20 Years ago

50 years ago.



The Bauer dredging company was deepening the main ship channel and constructing a 30-acre island for the navy fuel tanks.(Sunset Key today)

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Charles P. Thompson invited four students from May Sands School to check the house at 1400 Seminary St. for ghosts. The ghost experts found the premises free and clear of any ghosts but they did find a lot of scary stuffed animals from Thompson's African safari with Ernest Hemingway.
 
50 years ago.

The Havana Madrid Club, for many years notorious as a strip palace and den of prostitution and B-drinking, was put out of business when the state removed its liquor license.

An agent of the Florida Sheriff's Bureau was called in to investigate the theft of the two keys for voting machines.
 
50 years ago.


An Air Force man after making an obscene call to a young woman, agreed to meet her, where he was arrested by the Key West Police.
 
Could you imagine if they arrested people today for obscene phone calls? Or texts? Or tweets?
 
Nice fish !


The Heritage House Collection, donated by the Campbell, Poirier and Pound families; Robert Spottswood (kneeling on left) fishing party appeared in the New York Journal December 15, 1934. From a collection of photographs taken or collected during the 1930s by the WPA workers in Key West.


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Elena Milagro Hoyos tomb inthe Key West City Cemetery C 1940. From the Stetson Kennedy Collection.
Tuesday, June 10, 2014
50 years ago:

• Workmen were demolishing the mausoleum in the City Cemetery that Karl Tanzler Von Cosel built for Elena Hoyos. Von Cosel later stole the body and lived with it for seven years before he was discovered and the body was buried in an unmarked grave.
 
50 years ago

Mrs. Ella G. Johnson was the winner of the Pepsi Cola five-minute shopping spree at Kwik-Check supermarket. During the spree she gathered up $129.23 worth of groceries.(In 1964 that was probably three cartfuls of stuff !!)

Key West Police arrested four women and three men from New York City who were operating a prostitution ring from a downtown hotel.
 
50 years ago.

• The shrimp boat Danile brought up a 6-foot Navy mine that demolition experts determined was a dummy.:smash:
 
50 years ago.

Stacy Rowell Ford had a 1954 Desoto four door sedan, called "The Fishermen's Friend", for sale for $69.95.:driving:



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Stacy Rowell Ford at 1117 White Street 1962. Wright Langley Collection.
 
50 years ago

• The two funeral homes that provided ambulance service to Key West told the city and county they were suspending operations on July 21.

(conflict of interest ?:biggrinjester: )
 
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