As soon as console television sets became a way to outdo the neighbors, everybody forgot about the Staircase fish.
When my parents bought their house, they immediately tore it out and then covered the demolition debris with hundreds of layers of newspaper to quell public embarrassment.
A wall-side staircase in a moderate 1950s suburban home, with wainscotting below the staircase enclosure on the non-wall side, and a giant pink and grey fish bladder sticking out of the wainscotting, the fish bladder is fully inflated and brightly pink and grey, 1950s home, conservative, but clean and ...