Margaret Keane is the High Priestess of Pop Art, painting those huge waif eyed paintings that stared out at everyone throughout the 60’...
Kitsch » March 2010
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....
Carny Sideshow Freaks Playset
This looks like the sort of toy a young Diane Arbus might’ve played with. The plastic stage with vinyl banner stands about 7″ ta...
Lobster Bobble Head to Compliment Denny’s Buoys
This little guy was a special 25c find two summers ago. One of my favorite treasures. Unfortunately, a still snap doesn’t capture the ...
Supremely Strange Party
I collect vintage photographs. Especially weird vintage photographs. Some guy at a flea market gave me this one for free. I couldn’t b...
Harlem Globetrotters Comic Book
This Gold Key comic book is a tie-in to the Hanna-Barbera/CBS Saturday morning cartoon series, The Harlem Globetrotters, which featured anim...
Our Margaret Keane Living Room Wall
There are more Keanes and assorted big eyed art in other rooms, much to my husband’s dismay. These are the ones he was willing to disp...
Napkin Doll
Has doll’s vinyl head attached to a plastic bottle filled with rocks. Her skirt has pockets to be filled with napkins. A perfect addit...
Literal Bar Ashtray with Bartender
The joke here is that this “bar ashtray” is literally a “bar ashtray.” Overseen by an Asian-looking bartender (who r...
Allee Willis’ Kitsch O’ The Day – Happy Passover Matzoh Sweeper
Passover means Seder, Seder means matzoh and matzoh means crumbs. But fear not, the Matzah Sweeper is here, a convenient crumb caddy made fr...
Hospital Booze personalized Decanter 1978
Don’t be a loser, be a hospital Boozer! The hottest new gift idea. fun and funIfctional way to serve any brew… what a conversati...
Hot Pants
Spotted at a flea market… when you opened it up, it was a normal pair of granny panties with an extension cord attached, har har. Sorr...
Amen painting
A man came to my door a few years ago selling paintings. I thought this was so tacky that I actually liked it. It reminded me of the velvet ...
Clown Music Box Statue
I’m the $2.00 man! This was purchased from the “Joan of Arc” thrift shop here on the Cape. It’s ceramic and stands 8...
Lobster Trap Buoys
This was taken here at home as I have these buoys lining the side of our garage. These are usually attached to Lobster traps so we can ident...
Dynamite Magazine Sylvester Stallone, 1977
“”Sylvester Stallone: What’s next for the star of Rocky?” from my favorite magazine as a kid – the one you ord...
Allee Willis’ Kitsch O’ the Day – Happy Passover! Manischewitz Presents “The Jewish Cowboy” record
Manischewitz is the premier manufacturer of kosher foods. I can’t tell you how many boxes of their matzo or those squared off bottles ...
Florida’s Contribution to Fashion
In the 40’s and 50’s, Florida made its’ contribution to the world with wonderful flamingos, crocs, oranges, sandy beaches ...
Carol Douglas “Full Bloom” LP art (and an appearance on Peoples Court with Sharon Brown)
Released in 1977 and includes the track “I Got You On My Mind” written by Allee Willis. And the following was Carol Douglas appe...
Teen Time Cooking
The illustrations in this promotional cookbook are really too adorable. It’s basically “how to be popular via giving them food.&...
Formerly of the Harlettes LP (Sharon Redd, Ula Hedwig & Charlotte Crossley)
On the Columbia label....
Taco Huey’s
Spotted this in Chester, WV, home of the World’s Largest Teapot. Pretty entertaining hand-painted sign, if you ask me. Wonder what Gra...
Quincy Jones Autograph
I have been collecting autographs since 1973 – I have a rather large, fun, eclectic collection – I dont specialize in any type &...
“I Love NY” has a life of its own
The “I Love NY” logo has taken on a life of its own. What makes this 70’s T-shirt unique, is that it has no ¬© copyright...