These smart-aleck signs that one sees in small businesses, restaurants, bars, etc. really make you wonder: does anybody REALLY find them fun...
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MaidenForm Jack-In-The-Box Bra Ad
This is my favorite MaidenForm Bra ad., all because of that fabulous hat/scarf combo and waist accessory! “boing……boing...
A plate celebrating the radio show “The Archers”
A map of the fictional village Ambridge....
Original Howard Johnson Restaurant
This is here in Orleans, Cape Cod. There is actually a plaque in the foyer telling all who enter that it was once a Ho-Jo’s. It is now...
One of Florida’s Kitsch Contributions
In the 40’s and 50’s, Florida made its’ contribution to the world with wonderful flamingos, crocs, oranges, sandy beaches ...
Fruit or Fowl?
Look! Up in the sky! It’s a bird! It’s a piece of fruit! It’s a bank! It’s all three! This plastic 1/2 Orange, 1/2 B...
Jayne Mansfield “Shakespeare, Tchaikovsky & Me” promotional lp
Who doesn’t love hair-do’s and Jayne Mansfield…....
Humpty Dumpty USA Ceramic Planter
I love old ceramics depicting fairy tale characters. It’s about 4 inches high and 3 inches wide. Very cool little piece with fab detai...
A Bugs Bunny Adventure with Breakfast
These are mini comic books given free in cereal boxes sometime in the 50s or 60s. Last year, a neighbor was doing a cleaning blitz and threw...
Owl Painting – 1968
No, this 1968 owl painting is not oil on canvas but rather melted crayons on construction paper....
thrift shop queen with child
A young girl at Angel View Thrift Store, is pregnant, alone, and then her landlord made her give away her cat. I promised to make her someth...
Very Early TV for the Wall
A reverse painted silk screen on glass, of starlet on “color” TV from 1950 & a thermometer too! It’s got it all. What ...
MACHO Mens Cologne $1.29
This lovely picture was taken at some sort of dollar store in Center City Philly, complete with all it’s madness, the products in thes...
The Colonial Movie Theater in Phoenixville Pennsylvania (this is where “The Blob” was filmed)
Old movie houses make me nuts as I think they are the most incredible form of architecture. This is the movie house where they filmed the St...
Ice Cream Lights
Given Shirlie’s life altering AWMOK submissions of various ice cream cone statues, I had to dig these out of my garage….They are...
sad wedding because they cant forget the affair with the temptress in the hat
These two lovers carried thru with the long planned wedding for the sake of their families..but the memory of the affair with the slut in th...
Gnome Bank of Rock Gully
This was my Pop’s bank when he was a wee tot. He told me recently it was from the late 40’s. It’s ceramic....
Cactus Pete
Oh brother. This thing is a weighty, hand-built terra-cotta clay head rescued from the flea market this morning for $1. It’s going to ...
Quack Medicine Ultra Violet Ray Machine
This vintage quack medicine device– the Elco Violet Ray Machine was made around 1910 and claims to treat (and I quote from material I ...
14th St. Kitchen/Bath Combo
This is really cheap living in NYC circa 1969 for $69 mo. total. in the East Village. It’s my first apartment that I shared with 2 roo...
2 Vinatge LP’s – “We Like Guys” and “We Like Girls” on Coral Records
Something for the boys and something for the girls....













