Because I lived near Manitowoc for a few years; and because it’s cold now. Imperial Line ad, Good Housekeeping, May 1961.
December 20th, 2012
Salting Away Your Money
Kitschy vintage salt and pepper shakers, souvenirs from Gooseberry Falls. One in the shape of a safe, the other a golden moneybag, it may have some political statement when the rise of tourism in the 1920s created a concern that the area would be accessible only to the rich.
August 13th, 2012
Feed That Retro Gamer Sweet Tooth
Make cookies using Pac Man Cookie Cutters!
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August 7th, 2012
I Can’t Make Heads Or Tails Of This Vintage S&P Set
I can’t imagine a dachshund-lover would find this kitschy vintage salt and pepper shaker charming…
It’s not the dog’s hat, or the tie on his tail; butt but the fact that you cut the dog in half to use a shaker!
If you don’t mind half-ing a dog to make your meal more flavorful, you can find this vintage bit of kitsch at Exit 55 Antiques. (No, it is not in our case!)
July 8th, 2012
Not Even Sophia Loren Can Sex Them Up
Hubby and I always joke that one day we’ll collect the giant forks and spoons that hang on the walls… It was such a kitschy fad! Not even Sophia can sex up this kitsch. Via.
July 7th, 2012
Vintage Kitschy Cola Cozy
What could be odder than a vintage “apron” for your soda pop bottles? One that bears both the Pepsi and Coke names — as well as 7-Up and Dr. Pepper. Via.
June 22nd, 2012
Old Bologna You Wouldn’t Have Eaten Even When It Was Just Made
What a line of bologna! From EMSA, West Germany, a line of kitsch plastic kitchenalia or picnic ware.
All images, and sales, via RaggleTaggleHawker.
May 17th, 2012
A Family Like Servants
The seller of these vintage embroidered kitchen towels describes them thus:
Vintage servant’s doing their domestic jobs are embroidered on white cotton dish towels. Features Suzette the maid, Charlie the laundry, Brooks the butler and Matt the gardner.
Frankly, I don’t seem them as towels for the servants — but towels for the family. Each family member has their own chores and their own hand towels to remind them of them. As a mom, I say that a lack of use of one’s towel signifies either no chores were done, or no clean up afterwards. Or that Charlie’s really on top of the laundry. But not even a Chinese laundry man can wash the racism off that towel.
