This is a heavy duty Western restaurant dinner plate from the Last Frontier Village, a facsimile of an old Western pioneer town build next...
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Allee Willis’ Kitsch O’ The Day – My Sunday Drive with Charles Phoenix
One of my favorite things to do on a Sunday is to take a drive with my fabulous friend, Charles Phoenix, who knows the kitsch heights of Los...
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About a dozen blocks from Classy Cleaners in Miami Beach (https://www.awmok.com/2011/01/06/classy-cleaners-miami-beach/) is the Royal Motel ...
Shalom Retirement Hotel
Who needs fancy-shmancy? The Shalom Retirement Hotel once stood at 330 N Hayworth Ave, in Los Angeles, one block away from Fairfax. With gia...
Allee Willis’ Kitsch O’ The Day – Kitschlicious Riverside, CA.
Last weekend I drove to Riverside to see a performance of The Color Purple, the musical I co-wrote. I tend to pick and choose the performanc...
Parkway Motel
On the corner of Underpass Avenue and South Billings Blvd....
Tucson Vintage Neon
Back in the 1950’s and 60’s when the automobile was king, Tucson’s old road into town, Miracle Mile along with Oracle Road...
Allee Willis’ Kitsch O’ The Day – Leaving Pomplamoose and Hitting The Madonna Inn
Yesterday, me and Mark Blackwell, who I work with, drove back to LA from up north in Sonoma where I was working with Pomplamoose. As I had r...
Big Bunny Motel
You can’t see it in this picture, but when you get up close, you can see that The “Big Bunny” Motel was originally called ...
Vintage Hotel Signs on Wilcox Avenue in Hollywood
I took these while running around the heat of a very hot LA day. It was worth it as I finally was able to shoot these fabulous signs. What I...
Allee Willis’ Kitsch O’ The Day – Original Holiday Inn Ashtray
When the first four Holiday Inns were built in 1953, this was the ashtray that was sitting in the rooms. Heavy glass with raised lettering a...
Ghost Ranch Lodge Ashtray
Miracle Mile is home to a strip of vintage neon-lit hotels here in Tucson and one of the most famous was the Ghost Ranch Lodge. Built in 194...
Stardust Casino Hanger from Las Vegas, Nevada
I grabbed this one up at lightning speed! My routine is to “creep” around the dump store for about an hour and that routine usua...
The Terrace Room – Hotel Laguna (in the heart of Laguna Beach)
Not sure what this is exactly but I love the graphics and those tiny fish swimming around. I didn’t know they had cactus in the ocean?...
Vintage Family photo – Florida 1974
This is me with Mom, my little sister and Pop Pop Sal. We were staying at the Town and Country Hotel in 1974. This picture amazes me for 2 r...
Bye Bye LaConcha Motel-Las Vegas
Love the lines on the building and especially the happy little micro car. LaConcha Motel, just south of the Riviera Hotel Casino on the Las ...
The Swingin’ Singin’ Pastors “Shakin’ Up Vegas” Live @ The Stardust Hotel
of anyoneI love anything having to do with casino life way back when…Is the lady in this wearing lingerie’ in the lobby of the S...
South of the Border Stores & Hotel
These are a few pictures from my trip in 2006 to South of the Border. It’s on the border of North Carolina and South Carolina and has ...
The Red Caboose Motel, Strasburg, PA
Located in Strasburg, PA, near the Amish country, this motel’s doors were first opened (or should I say slid open!) in 1969. All rooms...
Madonna Inn Mugs – Front AND Back!
What’s up with the stagecoach? And don’t even get me started on the “poetry.”...
Madonna Inn AshtrayX
I don’t have to tell any self-respecting Kitsch lover about the Parthenon of Kitsch, the Madonna Inn, in San Luis Obispo, California. ...
Allee Willis Kitsch O The Day – Madonna Inn Ashtray
I don’t have to tell any self-respecting Kitsch lover about the Parthenon of Kitsch, the Madonna Inn, in San Luis Obispo, California. ...
Beatles Sheets
Given Allee’s hometown Detroit connection, I figured this would be an appropriate first submission to The Allee Willis Museum of Kitsc...