Ever sit down for a meal in Salt Lake City, Utah, and realize half way through it there’s a Dodo mural in the room? Me neither. Until ...
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Titanic Branson
The Ozarks are a treasure trove of kitsch. Over the last 30 years, the Ozarks in Missouri have gone from small lake-front resort-motels, to ...
Chuck Wagon Diner
Authentic Americana, right here on Hoyt and Colfax. Built in 1957, somehow this Denver landmark has endured. This steed stands sentinal over...
Hail to the Teeth
President Carter has been in the news lately, and it made me remember how great it was to poke fun at him and his family. A friend of mine a...
Marshmallow Art
At the Modernism Show in Denver there were many booths displaying vendor’s merchandise. This human- like sculpture stood guard over on...
Lion’s Lair Bar
I’ve driven by this bar many times, but today I decided to drive over and take a couple pictures of it. I don’t think I can desc...
Rocky Mountain Rhino
Living in Evergreen, Colorado gives one a sense of alpine wonder. Last week I stopped counting when I got to 120 elk walking through our bac...
Acme Lofts
Anybody that watched cartoons as a kid in this country is probably familiar with The Roadrunner and Wile E. Coyote cartoon. Every product th...
Club 404 next to the Thrift Store
The sign for the “Club 404 Lounge” on South Broadway in Denver says it all with the font and the martini. And the fact that it...
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 ...
Little Man Ice Cream
Doesn’t everybody love it when a business looks like this? Little Man Ice Cream is in the Highlands Historic district just west of dow...
Cyndi’s College Owl
Cyndi made this in college after we married. I will never forget how hard she worked on it for a class she was taking (grades mattered to he...
Johnny Carson sings with the Rat Pack 1965
Having been a child of television, I used to tell people I was raised by Johnny Carson. This video from 1965, filmed with Deano, Sammy, and ...
1950’s Moderne Entertainment Center
This custom built Moderne cabinet boasts a turntable, TV, and a radio receiver. The cabinet door closes to conceal the hardware. From the in...
Two Frogs Hugging (2)
This is a post script to a previous post about the store in Lihue, HI. After driving by “Two Frogs Hugging” many times this week...
Kapa’a, Hawaii storefront art
Kapa’a is a funky little town on the Island of Kauai. These two ladies don’t seem to have much to say about the place they’...
Accidental Vacation Kitsch
I’m really not a shopper. But a place that I stumbled onto on vacation this year didn’t feel like a store. Everywhere I looked, ...
Telescoping “Space Queen” 1950’s travel trailer
Now your bedroom has a 19-foot ceiling. I understand it didn’t sell very well, and was discontinued quickly....
Dick Pillar and his Polka Mass Inspirational Orchestra
If you’re really in to Polka, you probably know this group. If Jesus played the accordian, I’m thinking he’d really be in ...
Corn Festival in La Habra, CA
Summertime means festivals and celebrations all over the country. Sixty-two years ago, the La Habra Host Lions Club presumed that transplant...
Grandpa’s old Nash sedan-late 40’s ad-noir.
My grandparents had a Nash sedan in the 1950’s, the tail-end of which you can see below in front of my Dad’s old Packard. That...
1950 Studebaker convertible
Just like the pedal cars in the U.S.S.R....
Pedal, Boris. Russian pedal cars.
Who among wouldn’t want to see a scary cartoon cat pedaling around the showroom floor when our communist parents were buying Moskvitz ...
Glitzy Pakistani RV
You’re driving along minding your own business in Pakistan, when across the horizon there’s a bright flash. But this isn’t...
Hear No Evil five-oh.
A strange little window to a boutique in Kapa’a, Hawaii displays this as one ascends the stairs to a restaurant that serves banana-mac...