Black and White Memories

We accepted that things just weren’t colorful back when our movies and televisions were black and white.

I recall there was a white line in the road, now they are yellow. Tennis balls used to be white; they are now yellow. Street lights were white and now they are yellow. It is said the yellow light somehow deters criminal activities.

Tee-shirts were always white as were underwear. We grew up with white socks and white bread. Before Howard Johnson’s came around there were only two flavors of ice cream.

Henry Ford said that you could buy the Model T in any color as long as it was black. Events were either black tie; semi-formal, or white tie; evening formal events.
There were white knights and black nights. Cowboys wore white hats if they were good and black hats if they were the villains.

Ideology was black and white. Things got weird when shades of gray came into focus. After color finally came through the technological threshold, things got brighter and one would think that we would by now be living is a peacock tail world of ultra color, but as I look around, I see a silver monitor on a black stand. I see a black computer and a black radio. I see an off white printer. Most of the things I see are black, off-white and silver. What a disappointment when we all expected a colorful future.