The Allee Willis Museum of Kitsch

Donny & Marie Golden All Star Book

This is a .59¢ “Golden All Star Book” of Donny & Marie from 1977. I have no idea why they’re dressed as they are a...

by Douglas Wood

Painted rocks-the ultimate

This Kitty-Kitsch is to be found at the Tonto Natural Bridge, just south of Payson AZ, the natural bridge ain’t bad either!...

by signcollector

Musical Bowling Decanter plays “How Dry I Am”

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by cubakitten

4 comments

Reptilian Saaaaaaandwich display

I love that cucumber bits are the fins....

by snappyp

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The Boz Dog

This was one of our family dogs. She was a “free to good home” puppy, a mutt beyond all mutti-ness and a nut beyond all nuttines...

by windupkitty

1960’s Card/Club Table

Saw this at a flea market/antique store in New Braunfels, TX. It hurt my heart to leave it there. I really hope someone has given it a g...

by Billaurie

Camp Climax For Girls (drive carefully) sign

Does anyone have any info on this place. I’ve done a little research and was coming up with nothing. I love the teepee on the sign her...

by denny

11 comments

Allee Willis’ Kitsch O’ The Day – Mini-Mod Disco Doll Accessories

I love these kind of toy kits that are slapped together to take advantage of some current trend because the contents are usually cheaply mad...

June 7, 2011 by Allee Willis

Nifty 50’s Hi-Fi

RCA Victor SHF-3, 1957...

by Ted Nimmo

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DIG Magazine w/fab Beatles pix!

Found this great September, 1964 teen magazine, “Dig” at a garage sale. Among the features inside, 100 facts no one knows about ...

by Douglas Wood

Monkey With A Mohawk

Hi everyone. Sorry I haven’t been around. First, our computer graphics card went south and had to be replaced, and then we lost our de...

by Michael Ely

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Cable Knitted Shorts

Not only is the knitter talented to create shorts like this, but not everyone can wear them. These are so special I had to post....

by snappyp

The Little House on the Prairie aesthetic

I was an urban apartment-dwelling kid in Flatbush, Brooklyn in the 1970s who fell *hard* for Laura Ingalls Wilder … the books, the TV ...

by tricianelson

5 comments

Matching Mother and Daughter

I have a vague memory of an AWMOK submission (or several!) featuring matching family outfits. My Mom did a lot of sewing when I was a kid (s...

by windupkitty

4 comments

Dolphin coffee table

My husband’s grandmother had this in her much larger living room. It takes up a considerable amount of our much smaller one. The d...

by Billaurie

Jimmy Rhodes plays for Deborah “Organ and Piano” LP

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by denny

Allee Willis’ Kitsch O’ The Day – Cheesy Friends Billfold with Rhinestone Necklaces

Despite the fact that I co-wrote the Friends theme song, “I’ll Be There for You”, I’ve never collected the plethora of m...

June 6, 2011 by Allee Willis

I Scream, You Scream, We all Scream for Yesteryear…

Those were the days…and why are these things gone? I so wish they hadn’t taken things like this away from us! Why can’t th...

by Cindy Tilley-Johnson

AM radio

This little yellow Solid State Arrow® AM transistor radio provided me and my cousins the soundtrack for our summer of ’76 (or was it ...

by tricianelson

Live Action Barbie 45rpm

My sister had the dancing Barbie w/stage. It’s a little scratchy but still works. One side is vocal, the other instrumental. He...

by Billaurie

9 comments

Old Joke Book

111 year old joke book. In front is a picture of Oliver Wendell Holmes. Jokes are in many Categories. Several pages are devoted to Josh Bi...

by Bob Ramsdell

Jayne Mansfield For President

A good friend of mine Frank Ferruccio who authored Did Success Spoil Jayne Mansfield? sent me a care package recently that contained this�...

by Jaymes Mansfield

Key Lime my thread

Why would anyone want to keep a piece of Key Lime around that they couldn’t eat. This would drive me to the DEET TRIPLE 500 DEET....

by Pigmy Will