the pink flamingo lawn ornament was invented in 1957.
the pink flamingo lawn ornament was invented in 1957.
when was the pink flamingo lawn ornament invented?
1957
the pink lawn flamingo was designed in 1957 by don featherstone. the first pink flamingo's name was diego, and has become an icon of pop culture that won him the ig nobel prize for art in 1996. it has even spawned a lawn greeting industry where flocks of pink flamingos are installed on a victim's lawn in the dark of night. after the release of john waters's 1972 movie "pink flamingos", plastic flamingos came to be the stereotypical example of lawn kitsch.
plastic flamingo
in 1956, the plastic pink flamingo lawn-ornament was invented in leominster for union products. the famous lawn-ornament was designed by don featherstone, and was modelled after pictures of flamingos in national geographic.
leominster, massachusetts