In a message dated 99-11-05 09:14:27 EST, you write:

<<  She had
 collected two cases of shell crafts, some of them kitschy, others real
 works of art. She left it to the visitor to decide which was which. >>

I think the biggest free-standing halls of kitsch must be at the Shell Man in
Key Largo.  I had to take pictures of the madness(though the seashell/lucite
embedded toilet seats were to die for).
Joni