I’m not sure how toilet ashtrays became so ubiquitous in the novelty ashtray department but they did. I guess because they’re a ...
Here’s something you’ll never see in the hands of a contemporary tot: a plastic gun cup. It’s from the fifties (duh!) and ...
The Nine Flags men’s cologne collection first came out in 1965 and sold well into the early 1970’s It was distributed by the Col...
Two knitted flower coasters for 50 cents. How on earth will a glass stand on a pile of yarn and NOT fall over? Why do people make things lik...
Rescued from Goodwill circa 2004. Wait, what’s that cord about?! It freaking lights up! Vroom!...
Read about the evening and see more photos: https://www.awmok.com/2010/11/15/allee-willis-kitsch-o-the-day-%E2%80%93-1960s-music-ring-famous...
Though I was only 10 or 11, I remember the 50’s as an amazing time when you could look at a car and know the year, the make and model....
I’m so NOT the type to wear a ring with a G-clef on it or have one of those cheesy license plates like GR8T BEAT. My gold records don&...
. I wasn’t going to do anything for my birthday this year. Too overworked and no extra coinage to throw around. But word leaked out an...
L.A. at Home Design, Architecture, Gardens, Southern California Living Over the last decade, as Halloween has joined Thanksgiving and Christ...
Berries Co. from 1970, I Love You This Much! A whole 2″ or so worth, because that’s how wide her little arms are. Also, she̵...
Just after the standard black rotary phone came this lemon yellow touch tone button phone, dated 1968. It was the beginning of “expres...
This 1934 book is quite a relic– it’s hard to imagine anything like it being published today. Posture is apparently more importa...
This belonged to my Pop and only measures an inch long. It’s fully functional too but I don’t think it would help me if accosted...
Super-cheap plastic owl thermometer with google eyes… dug out of a junk box at a flea for something like 10 cents. I think he is terri...
I found this fabulous spaghetti poodle at a Salvation Army that I don’t visit often because the store smells like someone took a big p...
Be wary when a house is advertised as two full and a half bath. This just might be the half. I snapped this on the second day of an estate s...
These plastic New York World’s Fair 1939 salt & pepper shakers are in the shape of the iconic, streamlined, modernistic Trylon and...
In honor of Allee’s birthday, I’m posting a few remotes designed with the lady tv viewer in mind. First, who could resist the fe...
Don’t squeeze the doctor. By Irv Lewis (Irwin Lewis) & Don Sheldon. 1963 Great illustrations of fruit dressed up and making witty ...
Of course now BankAmericard is called VISA. Does anybody remember those clunky little machines the merchants would use to press the imprint ...
We have lots of native corn here on Cape Cod. I prefer corn that is shipped into the Cape. Sometimes the native corn really sucks....
I wanted to do a post that focused on nothing but this wall and what it was made for. It was made by Allee (Geezus, I hope I got that right)...
Anyone who thinks that snow globes are just quaint souvenirs or charming little holiday chotchkes has obviously never seen this FARGO snow g...
I picked this up only because I liked the graphic on the box… and also I kind of desired cracked ice. If I recall, I got it at one of ...
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