The Allee Willis Museum of Kitsch

It’s time for a Fresca!

A classic diner clock, here exhorting us to enjoy sugar free Fresca. I like this clock for a few reasons – most importantly, it works....

October 12, 2009 by MeshuggaMel

Gee Your Hair Smells Terrific

A bottle of that great 80s shampoo with the name that says it all, “Gee, Your Hair Smells Terrific” Strangely, I always assumed ...

October 7, 2009 by MeshuggaMel

Vintage Enid Collins Night Owl Purse

Cream colored woven fabric Mid Century handbag in good shape. It doesn’t have the Enid Collins signature or marking on it but it looks...

October 5, 2009 by kookykitsch

Vintage Matchbooks

Matchbooks from the days when even grocery shopping was glamorous. Two of the “Shop SAFEWAY…to be sure” matchbooks, each w...

October 3, 2009 by MeshuggaMel

DARLIE TOOTHPASTE Asian Made version of DARKIE

this is a PC version of the classic brand of toothpaste called Darkie. It’s Asian made....

by kookykitsch

K-Tel Veg-O-Matic

The original multi-purpose food cutter…...

October 2, 2009 by kookykitsch

RONCO CORDLESS ELECTRIC MIRACLE BROOM IN BOX 1970s

Box is in French on one side, English on the other and demonstates how to suck up nasty cigarette butts someone’s ground into the beau...

October 1, 2009 by kookykitsch

McDonald’s Uncle O’Grimacey Cup

This is a cup featuring the rarely seen Uncle O’Grimacey from McDonaldland. Many of McDonald’s characters have went the way of t...

by jack

Chicken McNuggets Fiesta Packaging

This is another Chicken McNugget promotion from the late 80s. This time the dipping sauces were Latin American themed and you received a fre...

September 29, 2009 by jack

Bottle of Turtle Wax 1960’s

1960’s era bottle with some product still left, of Turtle Wax. Didn’t they used to make this with turtles? In any case, most fam...

by kookykitsch

Imposter M&M!

This is from a contest held by M&Ms in the mid 90s. In random packages there was a gray M&M mixed in the bunch, and if you found one...

by jack

Activision Patches

I’m sure anybody that grew up with the Atari 2600 remembers these. This is almost all of the patches Activision offered framed up toge...

September 27, 2009 by jack

Big Mama (you’re beautiful) Large Pantyhose!

i love the delighted chorus line of big mama’s…amazing packaging…like many of the items posted & to be posted these ar...

by Howie Pyro

Allee Willis’ Kitsch O’ The Day – 1960’s Canadian Club Whiskey Pitcher

I’ve collected four of these porcelain pitchers from the late 1960s over the years. I’ve only seen this particular style with th...

by Allee Willis

Shanghai McNuggets

Here is several pieces from McDonald’s Shanghai McNuggets promotion from the late 80s. They had special Asian-themed dipping sauces th...

September 26, 2009 by jack

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the last of the “rock” cups (we can only hope!!!) – The Allman Bros. 7-11 Slurpee Cup

i tried to put them both in one post but couldn’t seem to do that…here’s ol’ greg…wonder if he ever saw one of...

September 23, 2009 by Howie Pyro

one of those “rock” cups – Edgar Winter 7/11 Slurpee Cup

here’s another of those cups you had on display…one more to follow…...

by Howie Pyro

Wendy’s Restaurant Tabletop

This is a vintage tabletop from a Wendy’s fast food restaurant. I always liked these when I was young and always wanted to take one ho...

by jack

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Monster Cereal Records

These records were cereal premiums for Boo Berry, Frankenberry, and Count Chocula. I personally like The Monsters Go Disco one best. Envisio...

by jack

Andre The Giant Beer Mug

I like to fill this up with beer from my kegerator & go to our block parties or to go visit a neighbor. I tell my wife I’m only ha...

by SL8RDUDE

Vintage McDonalds fast food containers

A nice little tower of the old styrofoam containers from the McDonalds fast food restaurant. Most of them are from the mid 80s, but the pink...

September 22, 2009 by jack

Cosmic Candy and Space Dust

Here is some of my favorite candy growing up. I have many packages of vintage candy, but the designs on these are by far the most interestin...

September 20, 2009 by jack

Jell-O for salads

When I was young my grandparents had cook books from the 50s and 60s that gave 1001 ways to make a meal out of Jell-O. It always seemed so s...

by jack