Does anyone know what a pink flamingo means, when you put it in your yard?

Answer 1

it was there to represent a fresh new start after the great depression. it represents riches and wealth.

Answer 2

Actually, members of our family dress up those plastic flamingoes for different holidays and then plant them in the yard of someone else. It is then required of the recipients to do the same thing... you never know when you'll get "flamingoed". It's silly fun, and we get pretty outrageous with some of their outfits or accessories. (A pink flamingo in a G.I Joe outfit for Veteran's Day was an interesting look!) And, NO... I don't live in a trailer park...

Answer 3

Hialeah Race Track in Florida imported real flamingos from the Caribbean in the '20s, and things just went from there. Pretty soon, the well-to-do were putting out metal or bronze or wooden flamingo ornaments as "status symbols" to show they'd been at a Florida resort

Answer 4

That is a really funny question, and I don't say this in a sarcastic way. Right now, my husband and I are watching football, but when I read this question, I really died out laughing.

I don't know if you are serious, but I'll tell you: Pink flamingos originally were very common among working class homes. Then, they got labelled as an indication of 'trashiness' or 'poor taste,' and people were stereotyped for having them.

But I've noticed these retro beautiese for sale in some pretty chic catalogs because of the nostalgic aspect of having them. Eventually, people might not even remember the bad stigma, if their reintroduction into the market is successful ... hmmm

Answer 5

It means that you like pink flamingoes in your yard.

Answer 6

There are some pretty great answers out there; I'm not sure but my best friend was "feuding" with his neighbors recently and in the middle of the night he put close to 75 plastic pink flamingoes on the neighbors lawn. I guess in this instance it meant "gaudy".

Answer 7

Animal-shaped lawn ornaments date back to English gardens of the 1700s, which, having trimmed nature down to a manageable size, sought to re-create wildness with stone or bronze animals.

By the 1920s, this had trickled down to the American middle-class suburbs in the form of plaster or concrete animals.

The post-World War II suburbia boom resulted in a lot of quasi-natural lawns desperate for some quasi-natural scenery. Garishly painted plaster and wooden lawn ornaments sold like hotcakes. Among them were the first pink flamingos—enameled-wood cutouts.

Why flamingos? Because of Florida, which was being heavily hyped as a tourism and retirement-living destination.

Florida had hunted its native pink flamingos to extinction in the 1800s for feathers and meat. New flamingos were introduced into the tourist spot Hialeah Park, near Miami, in the 1930s, and became a huge attraction.

Innumerable souvenirs made the pink flamingo a symbol of Florida. Which is to say it symbolized leisure, travel and exoticism—alluring stuff for suburbanites.

The eye-straining pinkness was also perfect as especially conspicuous consumption, since then (as now) it was important to show how much money you were spending on your suburban lawn.

The plastics explosion of the 1950s made lawn ornaments more affordable. Union Products in Leominster, Massachusetts started making a two-dimensional plastic flamingo in 1952. Then in 1957, they had new employee Don Featherstone sculpt them the plastic pink flamingo we know today. He based his design on a “National Geographic” flamingos article called “Ballerinas in Pink.”

By the 1960s, plastic flamingos had trickled down to trailer park lawns and were being ridiculed by hippies for their obvious phoniness. John Waters’ outrageous 1972 film “Pink Flamingos” made them the epitome of bad taste and ushered in an ironic appreciation of their artificiality. They became the object of prank thefts and theme parties.

The hip 1980s TV series “Miami Vice”—featuring flamingos in the opening credits—restored the exotic/affluent Florida connotations and fired some flamingo nostalgia for children of the ’50s. Sales boomed; Union Products got competition from two other flamingo companies.

In the postmodern age, flamingos are bought for many reasons, but always symbolize social or class line-crossing.

Answer 8

Flaming O Symbol

Answer 9

Yeah, it means you have a pink flamingo in your yard. (Doesn't it???)

Answer 10

It means hope and faith....when someone is facing a illness and needs hope!!!!!U show up when they are gone and shower there yard with these beautiful creathers. .It just happened to my neighbor and the church just did this...it was very special.....

Answer 11

it means you have a cheap tacky plastic flamingo that bears no resmblance to the real thing.