It flares with special intensity at this time each year as the unbearable lightness of spring spreads over the land, filling winter-weary souls with fresh joys and wacky ideas. Flamingos 'r just so us. They're getting 30 to 100 orders a day, with franchises in San Francisco, Oklahoma City and Atlanta. People love it because it's just so wonderfully gaudy. We've sold 'em to churches for fundraising, to individuals trying to bust neighborhood covenants.
Flamingos are big with sport parachutists as mascots.
We sold inflatable flamingos to a group that travels - they take pictures with their flamingos at places like the Arc de Triomphe. Flamingo drapes, upholstery, pictures, artwork, everything. Friends and neighbors say you just cannot be unhappy in this house, because they're so wonderful. Had Cathy only known. Hoehl, the collector, studied the question and learned that Florida's Hialeah Race Track imported real flamingos from the Caribbean in the '20s, and things just went from there.