{"id":16983,"date":"2010-06-08T10:01:39","date_gmt":"2010-06-08T17:01:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.alleewillis.com\/blog\/?p=16983"},"modified":"2010-06-08T10:01:39","modified_gmt":"2010-06-08T17:01:39","slug":"allee-willis-kitsch-o-the-day-%e2%80%93-1954-fifth-annual-convention-of-the-nlba-los-angeles-ashtray","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alleewillis.com\/blog\/allee-willis-kitsch-o-the-day-%e2%80%93-1954-fifth-annual-convention-of-the-nlba-los-angeles-ashtray\/","title":{"rendered":"Allee Willis&#8217; Kitsch O&#8217; The Day \u20131954 Fifth  Annual Convention of the NLBA, Los Angeles Ashtray"},"content":{"rendered":"<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-17185\" title=\"IMG_3078\" src=\"https:\/\/www.alleewillis.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/IMG_3078.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_3078\" width=\"550\" height=\"413\" srcset=\"https:\/\/alleewillis.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/IMG_3078.jpg 550w, https:\/\/alleewillis.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/IMG_3078-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/>\n<p>I have no idea what the NLBA is but apparently they covet grapes, handshakes, a wine bottle or a hat- I&#8217;m not sure which it is in the bottom left corner of the shield &#8211; and what appears to be a bunch of asparagus in the top right. Whatever these revelers did it was on November 7-10, the latter of which is my birthday, 1954 in Los Angeles.&nbsp; Maybe it has to do with the Olympics as half of the interlocking rings are there too. Maybe Shriners?&nbsp; I don&#8217;t know but they sure make a sturdy ashtray. Made of&nbsp; copper and glass it&#8217;s large enough to hold at least 10 Marlboros, Viceroys, Kents or Camels that undoubtebly got crushed in them constantly during those four days in November and for years to come.<\/p>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-17187\" title=\"LA-NLBA-convention-ashtray_3083\" src=\"https:\/\/www.alleewillis.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/LA-NLBA-convention-ashtray_3083.jpg\" alt=\"LA-NLBA-convention-ashtray_3083\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" srcset=\"https:\/\/alleewillis.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/LA-NLBA-convention-ashtray_3083.jpg 500w, https:\/\/alleewillis.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/LA-NLBA-convention-ashtray_3083-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have no idea what the NLBA is but apparently they covet grapes, handshakes, a wine bottle or a hat- I&#8217;m not sure which it is in the bottom left corner of the shield &#8211; and what appears to be a bunch of asparagus in the top right. Whatever these revelers did it was on &hellip; <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/alleewillis.com\/blog\/allee-willis-kitsch-o-the-day-%e2%80%93-1954-fifth-annual-convention-of-the-nlba-los-angeles-ashtray\/\">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":[165,181,87,193,911],"tags":[3232,3245,1487,1485],"class_list":["post-16983","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-food","category-furniture-and-housewares","category-kitsch","category-kitsch-o-the-day","category-place","tag-kitsch","tag-kitsch-o-the-day","tag-los-angeles-ashtray","tag-nlba-ashtray"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alleewillis.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16983","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=16983"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alleewillis.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16983\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alleewillis.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16983"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alleewillis.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16983"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alleewillis.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16983"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}