The Two-Way : NPR: If you've got a plastic pink flamingo on your lawn, give it a pat on the back. The man who designed the lawn art, Donald Featherstone, has died. He was 79. Hat tip to Scott Cupp.
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Deb
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You have to figure that he's inadvertently responsible for John Waters's career.
If you grew up in Cleveland, the flamingos were a local in-joke, like the flammable Cuyahoga river. They were a staple decoration on the lawns of Parma, a suburb mainly populated by second-generation Eastern European immigrants. Parma was a running joke with the legendary tv horror host Ghoulardi (Ernie Anderson). Whenever "Parma" was mentioned, polka music would break out and a montage of photos of flamingo-clad lawns would flash on the screen. Only back then they were painted plaster, not plastic. Art Scott
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You have to figure that he's inadvertently responsible for John Waters's career.
/NTTAWWT
I love those flamingos. Not to mention John Waters.
If you grew up in Cleveland, the flamingos were a local in-joke, like the flammable Cuyahoga river. They were a staple decoration on the lawns of Parma, a suburb mainly populated by second-generation Eastern European immigrants. Parma was a running joke with the legendary tv horror host Ghoulardi (Ernie Anderson). Whenever "Parma" was mentioned, polka music would break out and a montage of photos of flamingo-clad lawns would flash on the screen. Only back then they were painted plaster, not plastic.
Art Scott
I miss the old days.
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