May everyone’s New Year be off to as sunny, bright and choreography filled a start as this romp through cheesy video effects and bounc...
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Allee Willis’ Kitsch O’ The Day – Happy New Year! 01/Fri./ Jan. Vintage Flip Calendar
Missing the 2010 but with little plastic tabs to flip over each day to select date, day and month, this type of vintage plastic futuristic f...
Allee Willis’ Kitsch O’ The Day – Vintage 1999 to 2000 Double-Sided New Year’s Glasses
Featuring two sides, one to toast the year about to end and the other to toast the new year once it arrives, these glasses were made to ushe...
Allee Willis’ Kitsch O’ The Day – 1930’s New Year’s Eve Noisemaker
Battered and rusty, this vintage 30’s noisemaker still exhibits signs of life with a great hardwood-ball-against-tin sound that I stil...
Allee Willis’ Kitsch O’ The Day – Poodle “Knit-Wit” Bottle Cover
These were all the rage among crafters in the 1950s and continue to bring joy to Kitsch lovers who don’t like staring at plain wine or...
Allee Willis’ Kitsch O’ The Day – Vintage ‘Here They Are Looking At You’ Eyeglass Holder
These eyeglass holders became all the rage in the 1950’s when fanciful designs transformed a lot of otherwise mundane looking products...
Allee Willis’ Kitsch O’ The Day – “Season’s Best” 45 From Dinah Shore
“Seasons best” from Dinah Shore, Chevrolet and me! Dinah warbled “See the USA in your Chevrolet” throughout the Atom...
Allee Willis’ Kitsch O’ The Day – Inflatable Fruitcake
This is the only version of this festive holiday treat (or torture, depending on how you look at it) that I can stand having in my house. I ...
Allee Willis’ Kitsch O’ The Day – Ebony Classics Christmas Cards
This “Imperial Collection” of African American Christmas cards was a rarity in the 1950s, hard-to-find among the rows of their C...
Allee Willis’ Kitsch O’ The Day – Stress Wiener
Everybody knows that the holidays induce stress, especially this year with the economy still sitting out on the sidelines. So just in time c...
Allee Willis’ Kitsch O’ The Day – ‘I Love Lucy’ Phillip Morris Christmas Gift Cigarettes
It says a lot about the Atomic Age that America’s pre-Kennedy First Family, the Ricardo’s, hawked cigarettes for the holidays. N...
Allee Willis’ Kitsch O’ The Day – Christmas Pantyhose Dolls!
‘Tis the season to be celebrating all kinds of krazy krafts as the holidays seem to bring out the most enthusiastic and kitschy kualit...
Allee Willis’ Kitsch O’ The Day – 1970 Space Food Sticks
World’s first “Chewy nutrition snack – you carry them… they carry you!” Developed for astronauts, Space Food S...
Allee Willis’ Kitsch O’ The Day – Better Than Flex-Straws: Vintage Flav-r Straws!
The next revolution in sucking power after the Flex-Straw was this product that I made my mother stockpile so I’d never have less than...
Allee Willis’ Kitsch O’ The Day – Vintage Flex-Straws
I can’t tell you how many Flex-straws I went through as a kid seeing how far I could bend them before the passage of liquid was no lon...
Allee Willis’ Kitsch O’ The Day – Happy Chanukah! ‘Let Me People Go’ Toilet Seat Cover
This matzoh patterned ‘Let Me People Go’ toilet seat cover is one of the biggest hits in my house when I drag it out every holid...
Allee Willis’ Kitsch O’ The Day – Happy Chanukah! SHALOM Barbie Bathrobe
Not only is Barbie always stylish she’s apparently Jewish or at least celebrating the Chosen People this Hanukkah season in her custom...
Allee here – 12/12/09 at The Allee Willis Museum Of Kitsch
I’ve been meaning to write this post about new features here at The Allee Willis Museum of Kitsch for weeks but I remain swamped under...
Allee Willis’ Kitsch O’ The Day – Hartz Mountain Song Food Can
This can of Song Food has stared at and inspired many a singer at my place including Bob Dylan, James Brown, Cyndi Lauper and hundreds more....
Allee Willis’ Kitsch O’ The Day – Uber Macho Chest Rug
A great kitsch Kristmas or Chanukah gift for your folliclely challenged male friends, this Burt Reynolds-like hair rug would look great prot...
Allee Willis’ Kitsch O’ The Day – 1970’s Panasonic Panapet Transistor Radio
Although it’s all a little worn, this Panasonic Panapet 9V R-70 is one of the most popular transistor radios in history. Music boomed ...
Allee Willis’ Kitsch O’ The Day – Teapot Wool Cap
It just got freezing in LA. The skies are getting dark and gloomy, you need a heavy coat, it’s very un-LA like. The only thing that ma...
Allee Willis Kitsch O The Day – 1960’s Bergél of Hollywood Aftershave Dice Bottle
The quintessential artifact in the oeuvre of Kitsch has got to be dice. Plastered on clothing, hanging from dashboard mirrors, modeled after...
Allee Willis’ Kitsch O’ The Day – 1970’s Sunflower Light Switch Plate
Completely oversized for the two light switches it’s designed to decorate, this textured fake wood plastic switch plate adorned many a...
Allee Willis’ Kitsch O’ The Day – 1950’s Jolly Chef Spoon Rest
Plastic chef kitchen aids were all the rage in the 1950’s. Most popular among the S&P’s, note pad holders and mixing spoon h...