The Allee Willis Museum of Kitsch

Allee Willis Kitsch O’ The Day – Hollywood Finger Cigarette Ring

The only thing I love more than a really bad fashion idea is a really excellent display card to feature it on. The idea of a cigarette ring,...

July 19, 2011 by Allee Willis

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Allee Willis’ Kitsch O’ The Day – The Cheesiest Transportation LP Covers & Captions Saluting CarmageddoNOT!

. Local news is my favorite TV to begin with. The tans, the hairspray, the fact that I know all of the locations, all this makes for excitin...

July 18, 2011 by Allee Willis

Denny’s Adventures In Allee’s “Willis Wonderland” – Part 1

I thought I would start off this series with the thing that really got my attention when I walked in the art studio at “Willis Wonderl...

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Allee Willis Kitsch O’ The Day – Carmageddon Celebration On AWMOK Facebook Page Right Now!

In a salute to Carmageddon, I’m posting one cheesy transportation-related LP Cover on Facebook for every hour the 405 freeway is shut...

July 16, 2011 by Allee Willis

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Denny Does Amoeba Records in LA – White Label Promo 12 Inch of “In The Stone” by Earth Wind & Fire – written by Allee Willis

I recently borrowed a cd from Allee called “Allee Willis’ Top 10” and this song is on it. I don’t remember this so...

July 14, 2011 by denny

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Allee Willis’ Kitsch O’ The Day – Hostess Cupcake Case and Aging Hostess Cupcakes

Yesterday I went to serve some delicious Hostess Twinkies, a staple I always keep around here at Willis Wonderland, to a couple people I was...

July 13, 2011 by Allee Willis

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Allee Willis’ Kitsch O’ The Day – My Saturday Drive/Food Fest With Charles Phoenix – Torrance and Inglewood, CA.

. As we are oft to do, Charles Phoenix and I took another one of our kitsch spins around LA and environs this past weekend. We were dressed ...

July 11, 2011 by Allee Willis

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Denny’s Adventures in Allee Willis’ “Willis Wonderland” (Part 151 – August 2010)

I’m falling in love with this wooden sculpture! This is in the living room at “Willis Wonderland”....

July 9, 2011 by denny

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Allee Willis’ Kitsch O’ The Day – Kellogg’s Cereal Microcamera & Shooting “Born In Detroit”

I spent most of Wednesday afternoon being photographed and interviewed for “Born in Detroit,” a book by Jenny Risher “celebrating...

July 8, 2011 by Allee Willis

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Denny’s Adventures in Allee Willis’ “Willis Wonderland” (Part 153 – August 2010)

Don’t let the kitties out when you leave. Bye-bye!...

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Denny’s Adventures in Allee Willis’ “Willis Wonderland” (Part 152 – August 2010)

Decorative dish….with atomic influences. This sits on the glass top table that Allee made! I would kill for that “rest room̶...

July 7, 2011 by denny

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Denny’s Adventures in Allee Willis’ “Willis Wonderland” (Part 150 – August 2010)

This makes me nuts! All male stylist convention in Texas! Oh my god, her hat!...

July 6, 2011 by denny

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Allee Willis’ Kitsch O’ The Day – Getting To Kenosha and Beyond

LAX last Friday morning, with people leaving for 4th of July, was like D-Day at the stockyards. My whole morning had been like that. Snappy ...

July 5, 2011 by Allee Willis

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Denny’s Adventures in Allee Willis’ “Willis Wonderland” (Part 148 – August 2010)

Chalkware orange hanging in the kitchen at “Willis Wonderland”. Allee has some of the best chalkware kitsch around! Chalkware ba...

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Lily Tomlin On Stage LP

I love the artwork on this lp and although I was 11 when this came out (sorry folks!) I learned to appreciate it as I got older. I’m w...

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Allee Willis’ Kitsch O’ The Day – 4th of July BBQ Recipes

One of the best things about the 4th of July is the food one consumes as a means of celebration, and normally my Independence Day spread loo...

July 4, 2011 by Allee Willis

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Allee Willis’ Kitsch O’ The Day – Wisconsin Cow Udder Cup

As you read this, I’m boiling away in Kenosha, Wisconsin where I’m attending two friends’ wedding. Getting up at 4:30 AM t...

July 3, 2011 by Allee Willis

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Denny’s Adventures in Allee Willis’ “Willis Wonderland” (Part 141 – August 2010)

I was snapping away like mad when I realized I did not bring my charger along with me to “Willis Wonderland”. I was promptly tol...

July 2, 2011 by denny

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Denny’s Adventures in Allee Willis’ “Willis Wonderland” (Part 146 – August 2010)

This is a pretty fabulous beer sign! Frigidaire promotional measuring glass. I forgot to include these pitchers with the rest of the set so ...

July 1, 2011 by denny

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Allee Willis’ Kitsch O’ The Day – Wisconsin Badger Droppings Candy

I do like when a state maximizes the amount of merchandise that can be culled from any of that state’s icons, in this case the badger,...

June 30, 2011 by Allee Willis

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Denny’s Adventures in Allee Willis’ “Willis Wonderland” (Part 145 – August 2010)

This needed a post all by itself. This is hands down, one of my favorite paintings at “Willis Wonderland”. This was also feature...

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Allee Willis’ Kitsch O’ The Day – Sauna Jacket

“Perspiration motion is carried out intensively and working out of the upper half of the body!!” Well, you can say that again! I...

June 29, 2011 by Allee Willis

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Allee Willis’ Kitsch O’ The Day – Bowler’s Coffee Cup

I’m not a bowler. But I AM a bowling-kitsch-artifact collector crazy person. Bowling was THE happy-go-lucky, stylish, social sport of ...

June 28, 2011 by Allee Willis

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Allee Willis’ Kitsch O’ The Day – Richard Simmons!

I was going to feature my Richard Simmons towel as my kitsch offering of the day: But I decided to feature the real thing instead because of...

June 27, 2011 by Allee Willis

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Allee Willis, Annie Fox, Helene Kornblatt & The Wellfleet Flea Market

This is the strangest story of the day. It was in the middle of a hot day at my flea market booth (I would later on that evening get sun p...

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