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Black Flamingo Club. the Black Flamingo Club is a social club that was formed in the mid 1980's by a few employees of Taranto, Stanton and Tagge in (Castle Rock) Denver CO. The man who deserves the credit for his initiative to create this club is Joe Johnson. Some of the original members include: Joe Johnson, Lonnie Henderson, Jim Kenton, Bill Goetz, Martin Brauns, and Tim Sheridon. The club was created prior to the everyday use of cell phones, when everyone carried a pager as a means of communication. A simple 3-digit number code was sent to the recipient; ie, 922 might of meant "return the office" or 945 might of meant "call home", etc. we had a code for "lets do lunch" and the numbers that followed said where to meet, then a time: ie, 922 (lunch) 10 (Trail Dust) 12 (12 PM). Joe liked to go to the strip clubs on Friday afternoons so he devised his own code system telling where to meet and at what time. so you might get a 6969 4; meaning Mile High Saloon at 4PM or 7777 5, meaning Shotgun Willies at 5PM. one afternoon he made these stickers with a Black Flamingo and gave them to all of us and we stuck them on our vehicles that very day; it became our own little club. we really didn't do that much socially but others were VERY jealous of our social club because we didn't allow just anybody to be a member. I was constantly being asked about my little black flamingo by complete strangers and everyone wanted one; it was like fight club, we never talked about it but everybody wanted to be a part of it.