“An American Girl in Italy…..”
“The year was 1951 and having just quit her job in New York, 23-year-old Ninalee “Jinx” Allen Craig, was touring Europe alone, something women rarely did at the time. She found a hotel in Florence for $1 a day where came across another American girl, Ruth Orkin, who was also traveling alone. Orkin, a 29-year-old aspiring photojournalist and Jinx, a statuesque 6-foot beauty, decided to team up for a photo essay documenting what it was like for a woman traveling alone in 1950s Europe.”
Jinx went exploring, had lunch, shopping, and visited monuments and museums alone, at a time when, I am guessing, was considered safe to do. Nowadays, traveling alone is often seen as unsafe, whether you're a woman or a man. The world feels different now, largely because of changes brought about by certain individuals who changed.
There are some people believing this photograph is staged. Not! Jinx said this is real. In fact, there is another photograph that I didn’t use of her taking a ride on the scooter with the cute guy to her left wearing a dark sweater, or something.
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