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<\/p>\nWhen I was a kid, I loved watermelon (of course, I still do). It was delicious, it was easy, and it was usually served in the summer, which, any kid will tell you, is the best season of the year. It was like that in the 1980s, and I\u2019m pretty sure kids from the 1960s, 1940s, and even the 1800s felt the same way.<\/p>\n
In fact, the vintage photos below are proof that kids from a long time ago loved watermelon. On a related side note: How cool are old photos? They not only LOOK cool (thanks to Instagram, you can make new photos look retro cool, too), but they seem so \u2026 real. Like a fuzzy memory or a glimpse into a crystal ball (if crystal balls looked into the past, and not the future).<\/p>\n
Thirty years ago \u2013 and certainly 50 or 60 years ago \u2013 people took fewer pictures because digital cameras and camera phones hadn\u2019t been invented yet. That meant that you took photos with cameras loaded with film, and you only snapped one or two pictures because you didn\u2019t want to waste the film (getting it developed wasn\u2019t cheap!). Sure, that resulted in lots of blurry photos in which someone was blinking or not smiling perfectly, but you know what? That\u2019s life. Cameras back then captured real life. Or, in the case of the photos below, they captured real life with watermelon.<\/p>\n
Nowadays, everyone has a 6-megapixel camera\/high-definition video recorder in their back pocket, which means you get not two or three photos of the family picnic, but 65 pictures of the picnic, and they\u2019re all online before the watermelon is cut up. Is that a good thing? I\u2019m not so sure.<\/p>\n
But enough ranting about technology. It\u2019s making me feel old, and not in a good way like the pictures below.<\/p>\n
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