I think it comes from the period right after Kodak invented color in the mid 1950's. We here in the US had it long before the rest of the world and at least 10 years before it reached Europe. I can vaguely remember waking up one morning and finding that the trees had turned from gray to green. We all walked around with our mouths hanging open for a few weeks.
On Sun, Mar 22, 2015 at 6:38 AM, Malcolm Smith <rrve...@virginmedia.com> wrote: > Steve Cottrell wrote: > >> Okay, it's obviously a perception you and/or others have. I'm genuinely >> just curious as to where/how you (possibly) acquired it? > > A perception that many have, and if you drive regularly up the M6, it's easy > to see why even today. Much of the TV broadcast around the world shows this > country in a different age, where there was coalmining, factories and acres > of back to back housing. All grey. > > Today - and in fairness you can point at much of the developed world and > point this out - there are acres of residential/industrial/retail/economic > identikit sprawl, which frankly make the country look as if it has had > successful charisma by-pass surgery. > > Malcolm > > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > PDML@pdml.net > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow > the directions. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
