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[Zhills]

@homedecor1 

[Still Raining]

A friend has one in her front yard and it always makes me smile.  Cute.

[MorningLover]

National Pink Flamingo Day started in 2007 when Dean Mazzarella, the mayor of Leominster, Massachusetts, declared June 23 as the commemorative date for the plastic pink flamingo.

It has remained since and served as a goofy way to show love for the beautiful bird and Don Featherstone, the creator of the iconic plastic emulation of the flamingo.

Featherstone designed the plastic pink lawn flamingo in 1957 while employed at Union Products in Leominster.

Originally, he created prototypes of multiple 3-D products, including one of a duck, but nothing hit quite like when he formulated the idea of utilizing the flamingo.

Union Products in Leominster continued to produce the plastic pink lawn flamingo until 2006. That prompted Mayor Mazzarella to designate June 23, 2007, as the first National Pink Flamingo Day.

Union Products sold the copyright to HMC International LLC in 2007, and that company passed the rights along to Cado Manufacturing in 2010. Cado currently holds the copyright to the product and produces the pink yard sculptures still today.

[Laura14]

I love flamingos. I keep threatening to put one in my yard. I did have one out for Christmas with a Santa hat. The HOA couldn't yell at a holiday decoration and nothing that makes me smile should be outlawed. 

[PA Mom-mom]

In the 80's and 90's, our neighborhood had several pink flamingos that would show up in people's yards the day they were due back from vacation and on birthdays. We also had a "For Sale" sign and a great "Weeding Lady" our talented neighbor made by hand. I'll tell you, we knew how to have fun! Hahaha! 

[bmorechick]

@Zhills   Welllll growing up in Baltimore in the 1960's, Flamingo yard decorations were all the rage.  My mom had several in her garden.  Also, the painted screens of Baltimore featured flamingos and I had one on my bedroom window.  They've been around for quite a while! 

The Pink Flamingo Tavern on W 30th. St in Baltimore is a tribute to all things flamingo🦩

[Major Shopper]

@Zhills Back in the early 1990's we were on vacation in Maui and there was a gentleman with his wife standing beside us at a local market. He was wearing a pink flamingo Hawaiian shirt that couldn't be missed. She was wearing a pink flamingo print dress.

They were very friendly and we told them we liked their unique outfits. 

It turns out he was Don Featherstone, the inventor of the Pink Flamingo!!!

Such lovely people.

Interesting story if you google him. 

[Seminole2]

That's an awesome story @Major Shopper!

[smoochy]

here is Phoebe, our 21 ft flamingo at Tampa Intl Airport

[Jacie]

I love flamingos, grew up for a short time in Pompano Beach!

Years ago, for my Mom's 85th birthday, I had a company come in and put 85 pink flamingos in her yard. The company was called Flamingos By the Yard! They sneak in, in the dead of night and "plant" them including a Happy B-day sign! Equally as sneaky, they come in again, in the dark, and take them away! 

My Mom was tickled "pink"!