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that in the 1920s, anyone who was Someone vacationed in Florida. These well-to-do tourists sought out unique souvenirs to take home to show off to the lesser-to-do Nobodies. The trinkets had to be something that you couldn’t get just anywhere, so these stodgy aristocrats brought home flamingos in any form that could be found - photos, artwork and other avian crafts. The flamingo became a status symbol.
In 1952 the first pink flamingo lawn ornament was created, but it immediately fell flat — literally — the darn thing kept blowing over in the breeze (it was two-dimensional). By 1957 the powers-to-be figured out that a threedimensional hot-pink bird was the way to go, and they caught on like wildfire — briefly. By the 1960s the Somebodies changed their minds - too many Nobodies could have a pink flamingo, so the blushing birds flapped off to where all good fads must go to die.
Fly ahead 20 years and enter one Crockett and one Tubbs in the mid-’80s, and boom! — back they came. “Miami Vice” is actually cred
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