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Allee Willis’ Kitsch O ‘ The Day – Road Trips, Kitties, The Batmobile and M&M Rice Crispies
Last weekend, me and Snappy P, a.k.a. Prudence Fenton, jumped into the mustache van and headed up north on a cat reconisance mission after A...
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...
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...
1970’s Picture
Here is my sister and I eating our candy rings. Don’t ask me why I am posed like this (my legs) at such a young age! Check out the car...
Major Train
We love to see groups who have clothes on all made out of the same bolt of fabric.Its Kitschy. This princess doesn’t like to share.I c...
Happy 85th, Mom!
Above: cardboard standup from 5 years ago at the same place. Below: standup scene recreated 5 years later: Photos by Joran Lawrence...
Willis Wonderland in The New York Times! (soon)
I spent the last two days as the subject of a story for the New York Times Home section. Four hour interview on Monday and an eleven-hour ph...
Pretty amazing 60’s fashions!
This makes me nuts and I love everything about this threesome and their candy colored ensembles. I would kill for one of these hats....
3D Baby Doll Head Tee Shirt
In the early 1990’s, I used to sell movie memorabilia in a co-op shop called Glamour Streets, located in Tampa’s Ybor City. Th...
My sister sitting on the Easter bunny’s lap – 1971
I think my sister looks like a demented Shirley Temple here but I still can’t figure out why this Eater bunny has one yellow finger na...
Allee Willis’ Kitsch O’ The Day – Allee Willis Marches on Detroit! Part 5, The School and The Hot Dogs
The first time I ever went back to my high school, Mumford, after graduating in 1965 was when my musical, The Color Purple, first came to th...
My Hero Ray Harryhausen
One of my treasured moments, meeting my all time hero Mr Ray Harryhausen, who’s work I have loved since a small child. Ray is the king...
THE BROWN BEETLES
The Brown Beetles I really wish that I could share a little bit of info about them, but so far the only thing I know for a fact is that the...
Valley of the Dolls – original 8×10
This 8×10 was hidden in my buddy Roger’s stuff. This he would NOT part with! “Hand me a pen and not one of those lousy ball...
Bill and Melanie Go See The Mardi Gras Pt.2
We’ve seen Zulu parade down Jackson Avenue and some Indians. Now it’s over by 2nd and Dryades by the H&R Bar to see more Ind...
Kellogg’s Corn Flakes’ Camera and Other Items
I love Kellogg’s Corn Flakes’ packaging and here is an old 110 film and pinhole camera. Quite kitsch if you ask me! (from boxvox...
Killer Cereal
http://www.urlesque.com/2011/03/02/54-vintage-cereals/ Any lover of kitsch needs to check out this online article, “54 Cereals We Love...
Jack’s Ride
My friend Jack needs a skateboard as much as Whiska needs a tricycle. He walks so slowly that he gets to see every piece of dirt and trash...
Allee Willis & Paul Reubens
This totally awesome picture of Paul Reubens (Pee-wee Herman) was recently sent to me by a friend and it totally made my day. I don´t know ...
For Douglas Wood- Allee and Pee Wee
In response to Douglas’ comment on Denny’s Adventures In Willis Wonderland – Part 108. These were taken over here for Li...
Dressed to travel in 1950.
My Grandparents traveled from their farm in Nebraska to visit California in about 1950. They dressed in their best to travel. United fl...
Flower Children Turned Cannibal
This is me with two friends on the front page of our local newspaper (Inglewood, CA) in the summer of 1968. We are eating rose petals in ...
“Four Freshmen” a signed photo to Liz
This was part of the unforgetable mound of “trash” left by the curb the night before it would be gone forever. The family was cl...