The Allee Willis Museum of Kitsch

Major Train

We love to see groups who have clothes on all made out of the same bolt of fabric.Its Kitschy. This princess doesn’t like to share.I c...

May 25, 2011 by john switzer

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AMAZING Chicken restaurant in Georgia!

This is the biggest image I could get a hold of, this was sent to me by a friend who lives in Georgia. He also wrote the following comment...

May 19, 2011 by denny

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Allee Willis’ Kitsch O’ The Day – Allee Willis Marches on Detroit! Part 13, Burk’s Igloo & Lafayette Coney Dogs

Burk’s Igloo in Hamtramck, the once Polish center of Detroit, not only has KILLER ice cream but is famous now for being in the opening...

May 4, 2011 by Allee Willis

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Booby Bar in downtown Detroit

This is Bouzouki’s “booby bar” which was on the side street next to my hotel in Detroit. The guys I would see standing o...

by denny

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Allee Willis’ Kitsch O’ The Day – Allee Willis Marches on Detroit! Part 9, The City By Car

Wednesday, April 6, had tremendous potential. (L-R) Mark Blackwell and Laura Grover, both of whom worked on putting the whole Detroit extrav...

April 27, 2011 by Allee Willis

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Allee Willis’ Kitsch O’ The Day – Allee Willis Marches on Detroit! Part 8, Sights In Passing

One of my favorite things in life is photographing whatever I see around me, especially if I’m in a car and just happen to pass someth...

April 26, 2011 by Allee Willis

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Rots of Ruck!

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April 23, 2011 by samseptic

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Allee Willis’ Kitsch O The Day – Allee Willis Marches on Detroit! Part 6, Joe Louis’ Fist

We had some time to kill on Tues, April 5th, before going to a reception for the Rust Belt To Arts Belt conference I was giving a speech at ...

April 21, 2011 by Allee Willis

Allee Willis’ Kitsch O’ The Day – Allee Willis Marches on Detroit! Part 5, The School and The Hot Dogs

The first time I ever went back to my high school, Mumford, after graduating in 1965 was when my musical, The Color Purple, first came to th...

April 20, 2011 by Allee Willis

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Top Notch Cafe

Just next door to Dahl’s College of Beauty, Great Falls, Montana....

by Markydoodle

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THE DOG SHOP

I like this kind of simple advertising. The old “picture is worth a 1000 words” addage is operating here………....

April 19, 2011 by snappyp

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Warholak Tires in Detroit

We spotted this tire shop while exploring Detroit and I was initially attracted to the architecture and really plotzed when I saw what was s...

April 18, 2011 by denny

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Masonic Palomino

A friend of mine told me this week when I was in Bozeman that it “beats the shit out of Butte anyhow.” Here’s a view of N...

by Markydoodle

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Allee Willis’ Kitsch O’ The Day – Allee Willis Marches On Detroit! Part 4, The Telway Diner

You know from the front it’s got to be something. The little 1930’s castle with the 1950’s aluminum awning where you know ...

April 17, 2011 by Allee Willis

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Mary Lee’s Candy Factory in Downtown Detroit

This is how close the crew was to each other when we were all staying in Detroit. Behind this old brick building that once housed Mary Lee...

by denny

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Bleu.

1540 Woodward Ave., Detroit. “Somebody should get a picture of that.” I don’t know the history of Bleu. It’s n...

April 16, 2011 by Markydoodle

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White Tower Burger Buildings!

I just learned about White Tower burgers as I am watching the Blaxploitation film “Detroit 9000” and I believe the picture here ...

April 15, 2011 by denny

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Allee Willis’ Kitsch O’ The Day – Allee Willis Marches on Detroit! Part 3, The House

I know… I promised that Part 3 was going to be about finally getting into the house I grew up in on Sorrento Ave. in Detroit after try...

April 14, 2011 by Allee Willis

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Michigan Central Depot Station (built in 1913)

Came across this amazing bit of architecture in Dearborn which is on the outskirts of downtown. It’s breathtaking and I would have g...

by denny

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Allee Willis’ Kitsch O’ The Day – Allee Willis Marches on Detroit! Part 2

So Monday, April 4, in Detroit starts off with meeting historic architecture preservationist Rebecca Binno Savage downtown in front of the ...

April 13, 2011 by Allee Willis

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Elwood Bar & Grille in downtown Detroit

Gorgeous little eatery in downtown Detroit that was located not far from where I was staying. My first day in Detroit, Ernie and I took of...

by denny

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Allee Willis’ Kitsch O’ The Day – Allee Willis Marches on Detroit! Part 1

We – Mark Blackwell, my ready steady videographer and “Allee Marches On Detroit!” planning partner – landed back in ...

April 12, 2011 by Allee Willis

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Detroit Donuts – Donutville U.S.A.

We stopped to photograph and film this little donut shop while shooting in and around Detroit. The best part of this donut shop was the ar...

by denny

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Shell House, Polperro, Cornwall

This is another shell house I came across in the West of England. The first one being in Dartmouth.This is in Cornwall in a small fishing vi...

April 2, 2011 by shirlie williams

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She Lives In A Boeing 727

Joanne Ussary bought a used Boeing 727. She paid $2,000.00 for the plane. It cost $4,000.00 to move and $24,000.00 to renovate. (She h...

March 27, 2011 by Little Brother

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