The Allee Willis Museum of Kitsch

Dallas, Texas souvenir

This is a ceramic cowboy hat “catch all”. I’m assuming the way it’s made that it would be used for change or somethi...

January 21, 2011 by denny

DIRTY DANCING SOUVENIR…

DIRTY DANCING SOUVENIR…. This was a fun day… when we looked inside a box at a local estate sale of a sweet elderly couple, and f...

January 5, 2011 by k2dtw

THE FORD TREASURY OF FAVORITE RECIPES FROM FAMOUS EATING PLACES – 1950

I found this book in the Bodhi Tree Used Book Store many years ago. Compiled by Nancy Kennedy and Published by Simon and Schuster, New York....

December 28, 2010 by lindaz

Elvis drinking glass from Graceland

This incredible glass I received from a friend as part of a belated birthday package. I was dying over this and wondered if this glass was e...

December 26, 2010 by denny

Aloho-ho-ho!

This is the Christmas volume of the Cord International series of remastered vintage Hawaiian recordings from the 30s, 40s, and 50s which ble...

December 20, 2010 by Douglas Wood

FLORIDA…GREETINGS FROM

FLORIDA….GREETINGS FROM.. I LOVE this great Florida Souvenir plate. It’s 8-1/2″ with lots of colorful detail, and the reli...

December 9, 2010 by k2dtw

Hibernating at the TraveLodge

Okay, so he’s not quite as iconic as Teddy, Smokey, Yogi, Winnie the Pooh, the Budweiser Polar Bears, or the Hamm’s bear, but th...

November 27, 2010 by Douglas Wood

What happens at the Dunes stays at the Dunes

Apparently, the pool-side beverage service at the Dunes just isn’t up to snuff, otherwise why would this poor zaftig woman have to fen...

November 26, 2010 by Douglas Wood

San Francisco Tin Tambourine

Back in 1974, my partner and I drove from L.A. to visit San Francisco for a few days. We had a wonderful and magical time, and I wanted to b...

November 19, 2010 by Michael Ely

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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-...

by Nessa

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Opryland Souvenir Plate

It says 25 cents but this is an item I found at the dump. I’ve never been to the Opry....

November 17, 2010 by denny

1939 New York World’s Fair S & P

These plastic New York World’s Fair 1939 salt & pepper shakers are in the shape of the iconic, streamlined, modernistic Trylon and...

November 12, 2010 by Douglas Wood

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Allee Willis’ Kitsch O’ The Day – Politics and the National Rooster Crowing Contest Trophy

When it comes to an award for crowing the loudest, that should go to politicians. If I get enraged by the money that movie stars make imagin...

November 3, 2010 by Allee Willis

Mini souvenir books

I don’t know what to call these mini souvenir books, but I have a large collection of them. In fact, I first began collecting them as ...

by Michael Ely

1940 New York World’s Fair Plate

The architecture of the deco period was represented in all its glory at the 1940 Wold’s Fair in NYC. The original media appears to hav...

October 22, 2010 by MyFunCloset

Hearst Castle Souvenirs

When I was 12 years old, my grandparents took me with them on a vacation up the California coast and one of our stops was to see the magnifi...

October 21, 2010 by Michael Ely

when this is full your pants are full! coin purse

great souvenir from the Catskills, a coin purse shaped like a pair of pants...

October 12, 2010 by kookykitsch

California Redwood Ashtray

This is not a keeper and was only purchased to post here. It was $1.00 and I do love anything with it’s original stickers....

October 5, 2010 by denny

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Parade of Plates

I recently happened across this pretty tasty display of old diner and hotel plates, many of them western-themed, at Track 16 Gallery in Sant...

October 4, 2010 by Mark Blackwell