This is a tiki bathroom, a room filled with tiki mugs, vintage aquarium ornaments, model ships, tiki masks, ceramic mermaids, plastic fish w...
Michael Ely
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Gravestone salt and pepper shakers
This is a vintage souvenir salt and pepper shaker set from Tombstone, AZ (hand-painted with cork stoppers). Tombstone, known as the town to ...
Recordings On Sex Instruction
This is an early 1950’s collection of four 78 r.p.m. records instructing parents on how to talk to their young children about matters ...
Cowboy Mike
Howdy Partners! Okay, I have been having a heck of a time trying to post a profile photo. Not sure what I’m doing wrong. First it says...
Kitschenette
This is a 1950’s Marx “Pretty Maid” tin litho toy kitchen. The kitchen is complete with appliances including a refrigerato...
Apache Land Cafe plate
I This is a 1950’s dinner plate from the Apache Land Cafe, part of the Apache Land Village shopping center, motel and cafe in the smal...
huevo salt and pepper set
I love this egg themed salt and pepper shaker set. It’s nothing fancy, very simple design. It just makes me feel happy when I look at ...
Rockin’ cowboy clock
This is a 1950’s Haddon “Ranch ‘O” clock manufactured in Chicago, ILL. The little hard plastic cowboy on the bucking...
Cactus lamp
This water pump cactus lamp is one of several kinds of cactus lamps (including covered wagon lamps) produced here in Tucson, AZ during the 1...
Pay to do your thing
This is from my gas station bathroom collection. Yes, I actually collect things associated with gas station bathrooms! Pay toilets were popu...
Macho Man cookie jar
Macho, macho man. I’ve got to be a macho man! I’ve had this construction worker cookie jar for about 15 years. When I originally...
Steampunk style lamp
Don’t know if this would be considered kitsch or not, but wanted to share this one-of-a-kind steampunk style lamp made from old machin...
Lawn Sprinkler Lamp
This is a one-of-a-kind lamp made from found art (created by a local Tucson artist named Lane Patterson). The base consists of two old vinta...
Golden Egg
This is a 1960’s golden egg toy savings bank from Red Goose Shoes for boys and girls (the store slogan embossed on the egg is: Half th...
Frosty the snow cone maker
This is a Frosty the Sno-Man Sno-Cone maker. He was manufactured by Hasbro in 1974. There was an earlier version in the late 1960’s, b...
Let’s Play Monopoly
This is a collection of Monopoly tokens ranging from the 1930’s to the near present. My partner and I built the display case out of a ...
Twist con Texaco
This is a HI-FI album of incredible twist music (the tunes REALLY rock and are sung in Spanish) produced in Puerto Rico in the mid-1960̵...
Green Ceramic Dog Man Horse Thing
What do you get when you cross a dog with a man with a horse? You get this pea green ceramic thing that just screams kitsch. I found this pi...
Cacti Couple S&Ps
This pair of salt and pepper shakers are from the 1950’s. Living here in Tucson, I must admit that many of the giant saguaros do look ...
Ride ’em Pep Boys
Here we have the Pep Boys (Manny, Moe and Jack) out in the wild West riding bareback on a bronking horse (looks to me like they’re abo...
Dish me up, Partner
This wonderful and campy cowboy china was produced in the 1940’s and 1950’s by Wallace China, once one of the largest suppliers ...
Tis’ the Seasoning
Here we have a collection of salt and pepper shakers, mostly Western and mostly vintage. Notice how stereotypical and exaggerated many of th...
Cowboy lunchboxes
Yahoo! Here are some cowboy lunchboxes. My favorite is the Chuck Wagon dome box at the top (from 1958). The wagon is under attack and you ca...













