To a purveyor of kitsch such as myself, spotting a 99¢ or dollar store, Dollar Tree or whatever other buck or below establishment that base...
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Denny’s Adventures in Allee’s “Soup To Nuts Party Mix” – part 11
I wish that Nibbles wasn't so shy so she would've made the cut. But she was a faithful napper next to my main computer, it albeit only visib...
Ted Nimmo (fellow akitschionado!!) and the Jesse James Wax Museum!!
I was having a peek at fellow akitschionado Ted Nimmo’s pictures over on Face Book. I commented on this picture as I was looking at ...
Homes to the Stars 1957
How great someone took the time to see where the stars actually lived in 1957… before the walls went up and the bushes grew to be 8 f...
Allee Willis’ Kitsch ‘O The Day – Staggering Signs Along Route 1, Saugus, MA.
Although when I was in Boston the week before last for the fluffilectable Fluff Festival, all I did was participate in all things Fluff, I d...
By Popular Demand — My Living Room (PT 1)
Thanks for all the commentary about the curtains. Here’s a peek at one part of my living room, which now houses some fab thrift store ...
Automatic Car Cigarette Lighter (this is a good one!!)
No fumbling is what I would be most concerned about and the fact that it comes out lighted!...
Allee Willis’ Kitsch O’ The Day – Fluff Festival Top Pick in the Boston Globe today!
PICK OF THE DAY Fluff it up In 1917, Archibald Query invented Marshmallow Fluff in Union Square, Somerville. Of the many Fluff-focused tribu...
Allee Willis’ Kitsch O’ The Day – Get Out Your Bellbottoms and Marshmallows!
If anyone’s going to be in the Boston area this coming Saturday, head to Somerville where thousands of Fluffed-up folks will be honori...
Allee Willis’ Kitsch O’ The Day – Fluff Flubb
It’s really completely nuts for me even to be leaving my desk let alone fly east to the Fluff Festival this coming week, an extravagan...
Allee Willis’ Kitsch O’ The Day – Never Too Much Madonna Inn
Heading out of LA last Thursday on the 5 was a mess. An overturned 20-wheeler heading south spilled oranges, lemons and an entire tank of...
Clown Motel!
If you are ever in the beautiful state of Nevada, make sure you stop by the Clown Motel in Tonopah! Everyone is welcome at the Clown Motel! ...
Garden of Eden…..for real
This is an Internationally know tourist site smack dab in the middle of Kansas. Been there a couple times…..and am always amazed and...
Allee Willis’ Kitsch O’ The Day – The Cheesiest Transportation LP Covers & Captions Saluting CarmageddoNOT!
. Local news is my favorite TV to begin with. The tans, the hairspray, the fact that I know all of the locations, all this makes for excitin...
Allee Willis Kitsch O’ The Day – Carmageddon Celebration On AWMOK Facebook Page Right Now!
In a salute to Carmageddon, I’m posting one cheesy transportation-related LP Cover on Facebook for every hour the 405 freeway is shut...
Allee Willis’ Kitsch O’ The Day – My Saturday Drive/Food Fest With Charles Phoenix – Torrance and Inglewood, CA.
. As we are oft to do, Charles Phoenix and I took another one of our kitsch spins around LA and environs this past weekend. We were dressed ...
Allee Willis’ Kitsch O’ The Day – Getting To Kenosha and Beyond
LAX last Friday morning, with people leaving for 4th of July, was like D-Day at the stockyards. My whole morning had been like that. Snappy ...
Allee Willis’ Kitsch O’ The Day – 4th of July BBQ Recipes
One of the best things about the 4th of July is the food one consumes as a means of celebration, and normally my Independence Day spread loo...
Road Trip 2: Forest Lawn’s Travel Trailer
Today I was driving up Fairfax here in Los Angeles and decided the Petersen Auto Museum was as good a place as any to use the facilities. ...
Wigwam Village, Orlando
Soap and matchbooks from the Wigwam Village #4 in Orlando, Florida, which was built in 1948 and demolished in 1974.. a tragedy for kitsch fa...
Allee Willis’ Kitsch O’ The Day – My Early Morning Drive Through Hollywood
Bleary eyed from chasing a friend’s cat through the hills above the Hollywood Bowl all night last night – finally captured IR...
More Route 66 Goodness
With the recent discussion of the Wigwam motels I thought I’d like to share a few images from our recent Route 66 trip. A sign near th...
Allee Willis’ Kitsch O’ The Day – The Wigwam Motel on Route 66, CA
Last Saturday night my friend, Chris Nichols, threw a party at The Wigwam on Route 66 in San Bernadino, CA. With no traffic it’s still...
I have slept in a wigwam!
Inspired by signcollector’s post on Holbrook, Arizona’s Wigwam motel, I had to share some of my photos from Spring 2010 when I s...
Sleep in a WigWam? you need reservations!
This WigWam motel must be an internet sensation. None were available at 3pm. “unless you have a reservation” no pun intend...