{"id":12255,"date":"2010-03-15T10:27:51","date_gmt":"2010-03-15T17:27:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.alleewillis.com\/blog\/?p=12255"},"modified":"2010-03-15T10:27:51","modified_gmt":"2010-03-15T17:27:51","slug":"allee-willis-kitsch-o-the-day-1950s-rx-vase","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alleewillis.com\/blog\/allee-willis-kitsch-o-the-day-1950s-rx-vase\/","title":{"rendered":"Allee Willis&#8217; Kitsch O&#8217; The Day &#8211; 1950&#8217;s RX Vase"},"content":{"rendered":"<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-12261\" title=\"RX-vase_6173\" src=\"https:\/\/www.alleewillis.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/RX-vase_61731.jpg\" alt=\"RX-vase_6173\" width=\"375\" height=\"500\" srcset=\"https:\/\/alleewillis.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/RX-vase_61731.jpg 375w, https:\/\/alleewillis.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/RX-vase_61731-225x300.jpg 225w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 375px) 100vw, 375px\" \/>\n<p>This gargantuan vase honoring prescription drugs was handed out as a  promotional item by drug companies in the 1950&#8217;s when they really went  for great promo swag as opposed to the fat pens, squeeze balls and  mortar and pestle post-its that flood doctor&#8217;s offices today. In those  days, if you had a promo item it was SOMETHING.<\/p>\n<p>A healthy 8&#8243; high and almost obese 18&#8243; around, this vase can hold  enough RX to keep you going a lifetime.<\/p>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-12257\" title=\"RX-vase_6176\" src=\"https:\/\/www.alleewillis.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/RX-vase_61761.jpg\" alt=\"RX-vase_6176\" width=\"338\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https:\/\/alleewillis.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/RX-vase_61761.jpg 338w, https:\/\/alleewillis.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/RX-vase_61761-225x300.jpg 225w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 338px) 100vw, 338px\" \/>\n<p>The RX vase was made by Rex (not a stretch) Ceramics of Hollywood, CA.,  where these vases were most certainly and unabashedly popular.<\/p>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-12263\" title=\"RX-vase_6177\" src=\"https:\/\/www.alleewillis.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/RX-vase_61771.jpg\" alt=\"RX-vase_6177\" width=\"450\" height=\"249\" srcset=\"https:\/\/alleewillis.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/RX-vase_61771.jpg 450w, https:\/\/alleewillis.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/RX-vase_61771-300x166.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-12259\" title=\"RX-vase_6175\" src=\"https:\/\/www.alleewillis.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/RX-vase_61751.jpg\" alt=\"RX-vase_6175\" width=\"338\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https:\/\/alleewillis.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/RX-vase_61751.jpg 338w, https:\/\/alleewillis.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/RX-vase_61751-225x300.jpg 225w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 338px) 100vw, 338px\" \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This gargantuan vase honoring prescription drugs was handed out as a promotional item by drug companies in the 1950&#8217;s when they really went for great promo swag as opposed to the fat pens, squeeze balls and mortar and pestle post-its that flood doctor&#8217;s offices today. In those days, if you had a promo item it &hellip; <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/alleewillis.com\/blog\/allee-willis-kitsch-o-the-day-1950s-rx-vase\/\">read more &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[317,87,193,1081],"tags":[61,3232,3245,1083],"class_list":["post-12255","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-accessories","category-kitsch","category-kitsch-o-the-day","category-medical","tag-allee-willis","tag-kitsch","tag-kitsch-o-the-day","tag-rx-vase"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alleewillis.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12255","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alleewillis.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alleewillis.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alleewillis.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alleewillis.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12255"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alleewillis.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12255\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alleewillis.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12255"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alleewillis.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12255"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alleewillis.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12255"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}