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Kitsch » Games
Vintage Arcade Games (from a friend’s personal collection)
Went for a visit to see a friend here on the Cape. The collections in my friends house were completely overwhelming to me. I started to ...
Denny’s Adventures In Allee’s “Willis Wonderland” – July 2011 – Part 232
Super jealous over these!!!!!!!!!!...
Let the games begin…
Not so very long ago this was a “state of the art” hand held gamer’s passion. I wasn’t into this but appreciate the...
Wiggle Nose Family
I’ve had this since I was a kid, in my very wee-years of Yard Sale picking. It was impossible to photograph it without the noses falli...
AUTO-BRIDGE (play yourself bridge game from 1957)
The actual game board is made of metal and comes with the paper inserts you see here. I’ve never been one to play cards (except 500 ...
Play Bridge with Goren
I never heard of this guy til finding this at the local dump....
Denny’s Adventures In Allee’s “Willis Wonderland” – July 2011 – Part 210
Jealous button please....
Serious card players lived here…
A shot from yesterday’s estate sale. As I descended the narrow stairs to the “rec” room, this is the first thing that cal...
Allee Willis’ Kitsch ‘O The Day – Pufnstuffin’ With Sid Krofft
New Year’s Eve, 2011. I’m coming down Sunset Plaza, a really windy road with million dollar homes right above Sunset Blvd. in LA...
Vintage bingo game!
The kids on this box just kill me. If you took away the words you would have no idea that these kids were playing bingo. The winks....
Board game from hell… 70’s style.
This has to be the least fun board game in existence– it’s designed for kids to play with their therapists, with the goal of g...
Lion Made of Scrabble Tiles
Lions Of Bath was a public art event in Bath in 2010, they were decorated by a range of artists from all over the world and at the end of ...
Battle Of The Beatniks (magazine article from the beatnik scene in Venice, CA)
This is amazing. This is when I would have loved to be down in Venice. West Coast mecca for weirdos? I know this place. Used to go to a reco...
Science Fair “20 in 1 Electric Modular Experiment Kit”
I found this at the dump and it looks like it was never used. I found it fascinating and I never had toys like this growing up. This is from...
Youmacon 2011 in Detroit
Allow me to share some pictures from my recent fun weekend at an Anime Convention in Detroit, Youmacon! I was on staff again this year, an...
Denny’s Adventures In Allee’s “Willis Wonderland” – July 2011 – Part 98
There’s a lot of beaver in this pile of kitsch....
BINGO-MATIC! original vintage game
I found this bingo game while on a visit to the local “dump store”. I really love the artwork here but love even more the litt...
Allee Willis’ Kitsch O’ The Day – FINALLY: Soup To Nutty!
I meant to start posting my thoughts about my Soup To Nuts Party Mix show, my first live performance in 37 years at the El Portal Theater la...
WHAM-O Water Wiennie children’s toy
I’ve had a lot of toys in my life but this one I cannot recall. I’m just not sure about this one, it scares me a just a little b...
BLOCKHEAD Building Blocks GameSally
This was another dump find and I could have sworn I had this game when I was a kid. The directions are missing from the box. Front of the bo...
Denny’s Adventures In Allee’s “Willis Wonderland” – July 2011 – Part 75
I was dying to get my hands on this stash of vintage games. Dying to see the Beverly Hillbillies game!...
“Fast Food” Atari 2600 Game, 1982.
Anybody remember the “Fast Food” Atari 2600 game from 1982? The game itself didn’t come close to the graphics on this pr...