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September 13, 2015 by tomdalzell

I Love Lucy In Color

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Like many of us, I watched my fair share of “I Love Lucy.”  Oldest daughter Julia watched her fair share too when she was in high school (1999-2003).  We think of it in black and white.

We are surprised when we see color images, be they color stills or colorized shots or even the occasional special shown in color but who had a color TV anyway?

7390311a42eba39acaf73e17803fa358 LucyFredEthel_zps3363fb8d 4cb1443626c321f72087256e2c23d219 i-love-lucy-color-5 i-love-lucy-color Color Images of B&W TV Shows (3)Gabby had sent these photos to my friend with a note: “Black and white. A century or so.  Now not so much.  What does it mean?”

A question like that can really get my friend down the rabbit hole.  I wasn’t going with him this time.  I asked him to write up his thoughts – I’d read them. But what did he think of the photos Gabby sent?  He stood in his work-in-progress Danish modern living room/office and said:

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