 |
|
06-29-2008, 05:00 AM
|
#1
|
|
Restorations done right
Commercial Member
1962 26' Overlander
1961 26' Overlander
Vintage Kin Owner
Currently Looking...
Baltimore
, Maryland
Join Date: Aug 2007
Posts: 5,545
|
why the flamingo?
I want to say in advance SORRY. This is my opinion and I am trying to bridge the gap here...
I would like to know what is up with the flamingos. I simply do not get it. I do not understand it. I really do not like them and find them totally tacky. At a recent rally they were everywhere, and I just do not understand. Can someone please explain it to me? Can someone enlighten me?
|
|
|
|
06-29-2008, 05:24 AM
|
#2
|
Rivet Master  
2006 25' Safari FB SE
St. Cloud
, Minnesota
Join Date: Aug 2003
Posts: 13,280
|
I get it -- Emily Litella! "What's all the fuss about Crustaceans?"
I dunno. I see flamingos at SOB sites in campgrounds too. Better keep the 'Save Rudy' squad away, what with their hairspray flamethrowers and all.
|
|
|
|
|
06-29-2008, 05:24 AM
|
#3
|
Rivet Master
1967 28' Ambassador
1963 19' Globetrotter
1970 29' Ambassador
Waukesha
, Wisconsin
Join Date: May 2007
Posts: 1,180
|
The pop culture symbol of kitschy bad taste and revered as retro cool.
Frank, It's a symbol of what Wally did with the travel trailer. Took something that was relegated to the Gypsies and Vagabonds and turned it into something elegant and pure Americana. 
|
|
|
|
|
06-29-2008, 05:26 AM
|
#4
|
|
Restorations done right
Commercial Member
1962 26' Overlander
1961 26' Overlander
Vintage Kin Owner
Currently Looking...
Baltimore
, Maryland
Join Date: Aug 2007
Posts: 5,545
|
Still waiting to understand guys....
|
|
|
|
|
06-29-2008, 05:43 AM
|
#5
|
Rivet Master
2006 25' Safari FB SE
St. Cloud
, Minnesota
Join Date: Aug 2003
Posts: 13,280
|
UP:
flamingos
chili lights
SITC
sunscreen
'3' stickers on rear windows (very regional)
RVing
DOWN:
fuzzy dice
velvet Elvis paintings
album sales
ducktails
dark socks and shorts
RVing
|
|
|
|
|
06-29-2008, 06:01 AM
|
#6
|
|
Restorations done right
Commercial Member
1962 26' Overlander
1961 26' Overlander
Vintage Kin Owner
Currently Looking...
Baltimore
, Maryland
Join Date: Aug 2007
Posts: 5,545
|
Bob, are you drinking this early in the day? I look to you for insight and you give me some 2Airish info... could you double space those lines, that way I might understand it better. 
|
|
|
|
|
06-29-2008, 06:10 AM
|
#7
|
|
Retired.
Currently Looking...
.
, At Large
Join Date: Jun 2003
Posts: 21,276
|
Frank, I hate 'em too...My wife loves 'em... As long as she keeps their presence down to a dull roar, I let her have a few, and display them (unobtrusively).
I think that may be why they are popular among RVers. Most people don't like them, for the reasons you stated in your first post. Since it is so tacky, and so many people don't like them, the ones that do like them display them as a symbol of going against the crowd.
As I write this, I'm looking at the paper towel dispenser, with its flamingo-shaped wire ornament on top...
__________________
Meddle not in the affairs of dragons, for you are crunchy, and taste good with ketchup.
Terry
|
|
|
|
|
06-29-2008, 06:11 AM
|
#8
|
Rivet Master
2006 25' Safari FB SE
St. Cloud
, Minnesota
Join Date: Aug 2003
Posts: 13,280
|
not yet....
daily pomegranate juice next....
health effects of pomegranate
ellipsodic thinking....
clarity and inner peace....
except not here. dog chewing my leg...
|
|
|
|
|
06-29-2008, 07:04 AM
|
#9
|
Rivet Master
1971 27' Overlander
Central
, Ohio
Join Date: Jun 2006
Posts: 2,365
|
This might give you some insight...?
Pink Flamingos
By the way - the scientific name for plastic flamingos is:
phoenicopteris ruber plasticus
|
|
|
|
|
06-29-2008, 07:11 AM
|
#10
|
|
"Cloudsplitter"
2003 25' Classic
Houstatlantavegas
, Malebolgia
Join Date: Jun 2007
Posts: 20,000
|
Quote:
Originally Posted by 62overlander
I want to say in advance SORRY. This is my opinion and I am trying to bridge the gap here...
I would like to know what is up with the flamingos. I simply do not get it. I do not understand it. I really do not like them and find them totally tacky. At a recent rally they were everywhere, and I just do not understand. Can someone please explain it to me? Can someone enlighten me?
|
Hey 62
This might make you feel better.....
BIRD-FLU HITS AIRSTREAM RALLY IN BOZEMAN
__________________
I’m done with ‘adulting’…Let’s go find Bigfoot.
|
|
|
|
|
06-29-2008, 07:20 AM
|
#11
|
4 Rivet Member 
1973 27' Overlander
Southport (Panama City)
, Florida
Join Date: Aug 2006
Posts: 426
|
I kinda like them. I just thought it was somewhat of a symbol of just not one of the normal in Travel Trailers but the elite basically you have Airstreams and you have all them SOB's you have Flamingo's and then you have all them other kinda birds did that make any since?? SAM
__________________
Your Friend Sam In (Southport) Panama City Florida
Air#15607 TAC FL-2
Good Sam (LifeTime Member)
|
|
|
|
|
06-29-2008, 07:23 AM
|
#12
|
|
"Cloudsplitter"
2003 25' Classic
Houstatlantavegas
, Malebolgia
Join Date: Jun 2007
Posts: 20,000
|
Fly "high" Party Bird!!
Now this one (only) is ours, up where no one can do him/her harm.
__________________
I’m done with ‘adulting’…Let’s go find Bigfoot.
|
|
|
|
|
06-29-2008, 07:35 AM
|
#14
|
Rivet Master
2002 19' Bambi
Northwestern Ontario
, - on the backside of the map and just above the big green spot
Join Date: Nov 2003
Posts: 819
|
.... this is obviously one of those discussions that - at the end of the day - can be summarized to be ..... "just because" ......
Jay
__________________
Bambi - 2002 (The Toaster)
Pathfinder - 2009 (The Buggy)
"I'm not young enough to know everything ....."
(Oscar Wilde)
|
|
|
|
|
06-29-2008, 07:56 AM
|
#15
|
Rivet Master
1971 25' Tradewind
1993 34' Excella
Currently Looking...
Estancia
, New Mexico
Join Date: Feb 2005
Posts: 7,743
|
Here's my hypothesis:
Flamingos along with various genres of lawn art started in the 40s reaching iconic magnitude in the 50s. I recall my parents had a pair of cast concrete flamingos with rebar legs in the 50s were were already quite old and held together by duct tape ( the history of duct tape is another story). Concrete lawn art's function was somewhat a puedo status status symbol, middle class suburbia not being able to afford the more affluent marble urinating children fountains or bronze deer. Those more transient elements on the fringes of society and fringes of metropolitan areas lived in "Trailer Parks" in park model house trailers. In an effort to appear more middle class some of early trailer dwellers would festoon their meager yards with lawn art including flamingos, dwarfs, rabbits, etc. The American middle class, looking for something to dispose their disposable income on, together with the resurgence of the back to the land ecomovement, the rise of the hippies, and new availabilty low cost light weight plastic molding technology fostered an atmosphere of camping chic. Flamingos being predominately one color which could be cheaply manufactured, fell into this slot of psuedo trailer trash, los cost hippy chic and the rest is history.
__________________
Sail on silver girl. Sail on by. Your time has come to shine.
|
|
|
|
|
06-29-2008, 08:18 AM
|
#16
|
Rivet Master
1955 22' Safari
Currently Looking...
Great Lake State
, .
Join Date: Nov 2005
Posts: 1,480
|
The history of the Plastic Pink Flamingo
|
|
|
|
|
06-29-2008, 08:25 AM
|
#17
|
Rivet Master
2006 25' Safari FB SE
St. Cloud
, Minnesota
Join Date: Aug 2003
Posts: 13,280
|
|
|
|
|
|
06-29-2008, 09:14 AM
|
#18
|
Rivet Master
1972 25' Tradewind
North Vancouver
, British Columbia
Join Date: Feb 2006
Posts: 3,421
|
Okay, so I was totally thinking of something else...
__________________
Cameron & the Labradors, Kai & Samm
North Vancouver, BC
Live! Life's a banquet and most poor suckers are starving to death! - Mame Dennis
|
|
|
|
|
06-29-2008, 09:31 AM
|
#19
|
Rivet Master
1974 31' Sovereign
1970 23' Safari
1956 26' Cruiser Overlander
Lambertville
, Michigan
Join Date: Aug 2006
Posts: 1,174
|
Frank,
First of all I thought you were an intelligent guy, I thought of all people in the Airstreaming world "Frank gets it!"
And now this...?
Not understanding the Flamingo thing is like asking "Why did they use Aluminum to build these trailers?"
Come on Frank...maybe being stuck on that zipper messed you up abit?..or maybe that homespun hooch ya'll had in Verona?
__________________
Dave
TAC# MI-1
Operation "Save Rudy" Strike Team (charter member)  
Yes, I am still working on it.
|
|
|
|
|
06-29-2008, 09:46 AM
|
#20
|
Rivet Master
1962 22' Safari
1957 22' Custom
1963 16' Bambi
Vacationland
, Maine
Join Date: Apr 2006
Posts: 956
|
I know what you mean, Frank, I don't really get it either, this obsession with all things flamingo, Or for that matter, Aluminum trailers, Pies, etc, etc. Unfortunatey, flamingos have the ability to fly out twenty foot fences and like crows, are attracted to shiny things. Better stop polishing or build a bigger fence. Resistence IS futile.
How do you like my lil' shunk? I have two. 
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Currently Active Users Viewing This Thread: 1 (0 members and 1 guests)
|
|
|
Posting Rules
|
You may not post new threads
You may not post replies
You may not post attachments
You may not edit your posts
HTML code is Off
|
|
|
|
Recent Discussions |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Linear Mode
