The Allee Willis Museum of Kitsch

Long Live Dairy Queen

This institution must live forever and ever. Deet Deet Deet....

by Pigmy Will

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Plastic fruit from the dump

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by denny

McCoy Cookie Jar – with eggs, this one is pretty wacked

I found this at a local estate sale that I hit yesterday. Glad I did go as I found another cookie jar to add to the collection. This had...

by denny

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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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As seen on Third Street….

Someone did not get the benefit of their Louisiana public school education…..let’s hope the food is better than their spelling&#...

by BRBill

Pep pep perperoni deet shirt

Everyone needs this shirt in the wardrobe. It’s a must for pizza nights and when you are just feeling meaty and deety....

by Pigmy Will

Cheeeeeeeseeeeeey

I don’t know. I think for some people it’s easy being cheesy....

July 9, 2011 by snappyp

Oscar Mayer Weinermobile

In the mid 1970’s, one of the Oscar Meyer Weinermobiles came to my small town in Northern California and the driver stopped at a 7-11 ...

by Bob Ramsdell

Wave Your Cupcake Flag

This is a tiny flag for July 4. We need more cupcakes with stars but then the stripe cupcakes need to increase. I can see this cook was ...

July 8, 2011 by snappyp

Old Tins

The tin with the fishing pair, I have no idea what it was used for but the second tin here is quite obvious what that one was for. Famous Ca...

by denny

Him and Collection

Here are all of my Mold-A-Rama toys. These four are from the Brookfield Zoo in Chicago. There were at least 6 – 10 more machines tha...

July 7, 2011 by Nessa

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

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...

by denny

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

ROAST BEEF, TACOS OR BURRITOS

THANK GOD, it’s Burritos. Because Roast Beef would have required another finger and Tacos, he would have had to cut some off. Hamb...

July 1, 2011 by snappyp

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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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Lamb Swan in a Mushroom Garden with Elves

I made this fantastical “Lamb Swan in a Mushroom Garden with Elves” cake sculpture as a tiny fantasy world inhabited by exotic m...

June 29, 2011 by kookykrafts

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Chuck Wagon Platter

This platter is another piece from my vintage restaurant cowboy dinnerware collection. The name of the pattern is “Chuck Wagon,”...

by Michael Ely

where’s Waldo & a cup o’ Joe?

This is 2 blocks from my house.The red cup on the roof, sloshin coffee, is a scream.And about the size of a VW bug! Coffee O -VA -HEA!...

June 28, 2011 by john switzer

Giant Meringues

Believe me these were HUGE, my teeth ached just looking at them…dreams of a giant Pavlova…...

June 27, 2011 by shirlie williams

Doctor Schiwago Ice Cream Part II

Eating two mega pots of icecream in order of our dear Allee – that´s a tough mission, life can be really rough, man *BURP* Like prom...

by BeeJay

Cute Frog Towel

Vintage and adorable....

by Nessa

Denny’s Adventures in Allee Willis’ “Willis Wonderland” (Part 147 – August 2010)

I die over this cluster of acrylic grapes! This lamp makes me nutty! Acrylic grape lamp that sits in the kitchen at “Willis Wonderland...

June 25, 2011 by denny