Vintage gay men camping2/7/2024 ![]() Pink Flamingos is actually about drag queens and some say it may be one of the most offensive pictures ever.īut it celebrated the drag queen and became campy and symbolic as well as becoming huge in the gay community. While the 1972 was not about the flamingos themselves, it did feature a trailer park and with two of the birds adorning a mobile home. But in the 1970s they came back because of John Waters who directed the film Pink Flamingos. ![]() In the 1960s there was a backlash against them as the hippies and counter culture rejected the pink flamingo. Other lawn icons of the era included tiki statues and lighthouses. For $2.75 you could place two of these in your yard and really stand out and a lot of people did just that. With pink being a very popular color in 1957 the flamingo took off and helped offset the blandness of the growing number of tract homes of the time. At the time the company had two-dimensional ducks and flamingos and Featherstone’s first product was a three-dimensional version of the duck followed by a three-dimensional pink flamingo. The iconic plastic pink flamingo was originally created by Don Featherstone at Union Products in Massachusetts in 1957.
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