{"id":13235,"date":"2010-04-07T12:00:43","date_gmt":"2010-04-07T19:00:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.alleewillis.com\/blog\/?p=13235"},"modified":"2010-04-07T13:25:34","modified_gmt":"2010-04-07T20:25:34","slug":"allee-willis-kitsch-o-the-day-%e2%80%93-1952-chris-craft-porthole","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alleewillis.com\/blog\/allee-willis-kitsch-o-the-day-%e2%80%93-1952-chris-craft-porthole\/","title":{"rendered":"Allee Willis’ Kitsch O’ The Day \u2013 1952 Chris-Craft Portholes"},"content":{"rendered":"\"porthole-bk-door_6101\"\n

I have three of these insanely beautiful vintage portholes off of a 1952 Chris-Craft boat. I found them in three separate eBay auctions a few years apart.<\/p>\n\"porthole-sub_6099\"\n\"porthole-closet_6100\"\n

I love all portholes but especially these with the chrome fins across the glass.<\/p>\n\"porthole-fins_6106\"\n

My studio is a classic Streamline Moderne boat looking structure built as the MGM party house in 1937 and although there were no portholes when I moved in it was screaming, no BEGGING, for me to pop a few in.<\/p>\n\"house\"\n

As much as I love these they’re not my favorite porthole around here. That honor is reserved for my $11 used-to-be-a-flimsy-brass-mirror porthole that I sunk into the floor and now serves as my laundry chute.<\/p>\n\"porthole-laundry-chute-6097\"\n

My laundry chute porthole was featured in the Los Angeles Times twice last year alone. When I get completely frustrated writing, painting, making films, curating AWMoK.com and everything else I fill my time with I always think I could go into the business of selling porthole laundry chutes.<\/p>\n

Studio photo: Maryanne Bilham<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I have three of these insanely beautiful vintage portholes off of a 1952 Chris-Craft boat. I found them in three separate eBay auctions a few years apart. I love all portholes but especially these with the chrome fins across the glass. My studio is a classic Streamline Moderne boat looking structure built as the MGM … read more »<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[317,243,131,121,87,193],"tags":[61,3232,3245,1159,1157],"class_list":["post-13235","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-accessories","category-architecture","category-creativity","category-house","category-kitsch","category-kitsch-o-the-day","tag-allee-willis","tag-kitsch","tag-kitsch-o-the-day","tag-porthole-laundry-chute","tag-porthole-vintage"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alleewillis.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13235","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=13235"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alleewillis.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13235\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alleewillis.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13235"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alleewillis.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13235"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alleewillis.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13235"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}