Only in the Keys

[Bobcat]

his Head is still going...

 

[Bobcat]

1883 – Sailors from a warship anchored in Key West Harbor were arrested and brought before the court on charges of “riding horses in a manner that threatened pedestrians,” after careening recklessly down Duval Street. The judge dismissed the case, saying the six men had been at sea a long time and deserved some recreation.

 

[Bobcat]

1946 – A “black market” movie theater was operating in a tent in the 400 block of Catherine Street in Key West. The theater was admitting children under 16 in defiance of a ban prohibiting youngsters from gathering in public places during the polio epidemic.

 

[fund razor]

Twenty years earlier there was a polo epidemic in Hialeah.

 

[fund razor]

In the 80s there was a Jai Alai epidemic in Hialeah.