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03-19-2015 01:25 AM
Last edited by Ratickle; 03-19-2015 at 09:04 AM.
P-4077 "The Swamp" S.B.Y.C. and Michigan medboat mothership
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03-22-2015 07:07 AM
Florida East Coast Railway, Key West Extension. The P and O steamship City of Key West at the P and O Dock at the end of Duval Street early 1900s. Photo from the Library of Congress.
Today in history:
1898: Lt. Cmdr. Adolph Marix, carrying the final report of the USS Maine Court of Inquiry, sailed on the steamship City of Key West for Washington via Miami.
1902: Mark Twain and Thomas B. Reed were in the city on their way to Cuba.
1927: Harvey E. Firestone, auto tire manufacturer, stopped in Key West on his way to Havana.Parabellum FJ²B
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03-23-2015 06:57 AM
1924: The first six holes of the golf course on Stock Island were opened for play
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03-24-2015 06:41 AM
1822:Mr. Hemming arrived from Mobile, Ala. with workers and material to erect the first house on the island
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03-25-2015 08:30 AM
1822: Lieutenant Matthew Perry, U.S. Navy, raised the American Flag over the Island of Key West for the first time and the Keys were formally taken in the name of the United States. Lt. Perry named the island Thompson's Island and the harbor Port Rogers, in honor of the Secretary of the Navy and president of the Navy Board. He fired a 13-gun salute followed by 13 regular toasts.
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03-26-2015 12:22 AMTaken from who?
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03-26-2015 07:00 AM
1961: President John F. Kennedy and British Prime Minister Harold Macmillan met in Key West to discuss the situation in Southeast Asia.
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03-28-2015 03:34 PMYou're ignoring my question?????
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03-29-2015 07:25 AM
No.
But his great, great grandson was on Friends.
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03-31-2015 08:16 AM
Photo taken by the Property Appraiser's office c1965; 800 Whitehead St.; destroyed by fire c1975; Padron's Grocery
1971: Racial unrest over the arrest of a 15-year-old led to two buildings being fire-bombed. The Benitez Grocery on Simonton Street was damaged by a firebomb that may have been a decoy for the attack on Pardon's Grocery at 800 Whitehead St., which was destroyed by fire.Parabellum FJ²B
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04-01-2015 06:23 AM
The two building center right was all that remained of the 100 block of Duval Street.
1886: A fire started at 2 a.m. at the San Carlos Hall on Duval Street between Fleming and Southard Streets, burning for 12 hours. The fire destroyed the block around the San Carlos then crossed Duval and burned almost every building between Simonton and Duval from Fleming Street to the waterfront. The estimated loss was over $2 million.Parabellum FJ²B
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04-03-2015 12:09 AM$2 million would be like one of the smaller buildings now......
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04-06-2015 06:11 AM
Today in History:
1823:Commodore David Porter issued the order to name the town and island Key West.
1903: Workmen at the Naval Station uncovered a cave that contained a man's petrified body chained to a chair. Sitting nearby were two kegs of gold, one of American Eagles and the other Spanish doubloons.
(If I had been one of the workmen, they would have just discovered a Skeleton )Parabellum FJ²B
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04-07-2015 12:02 AMLooks to me like that says Allenton???????
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04-07-2015 06:31 AM
The Victoria Restaurant at 201 Duval Street
1935: Joseph "Sloppy Joe" Russell purchased the building that housed the Victoria Restaurant on the corner of Duval and Greene streets and moved his Sloppy Joe's Bar from its location at 428 Greene St. to the building.
1939: The schooner Western Union launched. The last large schooner built in Key West, Norberg Thompson built the ship for lease to the Western Union Telegraph Company.Parabellum FJ²B
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04-08-2015 07:18 AM
1928:Pauline and Ernest Hemingway arrived in Key West for the first time on the Peninsular & Occidental steamship from Havana.
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04-09-2015 06:15 AM
1942: The Norwegian freighter Benwood, loaded with phosphate, collided with the tanker Robert C. Tuttle, killing one man. The Benwood lost power and drifted until she grounded in her final resting-place on the reef in what is now the John Pennekamp Coral Reef State Park. Both ships had been operating at night without lights because of the fear of German U-boats operating in the area.
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1953: Mom's Tea Room, the Stock Island bordello for 11 years, closed. County law enforcement authorities never officially admitted that Mom's existed and the reason for the closing was never confirmed but rumored to be pressure from the Navy.Parabellum FJ²B
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04-09-2015 07:54 AM
They renamed her "Bentwood."