IIUC only the very wealthy could afford color surroundings, while working stiffs had to make do in a black & white world. Henry Ford had a hand in this, I'm pretty sure. Ansel Adams and Edward Weston did their best to make the Monochromes (as they were nicknamed) feel better about their colorless existance, but at last the breakthrough work of the tireless Sherman and Williams finally brought color to the lower and growing middle classes, in tandem with the postwar GI Crayola Bill.

Most of this may be prefectly true.

Cheers,

Originally Posted By kevonionia
SWT:

Great pic, and that's something that they got a date-fix with the plate. I just wasn't aware that there were colors back then . . . I thought everything was in black and white.
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