A very, very important recherche question!

[firlefanzine.livejournal.com]

Hi!
I have a very important recherche question!
OK - a little tiff with andreathelion...

I have been in London a few times in the late 70s and 80s.
And I think I remember that Tower Bridge was PINK once...!

Andrea suggested a few declarations for that, and it depends on your good will to decide if I was wearing pink shaded sunglasses at the time, or was a little drugged, - or in another town...

(Just an idea - couldn't it have been some special gift for Lady Di's wedding?)

Has anybody seen the same apparition?
A PINK Tower Bridge?
Please! :-)

Comments

[squeeful.livejournal.com]

I don't know about pink, but it was painted red, white, and blue for the Silver Jubilee. So it has been decorated for events before.

[squeeful.livejournal.com]

It's possible what you saw was a faded red bridge as it looks like they haven't repainted it since.

[firlefanzine.livejournal.com]

You see! It's possible then! :-)

Thanks!

[draycevixen.livejournal.com]

Like Squeeful says it was painted red, white and blue for the jubilee and before that it was brown I believe. Never pink though.

Perhaps you saw it at some stage of faded colour... The light reflecting from the river and different times of day can sometimes cause some interesting affects too.

[firlefanzine.livejournal.com]

That's even a nicer declaration than Andrea's drug theory...! ;-)

[londonronnie.livejournal.com]

As squeeful has said, it was red, white and blue for the Jubilee in 1977. Before that it was a brownish colour, and then afterwards it was painted the blue and white that it is today.

I wonder if you might have seen it lit with red or pink floodlights for some special occasion?

[firlefanzine.livejournal.com]

Then maybe some precoat colour after the Jubilee?
1978 was the first time I have been there, I think.

But strange how memories can fool you...

Thank you!

[andreathelion.livejournal.com]

I really don't know, where the pink came from *g*
Maybe because of a different light at sunset or sunrise ....

anyway, here's a pic from 1982


(http://i7.photobucket.com/albums/y256/silversurfer1/div/scan.jpg)


and it looked the same before, well, in 1979, when I went first. So I can't say, if there were a colour difference before that.

[firlefanzine.livejournal.com]

But it WOULD look great!
(http://s517.photobucket.com/albums/u337/smurfsmurf/Main/?action=view&current=Tower-Bridge_pink.jpg)

(And I would worry much more if I would habe pink elephants in my memories... :-))

[probodie.livejournal.com]

It looked pink when I took my daughter to London a couple of years ago...but I was wearing my pink tinted Chanel sunnies *g*

Which is absolutely no help at all, is it? *g*

[firlefanzine.livejournal.com]

Et Tu Brute?
Sigh! I was so sure...

Chanel sunnies, hmmmm.....?

[andreathelion.livejournal.com]

*runs screaming out of the room*
..... I would prefer pink elephants to that *g*

[firlefanzine.livejournal.com]

*runs screaming out of the room*
Oh, come on! That was because of DSDS and not because of pink TB! :-)
For all who shouldn't know - DSDS is something like 'Britain's got Talent'.

[andreathelion.livejournal.com]

DSDS ?? I hardly have the telly on, so I guess, I'm the only one, who never watches DSDS. *g*

[byslantedlight.livejournal.com]

Maybe you saw something like this (http://image20.webshots.com/20/7/52/89/230175289KACNdK_fs.jpg)? They do use different coloured lights on it sometimes...

[firlefanzine.livejournal.com]

That's very nice, isn't it?
But, no - in the meantime I came to the conclusion that it was just a quite vivid imagination... :-)

Pink is your colour :)

[mungo-jerrie.livejournal.com]

I don't remember pink, but could the tower have been either floodlit or "wrapped" by installation artist Christo? Christo and partner did the Pont Neuf in Paris beginning in 1975, I believe. Google outdoor installation artists, and see what turns up. :)