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VOL. XI, No. 2 KEY WEST, FL February 1983 and correctly, we believe - that there "My feet were in such bad are gross errors in the beach usage shape I couldn't even ¥§!£ head count in the inventory of existing stand on them (then) I areas, projected needs, etc. Bill NANCY & COUN JAMESON ordered a pair of your went into detail that I do not have marvelous, marvelous room for here but basically recommended sandals. I started out that the project should include the wearing them an hour the Hello - South Beach and the Monroe County Beach but that's about it." first day and a little longer each day... What areas; should attempt to resolve the are my feet like today? I can walk, they never White Street Pier problem; should tire or hurt. But best of all, I have lost all of my I DON'T KNOW how well known the NORMALLY., YOU'D CALL Bill Huckel name of the late Jack Nablo was to the address the benefits that the private and.say "no way." But we're talking corns and calluses. And my feet feel so good, owners of Rest Beach will derive; and, just like they did when I was a child and I'm citizens of Key West, but it was very, (writing) about Colin and Nancy Jameson, nearly seventy!" well known to us at Solares Hill. Jack, in general, should be resubmitted in a who are among the top movers, shakers, a retired G.M. executive was a lover of proper form that would have a chance of do-ers, launchers, promoters and lovers People who wear Birkenstocfe are the best sales being approved. of Key West. force we have. And all kinds of people are wearing and an expert on word usage. After the them lately: From college lads to their grandparents. paper came out, he would sit down and- They are not a matched pair in the So come on, don't be bashful. Try on a pair. And re-proof it for us. Often the list of UNFORTUNATELY, TO READ the publi- normal sense. Not that they are not de- see if you don't end up joining our volunteer sales errors included some that I felt were cation of the K.W. Chamber of Commerce, voted which they surely are, and not force. not errors at all but Jack was ready Chamber Chowder, one would be led to that they are not a match for each for me and generally he was right. •believe that Bill and the Florida Keys other which they certainly are. The Zealous as he was in finding mistakes, Citizens Coalition opposed this project V. Jamesons rarely are two people. They his greater pleasure came (on the rare wholeheartedly. This is not the case have a synergistic effect on each other Birkenstock occasions) when we had few or, once, and the writer of this article" has done and so in the case of the Jamesons you none that he had discovered. We will the members of the Chamber of Commerce have two-and-one-half people. But re- Footprints® miss him. a singular disservice by producing this gardless of the sum total they are al- slanted story. May I recommend Bill's ways themselves. Nancy extroverted, A ROVING CORRESPONDENT of ours, editorial in the January Solares Hill dynamic, terribly bright, and almost Tanya Duffy, burst upon us with two to those who want to know the true always on stage—front and center. Colin: items that she feels merit notice. approach of both Bill and The Florida a handsome aristocrat, less introverted One is her feeling that June Hunzinger's Keys Citizens Coalition to this problem. 5 since he married Nancy, nicely pedantic, .footprints production of the great musical 6 O a stylist in all things, and a protector 505 Southard Strset "Showboat" will be a knock-out and that Solares Hill will be sponsoring a of family, tradition and community. Key West the excellent cast should be listed. short story contest that will be open They are: Gaylord - Jason Follmer; to all members of our high schools. BETWEEN THE TWO or two-and-one-half Julie - Jody Ray; Capt. Andy - Mike First prize will be $100 and publication the Jamesons are involved in virtually Demoldau; Parthy - Gertrude Jaycocks; in the April paper. I hope that we get every Key West activity from church to Ellie - Carole McCarthy; Frank - Dan a good response to this contest. school to theatre to museum to preserva- Grasso; Joe - Mike Morgan; Queenie - • 1 A tion to friends, and on the lighter Mona Melvin. The cast also includes COMMISSIONER RICHARD HEYMAN stood side it is an Old Island tradition that Frank McDonald, George Gugleotti, and up a few meetings ago and expressed 0 if you want your party to be a success •0 Bill Hubbard. Musical Director is concern about the Pelican Landing pro- x; you don't need booze—just invite the Joan Watson. 2nd piano is Dick Allen, ject at Garrison Bight. He was all but n, Jamesons. (And if you do have a drink and choreography is by Charles Karp. shouted down by an aroused building Nancy and Colin handy, Nancy will stand on her head.) department and by some of his fellow HER SECOND ITEM to be shared is commissioners. It looks like, as usual, HOW DO YOU write about somebody won't do it. Go away, you lovely man." that the five lectures of the highly Richard knew what he was talking about. who doesn't want you to? Or her husband who says: "I think successful Literary Seminar given in Bill Westray has many guestions that he How do you write about people who this project is pretty thin. I've never LET'S GO BACK aways, Nancy Jameson, the auditorium of the T.W.F.A.C. on raises about this project in this have suddenly (and conveniently) lost done anything but raise a few tomatoes nee Ordway, was an Army brat and her Friday, January 14 were videotaped by month's editorial. their memories? I mean totally. and publish a bunch of stories in the family also had excellent connections Dee Scarborough, the media-librarian How do you write about a lady who Saturday Evening Post. Oh yes, I do bi- in Washington. That's where most of her at Key West High School who feels SPEAKING OF THE building depart- tells you to scram, vamoose, "I don't cycle a lot and once in a while write growing up took place. She attended that they will be ready for viewing ment, shouldn't they cite the builder want any part of their interview. I letters to the editor of the Citizen Visitation Convent and Holton Arms where March 1. Copies will be available at: of those back stairs on the much- 1. The Monroe County Library, criticized Alcobar construction at Fleming Street. Duval and Olivia streets? Don't they 2. Florida Keys Community violate our city law? College Library We're known best for our innovative the 18th Annual 3. Key West High School Library Continued on page 4 2 and effective design work, but we do a lot more, too. We have top BILL WESTRAY HAS editorialized with us and spoken in public on the COVER ARTIST THIS time is Ann agency credit listings with all the need to review the Smathers Beach Irvine. Her work may be seen at Guild publications you need, WORLD-WIDE. old island 6ays Renourishment Project. He maintains - Hall on Duval Street. 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STARTING FEB. 15 Skin &jx™ Town key west am; centeR 1-7495 Solares Hill Co., Inc. ©SOLARES HILL, 1932 AND THROUGH FEB. 20 time he had a short story accepted by a raincoat over your head to avoid being Hampshire, where the thermometer rarely she was involved with everything. She up Nancy turned to the area that she his prize. Among those present that day the Saturday Evening J?ost--then the distracted from the coining confronta- climbed above 35 degrees below. Being was a hell-raiser but also did brilliant- knows and does best: promotion. She were: the Shields, Bowsers, Lawrences, pinnacle of success for any kind of a tion with the waiting scorpions, the Navy, every candidate but me was from ly academically. She didn't go to college took on any and all jobs, big or small. Helen Thielen, Floy Thompson, the God- writer. Despite a successful career in the deep south, and the suffering was as dards, Burt Garnett, Rita Sawyer, the but why should she? Life was too full of Horse shows, charity events, house a gray flannel suit, Colin yearned for THE POPULACE WAS divided into three extreme as the weather. At "graduation" tea dances, romances and dinner parties, tours, women's activities. She soon had Bruces, Murphrees, Sauers, Millers something less confining. He resigned the Captain asked one lad how he had (Paul and Bonnie), Higgins, Leaches, groups: (1) Artists and writers and She was a regular at the Mayflower Hotel; her own little public relations company. and he and his wife roamed (educated other far-outs originally attracted by enjoyed his last two months at Dartmouth the band leader knew her favorite tunes When asked where her offices were lo- Knights and Fords, And guess who was roaming) for a few years.. Some time in College. "Captain, sun," the victim re- the bar-tender? Gerald Diaz. WPA projects and laid-back life style; and Eric the martre d' her special table. cated, her instant reply (all her Vermont (mostly ballet) , a 10th reunion (2) natives anxious to burn the several plied, "the last two months have been And she wanted desperately to go on the responses are quick, generally funny at Williams, a trip to Key West (where remaining wooden bridges on U,S, 1, thus the happiest four years of man life." stage. A driving obsession it was: "All. and always modest), "My kitchen table." AS WE SAID earlier, Nancy Jameson his famous actress daughter Adair was is into everything. She's currently preventing the arrival of any more cate- the world's a stage, and "all the men and almost born) . Then to Palo Alto, Cali- gory one-ers; (3) forward-looking citi- WHEN WE FINALLY wound up in Wash- women merely players. They have their SOMEWHERE ALONG THE line she ac- President of the Key West Woman's Club, fornia, where he free-lanced in earnest. ington to receive our assignments, the on the board of the Old Island Restora- zens who doubted the wobbly tourist- exits and entrances" ... so does Nancy. cepted the position of social secretary With stories appearing regularly in the oriented initiatives would work, and Navy again displayed its uncanny ability She did a few parts at the National to Evangeline Bruce, wife of the tion Foundation, deeply involved in the SEP, Cosmopolitan, Colliers and the to spot the right man in the right place. Key West Art S Historical Society, an who wished the Navy would get scared Theatre. But then her father, like then-well-known ambassador to every- like. World War Two stepped in. enough of the Germans to steam to the One classmate had written three books on many fathers before him, didn't take where and financier and scion of a dis- integral part of the Oldest House (she the South Seas, They sent him to Buenos created with her own hands the doll rescue before The Rock slid into a sea kindly to a theatrical life for his tinguished Virginia family. Nancy re- of bankruptcy a second time. Aires. Another chap had already spent beloved daughter. So she turned to.,the calls her appointment (a friend had house featured there). And always, al- seven years in Argentina as correspon- ways caring about her three sons. radio". Did some- soap opera, some pro- given up the job and suggested that she ONE OF THE wonderful things about WE RENTED A house at 1100 South dent and State Department employee. He duction, and some promotion, She was apply), There was no interview, no writing about a writer (particularly Street from Eileen Williams, It bore no went to Seattle. When my turn came, good at her job. And she entertained checking of references. Mrs. Bruce took when he is a better writer than you) is resemblance to the present remodeled they said, "Downstairs." people wherever she went, one look at Nancy and said: "The job is that with a little persuasion you can structure at that address, being a shack- Downstairs I waited out the war yours," SO NOW LET'S talk about Colin Jameson. He was born to an affluent persuade him to tell his own story. So style bungalow of uncertain parentage writing analyses of battles, like, NOW LEST WE get carried away: now we hear directly from Colin Jameson: with a rickety porch where Ernest Hem- "Why do we keep sinking our own ships?" THEN CAME AN extra-fun period in family living in what is now Winnetka, Nancy Jameson does have a fault, just Illinois. He attended Thacher School ingway was alleged to have written The I also served as the Russian "expert" on one. And maybe it's not a fault. But her life. As a member of the Bruce WHEN I FIRST hit Key West, 43 years Sun Also Rises or ^1 Farewell To Arms, the Navy's confidential magazine for menage all kinds of Washington doors in California "where every kid had his she can and does swear like a trooper. own pony," spent summers in Santa Bar- ago, I had been expecting it to look or both and probably neither. officers. If it hadn't been for the New Nancy knows and can use dirty words the opened up for her, She dealt with the bara ("those were the days"), and went like Cuba. It didn't. In fact it looked I set up my typewriter in the exact York Times, I would never have got the likes you never have heard: big ones, Alsop brothers (who she adored) and a good deal the way it does now, but Germans moved back from Moscow in time David Brinkley, John Chancellor, Henry to Williams College. Following gradua- same spot and churned out reams of the little ones, French, German, upscale," without shopping centers and facilities two-syllable prose that had worked well to celebrate V-E Day. As a final plum, downscale, military or civilian. She Kissinger, the White House and the tion and with a bent for the literary, I got to write the end-of-the-war-in- he joined Bobbs-Merrill, the publishing for tourists and winter visitors. The as advertising copy. All that happened could win any war all by herself. On likes. And the parties continued on indigenous population was about the same. Europe story. and on, house, starting at the bottom. was a further weakening of the porch. the other side of the coin: she knows The weather was just as good, the morals In March' it partly collapsed under the every child's story or rhyme by heart. just as bad, if redistributed. Most of IT IS A, well-known fact that Key I mean ALL of them. ALONG ABOUT 1974 Nancy Haight re- AFTER A YEAR or so he decided to weight of a farewell party, but no one go to Harvard Law School. He graduated the streets were made of packed, pocked was in a mood to notice. Westers and even visitors to the island ceived a telephone call from a friend marl. The rest tended to be brick; would are subject to two psychological com- saying that she had a ticket for an but decided he wasn't really cut out NEXT CAME A husband. Joe Haight. for the law "because there never seemed that they still were. A STORY BASED on the horrors of my plaints. We all know about Rock Fever, They moved to Princeton, N.J. then three East Coast-Panama Canal-West Coast the compulsion to get the hell off before cruise but couldn't make it. Would to be a complete answer" but he did solo trip north with a four-year-old children and all that goes with that. understand marriage and she turned out THE AREA FROM. Fifth Street to the son made the Saturday Evening Post, Key you go bananas. Some oldtimers are im- Then back to Washington, D.C., and the Nancy like the trip—for free. She mune and have never been seen east of would and she did. Aboard she met Colin to'be a most attractive lady interested Naval Hospital was largely wilderness, West, haven of writers, would-be writers, usual routine of house-keeping, raising in ballet, B. G. (BeeGee) Gould, With spurs of civilization along Flagler has-been writers, had assured my future. White Street. But after a certain time children ("no swearing, kids") and the Jameson from Key West. They hit it off. the world begins to beckon to most of Then followed mucho telephone calls and and Duck and Eagle avenues, The water good wife. But always the.parties. The BACK TO CHICAGO and a job with system was as reliable as you and your Or so I thought. Everything was us, even if we only want to make sure Mayflower, the Shoreham, Pierre, Chan= shortly a marriage proposal but tempered those guys actually are doing something with "Key West is a little different first Lord & Thomas and then J. Walter cistern. Nobody was hired to add mud or going pretty well with the magazines when ticler, La Paradis, and the Sulgrave Thompson (both prestigious advertising rust or chlorine. The mosquitoes were I got pulled off the line to win the war.. to the golf course, Club to name a few. Then tragedy struck from what you're accustomed to--better came down here and check it out." agencies) as a copy writer. He worked terrible and tended to lie in ambush in An inspired confession that I could —her husband died before he was on Kraft, Swift and Lucky Strike among any car with a window cracked open. If read Portuguese, not overly exact, - THE OTHER DISABILITY is more solid- thirty-five, Nancy was left with children ly ingrained: Conchs, semi-Conchs like COLIN GAVE A big cocktail party other accounts. All the while he was you went to the back shed to fiddle with nevertheless landed me in an intelligence eight, ten and twelve years old. And no writing on the side and just about this the water pump, it was customary to wear company at indoctrination school in New me, and even visitors suffer from a normal means of support. Fazed but head- (catered by Bill Gaiser) to show off COMING IN FEBRUARY! haarmony DUNGEON ill 14) DELI in Key West KEY WEST'S OWN the natural fiber clothing store , BAR TELEVISION STATION

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"I saw Nancy, JAMESON IS PROUD of his bicycling. most every day "Nancy is there organiz- 'down' once--for about 50 seconds." Almost every day he cycles to and from ing the job and Colin is at home writing "Colin gets a lot done, quietly." "Have DIWAL IYREEI NURSERY about it." you ever heard Nancy swear? Whew. Wow. East Martello--that's 5.2 miles. And that's just for starters. He figures Ouch." "She's a real good girl." "I'd since 1950 he has bicycled 85,000 AS INDICATED EARLIER in this piece, trust Colin anywhere, anytime." "I grew miles. If anybody can top that please the Jamesons are no peas in a pod. Nancy up on the Saturday Evening Post (can raise either hand, is up at 6:30 a.m. and shortly there- even remember when it went from a nickel 710 DUVAL ST. PH. 294-3916 KEY WEST He also has a green thumb and loves after in church. Colin rises at exactly to a dime) and recall reading stories by to work in his "miniature farm." Toma- 8:20 a.m. and wants his breakfast at Colin Jameson, Then when I came to Key OPEN 7 DAYS • 10 TO 6 • PARKING IN REAR toes are his special thing and he im- 8:21. Colin likes to bake bread or com- West there he was. It was like meeting pressed Burpee Seeds by discovering that mune with his typewriter. Nancy would God." "Colin is honest, loyal, kind, tomatoes grew 14% larger when vibrated. rather work with people. Colin likes witty, perceptive, knowledgable, modest, He had trained a fan on them while they to give some thought to the matter; handsome, and loving but occasionally were growing! Nancy's replies are invariably instan- seasoned by being grumpy and opinion- WE SPECIALIZE IN UNUSUAL "COLLECTOR" TROPICAL PLANTS fi taneous. Nancy is quick to make up her ated." (This last comment is from one ALSO DESPITE VEHEMENT denials he's mind about people; Colin wants to put who knows him well but it's not Nancy.) not totally unassuming about his forays them through his mental computer. One on the stage. He played an excellent thing they do have in common: a delicious DESIGNS FOR INDOOR AND OUTDOOR LIVING AREAS sense of humor, SO THERE THEY ARE: Nancy & Colin judge in The Deadly Game a few years Jameson. Volunteers and contributors. ago; I know because I saw him. Over the Part Conch, shades of Washington, a bit FRESH FLOWERS EVERY WEEKEND years Jameson has enjoyed enduring BECAUSE THIS WRITER didn't want of the Eastern establishment, a touch friendships with men like Jack Thomp- this mini-biography to be too biased he of Ivy, long memories of a convent, son, Toby Bruce, Hall Stokes, Joe Allen sought opinions from others--friends articulate in mind and body, civic and "THE NURSERY FOR A 'GROWING' KEY WEST" and Burt Garnett. He's a man's man as and just acquaintances whose names must charitably minded, politically involved, well as ladies' man, Lucky fellow, remain anonymous but which begin with friends to all and playmates to many— the letters L, s", H, B, A, J, F. "In- sort of homing instinct. No matter how one fully accredited storm every ten but no pushovers they. Doesn't that add it swallows invaders. But it seems to NEITHER NANCY OR Colin is inter- credibly wonderful, dedicated people." up to two-and-one-half? And maybe a many years they have been away from Key years. So don't get complacent, "Never have known them to turn down a West, they finally get the feeling that spit out those who try to change the ested in material gain ("except to stay little bit more. atmosphere as well as the architecture. alive," says Nancy) or in acquisition. worthy cause." "Colin is sometimes slow this big rubber band is pulling at them IN 1950 I bought the house we now to start but oh boy when he gets going." and they succumb. He who lives happily in the glitter of Their house is full of beautiful things live in. We bought it from Frank and a Miami will never be at home in Key Well, so did we. In 1947, here we Isador Bowser. Five years later we were West. were again, for no special reason. In voters. It was about then that the 1948, back again, kids in school, toma- market for short stories, which had toes growing in the marl, the whole tub been drying up, began to blow away for of suds, Daddy banging away furiously at almost everybody but the big names. I NOW THE AUTHOR of this article KITES & FLYING TOYS CAPT. BOB'S FAMOUS SEAFOOD his second novel, which was going to be thereupon went into the outboard boat moves in again: Colin Jameson for the MAKE a lot better than the first. (It wasn't.) business. In the ensuing four years I past 43 years has systematically and RESTAURANT learned more than I wanted to know about thoroughly involved himself in a myriad ALONG CAME SEPTEMBER 21 and a full the larcenous characteristics of the of Key West activities. He has seldom 2200 NO. ROOSEVELT BL. moon and a hurricane. This storm has., human race in general and some of the said "no." He has been deeply involved OPEN DAILY since been voted out of existence by inhabitants of this island in particular. in the Key West Art & Historical Soci- 11:00 AM TO 2:30 AM common consent, though at the time it ety, The Key West Players, the Humane FAMOUS was acclaimed by the Weather Bureau as SO THEN I left the boat business Society to name a few. He has written COCKTAILS & the third worst in local recorded his- and wrote three or four more novels, many articles and brochures about the FOR SERVING SALAD BAR tory. The Navy said the breeze was which no one bought, In retrospect, I Keys. He's promoted all that's good and 294-6433 wafting in at 135 mph at Boca Chica don't think I would have, either, I protested the bad. He's one of the three FRESH SEAFOOD when the anemometer blew away. But it wrote science-fantasy stories and they most prolific "letters-to-the-Editor-of- Shrimp; Steame^/Stuffedpr Fried; went too far when it suggested that an- sold pretty well for a while. the-citizen" writers-—being outdone (in Fish socks, banners and Coijch Fritters j jOlsms&Oyftters: other lesser zephyr smacked the island I didn't have to retire as a quantity) only by Lawrence Gomez and Stone; Grab Glawl Red Snapper windsocks are beautiful on 294-9005 exactly two weeks later. This distur- writer. The less., I sold, the less I Marion Stevens. • . Swordfish ;;> Steak >••, Gliickejn.;}.' bance was immediately laughed out of wrote, and that kind of operation rapid- decks, porches, patios and OPEN DAILY l town except by the Navy, which lost a ly wearies away. My lovely wife BeeGee HIS LETTER WRITING is not limited sailboats! building and a damaged pier, neither of died in 1968. to the citizen; as a wordsmith and 11:30 AM TO 11 PM which it knew what to do with anyway, observer-of-the-times, he frequently can and by La Concha Hotel, the sixth floor WHAT TRENCHANT OBSERVATIONS do I be read in the New York Times, Time mag- CAPT. BOB'S of which was peeled of its plaster. have to make about Key West after all azine and similar national notables. these years? Well, none that any long- Here's a contribution he sent a while SHRIMP POCIC RESTAURANT INTERESTING NOTE: Nine coco palms time resident wouldn't have thought of. back but surely is current: got so entangled trying to fall on our It may be a revealing fact that lately The high price of steak The amazing "puddle jumper" 908 CAROLINE ST. the permanent population of this island car that none of them hit it', When this Leaves this to be said: creates hours of flying fun! vehicle was dragged to a gas station, has not been increasing, a situation Most eaters of cake ZZZZZZJ 2232232 with mushrooms sprouting from its tail- often ascribed locally to the census Have plenty of bread. gate, a large tree frog was found re- takers. If true, this may mean that laxing on top of the engine, "development" with its architectural ONE OF JAMESON'S chief contribu- Even though the existence of these eyesores, is partly illusory, granted tions has been his unfailing ability to Just wind up Tim Bird and watch him fly! hurricanes is sternly denied, the first that the older part of town will not be recognize and pursue the important one was in fact the only real wind be- pre-empted and destroyed. goals and not be diverted to easier by- tween 1919 and today, The normal in- paths. His encouragement of the case- cidence for Key West and vicinity is KEY WEST, THEY say, is like China: ments at Martello ("save the surface Handmade Boat Flags & Banners for Sailboats plus Telltales for • Windsurfers CUSTOM MADE.

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Over my shoulder there sympa- in her basement, her brother Fred John- spot? always, one felt a heightened thetically lurks a cool, mysterious and son (may he rest in peace) driving up, sense of life accruing to this sweet lovely half moon this evening. This coming from his Island Flying School ... wedge of real estate. And yet, the value Our services for children include: January moon swings up there above the of life is simply in the living. It's old autograph tree, its leaves bearing • HENRY B. LEE III (may he rest life that matters—nothing but life—the • Periodic cleanings and fluoride visitors' names scratched on with a nail; in peace), a city comish who once tilt- process, of discovering—the everlasting UGLY DUCKLING RENT-A-CAR if the person dies or defaults, the leaf ed at windmills' here and lived just and perpetual process—not the discovery treatments The lowest prices for car rentals shrivels and drops off in a very eerie down the way in his Vernon Avenue itself. 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Under the blandishments of ing on costly antique Oriental rugs, and THE MOON DROPS slightly in the soft BAGATELLE • Nutritional counseling this winter island moon, I turn to reg- if you veered around his grand piano, sky, skirting a cloud. 0, the incom- AN ISLAND RESTAURANT 1 ister and take in the scene through the prehensible sequence of change and • Toothbrush and floss instruction SALES-New and used. you could ascend and observe in awe his 115 DUVAL STREET strange eyes of nonownership. It is a ancestral baronial begetting beds . .. chance that make up a life. 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HE NEVER CROSSED the path of the THE LOCAL OFFICE and the one up Border Patrol who would probably claim THIS IS ABOUT a man who lives in the road told him "you don't exist— he's an "illegal alien" which he is not Key West (or did when I wrote this, go back and tell your parents to do it —he was born in the U.S. and never likely still does though I've not seen right and register your birth or find left. him for a few weeks). No, I'll not iden- the doctor that delivered you or some- So, how many more "rejects" have tify him—he came here for the same thing." Quoth he—you kidding, after we here? Guys like that ask little but reason as the rest of us—to get away all these years, I don't know who the how do we treat the ones among us who from hassles. doctor was or if there was one—I was are atypical? Probably not very well. He's a year or so younger than I— very young and don't remember the occa- the "older generation." Born, like I . sion. Anyway, he says, if I can't have I TOLD HIM the smart thing to do was, among rural migrants on the Great a number I can't even go look for a reg- is to stay underground, to know when he Plains, among people who took a dim view ular job and that makes me disabled, is ahead. He probably will—his brush of governments. He's lived low-profile, doesn't it? with bureaucracy and the "good" people independent. His birth and later acti- was traumatic. Yes, he's likely evading vities were never formally recorded NO WAY, THE disability is of his . income taxes but government would not anyplace and he was never on welfare, own making and he can work, it's just let him pay taxes if he offered—they'd in a public hospital, in jail or in illegal to pay him for his work. Then put him in jail for not paying the taxes trouble. Not even civil service—the we visited the IRS for whom the bank they will not let him pay. idea would appall.him. wanted that number anyway before it Maybe the Conch Republic was not would take his deposit. Says that lot-- such a joke after all? HE LIVED ON odd jobs—it's no you must have had income so we'll levy trick to earn a living—for cash and, tax on what we think you must have had (Mr. Kagan's opinions are his own, and are not in his lifestyle, frequent contributions but you can't pay the tax for lack of a necessarily those of Solares Hill nor its staff.) from lonely ladies for whom he seems to number so you have to go to prison. have a charm. No way. • • . • But, says he, the lonely old ladies get older and harder to get on with and SO GO FIND a relative with an old places that hire "casual, cash and off bible in the attic. In that lot, people the books" include a growing number of don't have permanent homes and attics. unhappy types. Besides, he thought his Quoth the bureaucrat—regular people nest-egg should be earning interest in do and the purpose of the rules is to a bank instead of buried under a shack. force people like you off of our earth. THE GREEN PARROT None of this is illegal but to open an Now if, you had even a prison record ... account take a Social Security number— O.K., I'll get one, I'll start by Drink drank drunk a permit to pay taxes. He thinks the SS strangling you. All downhill from there. Funky honky gazonky, gravy train is a bit rickety and does Taxi I'm tipsy, not plan on it but if somebody wants a THIS MAN IS part of the "underground Gahomee. number, o.k., number. And he'd never economy." He's not a native of Key West think of the SSI--hassles he does not or even a permanent Key Wester. He's By Baxter Wood • need; it's easier to earn the few dol- part of our community for now and as lars he needs. long as it pleases him to remain. 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Iw. %^&ar& or%. teenagers, cats, dogs, moms and pops coming in from the west end of a short 15 continued pouring out to the airport. runway. In the middle of the night, all roads led to the airport and the boulevard But it looked like there"d be a I/Senderender - ZJZJanii, looked like midday in the maddest problem for the huge aircraft, then REALTOR BEATIES HIT Ksy Wer-1964 BY BUD JACOBSON traffic crush you could imagine. making extreme speed on the ground. FULL REAL ESTATE SERVICE SHERIFF JOHN M. SPOTTSWOOD had 409 FLEMING ST. 296-6200 or 296-6231 Unbelievable. his troops out there, along with the YOU COULD SEE the pilot was THE WHOLE THING was caused by a city police, all of them handling bearing down on the brakes, flaps freak of nature — a hurricane. THE ISLAND CITY went bananas crowd control and trying their best to were down and the engines were MiS when the word got out during the late cope with the milling, shouting, screaming in reverse but she still IT WAS SEPTEMBER, 1964, and there yelling people. seemed to move too fast for a run- was a hurricance hovering around out afternoon of the day they were to arrive. Cars carrying the first of way only 4,800 feet long. there in the Atlantic heading toward IN THE MEANTIME, Paraldo was like the Bahamas — the same landing place the Key West fans began showing up at the airport; quickly all the parking a man with 16 different jobs at one "Jesus," muttered one of the the Beatles had in mind when they time. Phones in his office were ring- airport officials, "he's going too wrapped up their immensely successful spaces were taken and they were lining up along South Roosevelt. - ing, his short wave radio was zeroed fast." first tour of the U. S., and were in on the Beatles aircraft and outside seeking sun, sand and solace for their the terminal building, the welcoming aching bones. GEORGE FARALDO, MANAGER of the SPARKS AND BLUE smoke were Key West International Airport, then, hordes were overflowing the grounds. coming out of the wheels as she recalls that the Beatles had been going Cars, trucks, vans, campers, cameras, screeched to a halt with her nose THEIR HUGE CHARTERED four-engine autograph books, records, albums — all almost touching the mangroves at the aircraft, carrying what were now the towards Jacksonville first for a con- cert, then diverted to the Bahamas over the place. Families were having end of the runway. A sigh of relief world's best known musical stars, picnics on the lawn in the parking area. from the crowd. their managers, their tons of equip-' due to the storm and then to Key West. ment, their staff and assorted friends, The pilot of the Beatles aircraft, was finally, after almost six months considering the value of his cargo THE USUALLY SPOOKY'quiet of the Faraldo figured the crowd at headed back to dear old blighty. and the capricious way hurricanes have airport terminal, in the early morning about 3,000, by far the largest of ignoring puny human considerations, hours, was shattered by the noise and ever to pack into the airport. ALL THE BEATLES wanted was a few called Key West for landing information lights as the fans kept looking for the days well-deserved R&R — a rest from and motel reservations. best vantage point. Some of them man- THE PLANE TURNED and taxied the insane clamor and near hysteria aged to find a way to the roof and be- back while the crowd surged forward they'd endured since their February That calm radio voice triggered fore anyone could say "stop," they were and went totally nuts. They were appearance on Ed Sullivan's Sunday an avalanche of response. scrambling on the roof, standing three- throwing flowers, waving flags, night TV show. deep on the balcony overhang. yelling, screaming and whistling when the door opened and The Great THE WORLD WAS overwhelmed by NOTHING LIKE THE Beatles' arrival THE NIGHT DRAGGED on and it was Ones descended into pandemonium. these musical madcaps who were setting could be kept secret. The word went 4 a.m. when the landing lights of the records for everything from the style out like a brush fire. In a matter of huge aircraft could be seen making its LIMOUSINES ORDERED BY Spotts- inter arts of their haircuts to their innovative minutes the local radio stations were approach from the north side of the wood were standing by and whisked the arrangements and creative styling for flooded with calls asking for confirma- island. Some said the screaming and whole bunch off.the field and over TUB KEY CO Li E CT I O N their music. In a short time they'd tion. The major press wire services in yelling and whistling could be heard in to the Key Wester to the accompani- turned the musical/entertainment world Miami—AP, UPI and Reuters—alerted Marathon. ment of sirens and flashing lights on its ear and were adored by millions their stringers in Key West and started from the police and sheriff's cars, SELECTED OBJECTS OF of heavy breathing females of all sending down their own photographers to "There they are!" and that was the start of a gaudy ages. They had become truly a part cover "the event." week-long flirtation Key West had ART $- of the social-cultural history in this The din raised there that night with the rest of the world. century. WELL, THE DAY passed, the sun set, would have beaten anything you'd hear The Tope flpe the night came on, hot and muggy, but on Duval Street today. MEANTIME, PAUL GIBBS who was AND NOW, OF all things, of all still no Beatles. That didn't deter then the reservations and front office places, they'd be in Key West? the crazy crowds, however, children, THE AIRCRAFT ZOOMED over the crowd manager for the huge resort complex, flTflRi, RCTjVISION, and slowly floated toward the ground, then owned by the late Charley INTELLMSION, flSTRORRCRDE ODYSSEY II, PARKER BROS. • Nsw! 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But the beautiful resort motel ONE OF THE enraptured fans was wasn't "vacant" long. Elizabeth Lear, a native of England and something of a pop music buff. She HUNDREDS OF FAITHFUL followers enjoyed those impromptu evening poured over from the airport to the musicales and claimed she'd actually Key Wester and onto the handsomely groomed grounds where many of them patted McCartney on the fanny "as a simply collapsed and slept, or spread sign of music appreciation from Key their blankets and camped there waiting • West," she said. for a glimpse of their idols. MEANTIME, GIBB AND the staff in SPECIAL DETAILS OF police and the motel the Beatles called home, the sheriff's deputies were scheduled for Key Wester, scrambled to keep the place round-the-clock guardian duty, Gibbs organized and running smoothly during said, trying to keep the over-zealous those hectic 10 days. fans from sneaking into windows or rushing the cottages. The first of the THE PLACE FOR action, Gibbs re- gals who later became known as called, was the switchboard which was "groupies" started showing up and there "never quiet — it really looked like a were hilarious rumors of lively and Christmas tree. Incoming phone calls ribald happenings all over town. were the craziest we ever got — from young girls, old girls, from worried IT'WASN'T ANY rumor, however, that mothers as far away as Tampa whose almost anything the Beatles threw into daughters had runaway to Key West to the trash bins from old shaving soap see the Beatles; kids were hitching to cigarette butts was immediately down the highway in droves." salvaged as a holy relic by the daffy Smdwiei and Sktfe fans. There-was a regular barter MANUEL SANCHEZ AND Norris Early marketplace for those valued bits and were the busy bartenders and most of pieces. the food was catered in, even though *7ak, Out 294-3495 there were kitchens in the villas where, THIS COLLECTING MANIA even got to at least,, the true blue English the point where the late Mag Nickerson Beatles could cook up a cuppa char. went out to Rep. Bernie C. Papy's week- end home on Sugarloaf Key where she Autograph signing, from left: George Harrison, Paul McCartney, John Lennon, Ringo Starr and then County Commissioner Billy Osterhoudt. Clustered around "THEY WERE GENTLEMEN and bottled small quantities of water from appreciative of what we did at the the swimming pool and sold them later them, backs to camera, Farnie Spottswood, Marcia Bevis, the three daughters of Commissioner Osterhoudt, and others. Photo courtesy of Farnie Spottswood. motel," Gibbs said, "when they were at a Navy League charity affair—who'd checking out they gave signed been swimming in the pool? copies of their albums to all of us at the Key Wester." Key Ufest JUST MAKING A rough estimate, MBvinBMMMHMVMMHMH^HHIafllill Gibbs figured they must have run up LOVERS' a tab at the motel for rooms, food, booze, souvenirs and especially phone Island SALE calls, in the "high five figures." The bill was sent to agents in New York massage and it was paid in full. BOOKSTORE rollers THEN, ONE QUIET, sad night, with Personal Attention To Special Orders not nearly as many screamers on the books sidelines at the airport (most of the ones who showed up were in tears) the world renowned Beatles climbed the aircraft's ramp, and wh-f-f-ft, they "We can get any blooming book under the sun"*(almost) were gone. Best Sellers • Paperbacks • Gift Books • Children's Books • Nautical and 3011 Sailing Books 130 DUVAL ST © KEY WEST. 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BY JOHN LESLIE awhile they had a sponsor until Wing, who was very independent, set out on THE THREE DAYS of rain were fol- his own and got work in the construc- lowed by three hot sunny days and in THE FIRST TIME Wing borrowed money tion trade before the bottom fell out the South it doesn't take much to dry I was flattered. I hardly knew the man of that, and then he worked for himself all that moisture out of the wood. At and yet he must have felt secure enough picking up odd jobs here and there. the end of the third day Wing showed up of our relationship to ask for a hundred in his pick-up wearing his straw hat dollars. Or maybe it was desperation MAYBE HE WAS desperate when he again. arid I was the end of the line. It came for the money. He showed up at our "I come see you before you come didn't appear that way, but appearances place on a Thursday and said he had to see me," he said. are deceptive you know. have it by Friday. I didn't ask him why "I'm not looking for you, Wing," I he had to have it, and he didn't say. I said. I was hoping he would hand me a I HAD WORKED with Wing on a con- don' t think he was a drinking man, he hundred dollar bill but he didn't have struction job one time but since then I never missed a day's work that I remem- anything in his hands and he wasn't hadn't seen him, other than in passing, ber and I don't think he used drugs. He making a move for his wallet. "Why in three or four years. Things had had several kids which is reason enough would I do that?" changed. I was married and making a right there to need a hundred dollars. little money writing and my wife had a "I FINISH THE job man, but the business of her own that she was doing I GAVE HIM the hundred on Friday. people go away without pay." Wing was ok in. We weren't getting rich but the He offered to sign over his pick-up taking it in stride but I could tell future looked better than it had in a truck which I'd always admired, but I that he was distressed. long while. I wasn't reluctant to give told him no, just get the money back to "All right, Wing," I said. Wing a hundred dollars. As I said, I • me. "They come back in two days I was kind of flattered that he would ask He didn't get all excited when he know." me and I rather liked the guy. He wore got the money, nor did he gush with "All right, Wing," I repeated. his hard hat when he came for the money. thanks. He took it in stride, just the way he asked for it, and I liked that. A HUNDRED DOLLARS isn't that much WING WAS A small man, he couldn't When he came back two weeks later as he money anymore.. People buy a packet of have weighed more than a hundred and promised he would, wearing an Asian cigarettes with a C note and get change m&s-, but he was exceptionally straw hat with a broad flat brim and a without difficulty. A hundred dollars strong and graceful as a cat when work- string tied- under his chin, to say that won't even buy a week's worth of living ing on open rafters high above the he didn't have the money, that was in for the average person. What's a hun- ground. He had a way of using his body stride too. dred dollars? That's what I was asking to lift and carry things that men twice myself. What I was really doing was his size couldn't handle. And in the "IT'S RAINING," WING said. He spoke preparing myself to lose a hundred dol- two years we worked together I never saw English just fine except for a little lars . Nobody likes to lose a hundred Wing lose his temper. That must be some accent and a high-pitched sing-songy dollars, no matter what it won't buy. kind of record in construction work. Of kind of voice.."I can't finish job I \i course he never talked much either, al- do. " . BUT WING WASN'T avoiding me. He ways keeping pretty close so you really That was true. It had been raining came around like he said he would. May- didn't know what he was thinking. He for three days, steady and for a house be I would get the money back after all. might have been boiling under that hard painter (his latest trade) that spells I would have to be more patient. hat as far as I knew. .long days off without pay. My wife was encouraging. "I'm sure I wasn't worried. It wasn't going •he'll pay it back. He's just had a little WING WAS VIETNAMESE, part of the to rain forever. My wife just shrugged setback, that's all. You said he was boat people who drifted, homeless, a her shoulders when I told her. 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the end of the line kites 111 DUVAL STREET, #4 LA PLACE, KEY WEST, 33O4O 21 20 ..' .. THERE IT WAS. I had said he was I DIDN'T SEE Wing again for three "Fine," Wing said. good for it. She wasn't accusing me of weeks. My wife's business picked up a "I'd like to help you," I said, BETTY M. anything but it was one of those sensi- little; I sold an article I had been "but ..." REAL ESTATE INC. tive areas. I really thought he was working on and we suddenly found our- "I sell you the truck. $500. REGISTERED REAL ESTATE BROKER good for it. It was beginning to look selves with some extra money. We went Cheap." as if I had been wrong and I was getting out to dinner and hit some of the local Phone: (305) 872-2261 a little angry, not so much with Wing, spots that were reserved for flush THAT WAS A steal. The pick-up was U.S. 1, LITTLE TORCH KEY, FLORIDA 33043 but with myself, though I was thinking My childhood dream. w4s laUvo i times. By the end of the week the hun- an older six cylinder Chevy in tip-top That looKed out an the open sea . of ways to take it out on Wing. I dred dollars was forgotten about and condition. Wing took care of it and I couldn't think of any way so I just Wing was only mentioned once. "I'm would have liked it, but without it got angrier and seethed. sorry to hear about your friend," my Wing couldn't very well make a living. Prestigious Ocean- wife had said over dinner the first Earning money seemed to be his major A COUPLE OF days later when he evening after Wing had spun out his concern right now. front Home, with showed up again he didn't have a hat on. troubles. "Did he say what was wrong "I'll think about it," T said. deep water channel, I'd never seen Wing, without a hat. He with her?" she asked, referring to "Come back tomorrow. But, Wing - try to 4 bedrooms, 3 looked much younger. I had no idea how Wing's wife. get the Taoney somewhere else." baths, 3 stories. old he was but he had thick black hair "I try," he said, and left. Fabulous planning - on top of his head and a scowl on his "NO," I SAID. "But it didn't sound easy care luxury! otherwise seamless face. good." THE MONEY WAS in savings. I could $296,000! I wasn't angry then with Wing, I "You don't think he's trying to get give him the five hundred all right, just wanted my money back and my esteem out of paying you back, do you?" but somehow I had to break the cycle of him, not to mention my own, restored. It was one of those nasty thoughts that was keeping Wing and me linked that would have occurred to anyone.'It like this.. I thought I had the answer. BARGAINS IN THE LOWER FLORIDA KEYS! INLAND LOTS WITH NICE TREES lor investment or your future home. Just $3,500.00 full pricel WING CAME INTO the house and sat had occurred to me but I tried•to for- I would hold the truck title for ninety $1,000 down, balance monthly! down. He looked straight ahead without get about it. We lived in a small town days, or until he paid me; if he didn't GORGEOUS GULF-FRONT LOTS, BIG PINE KEY. TWO, SIDE BY SIDE. 200 ft. x 55 ft., electric, facing me. I knew there was trouble. He and it would have been easy enough to pay me•then I would take the truck. But paved roads, city water, and giant boulder sea wa)l, lovely neighborhood. These lots are prime just sat there for some time and I find out, but I wouldn't do that. Wing this caused some confusion around the properties, ready to go at this low price! Each, $38,500, '/a down! didn't say anything. had told me the truth although I didn't house for the next few days. Finally, he began to talk. It was blame my wife for questioning it. "He more like a chant and I didn't get it wouldn't do that," I said, and we MY WIFE DIDN'T understand how I all, but what I did get wasn't pretty. didn't talk about it further. could give Wing any more money when he His wife was badly sick in the hospital. hadn't paid back the original hundred There were five kids at home, the oldest THE NEXT TIME he showed up he was dollars. "It makes no sense," she said. was seven, and nobody to look out for wearing the hard hat. I felt a 'little I tried to explain about the truck but Garden Dining them while their momma was away. He was knot form in the pit of my stomach. I that made no sense to her either. The having to spend more time at home now thought about Wing on the construction fact that Wing had the truck was what Breakfast • Lunch • Dinner and what money he was making was going job. He' worked hard all day and he put made no sense.'Me having the title to the hospital.'He didn't know what he in overtime whenever he was- asked. He meant nothing as long as. he was driving was going to do. didn't socialize much with the other men. around in the truck. "But don't you see? Cocktails • Entertainment Nightly I don't ever remember him laughing. He Fireproof home, 3 bedrooms, terrazzo floors, 60 ft. This way he's got three months to get on big sailboat canall Oceansldei $82,5001 Termsl "DON'T WORRY ABOUT the hundred, wasn't laughing now either. the money to me or I will take posses- 294-2042 White Sand Isolated Island Lots. Very rare! $25,000 to $125,0001 Good Terms. Frame stilt home, on blocked canal. Needs Interior Wing," I said. "Just pay me when you sion of the truck. Without the truck finishing. Just $39,0001 "MAN, I HAVE trouble," he said. he can't make any money." Credit Cards Accepted Oceanlront lots, beach type, electric, roads, city can." water, $18,900, cash ... $20,000, with 20% down, Spacious 2 family home on 100x119 lot, Just "Thanks man." He put out his hand "I need $500." balance monthly! $99,000, assumable mortgage! and we shook. He didn't seem to be im- The knot tightened. "Wing, I NO, SHE DIDN'T see, but she didn't Breezaswept Beach oceanfront lot, $22.0001 2 family home on canal, Big Pine. $116,000. mensely relieved but he wasn't apolo- don't have that kind of money." press it and we continued our life. Soon getic either. "I'll get you money," he "The mamasan comes home but the the five hundred dollars was forgotten 310 Front Street • 294-2042 said. His way of saying it made it sound hospital wants $500 and I have pay rent like the hundred before it. If we had WRITE OR PHONE FOR FREE LISTS AND MAPS! as if I was incapable of getting it for now. " had an emergency we might have had TOM SCHMITT • PROPRIETOR myself. "How is she?" I asked. cause to regret the loss of money but

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Bougain- where we are seated at a table, control by singing into a candle to Emily Goddard and I, overlooking her financially supported the Continental keep it from flickering. She played, villa .blossoms dripping all over, in Army at Valley Forge and was imprisoned the Mexican-tiled, Spanish-arched handsome, cloistered garden. among numerous roles in movies, that for borrowing against and losing his of an ingenue in a 1940's Marx "comedor" of La Posada San Angelo fortune, befriended by Washington and where I have taught these Mexicans EMMY GODDARD IS a person in the Brothers picture. Came the war, and, grand style. There is something Jefferson. 'Emmy's grandfather was singing for the New York Philharmonic to make iced tea. When they brought venerable John Wesley Woolley, and when classical about her. I first spotted I ' '• Society, she suddenly felt, "Why per- me the Key West postmarked envelope she was a little child, there were ten from Marjorie Hpuck, the only piece her 22 years ago as viewed from the \, < form for children's concerts when left seventh seat off the aisle of servants in the house. Lee, her people are dying?" Thus, the USO, of mail to overtake us during a month's . husband, was first to meet her second stay in Mexico (their postal service St. Paul's Episcopal Church. Ever where she once sang in Russia for since, regarding Emmy, I've been like cousin, actor Monty Woolley in a bar the communists. being rather shakey) this letter in a hotel in Saratoga. It had been brought the shocker that Emily Goddard a particle unable to resist a power- ful magnet. This admiration from a Indian summer that year, and Emmy had died. Emmy Goddard with whom 1 wanted to go to this hotel, as another THERE ARE SEVERAL stellar facets had sat and laughed and talked distance in recent years has shrunk to Emmy Goddard which have lent them- to endurable proportions, as she "Woolley" owned it. Monty Woolley was only 10 days before, as I interviewed there for the same reason. "Did Monty selves generously to this island's her. There flashed into my mind an always has been disposed to be development. These words that I am friendly to me. First viewed, she Woolley and Emmy look alike?" asked unidentifiable quote, "Do not keep this writer. Lee, in that droll considering are: Variety. Sophisti- the alabaster boxes of your love and possesses a granite persona. This, cation. Intellectuality. Artistry. however, does not tell it all. fashion he has, considered and replied, tenderness sealed up until your friends "Well, Monty had a full beard." There is a certain sophisticated are dead!" Upon my return. Publisher That morning at St. Paul's, with a realism in Emmy. She very soon be- Bill Huckel and I decided to release regal bearing that recommended, it- gan giving of her numerous gifts and tills profile of Emmy posthumously, one self to the church surroundings, WHEN SHE WAS small, Emmy's mother energies here in that theatrical, that I had done that day in early Emmy swept into her pew on the arm and father divorced, bitterly, and she intimate, vigorous, socially-con- December when she stood so cheerily of her nice husband, Lee Goddard. In was whisked away to Europe and secreted scious, informed, up-front way that in her doorway greeting me. She had, another day, she would have worn from her father, given other names, she has. For instance, Emmy was the she said, been "snipping at the freck- egret plumes. Then, burst forth among them, "Emily Atkins" and "Eleanor first member of The Establishment les on some fresh mushrooms for a that exquisite, throaty soprano. Well, Dickens." She was educated and became openly to befriend gay persons; to favorite recipe at aperitif time.." it all bore out this very quality she a linguist in Italy and Switzerland CU- recognise the qualities of tasteful- finishing schools. At age 13, when TS Here follows Emmy's profile, standing has of being noticeable. q ness and originality, the. artfulness -just as written, with only a couple asked, she replied that she wanted a they could bring here to theater and of minor embellishments of a few of box at the opera for her present. She architecture. KEY WEST IN World War II times suffered unhappy relations with a C her friends tucked in>) O had not as yet become such a tank of step-mother and also with a step-father. Q exotic, odd fish. Emmy, with her Returned to New York City, she studied SOON AFTER ARRIVAL in Key West, theatrical, operatic, superb European opera under Herbert Witherspoon, primo Emmy met, fell in love with and and states private schools background, basso of the Met and later its director. married Lee Goddard. You would "I WAS BORN in 1901, and at this was arriving here to play to a fairly Once, discouraged by her step-mother's think to look at Lee, a lean, dapper, impeccable man, that therein lurks a age, of course, we now and then think provincial audience. After all, being treatment, she walked out with $7.25 •§, of death. Personally, I haven't the a USO director on the Navy base seemed in a snow storm from Fifth Avenue to lot of caution and implacability and, yet, there are swerves of individual- slightest fear of death and look to tame for someone who had sung at the the Fourteenth Street YWCA. She never Lee and Emily it as another interesting- adventure!" White House for Roosevelt and answered went back. She continued singing, ity in his character which astonish curtain calls at the Met! working, studying. She came into her their friends. It seems that there I CROSS AND recross my legs in own money at age 21. She auditioned was a pre-nuptial agreement with him the other direction. This thought EMMY IS DESCENDED from Martha

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Emmy, one staunchly those long legs over bridges and canals, intimates, lady friends, circle their to keep a contract, has been known to Izzy panting behind. wagons around her, enjoying the call in one of her roster of pals to special fringe benefits, her seminal SHE IS AS ageless as the caprice put together Lee's fine fare on EMMY'S ACTIVITIES ARE legion, on lustre and aliveness. She has just of a chignon she assumes as her occasion when she has her nose deep the island. As,president of the Garden been on the phone to an old boarding signature, as young as the foxy, for J-lealth into theater rehearsals. Summers, Club, she engineered pressing West school chum and lifelong confidante, costume way that she dresses - always Lee accompanies Emmy to their summer Martello Tower into Garden Club use. Ruth Dill Johnson Crockett, divorced with care and with drama. retreat in Nantucket; Lee takes off And, everyone knows that she is an from Seward Johnson of Johnson & A Holistic approach to Therapeutic for his nudist- camp while Emmy happily institution on the Key West Players' Johnson. "I said, Now, what about EMMY IS SUCH a well-finished Massage combininq Swedish S Deep assembles a chain of friends and board at the Waterfront Playhouse. She this Tylenol thing?" (Seward Johnson woman that all you younger women out Relaxation Massaeje, Neuro-M'iscuhr connections and commands the cockpit is a keen reader, ready for Great Books, produced Tylenol through a subsidiary there would do well to try to emulate at Nantucket's volunteer Thrift Shop. for book reviews, for concerts, her company). her. & Deep Tisane Therapies, and relaxation interests burgeoning into most any throuq/i Music & Imagery, avenue of island culture. Says Maggie AS KEY WEST Woman's Club presi- A PRESENT ASSOCIATE, Adeline Ross, dent, she arranged for the durable Kival, a close Emmy sidekick, "She is a born teacher." This flair for leading tells of her unforgettable trip over- OUR NEW HOURS Key West Cookbook to be published, seas with redoubtable Emmy for whom written by her friend Izzy Bowser, who and teaching others is borne out by Eleanor Baccus, another Emmy pal, who Travel is a tantalizing challenge. then was invited to address the club. In London, these two awaited a bus on BRUNCH Emmy launched into a florid introduc- recalls Emmy's scrabble group at Alice and Lennie Milan's Sands Beach Club the street. Bus roared by. Emmy, 9 AM - 4 PM EVERY DAY liCENSED MASSAGE TMEMPIST tion of great heights. Being an guick as a teenager, grabbed at a 294-4463 BYATP01NTMENT earthy and unpretentious, humorous during the 60's. Baccus lugged her Webster's unabridged dictionary down handle sticking out on the door, swung lady, Izzy came stolidly down the. on, boarded and rode off, leaving poor aisle and with some remark sort of there afternoons, where a glorious, healthy, brown Emmy ran the scrabble Adeline with her mouth open standing "threw away" all of that splendid on the corner. She found her way back OUR FAMOUS FOUR COURSE 'Oratory. Emmy's feelings were hurt, assembly, now and then pausing for an We are pleased to announce ocean dip. "You had to watch Emmy, . to the hotel. There was Emmy, waving PRIX-FIXE DINNER but all was in time forgiven, and gayly from her bed where she was re- Izzy and Emmy with Lee struck out for as she now and then sneaked in a French MONDAY THRU SATURDAY word." This scrabble bunch of those clining, writing her daily letter to Italy and Austria, an adventure Lee of the day's happenings.. 7 - 10 PM enhanced by Emmy's command of days included Baccus, Ruby Morgan, Mary MARIAN Italian, German and French and her O'Brien, Lela Godfrey, Margie Johnson, know-how regarding every lane. They and and and, with Bonnie Miller, hatted, EMMY AND I walk through the rooms WITHEMPOON descended upon Venice, and there was and Kate Fischer stopping at the of their home, a traditional decor, ORIENTAL CUISINE a hotel foul-up. No room for Izzy. scrabble tables to advise. eminently comfortable. One stands Emmy who knows not the word on the crimson carpet and eyes the UPSTAIRS "impossible," induced the management large portrait of an uncle who was has joined the staff of EMMY HAS BREASTED the currents of Park Commissioner of New York City. MONDAY THRU SATURDAY to make Izzy a room out of a bathroom 'Key West's pluralistic society. Her complete to one cot, a huge bathtub, With Emmy, remarkable chatelaine of 4 PM - MIDNIGHT queenly figure has moved through most her Waddell Avenue residence, we stop and a bouquet of violets provided by social doings of big account. She's a VELKOVITZ Emmy. What Izzy liked about it: it before the grand piano. Picture of EMERALDS visceral part of "The Scene." Viewed Tennessee Williams. (She's to be cost only $2. On to Vienna, and Izzy at her famous birthday parties, she has and Lee sat through Wagner's "Rhine head hostess at his house, Old Island ACCOUNTING an almost military elegance - the Days, '83). Maidens" containing lots of solid flesh hostess as general, rallying the troops LA TERRAZA DE MARTI / and solid German, bored to distraction. about her, seeing the battle through & TAX SERVICE mationa ONE OTHER NOTATION: Emmy always They hadn't the heart to leave, as with elan. Emmy was transported by the experience has been able to expatiate on her 1125 DUVAL 294-0344 thoughts. Hers are not merely per- 294-8137 apparently. Emmy also insisted upon IN FRIENDSHIP SHE excels. Emmy their attending "La Boheme," the story sonal accomplishments. You sense in turns and cooks a bigggggg, ethereal her a fundamental, spiritual quality, line only slightly impaired by a very, angel food cake for her nearest and JEWELLERY very fat leading man. And Emmy led an intense interest in the struggle dearest on their birth dates. Upon of our culture to stay alive spiri- them off to locate and consume a luscious her cake's emergence from the pan, she torte and to hear innumerable gypsies painstakingly scoops out the middle and play violins. Emmy, who knew every fills it with sinful black chocolate EMFBALtt KINGS EMERALD NECKLACES Ernest Hemingway c CHRISTIAN SCIENCE Pa/entin& KMERALD EARRINGS EMERALD PENDANTS Home and Museum A B«ela*ora rt» ham and awdani 'I it" M KEY WEST, FLORIDA 33040 10:00 a.m. Pfli. Wb«»>, Ein.lt Hwl>inr. Th. 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29 LETTER PAST-PERFECT SOLARESHILL ADVERTISEMENT FEBRUARY 1983 AUCTION BY HELEN R. CHAPMAN BY COLLEEN MCGEE LETTER-WRITING IS referred to by many people these days as a lost 'One man's junk is another man's THE SOUTHERNMOST HUMANE Society art. I wonder if it ever was an art will be sponsoring a "Wrecker's Auction" at all. . Literary correspondences on February 17th and 18th as part of are collected and published as in- the Old Island Days activities. On sights into the writer of renown, Wednesday, February 15th, they will be and the letters of ordinary people Key West Conch accepting donations of goods and as a reflection of the era in which auction items at the auction site in they were written. Of course, these the Teen Center on South Roosevelt letters are the only record of past Boulevard. times that we have. Five hundred years from now, people will have The most beautiful Custom JeweSry: - THE AUCTION WILL be held from access to computerized records of collection of gold Original signed 8 pm until 10 pm on Thursday and 8 pm our time and be able to hear our and silver conchs designs by one of until all items are sold on Friday. actual voices saying, "Carrots are in Key West America's finest The Teen Center will be open at 7 pm up to eighty-nine cents a pound, each night for previewing the selection Ethel. Can you imagine!" The only of auction goods. interest that I can see that people •?£? Men! of the future' may find in that state- AT PREVIOUS AUCTIONS, many art ment is that, using the metric system objects and other treasures have been nobody will know what a pound is/ sold. Artists from the Guild Hall have they'll never have seen a carrot, been very generous in the past and and the name Ethel will probably there is sure to be a good selection of translate as Ethelikra, the household items, furniture and assorted feminine form of Ethelikron. Or small items such as costume jewelry. perhaps poop Ethel will be simply Number 1723.968.

*•• THE AUCTION IS patterned after the THE CORRESPONDENCE OF the past THE..•••••••••I sales that were held in Key West in the that has been preserved was never late 19th and early 20th centuries when written for historians, I'm sure. wreckers brought their finds in to It's interesting to us to know auction houses lining Front Street and how much wool was going for in the buyers bid on the salvaged goods. London in 1639, or how long it took by coach from Philadelphia IF YOU HAVE an item to donate that to Boston in 1745, but when these ARMY is too large for you to transport, call facts were recorded, the writers Mrs. Margaret Dennis , 296-S871 to never thought of them as documents arrange a pick-up on the 16th. All for posterity. I like to think one teen funds raised will go to support the of my shopping lists might turn up Humane Society's activities. ___ 500 years from now. If English hasn't been supplanted by some intergalactical language, someone may be able to translate: mayo, cat, torn, let, ban, liq det, t.p., et al. IT'S FUN TO think that certain types of correspondents have always been with us. There's the hyper- center active person who doesn't have time (S. ROOSEVELT AT AIRPORT) to write. In fact, she doesn't have (The Teen Center will be open Wed. Feb. 16 VOLPIAN from 10 to 5 for bringing treasures.)

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Chicken with green peppercorn sauce and vegetables dujour ' 7.75 SAILBOARD DEALERS FOR: New York Strip with vegetables dujour 9.95 For those who cannot speak we wish to say heartfelt |M Sweda AUTHORIZED Pasta with fresh seafood sauce 6.95 thanks for this wonderful auction to the generous WINDSURFER Catch of the day market price donors, dedicated workers, bidders and buyers, clever n auctioneers, stage management and all the beauty F2 P"" ^ d Function Desserts — ask about the desserts made fresh queens. To those who told our story and those who daily by our own pastry chef 2.00 , printed it: WE THANK YOU. 616 BDuvil It- 294-4255 MON.-FRI.9-5 SAT. 9-12 LUNCH TUESDAY - SUNDAY 11:30 - 3:00 30 time to read. Hence, she never fell over the coffee table running was awful. It happened during that refers to your letters when replying. for the phone to call the doctor time Jeanie was staying with me. -f -r Someone writes to her, "Dear Ann: I when my mother drove the car into You remember Jeanie? She used to be SERVICES ARE AUVE & WEII IN Key WEST can't write at length because I the breezeway instead of the garage. married to Paul and they lived next sprained a finger on my right hand But I did want to let you know that door. That was before Herb and helping my husband into his wheel- our vacation plans are changed be- Leslie moved in." Of course you have WELL, AFTER ALL the dust has settled, the Legal Ser- chair. He broke his leg when he cause Tommy came down with whooping no idea who Mac or Jeanie or Paul or vices Corporation has survived. Funding cutbacks on the cough and Ginny has the mumps. So Herb or Leslie is, but no matter — national level have affected the local office of Legal we won't be able to see you on the you can skip that part. But beware! Services of the Florida Keys in a variety of ways. The 15th as planned. I'll let you know This writer will fool you. Right office staff has been reduced to three full-time positions; when we're able to leave." Ann's in the middle somewhere when you|ve an attorney, a paralegal and a secretary, and one part- reply to this goes: "Happy to know decided that weeding the garden is time clerk. After seven years of dedicated service, Susan QUALITY NEED NOT BE EXPENSIVE you're all' well. Look forward to preferable to this drivel, she'll Gates (the Managing Attorney of Legal Services) has moved seeing you on the 15th." throw in something like, "My Uncle on to private practice and has been replaced by Jeanne Bob died in his sleep last night," Elias. New federal Regulations have prohibited Legal THE NATIONALLY KNOWN SHIRLEY GADOL COLLECTION CERTAINLY THIS SORT of person was and when you answer, having skipped Services from engaging in legislative lobbying and handling IS NOW IN KEY WEST AT FACTORY PRICES around some 600 years ago. In a letter that part, you're bound to ask about immigration cases. Saijdwielj from Mary Forsooth to Abigail Green- her Uncle Bob. So since you don't On the patio in Key Lime Square sleeves: ".....in a fall from his really want to offend her, you have AS A RESULT of community meetings held approximately horse in a jousting match. He feels Deli, Seafood, and Vegetable Sandwiches to drag your way through the French three years ago, the following priority areas were estab- The Gadols are the Originators not in fine fettle and I must adminis- windows, Herb and Leslie, the petunias lished for the Key West office. These were health issues, Our specialties: ter to his everye desire. It is and phlox, the souffle that fell, and housing issues, utility problems and community legal and Manufacturers of beautiful Lamb sandwich with difficult for him to sit downe.to sup the'mailman's bad cold. education. The decrease in resources has made it neces- mlrtt and sour cream. and more often he lyes abed groanynge. Fresh Florida LETTER-WRITING FOR me can be very ary to reduce the number of cases not specifically within embroideries designed for the lobster sandwich. I just needs wait on him hande and the priority areas, although legal advice is available on foote." Mistress Greensleeves, Ann's risky. As soon as I've related some Florida Keys good news to someone via the mails, many nonpriority matters. In early March, Legal Services Middle-Ages counterpart, replies: of the Florida Keys will again hold community meetings to "I am most ignorant that unbeknownst it all sours. If I write, "Found a good job at last, " I'll get iired establish new priority areas. These meetings will actually to me, a horse sits to sup. Wouldst enable citizens to offer feedback on the types of legal not your life be eased if you shot the next day. If .I.want to kill a problems that they consider most important. A stepped-up •Wrap and 4-Line Skirts and Coordinates him?" romance, a sure-fire way is to community legal education program will be conducted includ- THEN. THERE IS the prattler. impart to a friend in a letter ing some self-help workshops. These workshops will enable •Shorts, Slacks, Jackets, Cover-Ups. ' Whereas the first kind of writer fails that I've been seeing the most citizens to learn their rights in many different areas such •Tennis and Golf Skirts with very to connect because of activity, the marvelous man lately. And evic- as landlord/tenant disputes, employment problems, divorce, prattler is a person who has too much tion is sure to follow the news and small claims actions. These workshops will be specially Attractive embroidered animated time and nothing with which to fill it. that "I've found the-nicest designed to help educate the layman on the law and to show Motifs 529 Salon <<eet Hence the endless runnings-on about apartment and the rent is so how it applies to everyday life. reasonable." * Exciting Men's Marine Shirts '@Key Qflesl,

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3. Will incorporation require a city police department? On what ID. roL.iy- Uonei RvcW do you base your answer? y

4. Will Big Pine Key have to / 6ly H5 S^e£ build its own electric plant? Why? Why not? dcxy "the 5. Will a City Hall be Ken ToKis Kouse^boa necessary? Why? Why not? 6. Will Big Pine Key have CWanscr T^e CVu'cke-n ^oes -foirKe +b \^e.\ its own Zoning Board? If so, is U house. that good or bad? eWcKen SauJ amesSjand said +o 5K*3odie Vcur mother 7. Will Big Pine Key have to y^u Skood\e S\ob, Vecaa.se X hire help? Explain. oixVe TENNESSEE WILLIAMS 8. What is the best thing K Three npixrs T"o d ean mo + FINE ARTS CENTER that could happen if Big Pine Key P J incorporates? \tf\ W+ ready -For +he parW 9. What is the worst thing that could happen due to incor- LdWAe. Sfaodk coas preparina Himself poration? He 4-hreip h«5 ^ocKs on+W ^mdo^K^ V>a+ 10. Would you be willing to on serve on a City Council? i Kebrofe three, alasses. 11. Is there any comment you l would care to add? (Briefly) hearci so rnucU noise dcmina -prom "rWe. Skoci|e S We. JOHN SCHARCH, Co-owner of Big n across+Kt L0e+>&»ippery \L^ cxni nxna SkooiW door \oA\ Pine Building Supply. 1. Taxes will go up approx- FEBRUARY 24-26 imately 5 to 7 mills to cover cost of a City Hall and other basic MARCH 2-5 expenses incurred starting a new 8:30 RM, city. 2. Sewers probably not re- Directed by quired by fact of incorporating, but will be required eventually when William Prosser population increases enough to make Music &. Lyrics by.. sewers a necessity.

Irving Berlin 3. A police department will be Book by required or a contract with the Sheriff's Department - not neces- d \ \ ^4 POIA PX -r *-S- \ lii I i Dorothy Fields sarily because of incorporating. RESERVATIONS 294-6363 OR BON JOAN'S 622-B DUVAL 4. We will have to negotiate with City Electric concerning power FREE TRANSPORTATION ON THE OLD TOWN TROLLEY Ani+kocV rrodaslztz-tlas+ecl rhree. t^hole. days' S/CoodltL o/dfc 7t3O PM PICKUP AT THE PIER HOUSE supply. 8:00 PM PICKUP AT THE CASA MARINA 5. A City Hall will be nec- vejy ((npoftaLA-t leisonfTKai" i-F yoa."hxke your -HW +o eleoLn as yocA. FLORIDA KEYS COMMUNITY COLLEGE essary. It would be needed for r r AN EQUAL OPPORTUNITY / EQUAL ACCESS conducting official business. Qo youJll have, v^ore 4iV r\e_ ro party/ His "fncrv43ies\amel-& J3dx3V>p- ^^OCHJ-L X-^C- SxSq-'i officials are elected to office. )£niaJT Numerals 7. The city would have to A. 7¥ tilf hire help; an office staff to be- ET £xiJI gin with, then the number of employ- B. n £.7 ees will grow as the city gets older. B.ctt Q.29 F. ¥t> ^5 8. The best thing that could 0, LX 35 ": come out of incorporating would be essential to* determine our own destiny. 1. Taxes will go up slightly, not better control over unlicensed more than 6% or 7% (Ed. note: if our transient businesses, street 7. The city would need clerical arithmetic is working, that 6% or 7% peddlers, and the retailing of and administrative help. would be less than one mill) to cover new merchandise in flea markets. administrative costs and street work 8. The best possible outcome of that needs to be done. 9. The worst thing possible incorporation would be the ability to would be a rapid increase in ad control our own destiny. 2. Incorporation will not require valorem taxes due to the residents' a sanitary sewer. That matter is con- probable demand for urban luxuries 9. The worst possibility would be trolled by the State Health Department while'trying to maintain rural election of officials who would not and depends on population density. living. truly represent the majority. 3. City police are not necessary. 10. I would definitely be 10. I would be willing to serve as We can continue with Sheriff's Depart- willing to serve on a City Council. Commissioner or Councilman. ment as it presently exists. 11. I would expect to see 11. I would need many more ques- 4. We will not need our own increased taxes and strangulation tions answered before forming positive electric plant. We would continue with of economic growth and an added opinion either pro or con concerning City Electric. tax burden falling on home owners. incorporation. 5. A City Hall building would not CURT BLAIR, Past County HANK STAPLES, Realtor. be necessary. The City Commission Commissioner 1. Taxes will rise possibly as little as 1/2 mill, or more, depending on services required.

2. Sanitary sewers are not required by fact of incorporation, but are a possible necessity when f 10 fti!£ P. Blfc^PPliT SPfcLTRlM the population increases. 3. A city police department would not be required, but police protection must be provided, possibly by contract with the Sheriff's Dept. Jbric& menu a/I' niyAfr f:OO - 17:00 Fr\er\&\\j 4. The city would not be re- quired to build its own electric 5—13 plant. 5. Some sort of City Hall would be necessary, if only as a place to keep official records.

6. The city having its own eat Zoning Board is the major reason for incorporating. It does not have to be a separate board, it can be the City Commissioners.

7. The city would have to have at least a Clerk and an attorney. Some other types of needed work could be done on a contractual basis.

8. The best things to come out of incorporating would be a great increase in impact on government by local residents, and local control of building and zoning. O CuAaYion W^ 5 Oexual \i£j 9. The worst thing that could happen would be failure of local government, due to lack of effective people accepting elective office, Q)at& and the possibility of community expectations not being realized because Vac a OJjdo SaaqesVen of lack of citizen participation. CV\OL Cx\ine_ SVd 10. I would not serve on the City Commission or Council. I am not in a position to run for public office be- Resisted cause of personal matters needing full attention at this time. ^:00 - 7:30 11. Bringing government to the y A\\ Supple local level can be very worthwhile, menu but needs full commitment by residents fe^ F\en1-OrPan to be successful. HANK SCHUELER, Big Pine Key Civic Association Treasurer

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We deliver an operator who can answer calls, answer everyday problems (assuming BY OUR OWN EXPERT the subscriber tells-her to), and calm the way for a good EQUIPPED CANOES & LUNCH FOR MORE INFORMATION WRITE relationship between our subscribers and their customers. With PO BOX62 BIG PfNE KEY FLA 33043 UPHOLSTERERS imagination, and a little extra cost, we could do far more. We could start calling out more often and give help to our CALL7305-872-2620 • Huge Fabric subscribers in many new ways. Because we have operators Selection who think, we can also patch calls. And much more. 404 Duval Street • Key West • 294-1377 294-2400 39 Line volunteer makes a call at a 38 particular time each day and if they native Key Westers with their can't reach the person, they set in fascinating stories, hosted by local- HJEip LINE? A COMMUNITY SERVICE motion a personal visit to the home to Key WEST T.V. STATION personality Emma Cates. FKCC's check on the client. This service can Prof. William Trantham concentrates BY COLLEEN MCGEE be on-going for a chronically ill 900 SOUTHAF. BY JOE DIETRICH, STUDIOMANAGER, TCI on individual human potential in his person, or short-term, such as would be show entitled "Improving Human needed by a newly discharged hospital THE FLORIDA KEYS finally has Capabilities." Insights into health i WHEN TELEPHONES were first allowed her time to investigate a .patient. a community-involved television matters with representatives from the introduced, the local operator number of other telephone counseling station! medical field will be featured on handled a switchboard and could be services that had been in existence AS WITH ALL community organizations, Dale Alexander's "Health Dimensions." consulted personally for assistance for up to ten years. Many initial volunteers are needed. Help Line, with BEGINNING FEBRUARY 1983, Tele- Let aerobic exercise get you in shape 'in reaching the appropriate person problems were avoided and the Key its 24 hour a day, seven day a week communications Inc. customers will with the "Fitness Factory" hosted by if you had a problem. Electronic West service has been functioning coverage, provides everyone with a have the chance to see many local the Palladium's Lisa Terry. Senior and mechanical advances have well for the past six months. chance to be active, since no matter faces on their T.V. screens. TCI's Citizens will be the focal point for eliminated that personal service but how unusual your schedule, it will fit Channel 5 will carry locally pro- "The Gray Rainbow" with Gary Norris in many cities local groups provide THE STATISTICS FOR their first with theirs. Volunteers are given duced programming for several hours of the Social Security office in Key the same service through a community three months (July through September) extensive training prior to becoming a each day. That's right folks, tele- West. Tales of the paranormal and switchboard staffed by volunteers. are impressive. Nearly 600 calls were phone counselor. Director Laura Vadney vision shows put together right here supernatural called "The Third One" In Key West the switchboard is called handled, about 37% for counseling and and her staff are providing an important in Key West! Cable Channel 5 will will be the subject of a special . Help Line and can be reached by another 63% for information or refer- liaison for agencies and community by continue to carry the (SPN) Satel- series hosted by Marsha Gordon. dialing 296-HELP or 294-LINE. rals. In the intrapersonal calls, helping coordinate the needs of people lite Program Network, with' local George Rumens brings us a theatre most were for psychological/emotional with the services already available. programs inserted in at specific and arts program adding that cultural IF YOU NEED someone to talk to help or were about loneliness. Prob- Zonta has provided the impetus for a times during the day. Since TCI ingredient to Channel 5. "Community about your feelings of loss and grief lems between people accounted for critically needed service in a town acquired the cable system last Perspective" will focus on activities because a friend has died, or if you another 20% of the calls, with marital with a mobile population and. many unmet spring, many changes have evolved. . . surrounding Key West's Bahama Village, wonder about the signs of pregnancy and significant relationship problems needs, but community support is and all for the better. your host will be Roy Grant. Kathy but don't want to ask your mother, being most common and parent/child essential to carry on the work. m Wolf, City Landscaper, talks about or have any number of other questions issues and spouse abuse close behind. Your key to the Key. THE REVAMPING OF the studio and what she knows best . . . Plants! . . • about where to get help in Key West Economic problems accounted for 13% 1% hour guided tour of 60 of the staff is what we will discuss here. a show that promises to be very popular then you can give these people a call. of the calls and human services re- Under the direction of Mr. Jeff in the Keys. "Page One," also in the These and cither questions are common , quests like educational or legal most unusual historical sites Smith, General Manager of the Keys production stages, is a live call-in problems for the volunteers at Help questions were another 8%. Health you ve ever seen. systems, a studio manager was hired program where viewers at home may ex- Line who are trained in crisis inter- questions and drug and alcohol problems The Key West ConchTourTraln to transform the inherited "makeshift" press their opinions for all to hear. vention and are available 24 hours combined only accounted for 9% of the Mailory Square, Roosevelt Blvd., and studio into an efficient production And of course TCI Channel 5 will be a day, 7 days a week. Suicide, drug calls. The remainder were for other Duval & Angela Streets Depots space capable of turning out quality covering local high school sports. overdoses, adolescent identity crises problems, or volunteer and business 9AM-4PM calls or other types of incompleted (305-1294-5161. programming that would involve and requests for specific services are all part of the daily telephone calls. In the last category, people AWometco the community. We believe we've THESE ARE JUST a few of the kinds .. Attraction. load. who hang up when the phone was answered reached that goal and are now prer- of programming you'll be able to enjoy pared to deliver. were a large percentage initially, but on the all—new Channel 5 ... making have dropped now. Most crisis lines TCI a truly people-oriented community THE KEY WEST Help Line is modeled OVER THE PAST six months, TCI after, and has taken the best features feel that hang-ups may be people testing television station. I think the to see if someone is really there. has made a substantial investment in Florida Keys deserves this kind of of, other telephone crisis and the numerous pieces of equipment representation, and I think it's about referral services around the country. needed to get a television station time. I thank our General Manager, It was started last year as a local BECAUSE OF THE newness of the underway. For a number of weeks, Mr. Jeff Smith, for his support and service project by Zonta, an inter- service and the fact that it was off- we have been taping programs to be input that helped make all of this national service club for women season, the call load was.lower at run in designated time slots on executives. An unfortunate accident a reality. We think you'll like first. As word got out, the caseload VI, Channel 5. what you're going to see on TCI that kept Debra Flynn from performing has risen. In addition, a telephone Channel 5. her professional activities was a reassurance program for the elderly and GREETINGS A SAMPLING OF these includes: blessing for the project, since it homebound has been started. The HRID "Porch Talk," a show featuring many FROM THE Mexican Food & Cocktails V2 Price on Past Life Readings —"Ti OLD TOWN KEY WEST CONCH SHAMROCK REALTY INC. REPUBLIC" TYPING SERVICE REALTOR PAST " WE MEET DEADLINES" Se Habla Espanol Conch Coin Company and the Pirates Alley Key West Jeweler's Warehouse wont you co • All Typing Needs LIFE know that although Key West has • Temporary Office Help REALTY WORLD. 605 Simonton St. seceded from the Union, we still • Mai! Forwarding Key West, Florida 33040 welcome oil you folUs from "up READINGS SEE QUALITY HAND-MADE . Light Bookkeeping Telephone: 305 294-5525 north." (That's anywhere not in Key Letters • Legal Documents • Manuscripts CIGARS ROLLED West). Conch Coin features a com- Resumes • Surveys • Term Papers WE COVER IT ALL FOR YOU: by DAILY plete line of tropical chains and Mass Mailings • Statistical Reports • Specifications Complete sales department. charms in gold and silver, as well as Complete rental and property management we fill genuine Spanish Treasure coins and 296-7165 JEANETTE mail orders beautifully crafted cut coin jewelry department. from all over the world. So stop in 294-0294 PIRATES ALLEY Free maps available. in historic and "sea" us in the Harbor House Open 12-12 Monday - Saturday Free complete list of properties for sale. CHURCH OF OLD KEY WEST Arcade located next to Mailory 1-12 Sundays See our color photo-display of the RELIGIOUS RESEARCH Square and the sunset. 509'A Duval 294-9215 NOTARY PUBLIC complete real estate market. P.O. BOX 4112/KEY WEST i CATERING OR THE BAKING NEEDS KEY WEST BY PLAYERS SHOWBOAT By Oscar Hammersteln & Jerome Kern " Directed by June Hunzlnger Musical - Feb. 28 to March 5 "Chef Ivan" is back and ready to take care of your catering or WATERFRONT PLAYHOUSE NEW ENTRflNCE MALLORY SQUARE baking needs. No party too big 423 Front St. (Rear) Single Admission S5.OO Box Office opens 7 days or too small, Mon.-Sat. S5.O0 prior to Opening Night Key West, Florida 33O4O Subscription $20.00 ll-4,Mon.-Sat. 296-5558 (ask for "Chef Ivan") C3O5) 296-5366 294-5O15 Rll major credit cards accepted It now presides over the entrance to EXCEPTION. We would have objected to "Old Town" Key West as one proceeds any special exception that would have ANOTHER SERIOUS OBJECTION, however, 41 westward down U.S. 1 along North Roose- allowed such high density, intensive is to the mass and scale of this struc- velt Boulevard. use in this relatively quiet neighbor- ture which we feel violates the letter FOLLIES '83 BY BILL WESTRAY hood, and if the complaints we have and intent of the Key West Comprehen- ACCORDING TO OFFICIAL files this heard are indicative, so would have sive Plan, Land Use Plan element. The FECC FOLLIES'83 project was NOT allowed as a fishing many other citizens. WE HAVE CONTINUED to receive many first stated objective of the LUP under club or lodge under the zoning code for Growth Management, states, "Maintain the "an evening of burlesque" at complaints from local citizens about a commercial (C-2) District by the then THE PERMISSIBLE HEIGHT of a build- the so-called fishing-club known as existing historical character and appear- building official in that there were no ing is normally measured from the first ance of Key West and provide for effi- the Casa Marina Ballroom club facilities. However, City Attorney floor to the top of the roof, excluding cient use of land resources." Under this Joe Allen III interpreted this facility the underbuilding parking area. How- objective, the stated policy is, "Pro- Feb. 11 & 12 mote compatibility of new development WE BELIEVE THAT: . - with existing land uses. Ensure that 8 PM 1, PELICAN LANDING IS OUT OF PLACE.IN MASS AND SCALE. the height and scale of new structures T Tickets Compliments of First Federal of the Florida Keys is integrated into adjacent development Souvenir Stub 2, PELICAN LANDING CLEARLY APPEARS TO VIOLATE THE BUILDING CODES WITH and the natural landscape." RESPECT TO NUMBER OF STORIES AND HEIGHT OF BUILDING. 3, WE DON'T AGREE WITH THE CITY ATTORNEY THAT IT IS A CLUB OR LODGEj WE BELIEVE THAT: 1. Pelican Landing is out of IT APPEARS TO US TO BE A RESIDENTIAL FACILITY IN EXCESS OF 16 UNITS PER ACRE (ANOTHER ZONING VIOLATION) IN A COMMERCIAL ZONE IN VIOLATION OF THE BUILDING CODE, . • • .

as a private club and a permit was ever for a gabled roof building such issued. We feel the. zoning code would as this one, only l/3rd of that roof Everyone /hves seem to indicate that PUBLIC or SEMI- height is counted. In this zone a PUBLIC use would be required to meet maximum of 40 feet or 4 stories of build- this club criteria. ing height is permitted.- - 4 FIVE FLOORS'. IF THIS IS not residential use, BUT HERE THE developers have built PELICAN LANDING at 915 Eisenhower Drive. though it appears to be, then it would A FIFTH HABITABLE FLOOR - THIS APPEARS We- still share the complaints by ques- seem to be a private club or lodge; TO BE A BLATANT VIOLATION OF THE FOUR tioning the propriety of permitting this however such private use is only allowed STORY BUILDING CODE and the 40' height Key West relatively monstrous 5-story structure. in multiple-family zoning districts limit. Hasn't this 5th floor been built (R-2 & R-2H) and then only as a SPECIAL under the noses of the building depart- ment ? An Asian Restaurant &. Teahouse JLmartdlo Serving Pan-Asian Cuisines ANGIE Featuring Whole & Natural Foods Starting Jan. 3 We Will Be Serving The Key West Art And Historical Society Lunch Dim Sum Style 11:30 - 2:00 Mon. - Fri. Feb. 2 - 27 Chinese Beer & Wine Available • Carry Out Service The Toussaint L'Ouverture Series 613 Duval (Rear) • Key Lime Square • 294-6230 Street m&& of Paintings by JACOB LAWRENCE Also a Sampling of Metal Sculpture by STANLEY PAPIO East Martello Gallery and Museum FOR YOUR 350O S. Roosevelt Blvd. (At Airport Entrance) Key West, Florida VALENTINE Takeout and Delivery Service Available, OPEN DAILY'TIL 4 AM 208DUVALST. (UNDER NEW LASPALMAS MANAGEMENT) "Enjoy a great Vogue Says: breakfast on THE RED BARN THEATRE "Perhaps the best food on the island." And-Eastern Airline Review Wrote: - the FEBRUARY "The best stuffed yellowtail anywhere." oceanfront."

Thursday thru Monday 8:30 p.m. Also Featured In "THE RUNNER STUMBLES" The New York Times By Milan Stitt Directed By Richard Magesis Glamour A gripping, suspenseful, passionate drama After Dark Tickets $6.50 & $8.00 Village Voice ^Featuring an unlimited Breakfast Buffet* — ALSO — and *Daily* Playboy A WORLD PREMIERE Bacon Scrambled iggs Saw.age EVERYDAY THEATRE INC. Home fries French Toast Presents The finest in seafood, chicken and pasta dishes. Grits Corned Beef Hash Baked Apple* "PLAY MONEY" We also feature seasonal game dishes. Chipped Beet Gravy Cereoh Sausage Gravy By Timothy McShane Directed by Patrick O'Gara Biscuits Blueberry Muffins JJO/|S Feb. 8 [ 9 at 8:30 PM • Feb. 11 & 12 at Midnight • Feb. 15 & 16 at 8:30 PM Open Daily (Except Monday) Fresh Fruit Mix Prunes Pineapple Chunks Coming March 3rd 6:00 to 11:00 PM Coffee Orange Juice jea "LOOSE ENDS" Traditional Weekend Brunch Sat. & Sun. 9:00 to 2:00 PM All For Only $4.99 A limited edition full-color print of old Key A comedy by Michael Weller • Directed by Susan Hawkens West, signed and numbered by artist Ann Irvine. * * ***************** Available framed ($65) or unframed ($20) with Come in and see 319 DUVAL ST. (REAR) Buffer Served 8 4ftl until ? Breoftfast-luncfr served 7 AM- 4 PM mailing tubes. (Size 18" x 24" framed.) 1029 SOUTHARD STREET 294-7991 1405 Duval St. On South Beach ANN IRVINE STUDIOS. our own Sine of 296-9911 MAJOR CREDIT CARDS ACCEPTED Phone 294-2727 GUILD HALL GALLERY freshwater and cultured pearls 614 DUVAL STREET 9:30 - 5:30 DAILY • 296-9359 43

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by TOM SCHMITT and GEORGE GUGLEOTTI Cuval • 294-3826 7&9PM $3.50 NOW THAT JANUARY has gone and taken, the Rains of Ranchipur with it, let's hope February is, a bit dryer. February may be the shortest month of the year, but it will be a full one, filled with mystery, music and dance. • H fl B B fl B ECD THE RED BARN Theatre starts off Illlllll Northern Italian Cuisine t\e month (it actually opened on HBHHBHB FED Jan. 27) with Murder and Mystery. 615 Diival Street, Key West "The Runner Stumbles" by Milan Stitt, 294-6565 based on an actual murder trial, has THREE FEATURE FILM CHOICES EVERY NIGHT! been directed by Richard Magesis and will play thru Feb. 14. "Loose Ends" a contemporary comedy by Michael FOR Weller (who recently wrote the script for the movie "Ragtime"), to be MADMEN directed by Susan Hawkens, will be in ONLY rehearsal for an opening in early March. Auditions for Harold Pinter's HERMANN HESSE'S "Betrayal," with Richard Magesis as place in mass and scale and thus vio- low density, low-height profile. We THE SEARCH IS ON FOR THE OLD ISLAND Director, will be held towards the lates the Key West Comprehensive Plan. question whether raising density from DAYS QUEEN! You can be the 1983 end of this month. 2 . Pelican Landing clearly 16 to 20 would have any significant winner. Ladies between the ages of appears to violate the building code impact on the cost of housing to a 18 - 25 single may now qualify. ALSO AT THE Red Barn this month, with respect to number of stories and buyer. Our survey of potential multi- Nancy and Tim McShane's Everyday Theater height of building. ple-family, residential land areas in- The pageant will be held February 12 group has brought Patrick O'Gara from 3. We don't agree with the City dicates market values of $130,000 to at Fitzgerald's Lounge in Key West,, Chicago to direct the world premiere of $150,000 per acre. At best, increasing For more information to enter, call HEARTLAND Attorney that it is a club or lodge; Tim's "Play Money." This production will frTCoiDf • A Levitt-Picmrum release i*G)*a» it appears to us to be a residential density from 16 to 20 might reduce land 294-8774 or 294-8393. Gina Colglazier, open Tuesday, Feb. 8 at 8:30 p.m. and play facility in excess of 16 units per cost from say $9400 to $7500 per unit, the 1982 Queen will then crown her Feb. 9 at 8:30 p.m., Feb. 11 and 12 at. acre (another zoning violation) in a a relatively insignificant reduction successor. Gina has gained many Midnite and. Feb. 15 and 16 at 8:30 p.m. commercial zone in violation of the when talking about $200,000 condominium opportunities as she has modeled in For further info call the Red Barn Box building code. units. We doubt that a $198,000 unit many fashion shows, emceed community Office at 296-9911. ADULTS ONLY is more affordable to the working class activities and was a guest on Meet the CLEARLY, PELICAN LANDING would citizen than a $200,000 unit, which was Candidates. Gina represented Monroe 1 seem to violate the City's Land Use the reason the Commission approved it. County at the Florida's American Beauty THE TENNESSEE WILLIAMS Fine Arts EROTIC Plan in this matter as well. But, once We would hope that our City Commission Pageant where she won 1st Runner-up, Center features dance and music this again, the overriding principle of "If would put this question of height and then competed in the Miss Florida month. Feb. 3 thru 6, will see the FILM you get it built before they stop you, density to the voters by referendum preliminary to Miss U.S.A. Louis Falco Dance Company on the TWFAC you're home free," would seem to pre- next Fall before attempting to increase stage. One of the most innovative vail. Is it any wonder that so many density or height. modern dancer-choreographers, Louis citizens want the return of Critical Falco is best known for his choreo- State Concern in Key West again? graphy of the movie "Fame" and the Dr. Pepper T.V. commercials. "Annie Get Your Gun," Irving Berlin's great Continued from page 2 AT THE LAST City Commission meet- musical comedy, and a treat for the THE whole family, will open at TWFAC on ing the commissioners adopted a resolu- TIMOTHY GREENFIELD-SANDERS is tion directing the Planning and Commis- Feb. 24. And on Feb. 28, the Film written up in three magazines simulta- Musical Series will present the seldom JIMMY ion to review the LUP with a view to- neously. The reason for this is that PORTERALLEN ward increasing the density limitation seen "Cabin In The Sky," which was CLIFF he is an extremely gifted photographer. directed by Vincente Minelli, and of 16 units per acre to 20. The plan- The reason that I am writing about it is ning commission should be aware that COMPANY features great performances by Ethel that he is David Wolkowsky's nephew and Waters and the young Lena Home. Free . the present density of 16 and height recently visited his uncle at the Sands. insurance since limit of 4 stories was reduced from 18 transportation is available via the Old to 16 and from 10 stories to 4 back in Town Trolley. For further info call OLD ISLAND DAYS will be from the TWFAC Box Office at 294-6363. 1974 as a result of a successful January 29 to March 27. I'm sorry that referendum petition drive by the Greater •we didn't have the room to give this WILLIAM, A. f^REENAAr-l SfV 5l35+h Key West Citizens Association. Again event a write-up. THE KEY WEST PLAYERS keep the in a comprehensive survey of taxpaying WILLIAM A. pRE£fMH JK. Key West music going by ending the month with PAVIP W. FR&E.MAU property owners in late 1976, more than SEE YOU NEXT month. the musical classic "Show Boat." Based 90 percent of the thousands of respon- on Edna Ferber's novel of the same ses, confirmed the desire of the vast name, with music by Jerome Kern and majority of Key West citizens for a book and lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein II. (The lyric for the song "Bill" however was written by P. G. Wodehouse.) "Show Boat" was the first musical of .its kind and set the standard for what was to become the traditional American Broadway musical. "Show Boat" AB¥ ATTACK is directed by June Hunzinger and will open Monday, Feb. 28, at the Waterfront Playhouse.

'"ROCKERS' is another Jamaican movie with the sparkle of ON FRIDAY AND Saturday, Feb. 11 1 and 12, the Key West Players will hold THE HARDER THEY COME'... 'ROCKERS is in many respects the better BOBMARLEY PETER TOSH auditions, at the Waterfront, for the of the two... funny, off-beat players and a sinuous reggae score." THIRD WORLD BAND BURNING SPEAR comedy "Born Yesterday," written by FEB. 20-26 9 PM FEB. 13-19 9 PM Carson Kanin, to be directed by Jack Clarke. For further info call the "Heartland" is a turn-of-the-century love Waterfront Box Office at 294-5015. story about a stoic Wyoming rancher and the widow who comes from Denver to work as his FOR THOSE WHO like to dance to the housekeeper, intending to homstead her own music, The Copa, Key West's newest place. Directed by Richard Pearce, the new, Disco presents current top recording highly acclaimed film was produced by artists every Sunday night. Starting Wilderness Women of Montana and Filmhaus of off the month with K. C. of the New York. Sunshine Band on Feb. 6; continuing with the Weather Girls (formerly - The screenplay is based on the real life ex- 2 Tons of Fun) on Feb. 13; Bonnie periences of Elinore Pruitt Stewart and Clyde Foreman on Feb. 20; and the Ritchie Stewart, turn-of-the-century pioneers near Family on Feb. 27. There are two Surntfork, Wyoming and is based on invaluable shows each Sunday night. For show anecdotes, photos and many items found in times and door prices call The Copa Eli.nore's original letters. at 296-8521. 44

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EVENTS SPECIAL Shi BUI OPENING IN FEBRUARY EVENTS Friends Worship Group (Quakers), in- quiries, Sheridan Crumlish, 294-1523. Creative Writing Workshop led by local author Jim Gelfand from 7-9 p.m. every Key West City Commission, meetings 1st Tuesday from Jan. 25, 806 Eaton St., and 3rd Mondays at 8 p.m., City Hall, 294-5190 corner Simonton and Angela streets. - BUZlAf> -UNEhl Color Me Positive While Single workshop Oldest House Museum, 322 Duval St., 294- for singles. Tickets $10 at Ramada Inn, 9502. Antique lovers will enjoy this Key West Poetry Guild, meetings 1st Sun- Feb. 14, Ramada Inn, 8:00 p.m. excursion into the furniture, house- days at l2i Duval, Mostly Magnificant, IN KEY WEST wares and decorations of Old Island in- 8:00 p.m. GALLERIES teriors "way back when." Be sure to £5% OFF & MUSEUMS visit the kitchen out back. 411 Greene Street Cosmic Lightbearers, Minister: Jeanette Bottoms. Sun, worship - W. Martello, Artists Unlimited, 221 Duval St., 296- outside - at 2 p.m. - bring mat. 5flOWM /A/ fOUR. HOME OZ OFFICE 5625. Hours 12 to 5 p.m. or by appoint- FILMS CARDS - CERAMICS - GIFTS ment. A delightful gallery in a Conch- style setting with an international Key West Picture Show, Duval St. Shows Key West Woman's Club, regular meeting reputation. "The Key West Picture Show" Thurs.-Sun. 1st Tuesday of each" month, 2:30 p.m., A boutique for cat lovers at 2, 3 and 4 p.m. 319 Duval St. Artist Warehouse, 8 Charles St. (in Old Sponge House off Duval St.) Mon. Marathon Lions Club, dinner meetings thru Sat., 11 a.m. to 6 p.m., and by Monroe County Public Library: Fleming St., 294-8488. " 2nd and 4th Wednesdays, Indies Resort, appointment. A unique "work" gallery Duck Key, 7:30 p.m. representing works by Karen Clemens and Bob Birbeck along with other Marathon Shrine Club, luncheons every local artists. 294-7141. Adult Movies: Feb. 9, A Man Named Lombardi; Feb. 16, The Yellow Slippers, sFriday, at high noon. All Shriners wel- Audubon's Shore Birds; Feb. 23r PfmT come. East Martello Gallery S Museum, 3500 S. Robesen; The Tallest Tree in the Forest all at 7:00 p.m. ! ~ Monroe County Commission, Feb. 4, Roosevelt Blvd., 296-3913. A "fort- Marathon Sub-Courthouse, 10:00 a.m., museum" with some of the most interest- t Children's Movies: Feb. 5, Taleb And Feb. 18, Key West Courthouse, Room B, Lunch at the beach ... ing facts of Key West history and lore. 10:00 a.m. Feb. 2-27, Series of Paintings by His Lamb; A Boy & A Boa; arid Runt "of~ A sampling of some of our r Jacob Lawrence and A Sampling of Metal the Litter. Followed by a performance by Everyday Theater, Inc.; Feb. 12, National Association for Retired Fed- LUNCH SPECIALS Sculpture by Stanley Papio eral Employees: meetings last Sunday of wnni Hansel s Gretel, An Appalachian Version, Spinach Fettucine with Horseradish NOUVELLE ITALIAN CUISINE The Magic Flute; and Zoo. Followed by the month at the Senior Citizens Plaza, Lunch and Dinner a craft activity; Feb. 19, Caterpillar; 1400 Kennedy Drive, 3:45 p.m. Conch Sauce The Wild Swans; and Help! I'm Shrinking. or 523 Eaton St. 294-4720 Farrington Galleries, 711 Duval St., Followed by a craft activity. Feb. 26, United Humanitarians, low-cost spay pro- Avocado & Sprout Salads with 294-2165, Sal Salinero, Painted Folding Chick, Chick, Chick; Lentil; and gram now in effect; please call 296- fresh Herb Vinaigrette Dressing Screens, Feb. 3-14; Robert Franks, Oil" Mowgli's Brother. Followed by a craft 5106 for information. and for dessert paintings, Feb. 16-28. activity. Raspberry Bombe Wesley House Board of Directors, meet- 1435 Simonton on the ocean • 294-6669 • 294-6660 "Thursday morning Preschool Storyhours - ings second Tuesday of the month, 5 9:30 - 10:30 a.m. p.m., 1100 Varela St., 296-5231. Gingerbread Square Gallery, 901 Duval Feb. 7, Censorship in Libraries, Bill St., Information 296-8900; appointments Eldridge; Feb. 7, Love in Literature, 294-2165. Shari Hatchett acrylic paint- Betty Hamel; Feb. 21, Library Closed; SELF ings, Jan. 19 - Jan. 31. Through Jan. 9, Feb. 28, Robert Massie, Al Lawrence HELP photography by Jeff Cardenas. Alcoholics Anonymous, #4 Peary Court SOME NEW EVENTS (clubroom) , 294-906,2,. Meets nightly at Guild Hall, 614 Duval St., 296-9359. 8:30; Monday, Wednesday and Friday at Open 9:30 to 5:30 daily. Exhibiting an 12 noon; 10:30 a.m. on Sunday; 7 and 11 outstanding array of original art by AL-ANON, Mondays, 7:00 p.m., St. Ann's p.m. Friday. Key West professionals Walter Ashe, Hall, St. Mary, Star of the Sea; Tues- Barbara Bauer, Sharon Cobb, John Cryer, day and Friday, 8:30 p.m., Sigsbee Emotional Health Anonymous, meets Thurs- Joan Howe, Ann Irvine, Fran Kebschull, YMCA. days at 7:30 p.m., at First Congrega- Maxine McHullen, Irma Quigley, Norma AL-ATEEN: Friday, 8:30 p.m., Sigsbee tional Church, 527 William St. Renner, Bee Sackett, and Carolyn Seiler. YMCA. Featuring oils, acrylics, watercolors, # Narcotics Anonymous, meets Saturdays at Overeaters Anonymous, meets Mondays at drawings, prints, porcelain, weaving, 7 p.m. at the Mental Health Clinic basketry arid other media. 7:30 p.m. at the Fleming Street Metho- Lobby on Truman Annex. Problem wi'th dist Church, 729 Fleming St. drugs? Narcotics Anonymous has a Haitian Art Co., 600 Frances St., 296- solution. 8932. This gallery is like a trip to Domestic Abuse Shelter,, Inc., call Haiti itself, replete with paintings Bingo, starting 7:15.p.m. Thursday 6-HELP, 4-LINE. ~~ and metal sculpture? Owner Ruth Kravitz nights at Sugarloaf firehouse at mile encourages all interested to stop by and marker 17. Proceeds to the fire and Conscious Pregnancy Classes, 296-6259. see her selection of a "little bit of rescue squad. Hypoglycemia Association of America Haiti." Yoga and relaxation by Dr. Betty Get smart at evening classes at Florida Patterson (wear loose-clothing and Key West Art Center & Gallery, 301 Keys Community College. Mime, dancing, bring a mat), Feb. 7, 7:00 p.m., Front Street,, 294-1241. Open daily Spanish, metal casting, signing, astrol- Monroe County Library Auditorium. 10 - 5; Sundays 11-4. One-man shows: ogy, boat maintenance, ocean" cruising, Come to a hi-protein cooking class, Feb. 6-19 Jack Barron. Feb. 20-Mar.5 native plants. Call Registrar's office . 629 William St., rear, $2.50 fee,7:00 Florence Recher. for information, 296-9081. Mail-a-Book Program, costs you only 29 cents, for mailing. Library, 294-8488. Lighthouse and Military, Museum, 938 REGULAR Whitehead, 294-0012. The highest view EVENTS Workshops in Life-Drawing & Painting, of Key West can be had here, along with Tuesday Eves, and Friday afternoons. a survey of aircraft and wartime me- $2-3 model fee. For times and locations mentos . City Electric Utility Board, meetings 2nd and 4th Wednesdays at 5 p.m., Board contact Malcolm Ross at 294-8301. Room, 930 Caroline. Zonta Help Line: 296-HELP. Call any Moira, the art gallery at 11 Key Lime time when you need help or referral ser- Sq., 294-1254. Original art and fram- Flea Market, Saturday mornings, American vice. (296-4357.) 7oe DUVAL ing. Open 10 to 5 p.m. Legion Home, Stock Island. The Key West Swim Club, at the high open 7s3P AM Florida Keys Aqueduct Authority: No school pool: under 18 yrs. Mon. through Perkins Chandlery, 218 Whitehead St., regular meeting scheduled. Fri. at 4:30 p.m., Sat. 9:00 a.m. 294-7635. Showing the following artists; VFW AUXILIARY #6021, 2nd £ 4th Sundays, Adults: Tues. & Thurs. at 6:30 p.m., Rollin Barker, A.S.M.A.; Commander Post Hall, 803 Emma St., 8:00 p^m. Sat. 10:30 a.m. OPEN!! J. A. Cryer. NFVist Buck FrodtlieV 500 Duval Street, Open 10-6 seven days, 294-2007 48