Original “Tower of Jewels” entrance in background from 1908....
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Lakeside Amusement Park, Denver: “Hurricane”
Lakeside originally opened in 1908. It was originally called “White City.” The art deco attraction signs and ticket booths w...
New turnstiles at Disneyland
Got this in a blog today. Thought it was kinda neat. I loved the ppa loved the homage paid to it in Xanadu, lamented it’s destruction....
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 ...
ORAL Roberts tin serving tray
I guess even Oral Roberts like his atomic era design....
This is not the grocery store
Kansas City, Mo! Can you believe it. This is not the grocery store. It’s the library. What a concept. I love it because it...
CAT in the Plastic Animal DOLLHOUSE YIKES!
The cat thinks he is a tiny plastic animal. Awwwwwwww...
Wigwam Village, Orlando
Soap and matchbooks from the Wigwam Village #4 in Orlando, Florida, which was built in 1948 and demolished in 1974.. a tragedy for kitsch fa...
Allee Willis’ Kitsch O’ The Day – My Early Morning Drive Through Hollywood
Bleary eyed from chasing a friend’s cat through the hills above the Hollywood Bowl all night last night – finally captured IR...
Flying Strawberry Hut
It´s strawberry season here in bavaria right now and I just love those little strawberry huts placed on every strawberry field to sell them...
Nessa Finally Gets To See The Color Purple
I finally got to see The Color Purple, Allee! It was at the wonderful Keith-Albee Theatre in Huntington, WV.. probably West Virginia’...
BirdHouse conversion
I don’t know what is going on in the pet real estate these days, but it looks like they are converting bird houses to cat houses....
3 cheers 4 Bucky Fuller
7 blocks from mi casa. I am not kidding when I say tearing this down was on the table for a spell. Thanks goodness it was spared. And yes,it...
Allee Willis’ Kitsch O’ The Day – The Wigwam Motel on Route 66, CA
Last Saturday night my friend, Chris Nichols, threw a party at The Wigwam on Route 66 in San Bernadino, CA. With no traffic it’s still...
Kidzaam Dentistry
On the same Rte. 66 trip, we ventured through Prescott Valley, Arizona. On the side of the highway was this colorful building which houses ...
Porcelain Soldiers.
In April I had the opportunity to visit the incomparable Fox Theater in Detroit to attend “Allee Willis Marches on Detroit!” Thi...
Curved window, pedestal sink
This is the first CURVED GLASS sash window I’ve ever seen. Note the stained glass transom on top. It’s in the VFW hall whic...
Sleep in a WigWam? you need reservations!
This WigWam motel must be an internet sensation. None were available at 3pm. “unless you have a reservation” no pun intend...
I Scream, You Scream, We all Scream for Yesteryear…
Those were the days…and why are these things gone? I so wish they hadn’t taken things like this away from us! Why can’t th...
Two Foxes
I loved visiting Detroit in April for the first time, and having the opportunity to attend ‘The Color Purple” at the fantastic...
Bead Shop!
This is my bead shop in Tucson Arizona, I love this website, i will submit many kitsch beads, as they are my fovo-rites, mini-kitsch is wher...
Denny’s Adventures in Allee Willis’ “Willis Wonderland” (Part 136 – August 2010)
I just really love this shot of one of the storage cabanas at “Willis Wonderland”. “Room for Rent”, I’ll take ...