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Wrigley Field historical sleuthing: Brown scoreboard edition

Wrigley Field’s iconic center-field scoreboard is painted a dark green.

But it hasn’t always been that way. From the time of its construction over the then-new bleachers in 1937 through 1941, it was painted a dark brown.

The photo above is the first one I’ve ever seen in color of the board in its original brown. And based on this tweet, where I found the photo, this isn’t a colorized black-and-white photo, it’s a Kodachrome, one of the earliest color photos of Wrigley Field:

That was a very early use of Kodachrome, as it was first sold to the public for general use in 1936.