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EDITORIAL Also in January's issue we have Elliot Baron's follow-up article on leases on Bill Westray: Fighting the Good Fight Happy 1989- city-owned properties--what they are and The Story of a Man, a Woman and Commitment A ne\y year, a clean slate. With the what they could be. Bud Jacobson reports holidays over we can shake unwanted that political chattering is slow, still it never perceptions and ideas and take a fresh look completely stops. by George Halloran All of us knew that Bill is seriously ill at the world. Evidently some new In the fiction department Solares Hill is with cancer. But no one made a big deal out approaches are in order. For all our running "The Origins of Blamelessness," a of it — Bill, because he still has a lot to do technological, commercial and industrial strong and important poem by George IVl arge Westray would rather this and is intent upon doing it; Marge, because sophistication we still haven't solved basic Murphy and On South Beach, June Keith's wasn't being written. It may well be true she's been there before with both her problems like what to do about the powerful short story. Writer Al McKee, that her husband Bill is an irreplaceable parents and she's not one to complain about homeless, where to put our trash and how incidently, had a poem accepted last month resource, a tireless worker and an her lot. If it were up to Marge, Bill's to manage the reef. by Five A.M.--& literary quarterly that inspiration to those who actively defend our condition would be a family secret. Don't Head North publishes work "too touchy for other natural resources. But Marge would rather But take a look at the nature of these Bill and Marge met on a blind date while problems and it becomes obvious why they literary publications to handle." not say so in public. Without Them! Congratulations. she was a student a Lindenberg College in aren't solved. Who's problems are they? She and Bill will have been married 50 St. Charles, Missouri and he was a young Accepting that they are oMra—instead of Remember the Key West Literary Seminar years this June. And for all .that time she civilian pilot working for the Navy at a sending them down the pike-is a first and the Arts Explo Craft Show take place has been the solid, quiet foundation for a nearby base in St. Louis. She told me that step.But then what? this month. The seminar offers fine films man so outspoken in favor of the at first she "didn't like him at all." All responsibility requires one common and readings by seminar speakers at the environment that he has been sued, commitment-time. If every person in Key library without charge. And, of course, the harrassed in public, and threatened in But Bill was impressed enough to buzz West devoted, say, two hours a month to craft show is always free. See pages 11 and private. the campus in his biplane, being careful to help solve any one of our problems, what 32 for details. And while Bill will happily run on about fly sideways so the headmaster couldn't would be the effect? We don't know—yet. Solares Hill wishes everybody a warm, his latest battles to help save Key West or catch his numbers and turn him in. In his profile of Bill Westray, writer wonderful and healthy 1989. Let's make some incident from his past, you have to Eventually the fly-overs had an effect, and George Halloran estimates that the this year the best of the decade. pry information from Marge bit by bit. after a year of courtship Marge agreed to environmental activist has spent over 1000 Until next month- She's not timid. But she is a very private marriage. hours in meetings. That doesn't include the Ann Boese woman. At the time, Bill was an aeronautical countless days, nights and weekends That's how it was a few weeks ago jack-of-all-trades. He had started as a devoted to research, phone calls, reading, when I visited the Westrays in their modest volunteer apprentice seaman in 1937, and notes. Key West can't expect one person to Sunset Drive home. They bought it in 1954 began tinkering with airplanes almost carry that load forever. It just won't happen. Our cover artist this month is Ann and have lived there ever since. Both say it ...footprints Read "Bill Westray: Fighting the Good Irvine. An extremely popular Key With a copy of the Bill Westray Day Proclamation in hand, immediately. was "the best thing we ever did." the honored environmentalist stands with City Commissioner "I did all the routine engine maintenance, 610 Duval Street Old Town Fight" and find out more about this truly West artist, Ann exhibits her work Harry Powell. Photo by Doyle Bush. remarkable man and his wife and friend, at Guild Hall Gallery on Duval and made any repairs to the air-frame which Marge. Street. W hen I walked in, Bill sat at a table nearby, ready to help if she saw fit, but in those days was linen stretched over with a stack of papers and the telephone. happy to be playing second fiddle to a man wood," Bill recalled. He also learned to Marge was washing windows and hovering accustomed to leading the band. sew, and began repairing, testing and il SUBSCRIBE dburci Key'West's

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I decided then to East Coast, the Florida Straits, San Juan, During the late '40s they were in and out three children, was born. make the Navy my career, and applied to the Jamaica •— all over the place. For the first of Key West several times. "Key West was "Bill had earned $54 that month packing Naval Reserve as an aviator." time I got to see Key West. the center for all anti-sub training," Bill parachutes, and I remember the hospital "This was 1944-45 and we had been •*•*•****•**•••******•••*••* explained. "We flew from here to Trinidad costs for the baby came to $51," Marge said losing a ship a day. We spent a lot of time on training missions." with a smile. out there following oil tankers and when we One such mission, out of San Juan on "You had to pack your own were in the air they were safe. The subs May 2, 1950, nearly ended in disaster. Bill B>y this time Westray was a certified chute and then trust your own were no match for aircraft." and his 10-man crew had just located the commercial pilot on active duty in the Naval work on the way down." Bill said his crew spotted the enemy a "enemy forces" during midnight maneuvers Reserve as "station-keeper" at the tiny St. few times and dropped depth bombs. But about 400 miles from port when one engine Louis airbase. He taught parachuting and ••**•••*•••**•••**•••••••••• most of his wartime duties consisted of on their huge seaplane quit. survival to about 50 to 75 pilots a month "boring holes in the sky, day and night, "We were flying against the wind trying and had been to survival training school Bill received a direct commission and sometimes flying 10 to 15 hours in a day." to work our way back to shore, but the himself in Lakehurst, New Jersey — the went to New Orleans for flight instruction. The most dangerous times were during plane wouldn't stay up so we had to ditch," blimp base where the Hindenberg burned. He trained in the same class as actor Robert flights with student pilots. "Every student Bill recalled. "There was no moon and we "I'll never forget that first parachute Taylor. Marge recalls that she and Barbara wanted to kill you and they tried every way couldn't see the water, but we knew the Bill and Marge in about 1948. Photo courtesy of the Westrays. jump," Bill said. "You had to pack your Stanwyck were the only two wives who possible — from losing control in a dive to seas were about 15 feet. own chute and then trust your own work on pinned the wings on their husbands at messing up a landing," he recalled. "We bounced three times, tore off a float the way down." graduation. and broke the tail, but we made it down. His next assignment was to fly blimp Bill's skill in the air soon landed him a 1 he war finally ended and the My copilot put his arm through a window, patrols along the coast to Newfoundland. A job as a flight instructor. But after a year he following weekend Marge rejoined her but there were no other serious injuries and first-class petty officer, Bill was a wanted action and applied to become an F-6 husband. He was now a lieutenant, and we managed to get a raft blown up and get machine-gunner on the blimps. fighter pilot. after some retooling at Tufts University for into it." Bill went back inside the sinking aircraft to located a missing crewman who was found while Bill was searching. Bill had to jump to reach the raft. Harbour *•*••••*•***•***•*••*•*••*** hts "The plane sank •QUALITY Restaurant five minutes later..." *Barrelhea •SERVICE "The plane sank five minutes later," Bill Superb Local Bar continued. "We put out an S.O.S. and were Seafood located by a passing commercial flight. Raw Bar They called the Navy and we were picked •PRICE Open 7 am -10:30 pm Located up in just over four hours." Breakfast on the Bill calls that May his "month of trial," Lunch water at Dinner Garrison because 20 days later on a flight from Guantanamo Bay to Norfolk he was forced NOBODY BEATS US! Bight Marina down again when an engine quit 200 miles 294-9343 from Cape Hatteras. "We managed to limp along on one Audio • Video • Car Stereo engine to Okracoke Inlet and landed in wind blowing about 75 miles an hour. We lost Bill in a J-2 Piper Cub after his first solo flight in 1939. Photo our anchor, and rode out the night tucked in Cassettes • Compact Discs courtesy of the Westrays. behind a sand bar with the remaining engine running at fast idle to keep up off the shore," Bill said. "Those are the times when you earn your flight pay." In 1951 Bill and Marge spent a year in Representing the Finest Manufacturers: Fine Dining Monterey, California . After he finished • ALPINE • BABB • BLAUPUNKT • CASE • postgraduate work there he was assigned to Washington, D.C. as a specialist in flight •CLASSIC RESEARCH • C.W.D. • DENON • management. He had advanced to • ESOTERIC AUDIO RESEARCH • HEYBROOK •. QUEENS TflBLE lieutenant. • INFINITY • JBL • KICKER • KLIPSCH • M&K • For several years Bill flew back and p forth as a trouble-shooter, solving problems • MAJESTIC • MEI • MONSTER CABLE • NAD • 6:00 p.m. to 10:30 p.m. at bases on the United States mainland, in • NAKAMICHI • PHILIPS • PIONEER VIDEO • : : : : '. '. •;• •". •' LUNGH/;;;y' ;;'. '::::.;. '' the Philippines, Japan and elsewhere around • ROCKFORD FOSGATE -SONY • TEKNIKA • Noon 'til 2:00 p.m. the world. • TOTE VISION • YAMAHA • AND MORE ... BREAKFAST One problem was the lack of 7:00 a.m. to 11:30 a.m. sophisticated equipment at isolated airstrips, where military presence was needed in a hurry. SALES SERVICE "I. helped develop a complete advanced Uncommon Clothes for airbase in kit form, so to speak, loaded Gulfside Village Searstown 11450 Overseas Hwy. Uncommon People aboard a special ship and ready to go Marathon Key West Marthon EXCLUSIVELY AVAILABLE AT anywhere in the world," Bill said. 743-4376 294-4434 743-2802 PERKINS & SON CHANDLERY Cocktails in the popular "We could put into port and have a base "... the best motel restaurantI ready to operate, complete with radar,, in town, The Queen's Table," WEST INDIES LOUNGE Noon 'til? control tower, mess hall, the whole works,- -NY Times (Jan: 31. 1982) in 12 hours." Continued on-page 4t\. I AT THE SANTA MARIA MOTE I. l3O5l29h^5(.78 _' HOI SIMONSTON ST KtY WfST. riORIDA Page 6-January 1988--Solares Hill Solares Hill-January 1988-Page 7 of police and fire chief to see what. "We've been in the position of being brought the matter to the city's attention and equipment they required. Verbal lists criticized for making a deal that the city, the time a decision was made by the court. Lest We Forget included a breathing apparatus for the fire maybe, should have. I think good business Halloran said recently: "We should have He Who Leases Low? iMughs Loudest department and a canine unit for the police. sense prevailed, but there are certain had someone in that courtroom asking the But even if negotiations get back on track individuals who now feel they got the short judge to consider the public's interest. and the Pier House agrees to pay ten times end of the stick. But the people they should Telling him, 'we want to be locked into by Elliot Baron .West the Chamber not only leases an Building, located at the corner of Front and more than the city currently collects, the rent be criticizing are not [those at] the Pier these negotiations; give us a right of first historic building on Wall Street (next to Simonton Streets. Currently held by the would still be a fraction of what the city House for buying it, but whomever, for not refusal.' Instead, we weren't there." Mallory Square) for next to nothing, it Pier House, that lease generates $300 per could have collected had commissioners taking advantage of the same opportunity." Halloran is confident that had the city W hile property taxes in Key West receives tax dollars from the Monroe month and will not expire until the year been more aggressive in attempts to regain That could be the one topic on which acted without delay, the outcome would reflect an alarming increase in assessment County Tourist Development Council. The 2020. While City Commissioner Jimmy control of the property when Hand Print DeFeo and former commissioner George have been different. "I knew we could have figures, the actual value of land here has Chamber pays $10 per month for its Weekley had initiated talks seeking to Fabrics declared bankruptcy in 1985. Halloran agree. Halloran says former City gotten better than what we have now — a soared even higher. .building — a facility which could easily increase the city's rent, the Pier House Using standard formulas, the city could Manager Joel Koford and former City whole bunch of transient rooms and the The City of Key West has major real draw $50,000 per year on the open market. broke off negotiations in August after the seek an annual rent of about $400,000. Attorney Joe Allen III failed to take the same piddling rent as before." estate holdings which, if properly managed, That lease runs through September, 1995. Florida Department of Community Affairs intitiative with the Bankruptcy Court in the could produce substantial income for the filed an appeal to the proposed development early days. He points to the many months lairing such leases and the city's poor city — income which could reduce burdens of the structure. 1 he company's failure was announced that lagged between the time he and Cates Continued on page 29 on the local taxpayer. Unfortunately, the In a later interview with Solares Hill, in May of that year. But despite urging by bulk of the property is tied up in long-term Weekley explained the increases which had two commissioners, months passed without leases at rates that are favorable to the Consider the city's been discussed. He said that because the the city taking any action to acquire the tenant. Favorable, in some cases, to the contracts with the Chamber resort had paid $1 million for the building lease. On May 23 and 24, City Manager point of being virtually nonexistent. of Commerce and the Key and lease in Bankruptcy Court he had Joel Koford received a phone call from Consider the city's contracts with the suggested an annual rent of $24,000 to Commissioner Emma Cates and a written Chamber of Commerce and the Key West West Yacht Club. The yacht $30,000. memo from Commissioner George Yacht Club. The Yacht Club, for instance, club pays only 8.33 cents a He said that the Pier House countered Hallorah. Both urged city staff to initiate pays only 8.33 cents a month for a valuable month for a valuable site that lower rent would be sufficient if the immediate action. - site fronting North Roosevelt Boulevard and overlooking Garrison Bight. resort also made a substantial, one-time Halloran's memo read: overlooking Garrison Bight. Primary donation to the city. Rather than just It would seem to be in the best funding for this private social club does not increase revenues to the general fund, the interests of the City if we were to come from annual dues or high-priced food Pier House wanted to make a gesture that initiate some contact with either the and drink; the income is derived by Then there's Flippers and O'Brien's at indicated concern for the welfare of Key Pulitzer company as owner of Key subleasing, at market value, city property in the Wharf. They paid the city $4,230 last West. West Hand Print Fabrics, or the the form of 66 boat slips. The city entered year. Their lease is good for 13 more years. Weekley said that he was asked to come trustee of the bankruptcy into that lease in 1961 for a term of 99 up with a "wish list" of items that the city proceedings regarding the lease for years. needed. "Something like a fire engine, only City property at Simonton and Front In many cities, the Chamber of JL/ast month, this column examined the not as expensive as a fire engine," Weekley Streets. Commerce is self-supporting. But in Key status of the city-owned Hand Print Fabric explained. Weekley checked with the chief We now lease that valuable property for $300 a month, and if we can regain control and lease it for

RAYMOND J AMES & ASSOCIATES, INC.! "We've been in the position of being criticized for making Member New York Stock Exchange S1PC a deal that the city, maybe, should have." Don DeFeo STOCKS AND BONDS MTALL Pier House General Manager IRA AND PENSION PLANS TAX-ADVANTAGED INVESTMENTS true value, we could bring a large amount of new revenue into the OPTIONS • MUTUAL FUNDS City. The lease indicates City approval is necessary for assignment or Offices Throughout Florida sublease to individuals or Concerned About You and Your Financial Well-Being corporations. Since the current lease extends until 2020, this would seem to be an item of extreme importance YOUR financially. Will you please take whatever steps may be necessary at this time Piilatas & Decorations FLORIDA KEYS BROKER to protect the City's interests here? Thank you and please keep me Live Clowns, Ponies, Magicians informed. Key West: 294-9575 also I Perry's Plaza, 3706 H.N. Roosevelt Blvd., Key West ML YOU CA V £/>r£l/£&D4 yf Thalat October, Bankruptcy Court Judge * Belly Stripper, Female Stripper and f sp/cy s Sidney Weaver ruled in favor of Hand Toll Free: 1-800-826-7401 (Inside Florida) Print's motion allowing the sale of the lease Male Strippers, DJs, Live Bands, Balloons i Toll Free; 1-800-327-5964 (Outside Florida) as an asset. Still, the city did not get involved and the lease was subsequently Linda Alfonso • 1411B 1st St. • 292-7772 1 sold to the owners of the Pier House. In an interview 'with'Solares HUl',*J?M:- House General Manager Dorr £)eFea said: Solares Hill-January 1988-Page 9 Page 8-January 1988-Solares Hill in town (they've taken long leases at a few HOMB IS \AltfEK£You% STOFF 15/ places) to get the sewage disposal plant on Fleming Key built and in working shape. Political Whispers from the Birdcage The question is: Will we live that long and ~ 3 be able to afford it? Two of these people have mentioned to locals that the plant will not be on the line by Bud Jacobson stand near the bus station the winter and working until August or September. months. When vagrants disembarked, he Hrnrnmm. would, almost immediately, steer them onto What then about the penalty fine that the A he hustings are quiet. Even a lot of the next bus headed for Miami. In the city is supposed to pay to the government? the well-known rumor mills in the city and middle of la saison (as we call it in the art around the county are deserted in this galleries) the cops would round up 20 or 30 January of 1989. There's more talk about of the wandering band and drive them to the Sometime soon, maybe before the county line where the door would open and April 1 deadline set by the county the weather than about local politics. commission, the Tourist Development Far, far down the line are the city out they'd get. Of course, a few days later, Council (TDC), a nine-member appointed elections in the dull, dead heat of summer. you might see the same faces around town. board, is supposed to stop haggling and Mayor Richard Heyman and two One reason for much of the straying into figure out who its next administrator is commissioners, Sally Lewis and Jimmy the Duval Street district is that Caroline going to be. Then they're supposed to tell Weekley, will face the voters. Street, once the southernmost skid row, got the county commissioners. MONROE COUNTY FINE ARTS COUNCIL The lone whisper (and getting old, at classy; the long line of beaten-up barrooms There's a considerable bit of political Parvan Bakardjiev, General Director that) centers on Hizzoner The Mayor: Will and dim street lights gave way to better scampering, according to insiders at the presents he move to Hawaii (some of his property restaurants and guest houses. county building on Stock Island, because has been sold and there's a slimming down SYMPHONY POPS CONCERTS the TDC, dragging down its revenue from with the of his holdings here) and open the race to bed-taxes, oversees a budget in excess of $4 one and all? Chasing that rumor is the one O ne of the gripes along Fleming JACKSONVILLE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA million. And that can lead to influence and The first County-wide tour of Florida's official touring orchestra floating over the head of his longtime pal Street, between Simonton and Whitehead, is power among the politicians. • and political savant, former Election the way unfamiliar drivers continually make presented with the assistance of TIB Bank of the Keys Supervisor Peter Ilchuk — will he run for Commissioner Virginia Panico for her the wrong turn at Simonton (or Bahama Even commissioners got into the act mayor? toss-'em-in-jail solution to the vagrant Street) and zoom merrily west on a one-way saying they would not be adverse to taking There will likely be much hauling and drifters who, in a ghostly fashion, seem to artery going east. the administration, instead of naming an outsider. tugging, balloon trials and appear in downtown Key West every night. Maybe politicians should opt to blacken testing-of-the-waters before anything even They aren't the world's greatest subject for the traffic light at Duval and Fleming so it Sandra Higgs, who has been the TDC looks like it might happen on the political a high-style video promo about the glories doesn't show red-yellow-green to drivers at administrator for the past three years, is still horizon. of the island. But, at the same time, is jail those intersections who think it signifies an on the job. the answer to the problem? okay to turn in the wrong direction. The plum in this department is still up for W inner of the Hard-hearted Hanna Time was, but no more, when Police Not a whisper, but apparently a hard grabs. Hj] Award (and not up for re-election) might be Chief Benvenides (Bienbi) Perez used to fact, is that top-level engineers and execs are HOT1 ICE COLD BEER YOUR CARGO COMES FIRST WITH We give mm . 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Page 10--Jartuary 1988-SoIares Hill Solares Hill-January 1988-Page 11 T Financing the Annex Arts ExploCraft Show $ 1.00 i .-$2.00-" by John Leslie 1 OFF! investment pay off. father, says that the kid is under pressure. Now in its fourth year, the Arts Explo Craft Show is on its way OFF! W anted: A few good investors. No doubt about it, but it isn't unusual; he's to becoming an event that residents and visitors look forward to Any Regular Priced Any Regular Priced Negotiations are in progress between Jrlow do you make a $200 million been under similar pressure with previous each year. Staged the last weekend in January, it is the final event LP or Cassette. 1 Compact Disc. Winthrop Financial Associates of New York investment pay off? This is a key question, projects. "He manages somehow an of Arts Explo '89, a festival that offers the Literary Seminar, Not Good On Not Good On and Boston, and Pritam Singh to add a one that no one seems prepared — or wants incredible financial juggle," Cole says. Renaissance Faire, student art show, seafood festival, photography Sale Merchandise 1 Sale Merchandise major investment shot-in-the-arm to the — to answer. A look at projected sales But he's never managed at this level. exhibit, Christmas concerts, theater, dance and film festivals. development of Truman Annex. As of a figures for the residential part of the Annex Cole himself acknowledges that it's like Crafts are known as a "cottage industry" which dates back to the Limit One Per Customer I Limit One Per Customer few days after Christmas no deal had been alone shows how vast the problem is. going from a nickel-and-dime neighborhood settling of this country. Craftspeople today are continuing a Offer Expires 2/1/89 Offer Expires 2/1/89 signed. Averaging the cost of all townhouses, poker game to the high stakes games where tradition as well as celebrating the occupations of their forefathers. Rumors of the impending transaction condos and single-family homes to be built no one is expected to sweat. The woodworker from Michigan, the jeweler from California, have been circulating for awhile, some on the Annex, and assuming that they will But whether you play for a dime or a the weaver of rugs from Ohio, the potter from Texas — craftspeople OF ROCK T-SHIRTS going so far as to state that it was done and be 100 percent sold, the total revenue thousand bucks, the process is the same; come from almost every state in the Union. Exhibitors at the craft VHS MOVIES SALE PRICED Pritam Singh, the Annex's current owner generated comes to about $57 million. you know how to play the game, or you show are a diversified group coming together in Key West to show and self-proclaimed midwife to the $200 That's $143 million short of the projected don't. their skills in a chosen art. NEW RELEASES - CASSETTES & LPs $5.99 million development project, had given up $200 million total development cost — a cost Rather than a card shark, Singh may Over 70 artists comprise this year's show and will be vying for 60 percent of his control to the Winthrop that will undoubtedly rise over the years as operate more in the tradition of early $1,000 in prize money and ribbons. Judges will be Dr. Frank • OFRAHAZA • BOY MEETS GIRL Corporation whose portfolio of properties is construction costs rise. wildcatters in the oil business, playing with Wyroba and Dr. Richard Duncan. They are on the staff of the • JEFFHEALEY • JULIA FORDHAM listed at more than $6 billion. Can the commercial space ~ which someone else's money while keeping his Department of Visual Arts at Florida' International University in "Not true," says John Cole, spokesman includes the marina, two hotels with a , fingers crossed. Miami. Both are experienced jurors having served in that capacity - STEVE EARLE • YAZZ-$6.99 for Truman Annex Corporation, who maximum total of 218 rooms, and retail One of the reasons he may be having to at many outdoor art shows and gallery exhibits, in addition to their ' GERALD ALSTON • GIPSY KINGS - recently confirmed that while negotiations shops — to be built on the Annex and Sunset turn to new investment brokers right now is years of teaching and personal art experience. $6.99 • are underway "nothing has been signed, and Island (formerly Tank Island) make up that that the major banking investors who made The Key West Players, Inc., sponsors of the craft show since Singh will seek the best possible deal that $143 million shortfall? Answers are hard to the early loans on Truman Annex are calling its inception in 1986, continues its tradition of supporting the arts in Open 10 am - 9 pm Daily will allow him to maintain control of the come by to such direct questions. in their markers. Key West. During Arts Explo '89, the Players will present the Fri.-Sat. 10 am - 10 pm project -- including looking at other As noted here last month, Pritam Singh The concern that Pritam Singh's pockets original Denim and Diamonds, a musical tribute to the ladies and Sunday 11 am - 6 pm prospective investment opportunities." is highly skilled at the PR game, a willing were never deep enough to allow him to stars of country music, conceived and directed by Jody Rae As reported in last month's Solares Hill, participant in discussions of his personal purchase and develop Truman Annex while Geckler and running through January 8. For the first time in its 49 924 Kennedy Drive Key West's love affair with Pritam Singh vision and the aesthetics of developing the at the same time keeping control of it, was years, the Players will present a film.festival from January 18 to in Key Plaza has always hinged on Singh's keeping Annex, but reluctant to allow an inside look always a legitimate concern. He appears 22. The specially selected films of Elizabeth Taylor from National control of" the Annex and his ability to at the intricacies of his financial empire. now at the brink of proving his negotiating Velvet to Giant will be shown at the Waterfront Playhouse. MUSSCffQiiS 296-6655 develop it sensitively, without the Is he in trouble? . skills. The Arts Explo Craft Show will be on January 28 and 29 from overbuilding previous developers have Can he do it? Keep your fingers 10:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. at Whitehead and Greene Streets in Old MUSIC, MOVIES, AND MORE. suggested would be necessary to make the J ohn Cole, who is also Pritam's foster crossed. [H Town Key West. All are welcome; admission is free, g J KEY WEST, FLORIDA Did You,Know...? The American Kite Flying is Great Summertime Fun! 24th OLD ISLAND DAYS ART FESTIVAL ;:|M|^t|p|||yi| FEBRUARY 25-26, 1989 A Renaissance A WHALf "SPOUTS" gf FCPCIMG WATEfT CJTCf r0U CAN IDCNTIFY DlFFeTOJT TVPfS OF Mallory Square trs BLOWHOLE. 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by George Murphy which provoked the dance of serpentine dances, the dance of water, There were birds galore and atree the flash of machete, and days that hadn't names yet the passion of fruit. and the rush and dash of the sea made women wistful in their gardens, more The mongoose was dutiful; thus changed the dance. flamboyant than the bougainvillea in their hair, The world grew, well, easier, fangless and competent. 60tA REAL TOO6H as they closed their eyes and swayed. Less wary, the men. Less fruitful, the garden. And there were snakes abush and abundant Less ardent, the women, more untroubled then. LIFE AIH'T EASY JUST KicK My and the blush of fruit made men both lustful and %-T BezTeD At er, see ? MAI<£ ANEVJISTAFT. uneasy; their machetes flicked out We did not notice enough for this took a long time. at the serpentine flow and flux in the brush, much, Longer still it must have seemed to the hummingbird so much like their sinuous dance, done alone, whose months we call hours, in the hills by the sea. who knows the world through its tongue, and whose tongue is where it belongs, in pleasure, And there was some man's idea of order who is busier being than all else, against all this yearning: whose heart beats like god, "Allegient," he said, and "playful," he said. who,"were he wiser, more attentive, •fOOPLE-OO. M>vJ/S 7N£ T/tyE "Efficiency expert, protector of children." even cared, could see all our mistakes "Here, the mongoose," and opened the cage. inch by inch as we made them. But what of it? He speaks his tiny voice RALPH And, oh, how things changed. The strange of motion for himself, pure, and aimed LAUREN and complicated times that had merely been, at his own sweet pursuits. Olde A HEALTHY grew simpler. The brush grew feverish with play, or say, death, uncoiled and slitherless. And the mongoose: Ah, poor villain. POLO Island Praise him now too, for his hunger. REALTY/INC Soon the mongoose, efficient defender, He is innocence incarnate, protector of children, HAPPY 1989 jj grew hungry and so ate the birds whose swift and ruinous purity which had eaten the insects is but love gone blind assortment inc. I Hi which pollinated the fruit over a dance he had need to consume. 404 duval street • key west i TO ALL OUR j which bore the blossom (Antigua, 1987) FRIENDS IN THE FLORIDA KEYS! WHEN QUALITY

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Sonnets W alking the dusty floors of the San Carlos building is sad. new San Carlos. Built of concrete, it was the first fireproof The quiet of its empty rooms is haunted by memories. Unfulfilled in the woods: are fast moving building in Key West. dogs that shoot and forgotten, high hopes and desperate dreams have settled here. October 10,1924, the Spanish baroque structure was dedicated "You have to poison arrows." Yet for the first time in over two decades, sunlight streams through as one of Key West's first public schools. At the time its bilingual the windows and brings warmth to the cavernous hall. The San be careful of programs were considered progressive. Cuba opened a consular the sonnets "How can they Carlos is under reconstruction. office inside its impressive cedar doors. Opera and drama out here." do that?" "It was the dirtiest place I'd ever gone into on a job," recalls continued weekly in the grand 350-seat auditorium at the rear of the Turner Construction foreman Forest Williams. "The auditorium building. "How can they The old man was deep in ... well, human dirt." Five years later the Great Depression struck town. The hurt me?" said grinned: His boots scuff red clay tiles laid in the lobby 20 years ago auditorium became the Palace movie theater, and contributions to the boy. when the San Carlos was resurrected as the Palace movie house the school dwindled. Still, determined teachers continued giving "Sonnets "Through the holes showing Gone with the Wind. Forty-four years before that the free English lessons to those willing to learn, and Spanish lessons are poems." in the top of their floors were covered in black and white marble, rescued from an old to those anxious for a better understanding of their heads, of course." Spanish monastery and shipped to this country. One of the Majolican tiles lining the walls of the San Carlos. Photo by Richard Cuban-American neighbors. In fact, much of the building originated outside this country. Watherwax. Famous local tilesetter Thomas Linares dressed the concrete walls chest-high with red and blue Majolican tiles from Seville. The tiles After this country broke diplomatic ties with Fidel Castro in are glazed with a tin compound; they cast a hauntingly beautiful 1961, Cuban funds were exhausted and the school closed. The iridescent sheen. Other monastery tiles survive under shields of JL he community raised funds for a three-story frame building building became a hobo stopover. The chandelier installed in the TENNESSEE- W I L LI AMS dirty plywood. at the 516 Duval Street site in 1883. But the structure burned down lobby for the run of Gone with the Wind disappeared. A The San Carlos Institute wouldn't exist today if the Cuban three years later. A new building went up in 1889, becoming bullet-pocked stone set at its entrance to honor student victims of F:.l N E ART SCENT ER government hadn't ordered its construction in 1919. Most of the famous in this century for the appearance of performing artists like the original revolution is missing too. Institute's background, however, stems from Cubans who came to tenor Enrico Caruso and dancer Anna Pavlova. The stage was hi 1984 Jan McArt offered to turn the San Carlos into a dramatic is providing transportation on the Key West to escape Spain's occupation of their island. Originally situated behind classrooms where Cuban-Americans attended theater to "rival anything at Lincoln Center." A court fight forced in 1871 they started the Institute as a school over on Ann Street, school. her to dismiss that plan. where the children of cigarmakers learned two histories: their own The San Carlos was named after Carlos Manuel de Despedes, a But mostly the drive to restore the San Carlos has come from OLD TOWN TROLLEY and that of their new nation. wealthy sugar planter who led the Ten Year War against Spanish children of Florida's Cuban emigres who fled Castro's revolution of 1959. Fifteen thousand of their parents gathered in the San Carlos on April 23, 1966, to draft a "Declaration of Freedom." Forest Williams points out one of the 1 ^0 epoxy-filled cracks which vein the thick concrete walls. Three million dollars have been funded for restoration, most of it from the state of Florida. of Bridgehampton, N.Y. According to plan, a Cuban-American Heritage Museum will open later this year at the building's long-unused address. Little will be made of Castro's 30 years in Cuba. 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Roosevelt Blvd. 7:15 PM BUY»SELL • TRADE 'BARTER «CONSIGN FPRMpRE INFORMATION CALL: 2S»4-<5232 Page 16-January 1988-Solares,5HHI Solares Hill-January 1988-Page 17 I was truly fearful that Mother would tumble Fluvanna, Texas became proud of my your friends along the way are going to be lodged atop my stomach within reading there is one picture — a lady in a purple to my undercover treachery, Al Smith being mother as a strange, remarkable lady. One, Democrats. When I see that I am growing range. The book's weight has misplaced dress floating supine up there over very low on her Richter scale. She had she was a Quaker. Two, she was an artist. fond of a Democrat, I suppose I look like a the anatomy of my pelvic region which now Chagall's Russian village. She is on an such an unfathomable capacity for loyalty to Three, she was a Republican. When out of squirrel confronting a doubtful nut. is squeezed over, stationed slightly off to outing with her sweetheart, and the picture the Hoover camp that I know that the fat towners visited Fluvanna, Texas, folks my side like a pie plate. The compelling is named "Promenade." drove them past our place to point out I look back upon all the affronts endured will be in the fire. because I stuck like a barnacle to the I am stretched out on a green sheet which At this time I am age five and am reading Mother. She was to Fluvanna, Texas what Republicans. A lady on an Eastern airplane makes me feel like I am resting on a billiard W hen I come back here following a Flopsy, Mopsy, Cottontail and Peter Rabbit the Eiffel Tower is to Parisians. There was table. I push off Chagall's book and finish for mental development. The corners of my a local fellow, Abel Deere, who was rather a 38,000 feet over Atlanta leans over and says summer absence, I am told about how many- to me, "The only way to get rido f Richard my Republican odyssey. Republicans there are up the Keys. imagination are beginning to fill up with the plant-like person. He was, well, slow. He fanciful. I figure that I will be put out for herded for the town people a few milk cows Nixon would be to put a stake through his Oh, of course, I can see my dear A traveling friend brings this arresting and goats in a nearby pasture. heart at a crossroads." I cannot say that I "When you describe an news, but she doesn't care to talk about adoption by a cruel gang of Democrats and affluent Republican man, you Republicans' broadness and their will be made to change my name from Fluvanna, Texas ranchers and farmers: respond more sympathetically to a school narrowness, their individual-tilted idealism, Republicans. She has returned from Mexico teacher who politically stands to the right of say that he is rich. A Democrat with a tiny, fashionable, long-haired dog Frances-Elizabeth Jones to Frances- "There are two Republicans in Scurry their paltry meannesses; I can see them County -- Abel Deere and Miss Anna." Attila the Hun. She attests, "When you is not rich. He is a poor man without sentimentalism or gilding the lily. I she discovered lost and running through the describe an affluent Republican man, you streets of Merida. She picks him up and Years later, when I arrived in Key West, with money." simply like the classical design of the girl at the Supervisor of Elections eyed say that he is rich. A Democrat is not rich. Republicans. brings him across the U.S. border, hidden He is a poor man with money." under a shawl on her arm. She goes to the me like she had unearthed something primeval. "Oh, you don't want to register Republicans or Democrats, best to see vet who examines her new pet. book of Chagall's work is, of course, politics with hearty humor and tenderness "There is good news. And there is bad Republican!" There were earnest tears in her eyes as she pleaded with me to adopt a N,ow I am reclining, looking at and chock-full of men with beast-head masks, a for both parties, and sympathy for the joys news," says the vet. "The good news is supporting a 25-pound Marc Chagall art ladder to nowhere, blue-green lovers, a and pains of this world, ffl that this animal is perfectly healthy. The reason-dominated political style. Well, you know me, wild horses wouldn't... book, a coffee table Christmas gift. It is so woman washing her feet, stone crosses, bad news is ... it is not a dog; it is a Elizabeth Coolidge or, worse yet, Frances- hefty that it must be lifted onto me and flower bouquets sprouting mid-air. And, Mexican rat." Elizabeth Hoover. These Democrat gangs Friend leaves. I muse, regarding who roam that path below our farm on the Republicans. I first found out that I was a Pecos River will jump out upon me from Republican when I was a girl in little red behind the overhanging salt cedars. rompers. My mother, in no uncertain I take a fresh corner of coyote to chew terms, told me that I was a Republican. on and picture the torture. I already have a vaccination scar the size of a communion JtS eing a devoted paper-doll player wafer and under that they most likely will then, the best-looking male doll I owned tattoo that Democrat donkey. naturally was named Herbert Hoover. Mother had an unbridled passion for lVl y father passed away early, and in Herbert Hoover. In my box I had 46 time I acquired a stepfather who moved the PEACHES paper-doll ladies. There were only seven two Republicans to Fluvanna, Texas, a tiny PORT SIDE decent-looking paper-doll men, because ranching town on the Texas Panhandle. OF- KEY WEST hapless Montgomery Ward catalog men Republicanism still was the marrow of my KEYWEST usually had to be cut off at the knees — the mother's life. It was an idea quite legs up to the hips had writing on them. uncommunicable to my stepfather, an Introduces... Heady with early rebellion, I covertly awfully good egg but a yellow-dog named a very good-looking paper-doll man Democrat. Consequently, the words EAT, DRINK & a complete inch loss program Al Smith. Al Smith was running against Republican and Democrat were forbidden to I ow that I have rounded the corner of Herbert Hoover for president. be mentioned at mealtimes. Thus, the 60,1 have seen the hazards of politics. You Lose 3"-15" In One Hour I can recall lying in my room chewing on Golden Shore of Love and the Peaceful Sea must, during the vicissitudes of life, become BEMERRY v., a corner of a coyote skin on my trundle bed. of Harmony reigned on that rancho. reconciled to the fact that a multiplicity of EXCITING FOOD & DRINK UNDER THE PALMS OR IN OUR AIR- Cabot's® ComputerCblor Stains MatchingSystem CONDITIONED INDOOR DINING ROOM PAGE'S PAINT Venture to Portside Key West, MON SINCE 1902 a creative gourmet restaurant where dining ranges from fresh zesty seafood VIC LEAMON preparations, exotic Eastern curries and OPEN 24 HOURS PRESIDENT YUME 11M White St. • Key We.t, FL 33040 « 296-3422 * 296-5500 tantalizing Thai dishes to the island's 'Gate of Dreams' finest N.Y. Strip steak with your choice DAILY SPECIALS of herbs, spices, and Far Eastern specials.

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Teresa was a beauty, and skilled at She'd had a Cuban boyfriend from Miami peddles of her bicycle, and she looked up to grooming herself. She used to repeat her by June Keith like a small rag-bag army with unshaven from a lawyer in New York. He took the named Alberto. He made enough money so see she had arrived at her favorite bar. It routine in the late afternoon, just before armpits and hairy legs that drove Teresa and papers to the courthouse because he had Teresa could stay at home while he worked. was cold inside the Full Moon, cold and dinner, but she no longer hasd the desire or xeresa was thirsty, but not thirsty her friends into fits of wild giggling. wanted to do the honorable thing by the very dark. the inclination to negotiate the line between enough to move. Through slit eyes, she What were they called nowadays? beautiful, nimble- fingered, • hairy-legged At first she liked staying home, but She had no money, but it didn't matter day and night. gazed beyond the sand to the edge of the Her brothers, Tony and Angel, called the Lorraine. before long it began to bore her. Alberto much. She would drink until someone she Mostly, it seemed, the best she could ocean, imagining it to be a mirage on some girls hippas back then. Tony had married a From the look of that letter, Tony and his and his family were what she and her knew came in and picked up her tab. Or ever feel was the way she felt for that first arid desert where she'd collapsed for lack of hippa girl when he was 18. The girl, whose mother had perceived that Lorraine's family mother called "old fashioned Cubans." maybe it would be someone she didn't little while, early in the morning, on South water. name was Lorraine, was 16. But she had was trying to make it seem as if Lorraine Alberto had a plan for everything ~ a pattern know. Then, they would go on to another Beach, before it got too hot, or too Was she dreaming? Or daydreaming? lied about her age. had never been to Key West, had never met for living to which he expected her to adapt. bar, or bedroom, or motel. crowded. The fuzzy line between consciousness and Tony, had never been his wife. Then she met Rafael at the beach. The Whoever it was today, she hoped he Teresa liked to lay her cheek down on a subconsciousness had grown elusive for Teresa envisioned the words "Tony" and excitement of cheating on Alberto was wouldn't talk too much. She liked to keep soft towel and gaze across the beach just Teresa, until her state had become neither on "Lorraine" carved into the sand, and then explosive. Her life became a game of her thoughts to herself, and she didn't care after it had been cleaned by the county nor off, neither into it nor out of it, not quite she imagined a giant wave crashing onto the intrigue. She schemed to spend every much about anyone else's. grader. When the sand was fresh and happy, but not sad either — just there, ; beach, washing the names away as if they'd possible moment with Rafael while still When the sun rose, she would go to her unblemished, with no letters carved into it, watching. never been there at all. maintaining straight-laced Alberto's home as mother's for coffee. Her mother would try no castles built on top of it, no footprints It was July, hot and dry. Teresa loved a perfect Cuban wife should. to make her eat eggs or grits with cheese, pressed into it, she was reminded of a clean, South Beach in the summertime when the 1 ony was in prison in upstate Florida. Rafael bought her a tiny diamond ankle but she wouldn't. If she had met someone new slate. only other people there were weather-worn Teresa had promised to write to him, but bracelet and Opium perfume. She wore the particularly interesting the night before she Then she thought about how easily hippies who wandered along the beach as though she thought about him every day, bracelet to bed with Alberto, wondering would tease her mother with stories about things got all messed up. ffl listless as summer waves lapping weakly she had not written. Now that he'd been upon the shore. gone for two years, it seemed too late to Teresa smiled, remembering a time 20 start. Open September thru May years earlier when the hippies had arrived Teresa thought a little about New York City as she rose from the beach and worked LET US briefly at brushing sand from her arms and CHEAP ROOMS legs. Thirst propelled her now, bringing ENTERTAIN YOU her to full consciousness. The sun was directly above her and she was anxious to move herself into an air-conditioned bar. Day What Teresa remembered about Lorraine She pulled a turquoise Sloppy Joe's Tennessee Williams Fine Arts Center, or was that she baked great cookies. They T-shirt over her head, and wondered if Key West's Finest Restaurants, Week weren't the kind Teresa made, the kind you Lorraine would remember her if Teresa & 5-Sixes Cab Company Color TV bought already made into dough and then were to somehow make it to New York AC sliced off to cook. Lorraine made hers from City. Lorraine had once told Teresa that she Offer You A Memorable Evening! could make a lot of money up North Off-Street scratch — chocolate chip, peanut butter and, Parking at Christmas, thin sugar cookies baked into because she was bilingual. At the time, little angels and Santas. Teresa had wondered how her Spanish Teresa thought Lorraine had been raised could possibly be of any value on a farm. Dine at one The TILTON HILTON of the on a farm because she knew so much about But now, as she squinted against the S-. i cooking. Until Lorraine came, Teresa had sun, she saw herself saucily dressed in a participating 511 ANGELA ST. 294-8697 never cooked anything at all - except maybe chic, short dress right out of the pages of restaurants, those frozen cookies. Cosmopolitan, wearing stiletto heels, sitting see a theatre event, Lorraine had borrowed Teresa's on a soft, stuffed leather chair with one & let 5-Sixes mother's sewing machine to make short thigh crossed demurely over the other, do the driving! GUY W. KENNEN skirts and baggy shirts out of scraps of taking dictation in Spanish for some A fine collection of All at an material she had bought at McCrory's Five powerful, New York City businessman or attractive price! The Paint Store and Dime. Teresa had to admit that lawyer. She imagined the man's eyes antique and decorator 1111 Key Plaza Shopping Center Key West, FL 33040 Lorraine's creations were really quite chic, following the line of her legs, down her Chinese art for a Phone: (305) 296-5291 especially considering that they were thighs to her knees, and then her ankles as 1 homemade. she pretended not to notice, busily sophisticated clientele, Independently Owned and Operated scribbling away with a sharp new pencil. W hen Lorraine's parents finally came As she hoisted her leg up over the center to Key West to get her, some six months bar of her bicycle, she sighed, remembering after she had married Tony, Teresa and her the mysterious language of shorthand, with Movie Memorabilia mother were surprised to learn that she was its tiny squiggles and dashed curves. It had Excellent Selection of Stills from New York City, where she attended.a always eluded her, though she'd tried, three Posters, Lobby Cards& Color private school for girls. Years later Teresa times, to take the course in high school and Photos, Old & New met a guy from New York City in a bar who then once at the junior college. Rock Personality Posters had once dated a girl from that school. He Why couldn't Teresa Rivera learn to said only very rich girls went there. understand shorthand? she wondered as she Tony loved his lost wife. Eventually it peddled her bike onto the hot asphalt of had stopped bothering him that she didn't Duval Street. She was certainly bright, shave the hair from her armpits or her legs. everybody thought that. And her Spanish FOR It was soft and pale blond, like the hair on a was much better than passable. FURTHER DETAILS, peach. He had begun to enjoy the downy CALL feel of it in an erotic way right around the IVlany, many times she had lied about THE BOX OFFICE time that her parents came to his mother's her background to men whom she met apartment in the projects and tapped, oh so sunbathing at the Pier House pool. 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Page 20--January 1988-Solares Hill Solares Hill-January 1988-Page 21 What Can't the Cat Man Do? cracking the whip. on duvo by Liz Smith man in charge of these pint-sized But Roudoudou dreamed of beasts other J= LETCUE R O unset, Mallory Dock. At the north predators is Dominique Lefort, the Cat Man than lions and tigers. And one day his fate end, near the boundary wall of the Ocean who, with his feline co-stars, performs each placed him at the window of a pet shop, Key House, a large crowd is forming. night at sunset. Although Dominique gazing at a small, tabby kitten. Roudoudou d \— nd /—\ Push closer and the crack of a whip can be recently suffered the loss of his star was fascinated by her waving tail; she a heard above sounds of awe from the performer Marlene, who was killed by seemed alert and intelligent. Thus was the audience. Closer still and meet the intense dogs, the show goes on. portentous appearance of Marlene. gaze of a man, clad in leopard print shirt and Dominique had attempted to train two WE SPECIALIZE IN CUSTOM CUT CORAL ROCK tight black pants, as he stands, whip in cats before Marlene, but she proved to be hand, at the center of a circle of snarling the turning point of his career. He worked beasts. A circus act, here on Mallory Dock? steadily with her for six months, "acting like The whip cracks again, an animal grimaces the mother" -- using basic 1024 DUVAL STREET/294-2032 OPEN NOON TO 5, EVERY DAY in defiance, the crowd is respectfully stimulus-response techniques, rewarding hushed. But the sound that emerges from her with food and affection, playing with the beast is not the roar of a lion; it is the her while gradually introducing routine plaintive peep of a little kitty - a house cat's work. He concentrated on teaching the cat OPEN NOW THRU MAY 6 meow. "how to make an effort," gaining her ^^'/JBHBHHnifcilBBMflHlnlJH^ Sharky, Spot, Mars and Piggy perform a attention for longer and longer intervals. At scaled-down version of a big-top, big-cat first she trained for just thirty seconds, then act. They jump through burning hoops, two minutes and gradually further and they turn on the spot, they sit up on their further until she "learned how to push hindquarters and they leap from stool to herself." A SWEATER stool. It is a surprising sight. Those As Roudoudou persevered and Marlene familiar with cats can attest to their Dominique Lefort fixes a telepathic gaze on one of his four developed, the mix became more work and FbR EVERYONE .. DOG aloofness and independent spirits. feline performers. Photo by Richard Watherwax. less play until Marlene could maintain a Cats simply do not possess the canine Dominique is French and has been in the thirty-minute performance. Dominique 5-FACINGA desire to please, and appease, people. entertainment business since leaving school. credits his success to an identification with NIGHTLY POST TIME 8:00 PM WATERFRONT CAMPGROUND & TRAILER PARK SATURDAY MATINEE 1:15 PM Anyone who has even toyed with the idea of For 10 years he traveled the United States the feline psyche, not merely presentation of IN DOWNTOWN KEY WEST training a domestic cat has probably and Canada as a clown named Roudoudou. the edible reward. It is the bond between LAMPS WALK 10 011) IUWNAIIRACIIONS' MOBILE H0M£. APARIMtM COMAUt WNIALS assortment inc. It'(l VAN MOIORHOMtS 1RAIIIR SUES-FULL HOOKUPS. HOI SHOWLRS DUMP SIAIION BERENSON'S abandoned the notion with alacrity. The He worked shopping malls, fairs and him and his animals that wills them to OLD TOWN BICYCLE RENTALS KEY WEST KENNEL CLUB invention of a perpetual motion machine circuses. During stints in the latter, he perform. Although he says he's not 223 ELIZABETH ST., (305) 294-5723 "Southernmost Track in the U.SA." would be an easier path to fame and fortune. watched the animal acts and dreamed of the particularly fond of cats, Dominique RESERVATIONS WELCOME Stock Island Phone:294-9517 Yet, here we are ... day when he too would stand centerstage, Continued on page 22

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Cats are not social by Jeanne McClow intense in flavor, for "it is at this point the animals, they are highly independent and Feast of Sunlight, by Norman Van Aken, diner's hunger and need for flavors are most possess no intrinsic desire to be part of a Ballantine, New York, 1988, 308 pages, critical. After these desires are satisfied, we team. $2250 would naturally be inclined toward more lightness and subtlety." THEANTICHUMOROFRICHARD WATHERWAX To be able to impose his will upon the JV1 aster chef Norman Van Aken has cats, Dominique feels it is necessary "to be a Feast of Sunlight includes a section on been flirting with national acclaim for stocks, sauces, and salad dressings, as well cat myself." He communicates with his several years. Formerly executive chef of animals in "cat language." Physically, he as pesto, salsa, and tapenade; it also Key West's award-winning Louie's contains a discussion on the structure of a uses his hand like a paw in a swift Backyard, Van Aken is now chef and movement to gain attention; telephathically, sauce and how to make it work for you. I co-owner, with Proal Perry, of Mira — Another section details he commands them to fulfill his goals. named one of South Florida's top 12 "I read vibes, they are better than words nice-to-have-on-hand items to be made on a restaurants by South Florida Magazine. rainy day and tucked away in the larder for or gestures," Cat Man said. During a show, Increasingly, members of the gourmet this means a great amount of concentration, later. They are those litde things that make a world request his time. But since one must good dish great — roasted garlic and particularly if Dominique senses disapproval travel nearly to Cuba to see him and for him in the audience. "Then I have to fight these preserved lemons, pickled okra and ginger, to travel the restaurant must close, Van chutneys of mango and apple, black pepper vibes of the people who don't want the cats Aken has collected his recipes in Feast of to do it." brioche, homemade ricotta and sausages, Sunlight. herb-cured salmon. An important behavioral characteristic of This book will delight Van Aken cats is territoriality. In Dominique's act, aficianados and tempt the uninitiated with each cat has its own stool which remains in the delicious promise of new culinary a fixed position in relation to the props. adventure. Feast of Sunlight offers far Thus, the cats can quickly orient themselves more than Van Aken's talent; it also shares in unfamiliar settings. This fixed position his knowledge of and insight into food. gives the cats security, even in a setting like The 80-hour-a-week, hands-on chef long Mallory Dock. ago mastered the basic art of cooking, The MOID'and Domino's Pizza "Cats are freaked out by water," which affords him the freedom to work Integrity. Dominique said. "Also, cats don't like to be toward perfecting a style, recognizable • agree on one thjirig... surprised. You will surely win their respect today with just a savory mouthful. Van if you can show them that you can react Aken's style stems from a natural passion Reliability. faster than a cat can act." ...saying NO! for contrasts — pitting hot against cold, Chef Norman Van Aken in the kitchen at The cat trainer has developed his own spicy against sweet, cooked against raw, cat-like reflexes to the point where he can Mira, where even a common carrot can GIGNA 4 todrugs-j crunchy against smooth — and his become a work of art. Photo by Richard Experience. move faster than the animals themselves. fascination with the French techniques of Watherwax. Auto-Ule-Home-Business According to Dominique, "You have to saissement and echange ("sealing" and But anyone who has savored a Van Aken show them that you are top cat." "exchange") or, as he translates, "shock" meal will find his tastebuds aquiver in THE As an observer of this extraordinary and "seduction." For instance, the meat in a anticipation of the dessert section. He may show, it is interesting to ponder just how far stew has been "shocked" by searing; then it even know about Van Aken's long-time Dominique's self-proclaimed telepathic is slow-cooked with other ingredients to powers might permeate. Despite pastry chef, Susan Porter, who contributed PORTER-ALLEN create a "seductive" blend of flavors. the delectable recipes here and whose magic ambivalence and downright disgust on the Interplaying these subtleties, Van Aken hands, it is said, can make puff pastry puff "" " 'COMPANY part of defenders of animal rights, most offers such provocative combinations as in even the steamiest of climates. Key Largo 451-1980 responses range from astonishment to wild V i sauteed veal steaks with rum, plantains, and Working with classic dessert ingredients Marathon 743-9008 INSURANCE enthusiasm as Dominique puts his felines Key West 294-2642 through their paces. To his detractors, Creole mustard sauce; game bird ravioli like chocolate, sugar, vanilla, meringues, SINCE 1891 with citrus pasta and sauce adobado; "My and richly flavored creams, Porter can bring Dominique asserts that these cats would not David W, Freeman, CP.C.U. perform if they were treated less than Short Stack" with fois gras, parsnip to reality every luscious, sweet dream of the pancakes, and savory caramel sauce; roasted child's palate, as well as tempt the more William A Freeman, Jr. • kindly. William A Freeman III, C.I.C. There does seem to be a special rapport calves' liver with Madeira, country ham and complex one of the adult. The latter she between the two-legged animal and his sweet melon; and even a simple Caesar achieves by introducing a savory flavor or four-legged friends. The cats often make salad steak tartare — Van Aken's favorite two to the sweet, as in calvados apple contact with their human, rubbing faces way to shed a pound or two. He writes: turnovers with black pepper feuillete or the against his legs, hands and head. Spot will "It's loaded with protein, garlic, greens, and chevre and ginger tart or the chocolate weave his way between Dominique's feet as Parmesan, and these are the things that fritters with blueberry sauce. As Van Aken the two stroll the perimeter of their make me happy." almost ruefully recounts, she has even been makeshift stage. For his raw ingredients, Van Aken known to marinate strawberries in his Since Dominique has almost the usually uses those of the region, as the 25-year-old Italian balsamic vinegar. exclusive on this type of act (he believes book's title suggests. This includes places Feast of Sunlight is filled with there is a similar one in Russia), he has with ever-sunny skies and sparkling seas - information a cook needs to know: how to appeared on several TV shows, among them the Mediterranean, the Gulf States, Mexico, handle chili peppers; putting together a 20/20 and Late Night with David Letterman. the Southwest, the Caribbean. It is not simple batterie de cuisine', careful wine Still, he chose Key West's unique sunset surprising, then, that seafood is dominant in suggestions by partner and wine observance as the site for polishing the Van Aken's cuisine, often in earthy connoisseur, Proal Perry; imaginative ideas performance. His theory is that if the combinations — sauteed shrimp with for varying the recipes according to region At Domino's Pizza", we don't Key Welt 3128 Flagler Ave. — 294-9584.- animals can maintain their concentration in anchos, tequila and red onion salsa or and season; such helpful hints as "tortelliw. usually see eye-to-eye with 922 Truman Ave. — 396-7795 are supposedly modeled after the navel or. the NOID. We do agree with frig Pin* Key - 872-4498 this distracting setting and entertain the often paneed grouper with Alabama oysters and him, though, that kids need Marathon the Venus de Milo, so now you know what 6679 Overseas Hwy. —743-2266 boisterous crowds, then they will be conch butter sauce. More au natural support in learning about . Planlatjon Key "brilliant" when he introduces them to a treatments include his braided sashimi of red to look for"; and the chefs own gently drugs and how to avoid them. M. M. 88 - 852-8855 humorous recollections. Key Largo -more formal audience. snapper andyellowfin tuna with tart herbal Please join us in encour- M M 99 —451-4951 aging kids to learn and Dominique has his sights set on a dressing and mixed lettuces. Feast of Sunlight offers a bright window MOID' and me MOID character are use the only good word for registered trademarks of Domino s Pizza permanent position in a circus show staged into Van Aken's fragrant kitchen, one that drugs: NO! Inc NOID' design in Claymaiion' by Van Aken often designs to "amuse," Will Vinion Productions Inc in either New York or Las Vegas. Until frequently with his first courses such as the you know is overflowing with fresn c 1988 Oominos Pizza. Inc then, he extends an open invitation to the titillating pan-fried crap cakes'with'musiarU"' north end of sunset to come see what the cat bearnaise. Some times,, these. areCvw •< man do. gj| ij Solares Hill-January 1988-Page 25 Page 24-January 1988-Solares Hill THE PRIVATE MASK

Perhaps the best photograph can convey by Dick Burke simply and easily what is beyond the power of words to express. When I first started shooting, | shot only Street photography is hunting, pure and color. More often than not the subject turned simple. The camera is a gun that collects rather out to be color itself. I found myself passing up than kills. The camera stops time which, slowly wonderful shots because they weren't color. I or quickly, is killing us all. didn't realize how much color eclipses the I am always searching for something that is subject until I got into black and white. I still like truly worth saving. It can be sublime or some kinds of color photography -- when it's so ridiculous, beautiful or ugly. When I go out on subtle that color and black and white seem to the street I never know what I'll get. Sometimes mingle. I come home with little more than a tired body. I spent a few years wandering through There is a restlessness in street museums in San Francisco, almost every day. photography that agrees with my own makeup. After awhile I was interested more in the people A lost opportunity quickly is replaced with a looking at the art than the stuff on the walls. I GIRL WITH CAKE fresh one. 1 keep moving. imagine enough of the art soaked into give Today, more than in the past, life is lived on some of my photographs a classical cast, but it the street. The private mask most of us wear is isn't intentional. I don't go looking for it. Then, becoming visible. Key West itself is becoming too, some things never change. I don't think kaleidoscopic. Duval Street and Mallory Dock anybody alive today has emotions radically are extensions of the airport. Duval used to be different from people who lived hundreds of the main drag of a small town. years ago. Downtown is getting to be in spirit, if not I once read an essay titled "Tragedy and the appearance, like Manhattan without Whole Truth," by Aldous Huxley. It made me skyscrapers. You hear European languages aware of how much tragedy and comedy everywhere. A large segment of the intermingle in life, constantly shading each FREDDIE KRUGER AS A BOY, FANTASY FEST '88 population changes daily, giving us a other. permanent settlement of strangers who are Until August of last year I worked for Monroe J:\ here for an experience. County Emergency Medical Services. I had no BEN AND RUSTY More than anything else I like the way I feel desire to photograph highway trauma or when I'm smack in the middle of life with a mangled bodies though I saw many photos of it camera and 1 know that sooner or later I'm going taken by others. There was never anytime for it to come across something wonderful or magical anyway. I got into photography, as a specific or fascinating. That intuition generates an antidote for that particular job. Black humor was excitement that makes the drudgery that one way to stay sane. comes with photography a small price to pay. Unless you consider Fantasy Fest macabre, When I began to realize that possibilities in I don't feel that any of my photos are macabre. environmental photography are unlimited, I Fantasy Fest itself is a good time. When shot photographs until I was ready to drop on photos of Fantasy Fest are taken out of context the sidewalk. Sometimes I didn't know what I they reveal the reality underlying Halloween -- was searching for until I found it; sometimes the existence of the infernal, still with us that happened right after I ran out of film. Today though the Middle Ages are long gone. Or are 1 never run out of film. I buy pants with more they? pockets. Advances in media technology have made it The photographs and prose on these possible for a photograph to become a cultural pages were created by Dick Burke, * lives icon overnight, a letter in a new larger alphabet. and works in Key West. SENATOR ON THE STREET, FANTASY FEST '88

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WITCH BUYING A ROLL, FANTASY FEST '88 THE GATE ' WHISPERING WOMAN, FANTASY FEST '88 GIRLATSUNSET Solares Hill--January 1988-Page 27 r Page 26--January 1988-Solares Hill Bishop is not an easy read. Whereas action. Her feminine impatience with the there is a certainty about the separate visions machismo comes through as she traces the Soro Cook of Eliot or Stevens or Yeats, Bishop eludes roosters' fate from the present to ancient Elizabeth Bishop: Poet of the Way Things Are the philosophical, even metaphysical noose.. Greek and biblical times: PROPERTY MANAGEMENT Perhaps the only thing that can be said is Roosters, what are you projecting? A Personal Finn With A Prov«n Track Record that, like all serious poets, Bishop is Specializing In Full-Servic* Management by Arthur Phillips concerned with the epistemological problem You, whom the Greeks elected Seasonal & Yearly Rentals In Key West she is thought of as "one of reality. In this quest to define the nature to shoot at on a post, who struggled of ours." And she is, in the same way of knowledge she shares with Stevens the when sacrificed, you whom they labeled Ernest Hemingway, Wallace Stevens and conviction that "the only emperor is the Robert Frost — all of whom lived on the emperor of ice cream." In other words, to Very combative...' island at one time or another -- are ours. truly live in this world we must embrace its what right have you to give From 1938 to 1943 Elizabeth Bishop palpability with wholeheartedness and commands and tell us how to live ... inhabited a two-story conch cottage at 624 honesty. White Street. Here she wrote many of her But, like Stevens, Bishop poses the More so than anything, however, Bishop's poems and some of her prose pieces; and paradox of the interlocking relationship poems sparkle with marvelous similes and between imagination and the object metaphors. The first two lines from from here she emerged periodically on her MLS 294-8491 . bicycle to roam the streets and byways of imagined. The question persists of whether "Twelfth Morning" read: 905 Truman Ave. IUUM her adopted home. things are what they are in and of Like a first coat of whitewash when it's wet She.liked Key West, reveled in its themselves or whether they are the product, the thin gray mist lets everything show See the Ocean from Our Point of View ... brightness and colors and tropical lushness. the creature, of the apprehending mind. through . . From the kitchen, dining area, living room, master She also liked swimming and fishing and Perhaps, as both Stevens and Bishop imply, bedroom, gallery, 3l-foot private balcony and even from was devoted to them both. She found the Or from "Florida": the double jacuszi in the master bath. island congenial, almost ready-made for her Thirty or more buzzards are drifting down, Oceanfront • Tennis Court • Sauna • Gym »Two pools moods, and filled with interesting people; down, down Philosopher John Dewey and primitive ...a few of her poems over something they have spotted in the ft key west beach club swamp, ELEGANT OCEANFRONT CONDOMINIUMS painter Gregorio Valdez were among her are unabashed exhibits Sales »%tkly. Monthly, Long Term Rentals friends. 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That question further off than I'd imagined. a B-movie parody. I played a comic villain had never entered my mind. Now I've got VKG: Many playwrights never see their with a bald head. I did a lot of fast changes about four things going. I don't have time by V.K. Gibson work done in any way. where I'd walk behind a screen and for the things I want to be selfish with. I'd BP: Right. Of course, I still don't know if reappear with different costumes. like to write a book, a comic novel. anything will happen. I think schools and VKG: Do you have a sense of where your VKG: If you could talk to the whole town small theaters would be interested in doing life is going now? what would you say? Bruce Peterson is one of those very Box Office Poison. It's an easy-to-do BP: I have a lot more confidence in my BP: There must be a lot of people like me familiar-looking people you run into at comedy. abilities than I did a year ago. It's been a out there who have wanted to write. In Key Fausto's, He's an actor, director and VKG: Meanwhile, you're an actor. You very good year, with the play. And, West there are so many opportunities. playwright; was born and raised in West were wonderful in The Foreigner. Michael Whalton and I won a couple of You've got to make yourself do it and put Hartford, Connecticut; is one of seven BP: That was my first time working with Miami Herald Augie Awards for home yourself on the line. Si! children; and is now 36. His expression, Susan. A lot of the time on stage I'm just videos. I worked on the Bubbie Awards last when he smiles, makes one think of a being myself. In The Foreigner I really year, which were good and silly and a big lovesick otter. Over the years I've seen him delved into another character. I credit Susan success. perform in various productions — The Foreigner, Bullshot Crummond, The Nerd, Beyond Therapy -- mostly at the Red Barn Theatre. But I was startled by the ingenious wit in his play, Box Office Poison. This jj quality, as it turns out, is mostly hidden behind a shy, modest personality. ROCEANS.IDE 8 MARINA VKG: Do you mind if I record the interview? Some of my writing is controversial, so I make sure the quotes are II1VIEI1S exact. BP: I'm not a very controversial person. The glory of being a successful actor, director and, now, playwright hasn't gone to Bruce Peterson's head. Around town he's known as a truly nice guy. VKG: Would you like to be? KEEP WARM BP: (Nervous laughter.) Photo by Richard Watherwax. VKG: Did you go to acting school? BP: I wanted it to be entertainment all VKG: Didn't that start with a few people THIS WINTER WITH OUR BP: I learned more by doing, by being in along, a sort of late-night piece. I wrote it producing plays on a shoestring, and it WETSUIT shows. I did leave college after a year to go about three years ago. It sat in the drawer snowballed? to the American Musical and Dramatic for a couple of years. I guess I really didn't BP: It must have. One of the drawing EXTRAVAGANZA Academy in New York. I didn't feel that I want to know what people thought. points there is that they aren't full-blown was gaining from it. Michael Whalton remembered it when he productions. Attention is given to the plays ALLWETSUITS VKG: Why was that? wanted to produce a local play for themselves not the stars, stage sets and ON SALE NOW BP: They had a system of learning by Hemingway Days. costumes. watching other people fail. I mean, I never VKG: Isn't it nice that they put money into VKG: But enough controversy. Your play heard of any of these people. They were something like that? was produced at the Red Barn. Wasn't that basically like I was -- actors out of work. I BP: Yes, it's something the [Monroe terrifying in a way? What if people hated it? got my union card while I was there. I did County] Fine Arts Council doesn't seem to BP: The worst moment for me is when about three seasons of children's theater out be involved with. someone takes what you wrote and reads it. on tour, some shows with two or three VKG: Do you think it would be good for Sometimes I'd read the script and it'd be the hundred performances, two shows a day. an arts council to produce works by worst thing written. So we had a reading at That was good training. budding playwrights? my house and it worked like gangbusters. VKG: What's the hardest thing about BP: This last season, in just over a year, That was wonderful. performing for children? the Red Barn Theatre produced Lost VKG: When Box Office Poison was 5950 MALONEY AVE. BP: You can't fool them. They don't Generation, TheDisciple, The Dark Wood, produced did it bother you when the director STOCK ISLAND laugh automatically the way we sometimes my play — new stuff. It seems like the arts or the actors had a vision different from (305) 294-4676 do. council could be funding this. They could yours? VKG: What came later? have dance scholarships for kids. BP: Susan Hawkens and I work well BP: In Atlanta I was director in a nightclub VKG: Rather than bring in known stars to togther in a lot of areas. I can't say enough called Upstairs at Gene and Gabe's, a New do old war horse shows? good things about Susan. I remember only York-style room above a restaurant. Music BP: At twenty-five dollars a pop. one time when I thought something was and satire. The sort of thing that existed in VKG: Do you believe people would going in the wrong direction and I burst out. New York in the '50s, before television. support new plays? I've heard, for Another time she put something in that I We needed material, I knew exactly what I instance, that as popular as Box Office hadn't. But I thought, fine, that's wanted, so I wrote it myself. Poison was it lost money. directional. She'd ask my permission and VKG: You eventually arrived in Key BP: This summer we didn't break even, I'd ask hers. West. . but we did well during the last run. VKG: I've heard the play was seen by Your ad here You know where to get it* BP: Yes, four years ago. Kelly Moore and VKG: There's no guarantee that remakes people from the big city and there's a good I have been together for fifteen years. It of Broadway musicals do any better. I chance they'll put it on. Call TYPOGRAPHY •. FULL LAYOUT • STATS was time to leave Atlanta and we moved for heard that Fiddler on the Roof had. about six BP: Yes, someone who happened to be the sun. Walking off the plane, we knew... BROCHURES • LOGOS people in the audience one night. down from New York — he's in real estate, AGENT FOR QUALITY PRINTING VKG: You either love it or hate it at once. BP: In a huge building. but he's got the theater bug. I was in a BP: Yeah. VKG: Don't you think that if an arts position of having to decide: "What am I 294-3602 VKG: And now you've written Box Office council gets into the habit of supporting new going to do with the play? It obviously Poison, your first full-length play? theater it will build and generate excitement? works for an audience." First this person BP: The whole writing thing is new to me. BP: That's what happened in Louisville. thought he would do it as a school 901 FLEMING / OLD TOWN / 296-3080 I've written sketches]before_. . Their new plays.festival became huge and production. Then he called back and said he VKG: What did you have in mind with the put them on the map as a theater had partners and they'd decided to go play? ..: ...... •.community. ..._.„„. ,„. ', off-Broadway. Page 32--January 1988-Solares Hill Solares Hill-January 1988?-Page 33 Sweet Sounds from the Chamber

by Monica Haskell by Dr. Elwood Bear The Key West Council on the Arts (KWCA) has announced a gala New Year's Day concert, 1 p.m. at Casa Gato, 1209 afterglow party at the Pier House Frank Conroy, director of the noted Th, Virginia Street, featuring lyric soprano Iowa Writer's Workshop, will join Peter was going well. Don DeFeo smiled upon Connie Moody with Michiko Otaki, pianist Taylor, Bobbie Ann Mason, and other guests whose din was as lively, if not as (on the Young Chang Grand), and members giants of modern literature for the Seventh musical, as the Kodaly Quartet had been an of the Warsaw Wind Quintet. This will be Annual Key West Literary Seminar — The hour earlier at the Tennessee Williams Fine preceded by an invitational brunch for American Short Story: A Renaissance — Arts Center. This writer was attempting to KWCA season ticket holders. On January January 12 to 15,1989. Conroy will give a tape an interview with Kodaly spokesman 15 at Casa Gato the brilliant young Japanese keynote address on Friday, January 13 at pa^ and first violinist Atilla Falvay. The quartet, concert violinist, Masako Yanagita, and her 9:30 a.m. at the Tennessee Williams Fine he said, would conclude its United States husband, pianist Abba Bogin, will perform. Arts Center at Florida Keys Community tour at New York's Carnegie Hall after For information call 296-2682. College. departing Key West. Then home to Two Festival of the Continents events Writers are a part of Key West's natural Budapest for two concerts in December, are approaching. The Jacksonville followed by a tour of Germany. Symphony Orchestra with a pops program resources, and the literary seminar is an i. 'fi.. unsurpassed opportunity to meet and mingle Afterwards, some new recording sessions ~ selections from My Fair Lady, William with those who have made it big, to hear for the Hong Kong label— the opus 64 Tell Overture, Candide, and more — will be their thoughts and opinions firsthand. For a series by Haydn, some Mozart, and others, performed on January 14, 7 p.m. at The reader, the chance to discover a new, terrific scheduled for release in 1989. Reach; January 15, 2 p.m., at the Big Pine author is always a pleasure; and for a writer, The evening's program had included Christian Center; and January 15, 8 p.m., at and is a pleasent setting for these events. the possibility of interesting an editor or quartets by Haydn, Beethoven, and Bartok. Plantation Yacht Harbor. This writer thoroughly enjoyed the agent in one's work is always exciting. The first two composers' music was And a new production of Puccini's La Yugoslavian Dance Company, Frula, which Join Leslie Fiedler, Rust Hills, Russell familiar and melodic, but it was the work by Boheme will be performed on February 3,7 performed at the Strand on December 10. Banks, John Wideman and more writers, Bartok that stirred the love-hate emotions of p.m., at the Strand Theatre in Key West. The Balkan folk melodies were rich and editors, publishers, agents, critics and the audience, who rarely takes a middle path This popular opera is being supervised and exciting. The four-piece musical scholars for an investigation into the as far as this composer is concerned. Bela restaged by Parvan Bakardjiev. Luz accompaniment — clarinet, violin, bass, resurgence of the American short story. Bartok (1881 to 1945), an Hungarian, is Morales appears as Mimi, and Michele accordian — played superbly from the heart. The seminar's expanded schedule of perhaps best played and understood by Strano as Rudolfo. The Strand, perhaps One could hardly find a more colorful and events includes a Short Story Film Festival Hungarians. His atonal music pleases better known as a Key West discotheque, energetic trio anywhere. For Festival at the Monroe County Public Library, 700 some, puzzles others. Arnold Steinhardt, has adequate stage and lighting facilities, information, telephone 296-5882. Fleming Street. Film adaptations of short first violinist of the famed Guarneri String stories by John Updike, Flannery Quartet, says it best: "When I first heard the O'Connor, Katherine Anne Porter, and free Bartok Quartets I knew I was in the readings by Key West Writers Workshop presence of an extraordinary creative force, staff — Joy Williams, Rust Hills, Dave even if I didn't understand it." Take Five Smith and James Kirkwood -- continue The Kodaly's playing of Bartok's through January 14. Quartet No. 1 in a minor, opus 7 was a Portraits, an exhibit by award-winning Author Joy Williams. Photo courtesy K.W. Iowa Writer's Workshop Director Frank technical triumph. The TWFAC audience by Jane Phillips photographer Jimm Roberts, will be on Literary Seminar. Conroy. Photo courtesy K.W. Literary instinctively recognized this -- composer Seminar. and artists in complete accord ~ and rose to display at Key West Art & Historical or those of us who cut our musical Society's East Martello Museum through the occasion, giving the Hungarians a F standing ovation. Members of this quartet teeth in the 50s and 60s listening to great January 20. Internationally renowned jazz in places like the Five Spot in New artists and authors are shown at work in (two violins, viola, cello) are all graduates of the Franz Liszt Academy in Budapest and York's Greenwich Village, the jam session their Florida studios. A gala reception is at the Full Moon Saloon last month was a planned for Martello members and seminar were coached *by Bartok expert Andras Mihaly. standout. Word traveled the "coconut hot guests on January 14. line" and the saints kept marching in. Pick up a seminar schedule at any v_>oncertus Hungaricus, the 16-member Dave Burns and Lonnie Jacobson led the library, the TWFAC box office, the Island way for a fabulous four hours of standard Bookstore, or call 745-3640. Seminar Hungarian string orchestra, opened the and pop tunes that kept folks in the crowded registration is $200 and includes all social Festival of the Continents celebration at St. room mesmerized. Yoshitaka Uematsu, on be ~ in dark nightclubs and after-hour _, events and transportation while enabling the Paul's Church on November 30 with a drums, backed up Burns and Jacobson; seminar to bring stellar talent to Key West beautifully selected program of Rossini, in New York and Chicago, whi_ J some of the best talent in Key West sat in musicians got together after regular gigs to annually. The Writers Workshop will be Grieg, Mozart, and Tchaikovsky. Pianist with the group. There were Marty Stonley January 8 through 12; there is a $225 fee for Michiko Otaki made a special guest play for themselves. on tenor sax and flute, Hank Zurlo on tenor To experience Key West jazz come to the participation. The Florida Endowment for appearance for the Mozart Concerto No. 13 sax, Joe Breton on alto sax, Rick Peterson the Humanities and the State of Florida in C Major, K 415, playing on an electronic Full Moon Saloon on January 7 (call for on guitar and Carlos on drums. times) and the Casa Marina January 15 from Department of Cultural Affairs invites keyboard - perhaps a first for a serious Great vocals came from Chuck Ward, everyone to attend the films and readings at Mozart performance, and certainly a first for 8 to 11p.m. Karin Schmitt and Libby York. York, Burns and Jacobson, with vocalist Karen the library and the panels at TWFAC/FKCC Ms. Otaki. She felt the grand at the church whose stylish singing is reminiscent of June at no charge. unsuitable for concert performance and, it Schmitt, will perform at Sheraton Key Christy and Chris Conner, is back in her Largo New Year's Eve. The seminar is grateful to local sponsors, seems, another piano could not be located in Key West house after returning from New time. Thus the electronic synthesizer was The Small Mystery Band, with singer including the Monroe County Tourist York City where she's been singing with Christine Naughton, will be at Cafe Exile on Development Council, the Ocean Key judged the lesser of two evils. Our big bands and has even formed her own admiration for Ms. Otaki for keeping her New Year's Eve. House, the Hyatt, Southeast Bank and trio. Local businessman Chet Chetkin sang Heavyweight Ahmad Jamal will be at the Monroe County Library Board, [i] composure and performing as well as the a couple songs too. Writer and editor George Murphy. Photo by Author Doris Grumbach. Photo By Jerry electronic keyboard would technically Tennessee Williams Fine Arts Center on Richard Watherwax. • Bauer* The recently formed Key West Jazz January 25. permit. Society hopes to promote jazz like it used to Let the good times roll! Solares Hill--January 1988-Page 35 Page 34-January 1988-Solares Hill I look forward to seeing more. that most people who love Spain feel they The Guild Hall Gallery's annual invented it? Christmas party featured Ann Irvine's spritely SoMo scenes, some of which were Gallery Hopping in a new and slightly elongated perspective. J. he impressario of this gallery in the Poochie has some new and wonderful cats library is Larry Berk, a much-published by Gordon Lacy the work and, if presbyopic, stick on your Southern Gallery. New owners Kathleen for the wall — wood, cut and painted; poet delighted to be here after eight years in glasses. Read the title, close your eyes and and Dick Moody are knowledgeable about Gloria Shaw's fine ceramic studies Troy, New York. Gallery hours are JL ou are facing a painting that interests try to reconstruct the painting in your the arts and plan to show the finest of including a flashing Santa that leaves Monday through Thursday, 8:00 a.m. to you and it is high season and you are. mind's eye. Its image may be too Florida's painters. It will be a breath of nothing to the imagination. 9:30 p.m.; Friday, 4:30 p.m.; and Saturday, perhaps being jostled by a crowd. You are complicated to present itself. Read the fresh air if the current show is an example: Harrison's season opener, nicely hosted 3:00 p.m. Henri La Chapelle will lecture not sure yet you truly want want this work, price. This is important; one must know the Four Views, a South Florida Cultural by Helen and Ben, showed the gallery off in and present his paintings based on the PRICED but you don't want either to lose it to painter's (gallery's) estimation of the work Consortium laid on by the Festival of the a sort of warm all-over shimmer, the walls Mayan civilization from 7:00 to 9:00 p.m. someone else and you feel you must decide in the common language of the marketplace. Continents and featuring our own Stuart filled with color; Cricket Barnes' still-life of on January 18. I have seen slides of some without shilly-shallying. Let us start our Still up close, starting upper left working Vaughan's visions and dreams in glittery soft greens and purples; a small Anne of this work and it is not to be missed. PICTURE perusal from a far stance, taking in the bookwise (you may be left-handed but most colored pencils. Vaughan's work consists Lorraine cat lying in a pastel field; three East Martello's big New and Old Show whole. painters are not) read the painting as if it of a series of related experiences and small and very good gouaches by deceased was a fascinating sweep of Keys' artists' FRAMING What flashes on the screen of your were text. Note the texture, the brush anecdotes treated in the same manner and California painter Tom Oliphant; Helen works from Audubon until now. Susan mind? Is there a literary reference? Does strokes, decide (or ask) what the comprising a. body of work. The French Harrison's guitar fish, all face and grumpy Olsen mounted an historically revealing "To be or not to be," "I shall return ..." leap undercoating, if any, consists of. In a have a word for all this, oeuvre, which I plus her elegant and smooth coconuts; show, and here we get into a list of names out and smite you? Is some odor evoked? simple field like gouache there is a white think covers it. Technically this work is Mathew Lineberger's graceful "Stone again, we start with Audubon and go Does it make you feel wind or rain, seasons base of wash applied to the paper first. In magical. Child"; Richard Matson's new seascapes, through Kiraly.This marvelous show was in or temperatures? oil painting there is usually an undercoating Lucky Street Gallery started its season which seem looser than usual and which are the upper gallery and Henry Faulkner's oils, I am not proposing that we play that applied to the canvas--it can be most with a party for the gallery's artists. Two full of the feel of wind and storm and tide. borrowed from all over town, were shown guessing game where one creates a portrait anything and in any color—to eventually small paintings of animals frisking under the Ventriglia is showing collages of fabrics. in the lower gallery. I am not a fan of of someone by describing favorite animals enhance and give depth to the surface color. sun and between palm trees in Miami Vice Faulkner's and find his art more camp than KENNEDY or colors, although the reverse intuitive Or if gesso, a light coat of plaster absorbs pastels by Fred Gros enchanted me; all painting. Blue-eyed goats suggest process is being called upon. and binds the pigments in a bond a la the sizes, John Martini's cut steel figures seek Th, county's largest gallery opened something devious to me, the florals are STUDIOS Does the painting at this distance conjure early Italian muralists. to please and they do just that. I was two weeks before Christmas; it had been, in unflowerlike, but what pleased me most up any associations? Move slowly toward Retreat to halfway from where you intrigued by a very poised construction, its original place behind Jordon's Cafe, the were his three strawberry paintings. started. Has your general impression "Your Eyes Have Told Me So..." by smallest. The Lane Gallery opening was an Perhaps he was hungry when he painted changed? For me, it invariably has. It is Roberta Marks, just back from a few weeks enormous success and puts the art world in them or I was on seeing them. 7i6DuvalSt. probably at this point that one asks oneself, in Switzerland. A show in Bern of her Key West back in the fast lane. Here we Zktktk "Do I like it?" followed by "Is it good art?" constructions merited unprecedented press have non-tourist or souvenir stuff, art by Bill Palmer's new studio, Designs: Solares Hill Design Group If you are still interested, leave it entirely, in this rather phlegmatic country. Michael serious questing artists presented in an Fine Furniture and Cabinetry, on Truman, immaculate modem surrounding, a boon to will open this month and feature his is proud to present look at some other paintings. Does it Haykin is represented by an ingenious sort squeeze back into your mind while you're of triptych which opens and closes in artists and viewers alike. Hats off to Joe marvelous furniture designs as well as looking at something else? Go back and face tropical notes and is complicated enough to Pais, Bob Chaplin and Molly Leeds. Sales paintings and collage by Lyder Fredrickson, AN EXHIBITION OF it squarely. Is it better or not as good as keep the eye engaged and satisfied. were brisk, red dots leaping onto labels, Bill Bowie, and the late Fred Laros. which proves my pessimism premature; you thought while you were looking at Nancy Shannon and painter husband MEXICAN MASKS those other works? people will buy good art, after all. Featured Making the rounds this week, I find an Michael have launched their own new were Beth Nablo's striking red abstracts enormous increase in artists' use of purple. Antique • Unique • Collectors Here I try to sit where I can see the gallery at Land's End (near the Raw Bar) which no art lover should be without, There is magenta, mauve, violet and puce Friday, January 13-February painting from an angle. We seldom regard where you can watch Michael paint. He is accompanied by a larger pastel piece of everywhere, which means in two years' any painting head-on under gallery lighting partnered by his newly arrived brother, equal beauty. time the trickle-down effect assures us for more than mintues per year. After how sculptor Bryan, who works bronze and purple shoes and cars and wallpaper and many rushes through the house toting in copper into black steel. Other artists The Florida Keys College Library has a upholstery, light switches, ladies' heels, arm-groaning loads of groceries; during represented are Terry Gindele, Taylor 901 Fieming • Upstairs • 296-3080 nicely-lit white gallery wall dedicated to soft drinks and birthday cakes. I did not hurried searches for lost keys, glasses, Stevens, Rochelle, Lazaro, Betty Fagan of visual arts. Wayne Pelke did well there last make up this rule, I merely report it. It is address book; while seeing it through a the Copley Society of Boston and Robert month with his light sculptural works. This gratifying in that all those posh decorators Harrison Gallery glass darkly or at an angle; while standing Kennedy. The gallery is in its inception but month it is. Lawson Little's 50 color and designers out there are plugged into our or sitting, the TV blaring will it still retain Nancy has brave plans. This is a go-see; a photographs of an extended tour of the visual artists. •••.& Music the things that attracted you in the lot of hard work went into it and the Iberian Peninsula. Little captures the details LOCAL ART beginning? Shannons' enthusiasm pleases. and the feeling of life and I was overcome How about a nice blue or yellow next Buying art is not unlike marrying. 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If Star Previews of '89 With a strong eighth house focus, you you're living where you've already SANDY ISLANDS, M.S., M.A. by Sioux Rose are in a stage of healing but healing can only outgrown your need to, you'll feel factors The year begins with sun in Capricorn come about when you're willing to give up converge to push you to new abodes. Hypnotherapy (as always), coupled with Saturn (once in yesterday, its baggage and beliefs, in order Family ties (roles between family persons) habits • stress 28 years); Uranus in Capricorn (once in 84 to allow new fuel into your life. The eighth will be subject to many challenging shifts. psychosomatic illness BODY SPIRIT years); and Neptune in Capricorn (once in house symbolizes eliminations ~ get rid of In March communications widen and you past-life regression 164 years). Clearly there is an earth anything no longer relevant to you. Then open yourself to knowledge through others. 3405 Flagler Avenue 296-2096 emphasis. 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Rouse on Southard at Simonton Call Me for a . 296-9900 Ext. 65 296-2393 Open 10-6 Cosmetic Consultation i 30% Off to Locals OOOOOOOOOQOO0OO0OOOOOOOOOQOOOOOOQOOOQOOOOOOQOQQOQOOQO' Solares Hill-January 1988-Page 39 Page 38--January 1988-Solares Hill Jan.. 8. Key Spirit Community Church p.m. Call 296-3574. information. AQUARIUS PISCES selves can become healed. Calhoun works moves to Island Wellness. Services are Jan. 13. The Occulta, an informal rap Friday Meditation learning tools for very much like Carl Jung, working with the every Sunday at 7:30 p.m. Call 296-3574 session on mysticism, healing, astrology, modern survival, 7 p.m. There's a massive amount of force in You need to let go of the need to be a or 296-7353. your solar 12th house of the subconscious martyr who seeks power through sympathy. shadow or wounded part of our natures in anyting that can be labeled the occult, with Saturday, Human Being 1A - guidelines order to bring about harmony and release. Jan. 9. Beginning Astrology with Zolar Renate. Ongoing, 7:45-9:30 p.m., call for operating as a human being. Ongoing mind. You're being prepared through Your solar 11th house, the power of the ~ a six-week course, 6:00-7:30 p.m. Call dreams, intuition and mini-revelations for a wish, is tremendously activated this year. Peter and his wife will return to Key West 296-3574. Unity activities life mission. Right now you know that But ruled by "two fish," in a sense,, "one next month. 296-3574. Jan. 19. Dr. Betty Patterson Yoga class, • Congratulations to the Women's deep inside, answers are formulating and wish" direction activates your victim And finally, the prosperity team of Jan. 9. Homoeopathy — learn how to treat 4:30 at Island Wellness. Call 296-7353. Resource Center on Truman Annex for changing elements of your outer lifestyle persona and the other, your persona of well Edwene Gaine and Bert Carson brought yourself to health with Dr. Papon. This Jan. 21. Carol Christine presents their programs that support the community. with them. Trust the process; you're being. Become conscious this year of what humor and truth to what we have to invest class is ongoing. Call 296-3574. "Keeping Healthy Through Fasting." Enjoy the morning meditations and stretch probably an old soul with much evolution of you're wishing for, and how. Also, in to be truly rich inside. Their presentation at Jan. 10. Numerology ~ learn the magic Periodic fasting can detox body and mind, classes. Call Gazelle at 296-7924 or Midge spirit. '• ^^^^ March, you receive great energies for new Unity of the Keys brought us all in touch and mystery of numbers in this six-session New Year start to health and weight loss to at 296-4115. starts! with the principles of that work. Their course with Dr. Papon, 6:00-7:30 p.m. cleanse for those overindulgent in holiday •• Ongoing classes at Island Wellness, JAZZ CLASSES suggestions for becoming prosperous are Call 296-3574. . . • feasts. , Tips to fast off extra pounds. 530 Simonton, 296-7353, are: Mondays: Conversations in Brief tithing your spiritual source, forgiving WITH CHARLES KARP Jan. 10. Psychic Development - learn Presented at 2 p.m. at Island Wellness, 10 a.m. — Roz LoPinto Yoga; 12:15 p.m. - by Renate Perelom yourself and others, setting specific goals, about psychic power, clairvoyance, ESP, 296-3444. Stillpoint Relaxation; 10 a.m. - Gentle AT THE COFFEE MILL Roz LoPinto is in town. She is locally and finally, seeking and finding your divine proven methods. Dr. Papon and Renate, Jan. 21. Yoga With Carol Christine, group encounter with Bill Schlicht; 5:30 615 ASHE STREET • 296-9982 known for her Centering Workshops and purpose. Check the calendar of events for 7:45-9:30 p.m., six-session course. Call 7:00-8:15 p.m. at Island Wellness. Call p.m. ~ Stillpoint Relaxation; 6:00 p.m. - Mon. & Wed. 6:30-8:00 p.m. specifics on a seminar at Unity about the Friday 5:30-7:00 p.m. yoga instruction held at Island Wellness. A 296-3574. 296-7353. Monica Geers on Experiencing Hypnosis; And Starting January 3 published author, Roz has inspirational Principle of Being Human. Jan. 11. Synastry - the astrology of Jan. 20 and 21. Human Being 888 1A 7:00 p.m. — Personal Growth, ongoing Tues. & Thurs. 9:30-10:45 a.m. suggestions for all of us which she shared relationships. Bring your personal chart. given by Robin Lindahn. Call 296-5888 for group with Bill Schlicht. Tuesday: 10 in a recent interview. (By the way, her Dr. Papon, six-session course. 296-3574. information. a.m. - Stress Free; 4 p.m. - Reflexolpgy. energy was so strong that the tape recorder Starting this month, Channel 5 offers Jan. 11. Meditation -- experience different For Your Information Wednesday: 10 a.m. -- Roz LoPinto; 6 SMILE would not work, a common response from New Age Horizons, a new and different techniques and peace, chanting, gifts of • Unity of the Keys is offering the p.m. -- Roy Stone. Thursday: 4 p.m. ~ mechanical devices. The recorder worked television show. It deals with psychic spirit. Renate, ongoing, 7:45-9:30 p.m. following classes: Stress Free. Friday: 12:15 p.m. -- WITH CONFIDENCE again after I left.) Roz believes it is possible phenomena and is Bonnie Tynes' way of 296-3574. Jan. 20-21, Seminar and meditation on Stillpoint Relaxation. Saturday: 10 a.m. to create balance and well being despite sharing her belief that mankind is Jan. 12. Mysteries of the Pendulum with operating as a human being. -- Yoga with Roz LoPinto. awakening to his true Godself. Maintain Periodontal Health personal circumstances. Everything — even Dr. Papon, six-session course, 6:00-7:30 Monday Yoga with Carol Anderson at 7 death — can be a catalyst for growth. Roz Topics include spiritual growth, creating p.m. Call 296-3574. p.m. • Insideout Health Foods, 529 shares that we must learn to live inside — to your own reality, A Course in Miracles, the Jan. 12. Psychic Healing, with Dr.Papon Tuesday Silent Unity Prayers at 12:30 Southard, features the latest information on come to a place of response rather than Seth material, UFOs, the Bermuda Triangle, and Renate. Experience pranic, mantra, p.m.; Mastermind Prayers at 7:00 p.m. health and self awareness on their bulletin Loui G. Franke, D.D.S. pyramid power, reincarnation, automatic . Periodontist (Gum Specialist) reaction. We can move past the point of assent, spiritual healing and other methods. Wednesday Silent Unity Prayers at 12:30 board. awareness to readiness; to a place that we writing, ghosts, crystals, channeling, Six-session course, 7:45-9:30 p.m. Call p.m., Midweek Prayer Service at 7:00 p.m. • Yoga taught by Ronnie Dubinski of the Full Time in Key West unexplained happenings, astral projection, call wisdom. 296-3574. Thursday A Course in Miracles with Bill Yoga College, Harris School, corner of Interplak Toothbrushes Available Another visiting seminar leader is Kirilian photography, Atlantis, Edgar Lee at 6 p.m., choir practice at 7:00 p.m. Southard and Margaret. Mon.-Fri. 8 a.m. Cayce, hypnosis, dreams, and more. Jan. 13. NLP (Neurolinguistic 1510-B Bertha Street Shaman Peter Calhoun who respects and programming), the science of personal Friday Silent Unity Prayers, 12:30 p.m., and 6 p.m.; Sat. 10 a.m.; Sun. 6 p.m. For 296-2074 ritualizes the facets of nature and believes Bonnie has been involved in metaphysics meditation group with Kathi Rogers at 6:30 information call 292-1854. m : for the past 16 years, and hosted the TV power and change with Rentate. Proven we are beings of the earth, air, water and methods, six-session course, 6:00-7:30 p.m. Call 296-5888 or 296-5990 for Friday by Appointment fire. He says our tribal nature stays within show Let's Talk Metaphysics earlier in . us and must be edified so that our wounded 1988. She has studied with the Edgar Cayce study groups. Be sure to tune in and discover your Winter College Program relationship to the universe. Call Channel 5 Sponsored by Key Spirit Community Church or 296-1032 for more information. We'd like you to meet... Offering you a wide variety of courses . January • Calendar for your growth and interest'. P.O. Box 6326, Key West, Florida 33041 (305) 296-3574 Jan. 3. Charles Karp is initiating his jazz dance class for the New Year. Monday and All courses are six sessions each, 1 1/2 hour long, at $60 per course -Wednesday, 5:30-7:00 p.m.;. Friday, A state of mind is now a state of being. Jimmy Buffett except for Meditation, Occulta and Homeopathy, ongoing at $5 each. 6:30-8:00 p.m.; and Thursday, 9:30-10:45 Parrot Head paraphernalia, Caribbean Soul clothing p.m. at the'Coffee Mill. and lots of Key West color, a THE MARGARJTAVILLE HOMEOPATHY, MEDITATION & OGCULTA Jan. 5.. Roz LoPinto is starting her STORE 500 DUVAL KEY WEST, FL 33040 Starting Monday, January 9: second Centering class. Call 296-7353 at [305)296-3070 6:00-7:30 p.m.-Beginning Astrology with Dr. Don (Zolar) (6 weeks) the Island Wellness for information and BUTTONS 7:45-9:30 p.m.~Homeopathy with Dr. Don (ongoing, $5 each) registration. Jan. 5-10. Pam White and Cheryl 1-800-331-7850 Starting Tuesday, January 10: Williams give psychic projections for 1989 6:00-7:30 p.m.--Numerology with Dr. Don (6 weeks) at Island Wellness. Call 296-7353. You can call her anytime day or night, 7:45-9:30 p.m.-Psychic Development with Dr. Don & Renate toll-free from anywhere in Florida on a .. • (6 weeks) Touch-Tone® phone and check account Starting Wednesday, January 11: NEW 6:00-7:30 pjn.--Synastry with Dr. Don (6 weeks) balances, deposits and current deposit rates, 7:45-9:30 p.m.-Meditation with Renate (ongoing, $5 each) even transfer funds. Stop by any Marine Starting Thursday, January 12: BODY TONING CENTER Bank branch and let us introduce you to her. 6:00-7:30 p.m.-Mysteries of the Pendulum with Dr. Don (6 weeks) , She's fun and as easy to talk to 7:45-9:30 p.m.-Psychic Healing with Don & Renate (6 weeks) Trish invites you to as "pushing buttons on a phone!" Starting Friday, January 13: GET IN SHAPE FOR THE NEW YEAR 6:00-7:30 p.m.- NLP (Neurolinguistic Programming) with Renate Ladies: Drop that dress size. THE (6 weeks) ; Men: Firm up those muscles. 7:45-9:30 p.m.-Occulta with Don & Renate (ongoing, $5 each) MRFtlNE SUNK Call or come in for your OF MONROE COUNTY FREE INTRODUCTORY SESSION Your Island Bankers.. .Key Largo to Key West Call 296-3574 _ _ in our quiet, relaxing atmosphere. for information and to reserve space _V,-MEMBjERoFD,IC ft'EQU^L Hpp.SIN.G LENDER : All classes will-be held at 1901 Seidenbers .,...-. STORE Ja^L-W^-* <•« W^ Page 40-January 1988-Solares Hill BILL WESTRAY Solares Hill-January 1988-Page 41 Continued from page S airplane which was never built. In their acquired over 3,000 hours of flight time as a Marge worked at nearby Fort Belvoir as spare time, Bill and Marge developed pilot and was on the last blimp flight before JANUARY CALENDAR a Grey Lady helping POWs with hand interests in local theater. Then they were off helping shut down the blimp station. injuries returning from Korea regain use of on another stint trouble-shooting in "I should have made captain about that 1/29 Jazz pianist Ahmad Jamal will their hands. An accomplished needlepoint Washington, followed by three years in time," Bill reminisced. "But my big mouth perform at the Tennessee Williams Fine artist, she taught the men to knit as part of London. cost me the promotion. I told the brass that Arts Center. Call 294-6232. their therapy. Using London as a base, Bill traveled the We hope our Calendar of Events will benefit their nuclear plan in the Middle East HEALTH & FITNESS "They were desperate to try, because if Middle East as nuclear weapons officer wouldn't work but that I could fix it. I 'planners of special events as well as those wishing Big Brothers/Big Sisters of Monroe they could regain some function they knew cooperating with European and Asian Overeaters Anonymous meets in November guess they didn't like the news." to attend. We want to include all interesting events County needs volunteers in the Sugarloaf to they wouldn't have to face amputation," she nations to develop contingency war plans. every Tuesday at 7:30. p.m. at De Poo Hospital, Instead, Bill began cultivating a growing taking place in Key West and the Florida Keys, and Marathon area. Please help! Interested parties said. He had three ships under his command and Thursday at 7:00 p.m. at Truman Annex Mental interest in the environment. The base we really do need your help. If you have an event should contact Patricia Knight, Executive Director, also became involved in planning for space you wish to include, please send information to: Health Center, and Sunday at 8:00 p.m. at De Poo. included over 7,000 acres of pine 294-9891. vehicle recovery operations in the Indian woodlands, and Bill helped set up programs Calendar, Solares Hill, 930-C Eaton St., Key £>y summer of 1954 the Westrays were Ocean. Meanwhile, Marge kept the family Adult Children of Alcoholics group is now to raise pheasant, quail and deer. He also West, Florida, 33040. Friends of the Library now offers business back in Key West. They stayed at the together. meeting at Holy Innocents Church, 901 Flagler. carefully controlled the harvesting of timber memberships at the nominal, tax-deductible cost of Santa Maria Motel, then moved to 2908 EVENTS & FUNDRAISERS Mondays at 7 p.m. and Thursdays at 8:30 p.m. For "Bill and I were always partners, but he on government property. $20 annually. Donations should be mailed to Harris Avenue, and four months later further information call 294-8912. was deeply involved with the Navy, and at In 1967 he was given his final 1/6-8 Denim & Diamonds will be F.O.L., c/o Key West Library, 700 Fleming St., bought the house they live in today. Marge remembers it was the last house in assignment, Executive Officer of NAS in performed at the Waterfront Playhouse KW, FL 33040. Please include your business Boca Chica. He closed out a distinguished on Mallory Square. Call 294-5015. Aids Help Needs three simple touchtone name, address and telephone number. Call the subdivision to be sold. When a prior telephones to enable them to continue to answer contract fell through, she rushed out to Boca 30-year Navy career on June 30,1969 at the 1/6-11 The Key West Power Squadron 294-8488 for more information. age of 51. will accept registrants for their winter calls when their phone computer shuts down. Chica Naval Air Station at midday to get Volunteers also needed to support AIDS and boating course to be held at Sugarloaf Small Business Counseling is now available Bill's signature. AIDS-related clients. To donate call 296-6196. Fire Station. Tuition is free. Call the third Friday of each month at the Barnett Bank, "My son reminded me the other day of XT' 294-0096. Tavernier. Counselors are members of SCORE how we sat at the kitchen table that night, -T or many, retirement is the end of an Personal and Professional one on one active life. For Bill Westray it was a change 1/6-22 From Broadway with Love will be (Service Corp. of Retired Executives) a program of counting out our war bonds to make the counseling available free of charge to qualified of gears into a new career of volunteer presented at Jan McArt's Cabaret Theatre U.S. small Business Administration. To make an down payment," Marge said. "When we applicants by appointment. For information call service to his community. Almost on Mallory Square. Call 296-2120. appointment call 852-2661. For additional moved, we only had our car and a small AIDS HELP at 296-6196. trailer, so we hired a man with a horse and immediately, both Bill and Marge began 1/6-22 Loot will be presented at the Red Barn information call 536-5521. adding to the many hours they already put Theatre. Call 296-9911. wagon to carry the refrigerator and stove." COMMUNITY INTEREST These were relatively quiet years, and the into various local activities. 1/7 Agatha Christie's Towards Zero will ALWAYS HAPPENING Marge had been involved with the Old be presented by the Monroe County Fine La Leche League of Big Pine. Meets the three Westray children ~ Richard Howard, Barbara Ann and William Kenneth -- Barn Theatre (now the Red Barn) on and off Arts Council at 7 p.m. at the Strand. 2nd Monday of each month at 9:30 a.m. at Big Pine Mon. Friends of the Library Lecture since the '50s while Bill was away on duty. Call 296-5000. Methodist Church on Key Deer Boulevard. Series, Key West Library. Call 294-8488 attended local schools. The oldest, Richard, Now she devoted more time, and took over 1/8-21 Elizabeth Bishop's Folded Discussion will include encouragement and for info. or "Skip" as they called him, had time to the box office at the Waterfront Playhouse. Sunsets, a theatrical poetry reading, information on how to establish a happy nursing Yoga Class, Coffee Mill Cultural Center, play first trombone in the Key West High She brought with her experience as a will run at the Red Barn Theatre. Call relationship. Babies and toddlers are welcome! For Key West. Call 296-9982. School Band. choreographer-for Navy "relief shows all 296-9911. information call Joanne Singleton at 872-1861. Tues. Sweet Adelines, Presbyterian Kirk of the "He wasn't always that lucky," Marge over the country. Bill helped design and 1/12 Key West Art Center will hold its Keys Church, Marathon, 7:30 PM. said. "One year he attended four different build the Waterfront's lighting system, and monthly meeting at 2 p.m. at 301 Front Land Trust Announced 1989 Calendar. Old Island Harmony Barbershop schools from September to June." operated it during productions. Street. Call Henri La Chapelle at The Florida Keys Land Trust proudly announces the Meanwhile, Bill, who had majored in Chorus, Old Stone Church, Key West. physics in college, was getting involved Marge joined the Key West Garden Club 745-2856. arrival of the Land Trust's 1989 Calendar with 7:30 PM. 1/12-15 Key West Literary Seminar -- see striking photos of the Florida Keys scenery. A with "Betty" and "Lulu" -- aliases for secret Wed. Pool & Dart Tournament, Big Pine atomic weapons. "Literary Seminar Pursues the Short limited supply of these calendars is available at a Moose Lodge, Big Pine Key. 872-9313. Story" on page 32 in this issue for cost of $6.50 each or 2 for $12. All proceeds to "Betty was a 30-kiloton depth bomb that wmmmmmmmmmm Thurs. Preschool Story Hour, Key West was designed to sink up to 2,000 feet and details. Call Monica Haskell at further conservation projects of the Florida Keys Library, 9:30 AM, 294-8488. destroy a submarine one mile away," Bill Bill dressed in his aviator's leather flight 745-3640. Land Trust. Send check or money order to Florida Key West Handprint Fashion Show, 1/14-15 Pops Concerts of the Keys Land Trust, P.O. Box 1432, Key West, Fl explained. "We had to find out if these gear in 1938. Photo courtesy of the Casa Marina, Key West, 12:30 PM. things could sustain a thousand hours of Westrays. Jacksonville Symphony 33041. Afterschool Activities, Key West Orchestra will be at the Reach to vibration in a plane without damage, and Library, 3:30 PM. 294-8488. learn how low you could fly to drop them." times I had to be the mother, father, nurse, benefit United Way. Call 296-3464. Guardianship of Monroe County, a new Card & Game Night, Senior Citizens teacher and home provider for the children," 1/18-22 Elizabeth Taylor Film Festival program, is looking for guardians to help disabled Bill was the project officer, and one of Center, Big Pine Key. 745-3698. his jobs was to disarm the nuclear detonator she said. "I went practically everywhere Bill will be presented at the Waterfront adults and elderly residents incapable of making Fri. Key West Handprint Fashion Show, went, and he was never gone for months Playhouse on Mallory Square. Call decisions on their own. Volunteers must be in the event of an accident. He remembers Hukilau, Key West. 12:30 PM. one plane that crash-landed and created a lot and months at a time. I knew what I was 294-5015. residents of Florida, enjoy helping people and can Sat. Family Films and Crafts, Key West getting into when I married Bill. And I 1/20-21 The Glass Menagerie will be commit about 4 hours a week. Call Elizabeth of tension until he could confirm there was Library, 10:00 AM. 294-8488. no live weapon aboard. knew we weren't going to spend 40 years in presented at the Tennessee Williams Fine Covino, HRS at 292-6728, Betty Campbell at Sun. Poetry & Jazz in the Garden at Cafe a vine-covered cottage down some little Arts Center. Call 294-6232. Florida Keys Memorial Hospital, 294-5531, or Liz Bill spent several years testing the "girls" Exile. Glenna Moore reads her poetry at but could not tell Marge anything specific lane." 1/21 The International Restoration Kern from Hospice, 294-8812. 10:30 p.m. every Sunday night with Phil In 1962 it was back to Lakehurst as Foundation Party 1989 Kickoff. about his work. Once the FBI came to Sampson on piano and Matsu on drums. check security among dependents in the comptroller and executive officer. Bill had Call Bill Anderson at 294-9501. De Poo Hospital needs volunteers for the Free. 1/25-4/9 La Cage aux Folles will be Sunshine Auxiliary. Volunteers take flowers to program. Mon. "I couldn't tell them if Betty was a presented at Jan McArt's Cabaret Theatre. patients' rooms, help in the cafeteria, run the gift thru Call 296-2120. shop and special projects for Christmas events. blond, brunette, or red head," Marge said. Sat. Fabric Painting at Studio 37, 9 a.m. The FBI went away happy. testJ3argains! For fishermen, swimmers, divers, sunbathers, nature lovers! 1/26 The North Carolina Dance Call Selena Dack at 294-4692. to 1 p.m., with instructor Carrie Disrud. Theatre will perform at the Tennessee At least a dozen of the bombs were Betty at Little Torch Key M.M.28 for 41 years! Claudia Richard will conduct classes in dropped during the testing, but only one Bargains! Our Exclusive^! Gulf-bcach-front homes, $159,000 & Williams Fine Arts Center. Call AIDS Help Support Meetings are held $199,000. Ocean beach homes $299,500, $395,000, $437,000! German and French. Call 2964795. was armed with a nuclear device and that Large canal-front homes $234,000. Waterfront RV homes with 294-6232. Mondays 5:30-7 p.m. PWA, PWARC, HIV+ and Daily The Community Pool, 300 Catherine lots, close to Key West $49,000 to $79,000. RV lot $30,000. test occurred 500 miles south of San Diego. Large restaurant and bar, U.S. 1 location, giant lot and outside 1/26 US1 Radio and the Key West Support Group as well as Friends and lovers St., is open from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. The BBQ oven $275,000. Canal tots $27,500 to $59,000. 100' x 100' Citizen will cosponsor a golf Support Group are combined to meet at the same "At one time we had six of these bombs lots, $9,900, $3,000 down. Gulf-front lots $49,000 and up. "Just Say No" Supper Club meets Mondays with nuclear warheads right here in Boca List with us for fast tales. tournament at the Key West Resort Golf time, at the Women's Club, 319 Duval St.. For from 4-6 p.m. Call 292-8248. Course to benefit the United Way of information call 296-6196. WPA/WPARC-The Chica," Bill said. BETTY M. BROTHERS REAL ESTATE, INC. Monroe County. Call 296-3464. Resource Recovery Group meets at Old Town BETTY M. REIN, LICENSED REAL ESTATE BROKER 1/28-29 Arts Explo Craft Show will run Medical Center. 520 Southard St. For information, ill P.O. BOX 456, U.S. 1, M.M. 28. LITTLE TORCH KEY, FL 33043 An 1956 the Westrays spent time in My childhood dream was to live in a home"... 305-872-2261, Call toil-free 1-800-245-0125 from 10 a.m. to 5 p,m. at Whitehead and call Rey. .Steve Tprrenqe. at. 3S>4;$}lA'9r.'Pr.. Larry thai looked out on the open sea ... Write or PhoneJo r Free Computer List and Free Maps! Greene Streets. Admission is free. Siegel M296SS93'. .-•->-•-- • Newport, Rhode Island, while Bill attended the Naval War College researching a nuclear

** •'< la •« JI -• Page 42-January 1988--Soiares Hill Solares Hill-January 1988-Page 43 and helped with the Botanical Garden" on himself rather than wait to go through been arrested under were unconstitutional." the coudjry and you still see one now and the Navy base and cornered him with his from Key West parks and beaches to Port Stock Island, in addition to nurturing a channels. I remember one time he removed "Gamble and some of his friends never again," Bill said. oversized pickup truck. Rongo got out and Bougainville and the North Key Largo tropical garden in her own yard. one of the large pumps that needed forgot it and some of them got pretty nasty The drive was supported by a huge and approached Bill's car but backed off in a Crocodile Refuge - with which Bill hasn't Bill also took on the city pool. In 1958, servicing. He took it out and put it back in with me during my campaign." diversified majority of Key Westers who hurry when he saw a .357 magnum on been deeply involved. the poolhad been built at the corner of and saved us close to $800. signed petitions and attended rallies, finally Westray's lap. This man never quit, never sold out, Catherine and Thomas Streets for the black "He's still Mr. Pool as far as I'm As we sat and talked, I remembered forcing the city commission to concede. For the next decade, Bill became the never made a dime out of the environment community by the Navy after they took over concerned," she said. the first time I ever saw Bill. It was 1972 They rescinded a plan which would have spearhead of dozens of skirmishes in the and never relinquished his principles. Hard a beach used by Bahama Village residents. But again, the pool was only a small and he was on a ladder out on South allowed;the high-rises, and passed the battle to protect the environment. His work for good causes was — and is — his After two years of operation and little or no portion of Bill's activities. During this same Roosevelt Boulevard putting up a "George ordinance Westray drafted instead. trademark was extensive research and a whole life. maintenance it was closed for 10 years. period he was using his sewing talents to McGovern for President" poster. I stopped Bill became associated with Solares Hill dogged pursuit of whatever cause was most I asked Bill what advice he had for those "A bunch of us got together and pushed make costumes for dancers at the theater, he to help him and he invited me to a rally that Editor and Publisher Bill Huckel, and the important at the time, keeping his eye on the concerned with protecting our environment, for about a year and a half and finally we was on the board of directors of Wesley night held in what is now the Lucky Street two fought overdevelopment side by side. big picture all the while. with enforcement of fair zoning laws, and got it opened up again in about 1971," said House, and he helped found the Florida Gallery. There he proceeded to inspire a Huckel wrote editorials and assigned As chairman of the city planning with conservation of natural resources. Bill. "There was Marion Stevens, Willie Keys Coalition — an umbrella group bunch of us to go door-to-door for reporters stories about city hall sellouts. commission, Bill helped to write the . "If I leave you with one philosophy it is Ward, Bill Huckel, Lang Milian and others. comprised of conservation and McGovern. Westray was heavy on research and helped comprehensive plan, and over the decades you never take the pressure off," he said. Everybody really worked hard to get the pro-environmental groups from Key West This was a typical underdog campaign file legal briefs for lawsuits when all else attended almost every public assembly, "You continue to monitor the projects, you pool operating." to Key Largo. with the odds heavily against the side Bill failed. hearing, and city and county commission stick together, and you never give up." He was active in politics, supporting had picked, but he had us believing meeting where an environmental issue was Bill's doctors recently told him to slow But it was Bill Westray who was the McGovern could win in Key West. When driving force behind the poor then and for candidates he believed would be effective to be discussed. I tried to count the public down, and Marge has talked him into some defenders of the environment and running the results came on election day, McGovern and private meetings Bill must have been a vacations. But as soon as they return Bill is the next 15 years. He learned everything had been crushed. But that didn't slow Bill there was to know about it, and spent many for city commission himself in 1981. After In the mid-70s, in the midst of an part of and tallied well over 1,000 before I on the phone updating the issues. And on winning the primary, he was defeated in the down. He simply turned his attention to the all-out battle to stop Carl Rongo from stopped. the good days ~ between the ones when he hours making repairs, changing the filter next problem on his list. system and raising money from various city main election by Joe Balbontin. One reason building condominiums along Rest Beach, Many times his was the only voice to be is too sick to do anything at all — Bill Bill believes he lost was his activist stance About this time Bill helped engineer what Bill was physically threatened, had roofing raised in defense of wildlife or natural throws himself right back into the battle. commissions to keep things going. He he considers one of his greatest victories — changed the atmosphere from a neglected on issues, including his membership in the tar smeared on his house, acid thrown on habitat about to be bulldozed. When there American Civil Liberties Union. an ordinance banning high-rise construction his car and several tires slashed. One day were others, Bill had more often than not J\ s I gathered up my notes and outpost with peeling paint and no telephone in Key West. As Bill tells it: to a successful public facility regularly In the early 70s, City Commissioner two large marijuana plants mysteriously helped organize and prepare them for their prepared to leave, Bill got out the American "A guy named Donald Berg had put in appeared in Marge's gardening shed. appearance. flag that flew over NAS Boca Chica the day enjoyed by residents all over the island. Bill Gamble took a hard stance against his application for several 15-story Pool Supervisor Lee Thompson says Bill long-hairs and street people. From a "We figured someone was trying to set Bill inspired many of us with his he retired. He showed it to me, and then he buildings out where the Hampton Inn is us up to be arrested, so we got those things never-say-die attitude. Sometimes his and Marge carefully folded the colors, taught her everything she knows about the vantage point inside his jewelry store at today. We suspected Berg was being mechanics of the city pool — from the Southard and Duval, Gamble would call out of there in a hurry," Marge said. inspiration came whether we wanted it or moving slowly closer to each other until financed from Las Vegas, and there were She said the crank calls came at all hours not — say at 7:45 a.m. Sunday when he their hands touched. chlorine room to the pumps and regulators police to have loiterers arrested. rumors that Bebe Rebozo was involved — and valves to making simple repairs to save -- "you wouldn't believe the things they would call to discuss some good news he And I wished I knew the special "One day he had some young men and these were the big boys. would say" — and at one point they hired a the city money. their girlfriends arrested and they turned out had just read in the paper or to find out if ingredient that went into the making of these "We didn't care who they were, we just security guard. Later Bill got out an old you would be attending a meeting that two people's lives, so we could all share a "If something needed to be done, Bill I to be Navy men on leave," Bill said. "I was wanted to stop 'em. We organized a would go get his tools and do it himself if double-barreled shotgun and kept it leaning afternoon. little of it in ours. EH asked to help defend them and, together petition drive and put out 20,000 bumper by the front door, loaded. he could," Lee said. "If he needed a small with Shelley Rothman, ACLU attorney, we I can't think of a single environmental stickers that read 'No High-Rise in The Bill said Rongo once chased him onto issue during the last 15 years - ranging part or a tool he would quite often buy it got them off and proved the laws they had Florida Keys.' Those things went all over Ernest Hemingway Home and Museum ELLORO A Registered National Historical Landmark OPEN DAILY 9:00 A.M. TO 5:00 P.M. 907 WHITEHEAD STREET, KEY WEST, FLA. VERDE

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Mr. 404 SOUTHARD ST. Hemingway was the first important writer to dis- UIDUURL. 294-7092 Corner of Duval & Caroline Streets KEY WEST, FLORIDA 33040 SIDEWALK CAFE cover and make- Key West his home. He owned "the most laid back bar in Key West" SELECTION OF BEER & WINE 605 WHrTEHEAD ST. the home from 1931 to 1961. 8 Covers One Acre Including Pool & Guest House Tues.-Sal. 11 AM to 10 PM Sun.-JAqji^ 11 AH Jo 5 294-2627 OpeneveiydnylO-4 • VISA,MG,AMEX { • ' - •--:- 628 Diival Strccr — Page 44--January 1988-Solares Hill LEST WE FORGET Solares HHI-January 1988-Page 45 Continued from page 29 Many have capitalized on land, value of its assets but also an equitable speculation in Key West: Ed Swift, the rental income to the benefit of all of its l is allowed under city code. Did it Ever Snow in Key West? veritable "Landlord of Duval Street," and citizens. Yesf Weil, Sort / Mayor Heyman, who recently sold his art For that to happen, the city commission • Out perhaps the most compelling gallery for nearly half a million dollars, to argument for why the city should own must be held to greater accountability with by Anatole Starlight When women put their heads together, pool parlors and beer joints grudgingly name but two. Why shouldn't the city also regards to the leasing of public property. there's sure to be a flash of lightning. And agreed, this was one hell of an idea. Even property is exemplified by such cases as the take part in this lucrative field? The average Hand Print Factory and the Chamber of Amendments to the city code should be N,I ow that the chilly winds of January sure enough —flashl the Tourist Development Council would taxpayer should only regret that the city made to require public advertising and sweep through the rickety wooden Conch It was going to snow on Duval Street the have been proud of this stunt. Commerce building. It's true these leases fathers didn't buy up more property years generate a fraction of the income they could. bidding on all city leases. houses, and all the hotels turn on the night of the Christmas parade! ago before the prices got so high. Maybe Will this commission introduce such an warm-air cycle for the comfort of their Wow! O aturday night and the cops had But considering the extent to which these then we wouldn't be paying taxes at all. blocked Duval. People were swarming properties have appreciated in recent years, amendment and put an end to this paying guests from the North, we are To sell those parcels now would be like longstanding misuse of public property? [§] frequently asked: A. hen somebody asked, "How are we downtown. Soon the bands came marching the city hasn't done badly at all. According selling blue chip stocks at a low point; it Did it ever snow in Key West? going to do this?" and tootling along, drummers drumming, to the Monroe County Property Appraiser's would allow someone else to realize the In the late 1950s came a blustery cold It just happened there was an dancers prancing — a festive night. And Office, the value of the Hand Print lot profits. Someday, the encumbering leases December when Duval Street merchants enterprising stunt flyer in town for the even the weatherman was in tune: it had increased $360,000 in 1987 followed by an will terminate, and at that time the city will ganged up to figure out a gimmick for their winter named Charley Ross. Ross hung out warmed up a few degrees. increase of almost $480,000 in 1988. be able to enjoy not only the increasing annual Christmas parade down the main in the morning at Pepe's — the original one, Then, fat piece de resistance. drag. All the regular elements were at the corner of Greene and Duval — where Crowds could hear the sputtering engine included: the Navy band from the Sonar he learned of a "business opportunity" from of Ross's open-cockpit aircraft as he school, the great marching band from some hungry newspapermen who ran a tab approached from the south. Eager faces Douglass High, floats and fancy cars from there. were lifted. Kids were whooping it up. the Estenoz twins, Bevis-Lewis, skimpily Ross checked with the BPW and told Dogs were howling. clad baton twirlers from the high school, them he'd sweep low down the length of Ross makes his first pass overhead and exotic dancers from the Mardi Gras, and so Duval, in the middle of the parade, while his dumps a load of dry ice on the crowds. forth. copilot — a daredevil news hound — dumped Then another, and another. "But what can we do that's different?" bucketsful of dry ice on the crowds. The There was a cry of outrage. Grief. It moaned members of the Business and dry ice would convert in seconds to snow, turned to hoots and whistles and catcalls and Professional Women's group. Leading and, voilal A white Christmas for unprintable words. Obscene gestures were lights in that bunch were' Wilhelmina wide-eyed Key Westers who'd never seen flung from the denizens of the beer halls. Harvey — our dear county commissioner — the stuff in their lives. Instead of powdery flakes of snow, it who owned a drug store and soda fountain Eureka! The answer to our prayers, rained mush. Gobs of warm water splashed at the corner of Fleming and Duval; Edna cried the women in the BPW. down on the moms and pops and kiddies. Miller, owner of a ladies' apparel store, The weather continued cold and awful as Ross didn't know that. He kept on SUSHI BAR / JAPANESE CUISINE Mar-Eds,,_a__fe_w.steps from "thef LaConcha; the time drew near. 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Roosevelt Oliver Jordon's , 80S Duval Exotic Chinese Stir Fries, Indian La Terraza de Marti 1125 Duval Lighthouse Cafe 917 Duval Black Angus 3S24 N. Roosevelt Blvd. Curries, Thai, Indonesian and Las Palmas 1029 Soulltard Little Nicolena 628 Duval Callaloo The Reach Portslde Key West 431- Front, Capt. Bob's Shrimp Dock 2200 N. Roosevelt • Burmese Specialties Louie's Backyard 700 VVaddell Pier House Restaurant 1 Duval Top O' Spray 3420 N. Roosevelt Crab Shack 908 Caroline WINE & SAKI BAR Twigs 722 Duval. Danny's Kish Market 627 Duval 6:00-11:30 • CLOSED TUESDAY 'L'ortside Key West 431 Front Emma's Seafare The Reach Reservations Suggested ORIENTAL ' Half Shell Raw Bar ...Foot of Margaret 6131/2 Duval St. (rear) 294-6230 Amy's Filipino Cuisine Key Lime Square Harbor Lights Garrison Bight Marina Bcnihana .....S. Roosevelt Blvd (AIA) Islander Restaurant Front & Simonton China Garden West 3324 N. Roosevelt Blvd. Logun's Lobster House 1420 Simonton AMERICAN CAFE Dim Sum .613 Duval St. (rear) Mangrove Mania's ...MM20, Sugarloaf Key Portslde Key West 431 Front Martha's S. Roosevelt Blvd. (AIA) LUNCH & DINNER O'Brien's at the Wharf....2401 N. Roosevelt Blvd. Perry's Restaurant 3800 N. Roosevelt SERVED DAILY FROM NOON Pete's Raw Bar (Pier House) 1 Duval SANDWICH/DELI Portslde Key West _ 431 Front Cafe Exile Duval at Angela John Wilcox at the Piano Rusty Anchor Sth Ave. Stock Island Cayo IIu'cso 105 Whitchead 6-10 p.m. Turtle Kraals Foot of Margaret Key West Picture Show CaTc 400 Front St. Two Friends Patio Restaurant S12 Front St.- La Bodega 829 Simonton Sing-A-Long with Jay Foote Margarituvillc Cafe 500 Duval Mr. Submarine 1800 N. Roosevelt 10 p.m.-? Tues.-Sun. Mickey's Deli ; 812 Caroline St. Owl Food Store 712 Caroline St 296-9600 • 301 WHITEHEAD ST. 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Roosevelt Closed Thursdays The Belly Buster Platter with cole slaw and french fries - 5.95 El Meson De Pepe 1215 Duval Yesterday's 420 Southard Aty-i •* Open 9 to 1 Sunday There's rumor of perfection... 1/2 lb. each, Fried Shrimp, Fried Scallops, Fried Clam Strips Prime Rib Sandwich - 6.25 296- with cole slaw and french fries — 9.99 Platter with cole slaw and french fries - 7.45 703 1/2 Duval Street Cheeseburger - 4.50 Sandwiches Baskets Platter with cole slaw and french fries - 5.75 From The Sea From The Sea '•• Hot Dog-2.75 Fried Conch (konk) -- 6.95 Oysters and Chips - 6.95 Platter with cole slaw and french fries - 3.95 Fried Fish -- 6.95 Fried Oyster -- 4.75 Fish and Chips - 5.95 - Chili Dog--3.95 Shrimp Salad--6.95 Tuna Salad-4.95 Shrimp and Chips -- 9.95 Platter with cole slaw and french fries — 5.15 ELLOROUERDE Entrees. 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