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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal>When my bride and her two brothers were all preschool age, her grandmother gave her parents one of those new portable movie cameras. Then suddenly, half a century went by. My bride’s mother is in elder care, and her father is not far behind. We have been pulling out these old family movies and converting them to digital format, which is a very expensive procedure, but the content is very valuable to us.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Yesterday we got some of those back and learned that they took the camera with them on a family vacation to the coast. Having grown up far inland, the young parents had really never seen anything like the teeny weeny bikinis that had become so popular by the mid 60s on California beaches. My father-in-law, being mid-twenties with three young children took plenty of footage of the local girls, being completely astonished at the scenery.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Needless to say, I was most annoyed to find one of those expensive videos being more bikini than pictures of my bride and brothers in law in their early childhood. I was an unhappy pappy. But hey, I will cut him some slack; I remember testosterone. Vaguely. Now anyone can download all the bikini video you want, free from the internet, so its value is exactly zero. Understatement: you can get any video of any stage of undress, doing anything you can imagine and anything you cannot imagine, all free.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Then an idea occurred to me. That fifty year old video would be extremely valuable to some people: the women in bikinis. They are now flabby old grandmas, mostly in their late 60s and 70s. Perhaps they have few or no photographs of themselves in that stage of undress at that age, and likely exactly no video. Photography was expensive in those days, and we didn’t use cameras as toys generally. It is too bad I have no known way of identifying any of the women in those old videos, or any way to collect old beach video in some central location to invite people who might have been strutting beaches in the early 60s to come in and try to find themselves and their friends. That might be a hoot.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>spike <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div></body></html>