Richard & Jason Bright World's Champion 200 lb. Hope Watermelon

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HOPE AANLAS Richard & Jason Bright World's Champion 200 lb. Hope Watermelon

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HOPE, ARKANSAS “The World's Best known Market For Big Watermelons" This watermelon gained two titles on August 26, 1979. That date it became the first watermelon to weigh 200 pounds or more and was entered in Hope's annual water- melon Festival as the world's largest watermelon. Hope's previous record melon weighed 195 pounds and was grown in 1935. Photo by Clyde Davis, Hope, Ark. Pub. by Hope Advertising and Tourism Commission 64217-D dp DEXTER PRESS WEST NYACK, NEW YORK