THE FACTORY that makes plastic pink flamingos shut down this week, which among other things means Madison will live on in glorious pink perpetuity as having once been home to the largest flock of plastic flamingos ever assembled.
This is not me saying it, either. That world record – and somebody should get Guinness involved in this – was set on the morning of Sept. 4, 1979, and it is acknowledged by no less than the man who a half century ago designed the first plastic pink flamingo.