jennifer is defining for us terms that are part of the Circa 19xx Land vernacular. What's Crystal made of, and why it is called "crystal"? When is something considered an antique? When is it vintage? Which came first: Art Deco or Art Nouveau? And what in th…
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Episode #31: Jennifer Tours Newport!
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Jennifer dropped off the face of the Earth--but she's back now (after three months, but who's counting?). She's been touring mansions again--this time in Newport, Rhode Island. She recounts her adventures for us and answers the question: what is it like to spend the night in a big, 150-year-old Victorian gothic mansion ALONE? She also shares with u…
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The world is such a harsh place, and life is very hard. But you know what isn’t hard? Fluffy bunnies. Tonight Jennifer does a deep dive into her favorite bunny story: The Velveteen Rabbit. She’ll also take a look at a song right out of Circa 19xx Land that also has ties to Jennifer's memories of the 1980s. And then she'll share with you what she ho…
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Episode #29: For Your Reading List: The Enchanted April
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Jennifer has become enchanted with April. Wait, no, that's not quite right. She's over the moon about a book she just discovered entitled The Enchanted April. Yeah, that's it. This book has been around for 100 years, but it just now made it onto Jennifer's reading list and she's now wondering where it has been all her life. Written by Elizabeth Von…
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Episode #28: Mental Detox: A Virtual Retreat
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Huh? The title of this episode doesn't sound like something one would find in Circa 19xx Land. Well, Jennifer got a notion; Blame an off-the-cuff remark in Episode 27 for this one. She said something in that episode that tickled her own fancy...and here we are. In tonight's show Jennifer leads us on a virtual retreat in which we clean out our heads…
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Episode #27: Let's Talk About the Gilded Age
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Oops! Jennifer forgot the show was called Circa SUNDAY Night, and posted this week's episode on Monday. But, we'll forgive her this time because tonight's show is all about the Gilded Age in New York, and as this episode of Circa Sunday Night goes up, a new episode of the HBO drama The Gilded Age is airing as well. Wait...could this have been part …
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Episode #26: Voyage Aboard the Prinzessin Victoria Luise
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Tonight Jennifer confronts the winter blues head-on with an imaginary excursion on the ill-fated Prinzessin Victoria Luise, the first ship designed specifically for pleasure cruising. We're traveling back to 1901 for this little trip, and on that maiden voyage, everything is glittering and beautiful--just as it should be. But, as is so often the ca…
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Come on over to Jennifer’s house for her annual Christmas party! There’s plenty of cheesecake—and really bad egg nog—to go around. Olive will be there to greet you at the door, and if you can somehow make it past her, you’ll encounter an interesting collection of guests, such as Steve Allen, the first host of the Tonight Show, and the Anderson fami…
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Welcome to Jennifer's latest obsession: The Phantom of the Opera. Her sister forced her to watch the 25th Anniversary stage production at Royal Albert Hall from 2011, and she fell hard for the show. To learn more she read the original novel by Gaston Leroux, she watched a couple of classic film adaptations from 1925 and 1943, and basically immersed…
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Episode #23: Halloween Spooktacular
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Jennifer loves prowling around and researching old stuff, so it’s only natural—or should we say SUPERnatural —that she would run into a ghost story now and then. Tonight she takes us on a tour of the murkier regions of Circa19xx Land to meet a few of their less corporeal inhabitants. Tonight's itinerary: We take a spin around the phantom ballroom a…
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WARNING: Dorky content ahead. (Some might argue that all Circa Sunday Night episodes should come with this warning, but perhaps this one is dorkier than most.) Tonight we’re going to take a peek into the exciting world of vintage school materials. Yes, materials that were used in classrooms to shape the youth of yesteryear and prepare them to inher…
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Jennifer goes on and on tonight about Zelda Fitzgerald, the subject of two books she has just read and the object of her current obsession. Was she a flapper or philosopher? Both, perhaps, as well as a dancer, a writer, a painter, a muse, and a girl who may have lost her mind but found her soul. It was inevitable that Zelda, that iconic "It" girl o…
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Road trip, anyone? Jennifer's in Florida again, but this time she's nowhere near the Magic Kingdom. With Miami as home base, she's gassed up the rental car and set the GPS to a place (South Florida) and a decade (the 1920s) where she explores a beautiful old mansion and garden, a historic and spectacular swimming pool, and a glamorous prohibition-e…
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Jennifer fell in love with the sound of her own voice and honored it with the longest Circa Sunday Night episode ever produced. Tonight Jennifer (and her voice) take us to the sweet little burg of Mayfield, home of the Cleaver family. That's right--we're making a left on Pine Street, where we find Ward painting lawn chairs, June serving up lemonade…
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VC Reading Room: Take a Look at Yourself - Look at Your Average
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Welcome to the Vintage Century Reading Room... Jennifer's reading an inspirational little forgotten book from the 1940s—apparently long out of print—and because it is playing into some goals she has for herself in 2021, she decided to share it with us. The book is Take a Look at Yourself, by John Homer Miller. Tonight we're reading Chapter 13. Jenn…
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VC Reading Room: Take a Look at Yourself - How to Succeed
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Welcome to the Vintage Century Reading Room... Jennifer's reading an inspirational little forgotten book from the 1940s—apparently long out of print—and because it is playing into some goals she has for herself in 2021, she decided to share it with us. The book is Take a Look at Yourself, by John Homer Miller. Tonight we're reading Chapter 12. Jenn…
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VC Reading Room: Take a Look at Yourself - How to Be Decisive
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Welcome to the Vintage Century Reading Room... Jennifer's reading an inspirational little forgotten book from the 1940s—apparently long out of print—and because it is playing into some goals she has for herself in 2021, she decided to share it with us. The book is Take a Look at Yourself, by John Homer Miller. Tonight we're reading Chapter 11. Jenn…
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Woopsie! Jennifer had to switch gears at the eleventh hour and do a show that was nothing like she had originally planned. The masterpiece she had in mind didn't pan out, and she ran out of time. Never one to let the quest for perfection obliterate progress, she goes on with the show. Tonight is all about beautiful things, a theme drawn from an old…
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VC Reading Room: Take a Look at Yourself - Living One Day at a Time
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Welcome to the Vintage Century Reading Room... Jennifer's reading an inspirational little forgotten book from the 1940s—apparently long out of print—and because it is playing into some goals she has for herself in 2021, she decided to share it with us. The book is Take a Look at Yourself, by John Homer Miller. Tonight we're reading Chapter 10. Wait…
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Episode #17: Mid-Century Polynesian Getaway
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Circa Sunday Night Season 2 begins now! Jennifer has just crawled out of her winter-long hibernation and is yearning for warmer climes. In tonight's show she takes a little imaginary voyage to the islands, exploring a few kitschy tourist attractions of yesteryear along the way. Also new this season is a segment entitled "This week in Circa 19xx Lan…
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VC Reading Room: Take a Look at Yourself - Overcoming a Sense of Inferiority
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Welcome to the Vintage Century Reading Room... Jennifer's reading an inspirational little forgotten book from the 1940s—apparently long out of print—and because it is playing into some goals she has for herself in 2021, she decided to share it with us. The book is Take a Look at Yourself, by John Homer Miller. Tonight we're reading Chapter 6. Jenni…
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VC Reading Room: Take a Look at Yourself - The Value of Little Things
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Welcome to the Vintage Century Reading Room... Jennifer's reading an inspirational little forgotten book from the 1940s—apparently long out of print—and because it is playing into some goals she has for herself in 2021, she decided to share it with us. The book is Take a Look at Yourself, by John Homer Miller. Tonight we're reading Chapter 5. Jenni…
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VC Reading Room: Take a Look at Yourself - Rediscovering Your "Inescapables"
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Welcome to the Vintage Century Reading Room... Jennifer's reading an inspirational little forgotten book from the 1940s—apparently long out of print—and because it is playing into some goals she has for herself in 2021, she decided to share it with us. The book is Take a Look at Yourself, by John Homer Miller. Tonight we're reading Chapter 4. Jenni…
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VC Reading Room: Take a Look at Yourself - Faiths You Live By
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Welcome to the Vintage Century Reading Room... Jennifer's reading an inspirational little forgotten book from the 1940s—apparently long out of print—and because it is playing into some goals she has for herself in 2021, she decided to share it with us. The book is Take a Look at Yourself, by John Homer Miller. Tonight we're reading Chapter 3. Jenni…
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VC Reading Room: Take a Look at Yourself - Four Things You Must Have
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Welcome to the Vintage Century Reading Room... Jennifer's reading an inspirational little forgotten book from the 1940s—apparently long out of print—and because it is playing into some goals she has for herself in 2021, she decided to share it with us. The book is Take a Look at Yourself, by John Homer Miller. Tonight we're reading Chapter 2. Jenni…
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VC Reading Room: Take a Look at Yourself - Your Life is What You Make It
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What! Is it February already? Two weeks ago Jennifer said her goodbyes in the wrap up of season 1 of Circa Sunday Night. She said we wouldn't hear her again for two months. But here we are...and here she is; the gang back together again, and Christmas hasn't even arrived. What's going on??? Enter the Vintage Century Reading Room... Jennifer's readi…
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Jennifer's the hostess with the mostest this week as she celebrates the season and visits Christmases past. She introduces tonight's show by once again stretching the bounds of an audio-only podcast to give a tour of both her home—all decked out for the holidays in vintage decor—and her hors d'oeuvre table. Eat up and be merry! This spread is all i…
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Jennifer couldn't settle on one particular topic for tonight's show, so she decided to throw together odd bits of news and ideas from around Circa 19xx Land, run those bits through the old salad spinner, and see how it all comes out on the plate. The result: our second "Mystery Mélange." If you've been listening to Circa Sunday Night over the last …
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Jennifer read a quote in a magazine while on a flight to Orlando, Florida…and now we have an episode called “Art of Adventure.” Inspiration strikes at 35,000 feet. In tonight’s show Jennifer does something a real podcaster probably wouldn’t bother to try: explore early Twentieth Century illustrations in an audio-only radio show. It’s a subject that…
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Is this the dorkiest podcast ever produced, or a sweet little virtual escape from a weary world? You be the judge. In tonight’s show Jennifer attempts to take you along on her vacation as she discovers cool vintage stuff in Florida. She’s at her home away from home this week—Walt Disney World—but she’s rented a car, so you know what that means: roa…
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Yikes! This is a long episode. Jennifer does the show she was born to produce: an exploration of Rod Serling's work. A life-long Serling fan, Jennifer indulges in a trip down memory lane to a television series she first fell in love with as a little girl: The Twilight Zone. But first, she explores themes Serling returned to again and again in his s…
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Join us for a quiet night in to help Jennifer celebrate the pleasures of home. No one loves “nesting” more than Jennifer, so in this episode we look at nest-building from the perspective of two taste-makers from the early Twentieth Century: Elsie de Wolfe, who many consider the inventor of interior design as a profession, and Edith Wharton, who, wh…
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What? Circa Sunday Night has actually made it to 10 episodes? It's a good thing podcasts aren't canceled like TV shows! Well,10 episodes may not seem like much of a milestone, but to Jennifer it's HUGE! When she first decided to jump into podcasting, even putting together one show was an overwhelming prospect. Now, if someone is so inclined (but ho…
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In the physical world, Jennifer is as neat as a pin. In the electronic and digital world, she's a hoarder. If her computer was an actual room, TLC could build a reality show around her. She has amassed thousands of images, articles, stories, and mostly useless odds and ends over time--and the clutter is overwhelming. She has stuff tucked into obscu…
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It turns out Jennifer wasn't quite ready to say goodbye to Jean Harlow. Since our last episode Jennifer read Harlow's one and only novel, Today is Tonight, and...goodness. There's a lot to talk about right there. Today is Tonight is a rare book, long out of print, so there isn't a lot of information available on the Internet about it. In tonight's …
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Episode #7: Jean Harlow, the Girl from Missouri
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Meet Kansas City's hometown superstar! And no, we're not talking about Jennifer. Tonight's episode is all about Jean Harlow. In the 1930s, she was the biggest star around-- but what was she really like? Jennifer examines Harlow's life (and tragic early death) through her films and her storied legend. Come along as we jump in the Circa 19xx time mac…
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Quick, call the doctor! Jennifer has an acute case of Egyptomania--a fascination for all things Egyptian...and Art Deco. In tonight's show we climb atop our camels and plod slowly along under the moon and the stars to the Valley of the Kings, and of course, because we're in Circa 19xx Land, we get to meet the British archaeologist and Egyptologist …
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Have you ever dreamed of what it would be like to run away and join an antique mall? Ah yes...to set up a fabulous little booth, arrange all the pretty things, and wait for appreciative customers to arrive--and spend. Well, it doesn't work quite like that, but thousands of people have crossed over to the business side of antiques and flea markets, …
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Jennifer's feeling pretty stylish tonight, having just discovered that she owns a little necklace that had been designed by Coco Chanel. The Chanel Look is classic, timeliness, and borne out of the early 20th century--smack in the middle of Circa 19xx Land--so of course her life deserves a profile on the Circa Sunday Night podcast. In tonight's sho…
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Episode #3: Route 66 and Other Road Trips
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*Note: This is a re-broadcast of an episode that aired on another platform in March, 2020. And another thing: this is one of the first podcast tapings I ever did. It's not great. I hope I'm learning, and that the episodes I'm taping now are better! When it comes to learning, you have to work through "bad" to get to "better," and, with a lot of work…
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Episode #2: Golden Age Hollywood - Marty (1955)
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Jennifer discovered, and fell in love with, a new (old) movie, and now she's dying to talk about it. The movie is Marty, the Academy Award-winning film staring Ernest Borgnine in the title role. Who knew Borgnine was such an amazing actor? Well, apparently everyone but Jennifer. He won an Oscar for this role, and he plays it so movingly and sweet t…
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Episode #1: How to Create a Vintage Gallery Wall
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Pilot Episode! Jennifer is in decorating mode as she slowly transforms her new little cottage into a home, one room at a time. In tonight's show she talks about decorating with vintage dog illustrations and sets forth some guidelines for creating a gallery wall. There are other topics up for discussion as well: Are podcasts the sleep aid we have al…
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