Shades of nostalgia
'Colleen Northam's granddaughter (C8) wasn't the only one to ask what the world was like before colour was invented,' says Judy Archer of Nelson Bay. 'My niece wondered how we knew what to do at traffic lights. I'm so glad that there is so much colour in my world now.'
Some kids, however, are not thinkers. For Peter Miniutti of Ashbury, 'Colleen's story reminded me that my wife was once asked by one of her students when the world became colour. The problem was, my wife was a high school teacher.'
'I first saw colour TV on Halloween, 1967,' claims Mike Fogarty of Weston (ACT). 'It was at a USN officers' club in San Diego. The film was the King and I. YulBrynner looking resplendent in his colourful robes. Presumably, his wives had to settle for Thai silk Zouave pants? Visiting London in 1979, I got to see the great man play his signature theatre role. Quite a performance. I missed the introduction of colour in Australia in 1975 as I was overseas again.'
Mary Carde of Parrearra (Qld) explains that lack of saleswomen (C8): 'It was usually men doing the door-to-door selling. We're talking of the era when women were mums, confined to the home while raising kids, cleaning house, washing clothes, baking biscuits and dealing with various door-to-door salesmen. That is, until Tupperware was invented. And that's when the partying began.'
'I remember sitting on the stairs watching the neighbours attend our hosted Tupperware party in the late 1960s,' writes Geoff Carey of Pagewood. 'My mother was rewarded with a lettuce spinner and a celery keeper for her trouble, which to be fair lasted many years, taking up much space in our congested refrigerator.'
Paul Barber of Windsor wishes to highlight another turning point: 'Ding, Dong – Avon Calling'
'As a fully qualified Susan, with an honours degree in languages, specialising in historic languages, I'd like to make an observation on the matter of doubling letters (C8),' announces Susan Bradley of Eltham (Vic). 'Doubled consonants generally shorten the preceding vowel; anything else would be rather suss.'
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