While it may sound like the name of a royal princess of Wales, Charlotte Amalie is actually the largest city of the United States Virgin Islands, located in St. Thomas. Below, you can see the celebration in Charlotte Amalie on the 50th anniversary of Transfer Day, which marked the transfer of the islands from Denmark to the United States in 1917. Last year, of course, they celebrated a full 100 years.
National Geographic January 1968
While an enthusiastic sailor on shore leave from the cruiser USS Newport News (and he might be smoking Newports, to boot) hurls a ball at the weighted bottles at Carnival Village, the broad donning the Faye Dunaway floppy hat seems none too thrilled to either score his hits nor score his number. She has spent all day blowing up balloons, and her cheeks are as stretched as Dizzy Gillespie’s.
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Note the look of awe on the boy in the far back.
Poor kid look terrified. Or maybe he was mugging for the camera.
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Terrified, yes.
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Makes you wonder how scary the photographer must have been to cause the poor kid to look like that.
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He was probably dressed like a clown. Evil clowns.
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As Tim McGraw sings, “spent $48 at the county fair. Throwed out my shoulder but I won her that teddy bear.” I like it.
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I love it. I want some more of it, preferably with Tim shirtless. What are we talking about? Oh, carnivals.
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A very nice little town….
that Sailor has mastered the art of pitching with a lit cigarette, which can only be learned with the practice time a Navy man gets at sea when there’s nothing else to do. 😀
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It is impressive!
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Definitely tells a story!
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