the past

Whilst on my paper round I suddenly realised that the world around me had in fact always been in colour. Up to that point i'd always believed that the past was in black and white (probably due to black and white tv viewing and old photos)

I used to believe…

That "guerilla warfare" involved real Gorillas.

I used to think guerilla fighters in Africa meant chimps and gorillas with rifles storming the cities. i was terrified of monkeys at the zoo for years.

When I was about 6 or 7 in around 1977 I always thought that everyone over the age of 20 had been involved in the Second World War and would often ask my parent's friends if they had ever killed a German.

I used to think when looking at old black and white photos that everything was actually black and white and colour was only invented when colour photos came around (Stupid i know, but hey, i was a kid!)

My daughter used to believe that people in the 40's and 50's were gray and white instead of living color because of the photos she had seen from back then, before color photography.

When I was little I thought that the First World War was at the beginning of time and all the history one learned at school (1066, Tudors etc.) was later. I also believed that one of the main changes over the course of history was that men's hair got shorter and shorter (this was the early 1960s)

I thought that when newsreaders spoke of 'guerilla fighters', that they were referring to actual gorillas on the rampage ;o)

I thought the Falklands war was taking place down the road. We lived in Wheatlands, down the road was Pennylands. Naturally Falklands must be next to that.

I used to believe that the whole world was in black and white before colour TV was invented...

Watching all those old B&W movies I used to think that things in the olden days where black and white.

I used to believe…

That since black and white television/movies were old, that no color existed in the "real" world back in the "old" days.

When they used to say on the news that there was guerilla warfare I used to think that gorillas were very clever in Africa, to have guns and all that ... !

I believed that the astronauts from the Challenger disaster managed to survive by diving into the sea.

I used to believe that everything in the "olden days" was in black & white and that colour wasn't invented until the early 1970s.