The Allee Willis Museum of Kitsch

Glass Easter Bowls

Sold at the mark down store “The Christmas Tree Shop”....

by denny

Easter Kiddie Socks

Taken at a local store....

by denny

Easter Peeps in bulk

Taken at a local store which goes insane with each holiday display. These are fuzzy, little peeps that you can use to decorate baskets or yo...

by denny

Set of Six Tennis Raquet Coasters 1975

Score with every serve!...

April 3, 2010 by kookykitsch

Promotional ashtray for a trucking line

This belonged to my late Uncle, he smoked Lucky Strikes. Yuck. But I always loved this ashtray....

by denny

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A Green Torso Lamp & Manicured Bushes…

Snapped just hours ago. I couldn’t drive passes this amazing lamp without capturing the “big picture”. A green torso lamp,...

by MyFunCloset

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House with GIGANTIC religious statue in the front yard

This is a private residence in New Bedford Mass. There is a doll dress in the window and I have no idea why....

by denny

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S &P SQUIRREL, cause everyone knows how squirrels like to season their nuts.

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by SUSAN

Buddy Cole “Have Organ Will Swing”

I bet she feels good on that swing, swaying back and forth in the cool breeze of the noon day sunshine. The threads she is wearing are groov...

by denny

The Lemonade Stand, 1972

This was my lemonade stand and the best gift I ever received back in ’72. I was obsessed and felt that when I stepped behind this toy/...

April 2, 2010 by denny

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The DeCastro Sisters (a tribute) article and pictures

The last remaining DeCastro Sister passed away recently. This is a little tribute to them....

by denny

INSIDE HAILEYS HEAD

On Sunday nights, the worst night of the week, 7th grader Hailey takes a dreamy nap before her mother puts dinner on the table. she always l...

by monica johnson

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Shameless “Apache Tear Charm”

It’s bad enough the white man nearly wiped out all the Native Americans, but as this 1962 souvenir from Scottsdale, Arizona painfully ...

by Douglas Wood

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SEX MARKET VINTAGE PULP NOVEL BOOK, 1962

“ isTHE SHOCKING INSIDE STORY OF THE JOY GIRLS WHO FIGHT DISGRACE AND DEPRAVITY IN THE INTERNATIONAL SEX MARKET.” SHE HAD NEVER ...

by kookykitsch

Beatnik Glossary

I saw something similar to this and didn’t buy it. I could have kicked myself! It’s just the “ginchiest” piece of ki...

by denny

The HeeBee Jeebies lp

This scares me but felt compelled to post it anyway....

by denny

Dog and master look alike…

This watercolor was created by my husband Bob years ago. He has this amazing talent of putting a pencil to paper and it just flows. Over the...

April 1, 2010 by MyFunCloset

College Knits for Men and Women – 1958

These photos are from the 1958 catalogue, “College Knits for Men and Women.” Commercial photography has come a long way in five ...

by Douglas Wood

Nude Handyman

I just dug this out of the old memory box in my garage. I found it about 10 years ago at an ATM in Santa Monica (there was a stack of them j...

by windupkitty

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AUNT THERESA “Please Tell Me A Story”

$1.98 Children’s LP...

by denny

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Lady Head Vase with big lashes

The other one I got today. What I love is that her lashes are intact....

by denny

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Keane Wide Eyed Polar Bear Plate

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by Kalika

Allee Willis’ Kitsch O’ The Day – The Only Thing Better Then a Keane Painting Is to Be With KEANE!

Margaret Keane is the High Priestess of Pop Art, painting those huge waif eyed paintings that stared out at everyone throughout the 60’...

March 31, 2010 by Allee Willis

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Doe Eyed Girl

This kitshy painting hung in my husbands mothers house for many years. I am not sure who the artist is. It is hard to make it out....

by leebamarks