http://www.urlesque.com/2011/03/02/54-vintage-cereals/ Any lover of kitsch needs to check out this online article, “54 Cereals We Love...
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Egyptian Civil Resistance Tote Bag
Found this bag at a garage sale and thought it would make the perfect accessory for any hip young Egyptian protestor who wants to help overt...
Blatz Beer Barrel Man with Banjo
This cast iron Blatz Beer advertising figure gives new meaning to the term “barrel chested.” You can unscrew the legs of his c...
Shameless Plastic Letter Opener
Madison Avenue could learn a few tricks from the folks at Salesian Missions, a Roman Catholic religious order who gave out this cheesy pla...
Rap in the wrong hands is a dangerous thing…
This clip speaks for itself: http://www.break.com/index/whiterapper21.html...
Sexy Pink Armadillo Attack!
Horror can come from the most unlikely sources– in this case, from a sexy Japanese woman in pink who turns into… wait for itR...
Bard n’ Booze
I love it when high-brow meets low-brow, as in these Shakespeare cocktail napkins from the early 60’s. Each napkin takes a quote from ...
Blame it on the Pamphlet!
Why spend a lot of money on expensive dance lessons when you can learn to dance the Bossa Nova from a 1962 pamphlet for only 50 cents? Appar...
Vintage 1950’s Flour Sifter
This was the garage sale find of the day for me: a flour sifter with a spectacular 50’s tin litho illustration. In fact, it̵...
Valentines from the Past
A few vintage Valentine’s Day cards from a more innocent era when gay meant happy and one weren’t tempted, for example, to quest...
Razzie Awards
As many akitschianados are fans of bad movies, it seemed appropriate to provide this link to this year’s nominations for the Razzie ...
Joan Crawford – Muy Espantoso!
This is a Mexican lobby card for William Castle’s, I SAW WHAT YOU DID (aka I SAW WHAT YOU DID AND I KNOW WHO YOU ARE!) starring Joan C...
New Year’s Eve Toasts
These teeny-tiny toast glasses from the 1950’s are about 3″ tall and impossible to set down since they have a point at the botto...
Homemade Kitschmas Ornaments
One year my wife made me an ornament for Christmas and it was so beautiful we started a tradition of making each other ornaments every year....
Traditional Yule Log
The above is not a Photoshopped pic– the giant elf taking a dump in the middle of a bustling shopping mall is the real deal. This is t...
Aloho-ho-ho!
This is the Christmas volume of the Cord International series of remastered vintage Hawaiian recordings from the 30s, 40s, and 50s which ble...
Holy Crap!
The most astounding thing about this piece of Christmas kitsch is that for something so totally cheap and crappy, a helluva lot of labor and...
1957 Handyman’s Book
I bought this at a garage sale because I loved the late 1950’s graphics, not out of any familiarity or affection for this type of book...
Horny Lamp
Last week I went to a different kind of estate sale. It was run by a professional cleaning service, not an estate sale company. The two sist...
ProfessoriOwl Planter
There seems to be no end to ceramic owls made during the 70’s, but I actually stumbled across this planter that was made in the 40R...
Behind the 8 Ball Card Game – 1969
The best thing about this 8 Ball card game is the photo on the cover. I love that the whole family got all dressed up to play it together. I...
Clip-on Gourmet Martini Tester
This weird little item would be ideal for Don Draper and his friends at Sterling-Cooper. It’s a Martini Tester. Just pull the dropper ...
Hibernating at the TraveLodge
Okay, so he’s not quite as iconic as Teddy, Smokey, Yogi, Winnie the Pooh, the Budweiser Polar Bears, or the Hamm’s bear, but th...
What happens at the Dunes stays at the Dunes
Apparently, the pool-side beverage service at the Dunes just isn’t up to snuff, otherwise why would this poor zaftig woman have to fen...