Bewitched Second Season-Colourised Version

[63getelevision]

According to a thread in the Imperial department, Frigidaire had "Sunny Yellow, Aztec Copper, and Turquoise" in 1965-66.

 

[irishwashguy]

I saw lots of green, and not the good kind

Growing up at my house, my mother loved green, and so much so that when they had the house built, there was green shag as far as the eye could see. There is still any entire room, my sister's old one with the hot pink walls and the green shag. You could loose small nations in( as well as bobby pins, barbie shoes, pennies, etc) the Hoover payed the price for it. Everything else at our house was harvest gold and or white.The Frigidaire builders appliances, and the drop in range that made slanted cakes, A friend of mine says that real birthday cakes are slanted, why? i don't know, she followed that with a big smile and a laugh. My mother still lives in the same house.Thank God that time has given way for everything to be white. Still a clasic.
PS----What was with the fade in on appliance colors, in particular laundry appliances , The middle is lighter ,and the edges are darker? i would see my friends at Sears and always noticed that. -------coppertone was more 60's than avacado as far as i remember, I can's say for sure, at my age, I did not live it.

 

[63getelevision]

Everything for years was so economy in this house. My retired father moved us in here, brand new, Nov. 25, 1961. Green house with white shutters on two of the windows, white trim, white Terazzo floors with brown pebbles, kitchen had white cabinets with gold flecked white Formica, Sandalwood walls in the hall, living, dining, kitchen. Sister's tiny room was light blue, my brother and mine grey, and our parents was green. I think the bathroom walls were light yellow, the tile is white, the fixtures are green. Every wall is currently beige, the terazzo in the living dining hall is carpet, bathroom and kitchen are some early 80s Armstrong flooring. Appliances always dead white. Square footage is an overloaded 975.

 

[danemodsandy]

Irishwashguy:

Those darker edges are called "shaded". The idea was that it made the colour look richer. GE had an unshaded coppertone colour for a while, and it looked pretty blah; I'm including a link to a photo below.

The rollout of Avocado was the first real hint that manufacturers were not going to play fair any more- when Avocado came in, pink, yellow and turquoise went POOF. My grandmother got a new house in '68 that was only a few years old, with yellow appliances. She could not obtain a yellow refrigerator to match (this was way before Craigslist and the Internet). When those '60s appliances began failing in the '70s, she ended up doing exactly what the manufacturers intended for her to do- replacing the yellow appliances with Almond.

There had been some discontinuance of colours before that- some greens and blues had been dropped by both GE and Frigidaire- but the Avocado debacle was pretty much the first sign that "across-the-board" colours (meaning colours offered by all manufacturers) would be messed with.

http://atlanta.craigslist.org/hsh/410746081.html

 

[Washinsheen]

"Bewitched" appliances

Are you sure about Samantha's appliances being avocado green? I'd seen a few episodes of the colorized version, and the appliances kind of looked a pickle looking yellow. It was like a yellow with a sick greenish tint, or something. So, was that a real Frigidaire color, or what?

 

[63getelevision]

I found out through the washer forum, that avocado was not available in Samantha's '65-'66 vintage Frigidaires. My second season colors are a cross between washed-out Hamilton-Beach soda fountain mixer green, and putrid avocado. Samantha had either Sunny Yellow, or Turquoise.

 

[beadsobleach]

Black and white in color

I always thought a book showing black and white TV sets in color would be fun. I remember seeing a color photo of Dick Van Dyke's living room in color. I always wondered what those sets looked like. The Cleavers, Lucy, etc. Somewhere color photos must exist.