Saw this towel in Little Tokyo and since I just came back from LA, what’s a post without a little Marilyn....
Kitsch » December 2010
Cat Art (made with watch parts)
This is 5 x 7 in size and was selling for $15.00. It if was $10.00 or lower I would have thought about it. Close up....
Denny goes to a prom!
Slipper dress shoes, pants too high, suit jacket too small, you can see my junk as the pants were squeezing the life out of me, the cheesy &...
Vintage bunny rabbit – plastic ratle
I regret not buying this. Sturdy plastic and still with very good sound!...
The ugliest candle holder ever? You be the judge….
This is plastic and has made it’s way into the “A” box....
BUMP BALL from 1968
I don’t remember these, at last they didn’t have this product in the 70’s. This was made in 1968. It was very hard to scal...
Super-Vintage Egg Cooker
Here’s a vintage egg cooker that belonged to my grandma. It’s one of those things that nobody else wanted, so it ended up with m...
Life was simple back then…
Life was so simple in the mid 60’s in Ohio. Friday night basketball games with the adversary HS. Then onto Garner Brothers drive-in, e...
AMA WOMEN PEARL DIVERS…
AMA WOMEN PEARL DIVERS FROM JAPAN The three little AMA Women Pearl Divers are souvenirs. The delicate looking figures are wood carved, weari...
1950’s Pilsner Glasses
I think this is the most beautiful set of pilsner glasses I’ve ever seen. The 8 piece set originally belonged to my partner’s au...
Artichoke Nash Metropolitan
Just south of Castroville, California (about 15 miles north of Monterey) on Hwy 1. This cartoon lady is nervous about the cowboy loading her...
Neon Coca Cola sign
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UJ1FsLYN9jY A couple of weeks ago i notice someone had posted a great neon cowboy store sign. I thought, for ...
The Click Kids “Jesus Is A Soul Man” – inspirational LP
I think that is Jesus playing the drums. What I love about this lp cover more than the band is the incredible moving van they painted to adv...
The only time I’ll ever be in the same sentence as Dick Cheney
From the San Diego Union tribune, 12/1/10: Convincing Alice Walker, author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel “The Color Purple,̶...
Denny’s Adventures in Allee Willis’ “Willis Wonderland” (Part 74 – August 2010)
Sad on my part but Allee actually had to tell me to “look up” in order to discover these fabulous lighting fixtures. Look at the...
Horny Lamp
Last week I went to a different kind of estate sale. It was run by a professional cleaning service, not an estate sale company. The two sist...
Motion Lamps
I have always loved motion lamps beginning with the lamps made in the 1950’s by Econolite and L. A. Goodman, lamps featuring waterfall...
A-LO-HA…
AA-LO-HA This kitschy skinny brim hat is from Hawaii…no honest…smile.. The hat and the hat band are all straw, the little Hula d...
The Mirror At The Pokey-Dot
I will definitely go back and take some better pictures of this, but this is a “hand mirror” in the on the wall in the Ladies...
“Up Shit Creek: A Collection of Horrifyingly True Wilderness Toilet Misadventures”
This is a book written by a river guide who works in the Western U.S. He has seen so many horror stories over the years involving camp toile...
RENEW Toilet Paper
This roll of toilet paper was in a room I stayed at at hampton inn in kalamazoo, mi, where i was attending a toy show. The toilet paper is g...
White Castle’s Original slider–scented candle
“It’s just what every Jew wants for Hanukkah: a burning clump of wax that smells like tiny burgers. “With eight nights of ...
Denny’s Adventures in Allee Willis’ “Willis Wonderland” (Part 73 – August 2010)
Okay, my Allee Willis foot obsession all started when I looked down at her feet one day and remarked “you have the most beautiful feet...
NOW, GO CAT GO…
NOW, GO CAT GO…. Well, it’s one for the money … This is a bottle of Blue Suede Shoe Dressing, I flipped when I found it. I...