Interesting Things with JC #316: "Pink Flamingos" - Don Featherstone of Union Products in Massachusetts first produced the well-known pink plastic flamingo in 1957. He received the Nobel Art Prize in 1996 for his creation. Parks officials in Buffalo, N.Y., reclaimed a Guinness World Records title by assembling a line of 4,280 plastic garden flamingos June 22, 2022.