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10-23-2009, 09:20 PM
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3 Rivet Member 
1997 30' Limited
Omaha
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Join Date: Aug 2009
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What's with the flamingos?
I'm a new AS owner and introduced my wife and myself a week or two ago along with our new trailer, "Dimples". Anyway, what is the deal with Airstreams and Pink Flamingos? Somehow, they seem to go together, but I don't know why. How did this all start?
Jim and Mary
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10-23-2009, 09:36 PM
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1 Rivet Member 
2010 19' International
Bluff City
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Join Date: Oct 2009
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---seems a fitting thread to ask about 'SOB's'..wtf?...lol
*I'm new here as well
-A Sq
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10-23-2009, 09:48 PM
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3 Rivet Member
1968 24' Tradewind
Largo
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Join Date: Oct 2008
Posts: 130
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I don't have the answer . . . but trailer park, Pink Flamingos and AS, it just seems right.
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10-23-2009, 10:00 PM
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2015 25' FB Flying Cloud
2012 23' FB Flying Cloud
2005 25' Safari
Santa Rosa Beach
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Greetings from the Florida Panhandle
The Flamingos go back a long way with Airstreams and other old time trailers as well. I don't know how it began.
Am SOB refers to some other brand trailer.
Brian
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10-23-2009, 10:03 PM
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4 Rivet Member 
2006 23' Safari SE
Volcano
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Join Date: Jan 2006
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I believe the flamingo's are attracted to the shiny silver.
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2006 23' Safari
2006 F-150
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10-23-2009, 10:07 PM
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1 Rivet Member
2010 19' International
Bluff City
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Join Date: Oct 2009
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Quote:
Originally Posted by moosetags
The Flamingos go back a long way with Airstreams and other old time trailers as well. I don't know how it began.
Am SOB refers to some other brand trailer.
Brian
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Thank you--my weekend can now end.
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10-23-2009, 10:19 PM
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1964 26' Overlander
1964 19' Globetrotter
OlyPen
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Join Date: Aug 2003
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Zugbug
I believe the flamingo's are attracted to the shiny silver.
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What flamingos? I didn't see any. Did you? 
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10-23-2009, 10:39 PM
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3 Rivet Member
2007 25' International CCD FB
Holladay
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Join Date: Sep 2009
Posts: 198
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Pink Flamingos
Quote:
Originally Posted by JimW
I'm a new AS owner and introduced my wife and myself a week or two ago along with our new trailer, "Dimples". Anyway, what is the deal with Airstreams and Pink Flamingos? Somehow, they seem to go together, but I don't know why. How did this all start?
Jim and Mary
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Flamingos are a '50s thing. Back in the '50s flamingos were common in people's gardens, like garden trolls today. Sticking a flamingo in the ground by your AS was like bringing your yard with you. It was probably very funny back then. You must be much younger than I not to remember the flamingos in the front yard.
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10-23-2009, 10:47 PM
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Site Team
1974 31' Sovereign
Ottawa
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Join Date: May 2008
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Quote:
Originally Posted by A.Squire
---seems a fitting thread to ask about 'SOB's'..wtf?...lol
*I'm new here as well
-A Sq
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SOB can also mean Square Old Box...
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10-23-2009, 10:49 PM
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Rivet Master 
2011 34' Classic
Westchester Cty.NY
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Join Date: Jul 2007
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2012 F150 Super Crew 5-1/2' bed Ecoboost 4x4 3.73 elec. lock diff. Propride hitch
give life. kidney & pancreas transplant 9/9/06
Ingrid-my unofficial '"World's Oldest Streamer" 1909-2008 R.I.P.
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10-23-2009, 10:56 PM
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4 Rivet Member
Currently Looking...
San Diego
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Join Date: May 2008
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Get Used To These Too
Gnomes. They are guardians of precious metal in the earth.
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10-23-2009, 11:45 PM
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Rivet Master
2005 25' Safari
Salem
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Join Date: Mar 2006
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Flamingo's?
 Hi, we have had our Airstream just over five years now, and without Flamingos. During our stay at the Jackson Rancheria rally, we drove into town and bought two unique metal Flamingos for our trailer. They have not been displayed yet due to the freezing weather we camped in. [South Dakota, zero degrees]
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10-24-2009, 03:34 AM
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Vintage Kin Owner
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Janet
What flamingos? I didn't see any. Did you? |
Why I've never heard of such a thing...
Not sure what those birds are doing in front of my AS. 
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10-24-2009, 05:41 AM
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Rivet Master
1955 22' Safari
Currently Looking...
Great Lake State
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10-24-2009, 05:58 AM
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Rivet Master
2005 28' International CCD
Willoughby
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We parked our AS, put out our sign, and they just showed up!
Then they broke into our AS and drew pictures of themselves all over our bedsheets and jammies.
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2005 28' CCD, 2011 Sierra 5.3L, Equal-I-Zer
Empty Nesters - spending our money on OURSELVES for a change!
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10-24-2009, 08:32 AM
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Rivet Master
1976 Argosy 24
Joplin
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Join Date: Mar 2008
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Steve & Susan
We parked our AS, put out our sign, and they just showed up!
Then they broke into our AS and drew pictures of themselves all over our bedsheets and jammies.
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And they multiply like rabbits!
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10-24-2009, 12:29 PM
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Rivet Master
2019 27' Tommy Bahama
Roseville
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Join Date: Sep 2004
Posts: 679
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Zugbug
I believe the flamingo's are attracted to the shiny silver.
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Airstreams are MAGNETS for flamingos!!!
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2011 GMC 3500HD Duramax
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10-24-2009, 06:40 PM
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Rivet Master
1970 27' Overlander
Espanola
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I figure the flamingo yard art was a kind of graceful-elegant addition to gardens everywhere in the fifties, and they must have migrated over to the trailer parks like KOA etc. What do the rest of you think? The ground here in Oklahoma, well you just can't stick em in the ground, cause it's too blasted hard...  Why is bubble gum pink?
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10-24-2009, 08:44 PM
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Master of Universe
2008 25' Safari FB SE
Grand Junction
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Join Date: Sep 2007
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I never thought I'd have a flamingo, but I was looking for a spot in a campground and Scrapirony-2 (Mike) stopped me and handed me a little pink flamingo and now it's wedged between the dashboard and the windshield. You just can't avoid it.
Look's like Mike and Tracy's MoHo in post # 17.
Gene
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10-24-2009, 09:27 PM
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Rivet Master
2019 27' Tommy Bahama
Roseville
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Quote:
Originally Posted by CrawfordGene
Look's like Mike and Tracy's MoHo in post # 17.
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Yup.....it is indeed, Gene. I couldn't resist this photo opportunity at the Dead Horse 3 Rally. It is the most flamingo-decorated Airstream I have ever seen....and, that's just the outside!
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