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PARMA, Ohio – Parma’s association with plastic flamingos once made the city the laughingstock of late-night television audiences across Northeast Ohio. Now, the relationship has been cemented in an ...

In 1957, a 21-year-old art school graduate named Don Featherstone created his second major design for the Massachusetts-based lawn and garden decoration manufacturer Union Products: a ...

The flamingos appeared seemingly out of nowhere. They were taped to office cubicles, nestled in potted plants, and resting on conference room tables. When the palm-sized plastic birds showed up last ...

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. -- The pink plastic flamingo, a Florida-inspired icon that has been reviled as kitschy bad taste and revered as retro cool, is dead at age 49. The pop culture symbol met its ...

The city council in Madison, Wisc., voted to designate the plastic flamingoas its official bird. It's in honor of a college prank committed 30 years ago. University of Wisconsin students planted more ...

Tacky? Yes. Iconic? Absolutely. Sadly, the creator of the plastic pink flamingo, Donald Featherstone, passed away on June 22, 2015, at the age of 79. Ironically, his passing was one day before ...

BOSTON - 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 ...