No expense spared for the kids in this house. This was part of a recent fun estate sale. Bought nothing…I just snapped away....
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Denny’s Adventures in Allee Willis’ “Willis Wonderland” – (Part 4 – August 2010)
This is one of the areas in “Willis Wonderland” that just makes me nuts. I forgot to include the stairs in a previous post, so h...
The Jungle Room
NOTE: My grandparents built their house in the mid 1960s. They decorated it well, then pretty much kept it as is. So, my grandmother, now 94...
Handmade Creepy Pumpkin with Creepy Face
My dad remembers being really creeped out by this when he was growing up in the sixties. I found this in my grandmother’s house after ...
Denny’s Adventures in “The House of Prudence” (Part 3 – August 2010)
I can only imagine the era of when Sophie Tucker lived here. I’m not familiar with her work and am only now researching her after visi...
Denny’s Adventures In “Willis Wonderland” (part 2 – August 2010)
The stairs you see here lead to one of my favorite rooms here at Willis Wonderland. It’s like walking into a treasure chest of kitsch....
Grandma’s rec room and wet bar
Even growing up, I knew my grandparents where sophisticated. They’re house was decorated like no other I’d ever seen, or, frankl...
LED Door Hangers- Flowers & Frog
This was a display at the mark down store “Christmas Tree Shop”. They have a little switch and they light up and glow. These thi...
Ungapatchked – grandma’s living room
First, a definition. “UNGAPATCHKA” describes the overly ornate, busy, ridiculously over-decorated, and garnished to the point of...
Kitschy TV Lamp
I got this super-kitschy TV lamp base at an antique shop this weekend, it has no light in it, but I aim to fix that asap. I’ve seen th...
Allee Willis’ Kitsch O’ The Day – Leaving Pomplamoose and Hitting The Madonna Inn
Yesterday, me and Mark Blackwell, who I work with, drove back to LA from up north in Sonoma where I was working with Pomplamoose. As I had r...
PRESENTING: DOLLHOUSE DRAMA!! by Lauren Duarte
Presenting DOLLHOUSE DRAMA by Lauren Duarte! I am way into dollhouses, and I can’t get enough. I buy or acquire dollhouses and dollhou...
KITSCHY TIKI BAR…
COCKTAILS ANYONE???…. The picture was taken Up-North in Petoskey, Mi… This FAB Vintage Rattan 6′ Tiki Bar comes with 4 mat...
1950’s Moderne Entertainment Center
This custom built Moderne cabinet boasts a turntable, TV, and a radio receiver. The cabinet door closes to conceal the hardware. From the in...
POPSICLE STICKS AT THEIR BEST…
We were up-north in Mi over the weekend, doing a show at the Petoskey Fairgrounds. We did a little shopping and a little “sleuthing fo...
Allee Willis’ Kitsch O’ The Day – Bowling Bag Coin Purse and Matching Bowling Everything
Bowling is easily the sport that has rained down hardest on Pop Culture in terms of artifacts emulating its shape, spirit and efforts to cap...
Cactus Cabin Lamp
This rustic little cactus cabin lamp was made here in Arizona (sometime during the 1950’s or 1960’s). The cabin itself is made f...
The Valley: It’s a jungle out there.
Did some hunting in the west valley yesterday and came across these two jungle-related items– a (fake) tiger skin ottoman and a (fake)...
Covered Wagon Motion Clock
This is a covered wagon drawn by four horses nightlight / motion mantle clock manufactured in the 1950’s by the United Clock Company o...
Found Object Lamp
This is a found object / steampunk-type lamp made by Tucson artist friend, Lane Patterson. The base of the lamp is fashioned out of old meta...
Zebra Dining Table and Chairs
I have no Idea who made this , words fail me…but I will say I love the Zebras chairs....
1950’s Record Player that I found for $18.00
I finally found one that I could afford. I snatched this up for $18.00, had the guy plug it in, everything works. Then of course I am notori...
Covered Wagon Lamp
Back in the 1950’s, cowboy movies and TV shows were all the rage as was cowboy / Western d√©cor for the home. This vintage covered ...
This Lion’s Got Your Back
This regal lion chair is displayed in the window of one of the fabulous gift shops at the Philadelphia Zoo. It is made of plastic and elegan...
Light it with Flowers!
Found this 70’s lamp at a garage sale and thought it was wonderful/hideous, then came home and plugged it in and was actually kind of ...













