{"id":9735,"date":"2010-01-07T12:13:08","date_gmt":"2010-01-07T19:13:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.alleewillis.com\/blog\/?p=9735"},"modified":"2010-01-07T12:13:08","modified_gmt":"2010-01-07T19:13:08","slug":"shriners-salt-pepper-shaker","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alleewillis.com\/blog\/shriners-salt-pepper-shaker\/","title":{"rendered":"Allee Willis’ Kitsch O’ The Day – Shriners Salt & Pepper Shaker"},"content":{"rendered":"\"shriner-S&P_1805\"\n

I’ve been collecting Shriners artifacts since I found a group portrait of hundreds of Zurah Temple members in their Fezes in the mid-1970s looking like little lined up Pez dispensers. I never knew the difference between Shriners and Masons or what either of them really did. I just like any organization that has hats, pins and a super-costumed regulated look. My alter ego, Bubbles the artist, has even honored them in her popular “The Funsters Of Zurah Temple” line of  collage art<\/a>, ceramics and paintings<\/a>.<\/p>\n\"shriners-funsters-bubbles\"\n

This transparent red plastic salt and pepper shaker is a two in one deal, salt on one side, pepper on the other.<\/p>\n\"shriner-S&P_1808\"\n

I imagine it was shaked over many a Salisbury Steak and meatloaf since its birth in 1950 when it was given away as a souvenir at the 76th Shrine Convention in Fresno, California, courtesy of Tehran Temple of Fresno,California, the “Baby Temple Of Shrinedon”. I think that The Allee Willis Museum Of Kitsch<\/a> is in its own way a “baby temple of shrinedom”, more deserving of its own salt & pepper souvenir shaker for glorifying kitsch in all of its glory, not the least of which is this fantastic Shriner S&P shaker.<\/p>\n\"shriner-S&P_1806\"\n\"shriner-S&P_1809\"\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I’ve been collecting Shriners artifacts since I found a group portrait of hundreds of Zurah Temple members in their Fezes in the mid-1970s looking like little lined up Pez dispensers. I never knew the difference between Shriners and Masons or what either of them really did. I just like any organization that has hats, pins … 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":[317,165,87,193],"tags":[61,3232,3245,901],"class_list":["post-9735","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-accessories","category-food","category-kitsch","category-kitsch-o-the-day","tag-allee-willis","tag-kitsch","tag-kitsch-o-the-day","tag-shriners-salt-papper"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alleewillis.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9735","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=9735"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alleewillis.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9735\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alleewillis.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9735"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alleewillis.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9735"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alleewillis.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9735"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}