Tues., April 5, started at 7 am. (Kill me now; that’s the middle of the night for me.) Thank God there was a Yum Yum (my dictation sof...
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Allee Willis’ Kitsch O’ The Day – Allee Willis Marches on Detroit! Part 5, The School and The Hot Dogs
The first time I ever went back to my high school, Mumford, after graduating in 1965 was when my musical, The Color Purple, first came to th...
Oops, I thought I’d be back in action….
My intentions were good. I was gonna wake up and spring back into action as I haven’t blogged regularly in over a week but my body sti...
Allee Willis Marches on Detroit! – A Benefit for Mumford High School
Next week I’m going back to my home town, Detroit, to conduct my high school marching band playing a medley of my greatest hits in t...
From Allee on the road…
As much as I look forward to rolling out of bed every morning and choosing wonderful gems of kitsch you all bestow upon me and AWMOK, today ...
Flower Children Turned Cannibal
This is me with two friends on the front page of our local newspaper (Inglewood, CA) in the summer of 1968. We are eating rose petals in ...
Tutor in Sceince, anyone?
miami and miami beach have many free weekly newspapers. the subject publication, which i had not seen before, is the “miami beach news...
David B’s report cards grades 4 thru 12+
David B. No last name, just to protect his privacy. He could be reading this. I have never met David but I’m glad I gathered a bit o...
Allee Willis’ Kitsch O’ The Day – Detroit Zoo Hat and My Homegirl, Lily Tomlin
When I grew up in Detroit I went to the zoo on 10 Mile and Woodward at least a couple times a year. Although I got this particular chapeau ...
Denny’s Adventures in Allee Willis’ “Willis Wonderland” (Part 97 – August 2010)
I love these puppets which have popped up on Allee’s blog before but wanted to give them a post in the Wonderland series. I love the l...
Denny’s Adventures in Allee Willis’ “Willis Wonderland” (Part 96 – August 2010)
I like to think I am up on the collecting of certain things like games, toys etc but I had no idea the amount of African American games that...
Allee Willis’ Kitsch O’ The Day – 1960’s “Last Leg O’ The (knee) Trip” Pen
I’m happy to report that my own recently operated on left knee is finally allowing my leg to return to its natural state such as mod...
Senior Class Photos, “Americana H.S.”
I went to Missouri to visit my daughter and her family last weekend, and had the opportunity to watch my granddaughter play basketball (s...
A Glamour Shot picture
What on earth? A graduation picture or a glamour shot picture. I’m not sure but this makes me a little sick to my stomach....
Allee Willis’ Kitsch O’ The Day – Margaret Mitchell’s Mealtime Magic Meat and Poultry Cookery Book
Unless you can’t stand to look at meat or poultry this is a cookbook that’s filled with thrilling visuals, not the least of whic...
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...
My High School Senior Photo 1971
Thought I share my senior pic too. I grew up near the beach in Southern California and we would put lemon juice in our hair to get blonde hi...
Pumpkin Cake
This is my pumpkin cake. It is made from two bundt cakes on top of one another. The icing is just plain vanilla icing that I colored with or...
My High School Senior Photo ’73
If I seem happy, it might be because I was bailing out of what I thought was a wasteland, and I got to throw away my draft card (oh, and the...
MUMFORD HIGH SCHOOL…
MUMFOR HIGH SCHOOL… Getting ready to open in 1949… Wonder if you close your eyes… if you can still smell the wonderful sce...
AAllee Willis’ Kitsch O’ The Day – Ambush Spray Cologne and my high school photo
You More than anything, the one thing that accompanied me every single day of my four college years at the University of Wisconsin in the la...
World’s Fair Crayon Girl
Crayon-holder girl from the Chicago World’s Fair of 1933. Made of wood. Has a hole in her head, so she’s probably missing a pom-...
Jean Craig Graduate Nurse by Kay Lyttleton
I love these old covers. I don’t ever recall seeing any nurse that looked this fabulous....
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’...