{"id":12369,"date":"2010-03-26T10:40:06","date_gmt":"2010-03-26T17:40:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.alleewillis.com\/blog\/?p=12369"},"modified":"2010-03-26T10:40:06","modified_gmt":"2010-03-26T17:40:06","slug":"allee-willis-kitsch-o-the-day-%e2%80%93-1950s-happy-fish-sps","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alleewillis.com\/blog\/allee-willis-kitsch-o-the-day-%e2%80%93-1950s-happy-fish-sps\/","title":{"rendered":"Allee Willis&#8217; Kitsch O&#8217; The Day \u2013 1950&#8217;s Happy Fish S&#038;P&#8217;s"},"content":{"rendered":"<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-12373\" title=\"fish-S&amp;P's_5839\" src=\"https:\/\/www.alleewillis.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/fish-SPs_5839.jpg\" alt=\"fish-S&amp;P's_5839\" width=\"550\" height=\"413\" srcset=\"https:\/\/alleewillis.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/fish-SPs_5839.jpg 550w, https:\/\/alleewillis.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/fish-SPs_5839-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/>\n<p>Although one of these little fish was a victim of the 1994 LA earthquake and lost the tip of her fin this happy couple are still among my favorite salt-and-pepper shakers in my collection of 1000 or so vintage ones. Though any ceramic animal, fish, vegetable or otherwise that has eyelashes immediately leaps it to a higher ranking in the army of Kitsch over here.<\/p>\n<p>The only drag about these stone cold 1950&#8217;s\/ Made in Japan&nbsp;amphibians is that the holes drilled for the S&amp;P to come through are so huge that once you flip the fish over the entire Morton Salt mine blankets the food like an avalanche. Over the years I&#8217;ve learned how to bend my wrist just so in order to release the desired amount but they still terrorize dinner guests if I haven&#8217;t remembered to swap them out for a pair with more delicate holeage.<\/p>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-12377\" title=\"fish-s&amp;ps_5827\" src=\"https:\/\/www.alleewillis.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/fish-sps_5827.jpg\" alt=\"fish-s&amp;ps_5827\" width=\"450\" height=\"338\" srcset=\"https:\/\/alleewillis.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/fish-sps_5827.jpg 450w, https:\/\/alleewillis.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/fish-sps_5827-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-12375\" title=\"fish-S&amp;P's_5841\" src=\"https:\/\/www.alleewillis.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/fish-SPs_5841.jpg\" alt=\"fish-S&amp;P's_5841\" width=\"338\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https:\/\/alleewillis.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/fish-SPs_5841.jpg 338w, https:\/\/alleewillis.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/fish-SPs_5841-225x300.jpg 225w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 338px) 100vw, 338px\" \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-12371\" title=\"fish-S&amp;P's_5840\" src=\"https:\/\/www.alleewillis.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/fish-SPs_5840.jpg\" alt=\"fish-S&amp;P's_5840\" width=\"338\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https:\/\/alleewillis.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/fish-SPs_5840.jpg 338w, https:\/\/alleewillis.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/fish-SPs_5840-225x300.jpg 225w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 338px) 100vw, 338px\" \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-12379\" title=\"fish-S&amp;P's_5843\" src=\"https:\/\/www.alleewillis.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/fish-SPs_5843.jpg\" alt=\"fish-S&amp;P's_5843\" width=\"450\" height=\"338\" srcset=\"https:\/\/alleewillis.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/fish-SPs_5843.jpg 450w, https:\/\/alleewillis.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/fish-SPs_5843-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Although one of these little fish was a victim of the 1994 LA earthquake and lost the tip of her fin this happy couple are still among my favorite salt-and-pepper shakers in my collection of 1000 or so vintage ones. Though any ceramic animal, fish, vegetable or otherwise that has eyelashes immediately leaps it to &hellip; <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/alleewillis.com\/blog\/allee-willis-kitsch-o-the-day-%e2%80%93-1950s-happy-fish-sps\/\">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":[253,165,181,87,193],"tags":[61,1095,1093,3232,3245],"class_list":["post-12369","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-animals","category-food","category-furniture-and-housewares","category-kitsch","category-kitsch-o-the-day","tag-allee-willis","tag-fish-sp","tag-fish-salt-and-pepper-shaker","tag-kitsch","tag-kitsch-o-the-day"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alleewillis.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12369","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=12369"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alleewillis.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12369\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alleewillis.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12369"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alleewillis.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12369"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alleewillis.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12369"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}