This enterprising watermelon and fruit salesman wasn't going to let a little rain shower get in the way of business.
As a storm threatened (and it did pour after a while), he tends to a customer attracted by the blood-red watermelon halves visible all the way across the street from the intersection of Price and Paredes Line Road.
If anything, the nice showers washed the melons and freshened the day a bit before the oppressive heat returned and turned the day into a hot, humid afternoon.
We hope that by publishing this photo we don't get the enterprising salesmen in trouble with the city's health inspectors. It used to be that the city was crawling with these salesmen who would provide fresh produce and fruit before they were required to have health and sales permits by city officials.
Sights like these are more prevalent toward the outskirts of town along state road right-of-way toward the Port of Brownsville, and almost everyone is acquainted with the one leading off US 77-83 on Highway 100 toward Los Fresnos.
During harvest time of carrots, onions and other vegetables, they dot the road along Military Highway in western Cameron County and into Hidalgo County. It is not unusual to purchase citrus and vegetables in 50-pound sacks for ridiculously low process.
As citrus and vegetable production moves toward the upper and western valley, these scenes will be come less common. Many of these watermelon salesmen travel into the neighboring northern counties where the purchase them by the truckload from farmers.
4 comments:
This entreaupreneur understands that "location, location, location" sells products. Very enterprising and we applaud him/her.
Gracias, on my way to buy a H20melon.
Remember when you could purchase the freshes of veg. and fruit right of the busy corners, was great.
Now it is a miricle if you see sales on any corner due to the competition.
It makes me sad to see a family trying desperately to sell, Easter Baskets, Valentine Day Baskets and other items they make only to be reported to the local police by some local business claiming they are hurting their sales and demand they be run off.
The only peddlers you see are the multitude of newspaper vendors running in and out of traffic, wonder why they are allowed onto the roadways yet one can't stand on a corner and ask for donations for a worthy cause.
Oh well, I guess things are just that way. By the way, the watermelon was fantastic!
I ownder if those persistent panhandlers at almost every corner in Brownsville has ever been given a ticket by the health department. They themselves are dirtier than the people who try to sell their products for a living and not just stand there asking for a handout. You have young people with the audacity to stand there and "give me something for nothing" wheh they could be washing cars, cutting grass, cleaning up yards, etc. Oh, but immediately they are disabled. If they are disable, don't they get a check? Son una bola de arastrados!
More power and business for those humble people who actually work for a living and don't depend on handouts!
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