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Saturday October 21, 2006

Pink Flamingos RIP?

Union Products, makers of the original pink flamingo lawn ornaments, are closing down. According to the article, the flamingos came out in the 1950’s, when everybody was trying to get in on the original wave of Miami cool. Of course, they’ve had some famous history since then.

Some sort-of decent knock-offs available here. Interesting that both the wiki page and the LA Times article have a photo of some other crappy black-beak knock off (the <s