I’m italian so there’s no doubt I would absolutely be willing to try this product out. I wish we had these when I was a youngste...
Kitsch » Drink and Bar Accessories
1933 – Hollywood Cocktails
I picked up this recipe book a few years ago at an estate sale. It is a real piece of history! Great graphics and great recipes and a perfec...
Vintage Bar Ware
All my bar ware comes from my favorite Goodwill for about a buck a each, The frosted glass with the leave motif I recently saw at an expensi...
Clip-on Gourmet Martini Tester
This weird little item would be ideal for Don Draper and his friends at Sterling-Cooper. It’s a Martini Tester. Just pull the dropper ...
Hibernating at the TraveLodge
Okay, so he’s not quite as iconic as Teddy, Smokey, Yogi, Winnie the Pooh, the Budweiser Polar Bears, or the Hamm’s bear, but th...
Denny’s Adventures in Allee Willis’ “Willis Wonderland” (Part 67 – August 2010)
This bar just really kills me. I have no idea of the history of it but know that it’s one of my favorite things at “Willis Wonde...
What happens at the Dunes stays at the Dunes
Apparently, the pool-side beverage service at the Dunes just isn’t up to snuff, otherwise why would this poor zaftig woman have to fen...
Funky coffee cup
Found this coffee cup at the dump. If I could only find some vintage coffee cups that will actually hold a good amount of coffee, I would be...
Shep Field AND HIS Rippling Rhythms Orchestra LP
I just really loved the cover and the dancing bubbles....
GOOGLE EYE DOLL
GOOGLE EYE DOLL “Squeeze my tummy my eyes goggle and hear me squeak.” One of his eyes appears to have come un-goggled but is sti...
Allee Willis’ Kitsch O’ The Day – The Fifth Dimension 7-Eleven Slurpee Cup
I absolutely loved The Fifth Dimension. I loved Jimmy Webb and I loved Laura Nyro, the songwriters who wrote some of their biggest hits, bot...
Celebrity Bottle Cap Bracelet
I found this bracelet at a thrift shop. Comedy celebrites pictures were placed under bottle caps. There pictures of Lucille Ball, Groucho Ma...
Allee Willis’ Kitsch O’ The Day – Stupid 1960’s ‘Once A King/Once A Knight’ Wood Plaque
This is a very sloppy version of the kind of ‘sexy’ joke signs that became popular around the early 1960s and hung in many a woo...
Go Go Girl Drink Mixer!
This is amazing creature goes for about $24.95 on Ebay and I just have to have at least a dozen of these! Love the atomic glass she is holdi...
I’m a little, well, BIG tea pot…
This is a water tower in Kingsberg, California… Kitsch-y, but, is it kitsch at this dimension?...
Either an ashtray or a spoon rest
First I thought it was a spoon rest. But as I study it now, I think it held two pipes. Or just maybe it could be both....
Allee Willis’ Kitsch O’ The Day – Vintage “Little John” Toilet Ashtray
I’m not sure how toilet ashtrays became so ubiquitous in the novelty ashtray department but they did. I guess because they’re a ...
Ready, Aim, Drink
Here’s something you’ll never see in the hands of a contemporary tot: a plastic gun cup. It’s from the fifties (duh!) and ...
1969 BankAmericard Commercial
Of course now BankAmericard is called VISA. Does anybody remember those clunky little machines the merchants would use to press the imprint ...
Ice Tapper
I picked this up only because I liked the graphic on the box… and also I kind of desired cracked ice. If I recall, I got it at one of ...
Denny’s Adventures in Allee Willis’ “Willis Wonderland” (Part 58 – August 2010)
These “half cup” ceramic coffee mugs always killed me and I remember growing up with kitsch like this. Not that I ever saw my pa...
COASTER set with little leather carrying case
I love this and have a special fondness for anything “little” and “kitschy”. This is a full set of coasters that I f...
Allee Willis’ Kitsch O’ The Day – Kitschlicious Riverside, CA.
Last weekend I drove to Riverside to see a performance of The Color Purple, the musical I co-wrote. I tend to pick and choose the performanc...
Ubangi Bar Set
This is an auction item at “Liberty Thrift Shop” in Collegeville, PA. They have a small section of items they put up for auction...
Denny’s Adventures in Allee Willis’ “Willis Wonderland” (Part 56 – August 2010)
These are beautiful. Instead of looking like a hippie, the guy here looks more like cousin IT of the Addams Family. Either way, these are pr...