{"id":2737,"date":"2020-04-02T04:29:04","date_gmt":"2020-04-02T04:29:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/granburydepot.org\/newsite\/?p=2737"},"modified":"2023-06-29T18:08:11","modified_gmt":"2023-06-29T18:08:11","slug":"melon-memories","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/granburydepot.org\/newsite\/misc\/melon-memories\/","title":{"rendered":"MELON MEMORIES"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

By Kathy Smith, Lifestyles Editor<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hood County News On-Line Edition June 26, 1999<\/p>\n\n\n

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Callie Rollins, 7, namesake of <\/strong>
Callie’s Produce on Hwy. 4 South<\/strong><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

Dog day afternoons in Hood County in the 1920s\u2014running barefoot through the clover, fishing at the river with a cane pole and stealing watermelons.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Granbury native Pig Williams didn\u2019t hesitate a minute when asked if he ever stole watermelons.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“Of course I\u2019ve stolen watermelons\u2014it was just something to do!”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Williams and his friends became “melon-marauders” at the Aiken farm, near the original Granbury bridge, which was near the city beach.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“We had been swimming\u2014not a stitch on\u2014and decided to walk up to Mr. Aiken\u2019s place and get us a melon. We hadn\u2019t been there too long before that old man came after us with a shotgun!”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Williams didn\u2019t really have to go far to get a “five-finger-discount” on watermelons, his father grew and sold watermelons. In fact, the elder Williams was a member of the Hood County Watermelon Association.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“There used to be a lot of watermelons grown in Hood County,” recalls Williams. “They\u2019d truck them out of Granbury in boxcars and on wagons.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“I remember the first day, the wagons would be loaded with 30-pounders; the next day it would be 45-pounders.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Williams recalled eating the watermelons when they had barely ripened to a slight pink color. “We didn\u2019t care, but the first good melon of the summer was always eaten on July 4th<\/sup>.”<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Copyright \u00a9 1999, Hood County News and HCN Online Services.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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