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<\/a>\nWell, at least I had balls. I love the sound, feel and aesthetics of a bowling alley. I love the balls, the shoes, the snack bar, the tables you sit at to keep score. And over the years, other than the snack bar, I’ve collected a lot of it. I have bowling coin purses…<\/p>\n …a bowling pin lamp…<\/p>\n …a bowling pin bottle opener…<\/p>\n … bowling balls in my garden…<\/p>\n … bowling tables in my home…<\/p>\n … a wide assortment of bowling coffee mugs…<\/p>\n … bowling shoes…<\/p>\n …and a bowling ball brush.<\/p>\n I even use bowling trophies as door handles in my house…<\/p>\n …and have them carved into the floor.<\/p>\n That’s my kitchen floor, above which the Bowler’s Coffee Cup featured today sits in a cupboard stocked with other vintage cups.<\/p>\n I drink out of the bowling cup a lot because it cheers me up when I stagger into the kitchen bleary-eyed every morning.<\/p>\n I love all the graphics on this cup.<\/p>\n Less thought out than the graphics, however, was the color used to create them. I love when people who design things don’t think about the product in full use, in this case coffee being poured into the cup and lessening the effect substantially.<\/p>\n<\/a> And that’s a real gutter ball.<\/p>\n I’m not a bowler. But I AM a bowling-kitsch-artifact collector crazy person. Bowling was THE happy-go-lucky, stylish, social sport of the 1950’s. So it follows that I would like anything that involves bowling balls and the accoutrements that accompany it, even occasionally lifting the ball myself and tossing it down the lane for the inevitable … 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":[317,181,1367,87,193,419],"tags":[61,2756,2755,3232,3245],"class_list":["post-32441","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-accessories","category-furniture-and-housewares","category-kitchen","category-kitsch","category-kitsch-o-the-day","category-sports","tag-allee-willis","tag-bowlers-coffee-cup","tag-bowlers-coffee-mug","tag-kitsch","tag-kitsch-o-the-day"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alleewillis.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32441","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=32441"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alleewillis.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32441\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alleewillis.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32441"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alleewillis.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32441"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alleewillis.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32441"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<\/a>\n<\/a>\n<\/a>\n<\/a>\n<\/a>\n<\/a>\n<\/a>\n<\/a>\n<\/a>\n<\/a>\n<\/a>\n<\/a>\n<\/a>\n<\/a>\n<\/a>\n<\/a>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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