The Allee Willis Museum of Kitsch

Too crazy today… Eric Idle and Peter Asher

I just had a chance to post two great submissions today and realize I have to race out the door RIGHT NOW. No time to even post my own stuff...

December 8, 2010 by Allee Willis

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By Kitschmeister’s request: The Alan King Thing

Not long ago, I submitted a snap of a vintage remote that happened to appear alongside a small autographed picture of Alan King… this ...

December 6, 2010 by StoryTroy

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Denny goes to a prom!

Slipper dress shoes, pants too high, suit jacket too small, you can see my junk as the pants were squeezing the life out of me, the cheesy &...

December 5, 2010 by denny

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Life was simple back then…

Life was so simple in the mid 60’s in Ohio. Friday night basketball games with the adversary HS. Then onto Garner Brothers drive-in, e...

December 4, 2010 by MyFunCloset

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JFK Phonograph Record

This 7″ 45 rpm phonpgraph record has on it JFK’s Nomination Acceptance Speech, the Inaugural Speech and the Oath of Office. It i...

November 21, 2010 by Bob Ramsdell

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Julia Child and hubby Paul

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November 17, 2010 by danetta

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Allee Willis’ Kitsch O’ The Day – My Seriously Kitschy Birthday Gifts

. I wasn’t going to do anything for my birthday this year. Too overworked and no extra coinage to throw around. But word leaked out an...

November 14, 2010 by Allee Willis

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Denny’s Adventures in Allee Willis’ Willis Wonderland” (Part 59 – August 2010)

I wanted to do a post that focused on nothing but this wall and what it was made for. It was made by Allee (Geezus, I hope I got that right)...

November 11, 2010 by denny

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Crazy Cat House

Walkways with neon lights, cat-shaped holes in walls and floor-to-ceiling scratch posts – the feline friendliest home ever A U.S. coup...

November 9, 2010 by shirlie williams

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Thanks, Monica, we’ll miss you.

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November 5, 2010 by Markydoodle

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Allee Willis’ Kitsch O’ The Day – Lombardino’s Restaurant in Madison, WI. – In With The Old and Out With The New

. Other than I didn’t have a car so my world was very small when I went to college at the University of Wisconsin in the late 60’...

October 14, 2010 by Allee Willis

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Denny’s Adventures in Allee Willis’ “Willis Wonderland” (Part 46 – August 2010)

Promotional pin given to Allee by Neil Tennant & Chris Lowe. She co-wrote this pop masterpiece with them that featured Dusty Springfield...

October 12, 2010 by denny

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Allan & Rossi meet the Beatles…

In 1964, when the Beatles first appeared on Ed Sullivan, the veteran stand up comic team, Marty Allan and Steve Rossi were regulars on the S...

October 8, 2010 by MyFunCloset

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Teapot Ronnie

Ronnie Reagan the teapot. Made by Hall China in the late seventies, early eighties. My family is from Youngstown, Ohio and my mother made fr...

October 6, 2010 by pattihaskins

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Allee Willis’ Kitsch O’ The Day – Vintage Party Bling and The Party I Forgot To Wear It To

I bought this Party Pendant at a thrift shop recently, brought it home, shined it up and glued little rhinestones on it. I’ve only wor...

October 5, 2010 by Allee Willis

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Allee Willis’ Kitsch O’ The Day – Gertrude Stein/ Alice B. Toklas Mug and Stephanie Miller’s Coming Out Party

I don’t usually like mugs with serious faces on them but “The Gertrude Stein” mug made by Fitz & Floyd in 1976 is a ra...

October 4, 2010 by Allee Willis

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Allee Willis’ Kitsch O’ The Day – “Soap Tunes” Musical Hand Soap and the ASCAP Love Fest

The concept of this “Foaming Musical Hand Soap for Kids!” is really crazy. Theoretically kids can “wash & learn”...

September 29, 2010 by Allee Willis

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Denny’s Adventures in Allee Willis’ “Willis Wonderland” (Part 28 – August 2010)

This book of 8×10’s is crammed with pictures of Allee and the people she has met or worked with over the years. It was hard to pi...

September 26, 2010 by denny

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Denny’s Adventures in Allee Willis’ “Willis Wonderland” (Part 27 – August 2010)

The most well dressed feet I have ever laid eyes on but what kills me are the knee-high under garments we can always see Allee sporting. I d...

September 25, 2010 by denny

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Sarah Palin booblehead

I found her in a gift shop in Chinatown SFO. A sad reminder of how close she got in 2008. Now that she is encased behind glass, she will fin...

September 24, 2010 by Rockin Mohawk

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Denny’s Adventures in Allee Willis’ “Willis Wonderland” (Part 24 – August 2010)

What a fun day. This is Allee pictured with Greg VanderVeer at a screening of Greg’s film “Keep Dancing”. The film chronic...

September 22, 2010 by denny

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Allee Willis’ Kitsch O’ The Day – The 21st Of September Jubilee!

Because the opening line of my very first hit song, “September” by Earth, Wind & Fire, is “Do you remember the 21st ni...

September 21, 2010 by Allee Willis

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Allee Willis’ Kitsch O’ The Day – 1960’s Lighted Kosher Sign and Breaking The Fast In Hollywood

One of the most festive nights of the Jewish year is the ‘breaking of the fast’ meal after Yom Kipper, a veritable smorgasbord o...

September 19, 2010 by Allee Willis

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Allee Willis’ Kitsch O’ The Day – The Lipstick Camera and Greg Gorman’s Retrospective Last Night at the Pacific Design Center

. Anyone who knows me knows that there are two things I never leave home without, my lipstick and my camera. I always carry at least two of ...

September 16, 2010 by Allee Willis

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The Pigs’ Feet Incident – a.k.a. A Slow News Day In My Home State

From WBVT News, Rock Hill, S.C.: ROCK HILL – Police in Rock Hill are investigating after they say a man eating pig’s feet in bed...

September 14, 2010 by Mark Blackwell

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