BOSTON — Don Featherstone was a classically trained painter, a talented sculptor and artist who became famous for creating the pink plastic lawn flamingo — the ultimate piece of American suburban ...
Spend enough time in Florida or Baltimore’s Hampden neighborhood and eventually you’ll see a plastic pink flamingo perched on someone’s lawn, standing in its usual one-legged pose. Despite what the ...
When the Buffalo Olmsted Parks Conservancy (BOPC) broke the Guinness World Records title for the “Longest line of garden flamingos” in 2018, no one could have anticipated that the record would be so ...
Florida’s oceans slip between turquoise and emerald, its sunsets streak yellow and orange, and its politics shift from blue to purple to red. But pink is Florida’s favorite color. From the cheesy, ...
Production of the original plastic pink flamingo, designed in 1957 by Don Featherstone, ceased in June, 2006, just shy of its 50th birthday. Its manufacturer, Union Products of Leominster, Mass., ...
Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. SCITUATE – The flock of plastic pink flamingos that touched down in Scituate yards last year will return. The flamingos are part ...
Carlsbad has been tickled pink with an array of plastic flamingos in several front yards since two local realtors have started a movement to surprise and spread some cheer to their community for ...
PARMA, Ohio — Police are investigating after a plastic pink flamingo was stolen and vandalized Saturday morning. The flamingo was located at the Parma sign near the splash pad on W. Ridgewood Dr., ...
BOSTON (AP) — The creator of the pink plastic lawn flamingo, the ultimate symbol of American lawn kitsch, has died. Donald Featherstone was 79. Featherstone's wife, Nancy, told The Associated Press on ...
SCITUATE – The flock of plastic pink flamingos that touched down in Scituate yards last year will return. The flamingos are part of a fundraising campaign for St. Luke’s Episcopal Church and will be ...