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VOL. VI, NO. 3 Key West, Florida MARCH, 19 81 Commissioner Heyman fought this proposal from the beginning and was FROM later joined by Commissioner Mary Couch Reunion BY EILEEN MOORE QUINfJ Whatisa Graham. Both are to be congrat- e ulated for their efforts. else, then just to see the changes ONE OF THE finest examples of Key "I remember," admits Delores Ro- driguez Taylor, who now lives on around here,'' declares Susan. "And West matriarchy is to be found in ihe boy, are there ever changes!" Birkenstock? Hello - The news on Peggy Mills' life and times of Annie Delpino Catholic Lane and is the first-born Gardens is not so happy, either. Rodriguez. This soon-to-be-89 woman,, daughter of Annie's third marriage. Bo Red, a marvelous local man Bill•Lorraine writes in this issue born and raised "up around the grave- "But most of all, I remember her bed." AIINIE DELPINO HAS witnessed lit known and loved by many, many Key that townhouses may be slated to go "Who could ever forget that?" erally thousands of changes. Her ov;r yard," in many ways epitomizes the to- neighborhood is unrecognizable to he Westers, died this past month. He in there - maybe some of our readers tal Twentieth Century woman. Born in muses Susan Casey Phipps, Delores had been the subject of at least will have some suggestions on how Casey's daughter, who, although born it looked when she was a young wife 1892, married three times in her life, and mother. "Old Town" is net old a! three pieces by Phoebe Coan which this magnificent, one-of-a-kind giving birth to 13 children, and still and raised here like her feminine fore- appeared in this paper. A rare garden can be preserved. bears, now resides in Drummond, Okla- all, but rather, quite new. "There aseci called "Mama" by the young'uns, Annie to be ?. custom-made coffin business and special man. Since Bo had died Rodriguez maintains her familial posi- homa, where her husband works. penniless he had been consigned to Congratulations to the "Weren't you born in that bed. Mama?" .right over there," indicates Julia, tion as traditional "ruler of the" pointing to the left-hand side of burial in the "Potter's Field" Southernmost Road Runners Club! roost." "Not only was I born in it, I section of our graveyard. This Charles Street, which faces Annie's Their representative, Ned Guardenier Yes, she's getting old.'Sure, spent my wedding night in it!" re- form of burial is a pretty cut- reported that the marathon raised sponds her mother. "That bed has seen home. "'Course, that was years and and-dried, cold and unemotional she's a little forgetful and sometimes years ago." $4,500 and that $2,000 was given repeats herself. "Is today Saturday or more life and action in its day than and unattended affair. Thank- to the Save the Babies Fund at the Sunday?" she queries. "On Sundays I go all of us put together! It's a good SOON, GRANDSON ED TAYLOR arrives fully, a group of Bo's friends Florida Keys Memorial Hospital, thing beds can't talk!" got together and raised the money to the Glad Tidings Baptist Church. for the picture-taking. "Five genera- $1,500 was given to the Florida They know me there, you know." to permit his remains to be dis- Keys Marine Institute, and the tions of Conch women!" they all pro- interred, cremated and scattered Tomorrow's only Saturday, and so claim. The newest addition to the clan, March of Dimes received $1,000. she needn't worry. Her mind having been at sea which is what he wanted. Next month we hope to have some Baby Jessica Leigh Phipps, Susan's set at ease, she sits back and wraps daughter, is meeting her great-great- pictures and text on the marathon. the blanket about her knees to keep Many of us were very' dis- grandmother for the first time. The away the cold. two hit it off beautifully. IT. .in rim ••.11 ilnuiv appointed that Mayor McCoy, Is the season finally starting? 1 nif.l \i nil "Tell gramama your name." It']' ]Tt>h J"iHk .li'-»irpiii'i Commissioners Esquinaldo and Weekley It looks busier downtown. The i
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The huge hangar was jammed with people who came to try He surfaced, then dived again, this time approaching the games of chance, such as attempting to drop a coin onto the shadowy bulk in the water--and reached out to touch it. toy submerged submarines to win a prize; tickets were also Sure enough, the raspy hide was that of a seven-foot sold for the usual gallery type games, ball throws and hammerhead shark. He hastily swam up and practically jumped booths or ordinary carnival games combining skill and out of the pool to report, "There's a shark in the swimming chance. pool." At first his alarm was laughed at and he was told to A steel band was imported from the Caribbean for con- sober up. But investigation proved him right. The shark was certs and dances. Local bands also responded so that music real, though dead. The NAS captain closed the pool until was continuous. 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Well, GLASS WORKS HOURS: needed a good dose of restriction of lunchtime rolled around, and the fair- 6:30 AM to 8:30 PM some form to remedy what my father John have given life and limb for is about MARIO SANCHEZ as appealing as a malnourished leech on haired Elsa Maxwell shows up and in- Country Cooking called a severe case of hole-in-the- forms me she was going to have this head. There were a few times when I was your face. This situation happened to Breakfast & Lunch me and concerned a girl who had just righteous party but she couldn't get accused by my father of having a hole enough people together who could bring Specials in my head, but upon discreet examina- moved to the house on the corner of Dey Homemade Soups and Simonton Street which made her presents so the whole party idea was Daily tion in private I always found the orb " off. But, if I wanted I could give her of my skull to be intact and certainly- right down the street from us. I can't say I was a very social person because my present anyway and have some of her free of any tropical breezes blowing cake, I was appalled. It was so totally through. I never informed my father of my*sister Martha was my very favorite Old Town company and I didn't like to waste my disgusting to me that she would have this because he did not care for cute the gall to brazenly tell rrie I could children. tir>e with dim-wits. (Martha had the ' t Trolley Depot ability to analyze things silently and eat some of her cake if I handed over the present as if it were ransom. And I SOON BEGAN to refine my relish then encapsulate the entire situation in one sentence full of the sting of a who could say how good the cake was I! for expressionism, as I call it, by going to be? I wouldn't have minded if k A New Collection of Polychrome Woqd conducting dress-up sessions in the thousand man-of-wars. 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And it was true. party, the girl and the onions, I was The little boy next door, who my mother truly sailing along through life with said had a face like an angel (which all the'winds of luck filling my sails. was appropriate because his name was There was nothing but snow-white, Godfrey) came to me and told me what frothy wake behind me and only deep, was going on. Again I was appalled— luminescent blue water in front of me. ' what caused this sort of behavior in a I was pure and in the Jetstream. I was On the patio in Key Lime Square person? Society? Television? Parents? feeiing expressive again, it so hap- Deli, Seafood, and Vegetable Sandwiches Bad books? I just could not figure it pened that I had a favorite wall to Our specialties: out. I decided to act and discover the., walk along on my way to the grocery Lamb sandwich with Key West's Floating Restaurant nature of the rumors and slander. 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He would dry minded was I had to breathe the air as his tears, feel comforted, take his I walked by on one of their cook-out leave (not too quickly so as not to days and be driven to absolute sali- arouse suspicion) and would return and vating madness by the aroma of crawfish The World report to me. This was a perfect plan. enchilada, simmering black beans and The only catch was that Godfrey had to ' hot Cuban bread. But that torture only have real tears in his eyes or the arose occasionally. The rest of the whole thing would come off as a cheap time I utilized the wall to give life Famous hoax and I would be the laughing stock to my magic sea bean which is a very of the entire neighborhood. Another , hard and black pod found in the ocean blinding flash: onions—onions make you that looks like a Castanet. If it is dry. Godfrey would have to go the extra held against the wall as one walks TOMMY mile for the cause and subject himself rapidly by the bean gets ungodly hot. to a very carefully administered dose It gets so hot it can give you a of onion juice in the eye, given by_'me, blister if you hold it to your skin,, Conch Chowder of course. I was convinced all the which is what I stupidly did once just DORSEY wiles of Mata Hari were pretty slack to see how hot it would get. Fried Shrimp compared to this. Unfortunately.for grabbed me by the throat. I was para- of missing one of her delicious meals Godfrey, my inexperienced mind did not lyzed with fear. I saw my soul ascend and ending up with head lice to boot.. Shrimp Steamed In Beer know it was the fumes from onions that ANYWAY, ONE DAY as I was walking Orchestra by my favorite wall, I was again to heaven. I got a little bucket with some sudsy Fish .& Chips cause the eye to water and he got a water and a rag and was dragged off to good squirt of the real juice.right in shocked and appalled by some graffiti Quiche appearing smack dab in the middle..It "DID YOU .WRITE STINKS ON THE . the wall by that curly-haired monster the eye. Needless to say, his tears WALL? DID YOU? AREN'T YOU AMY DE POO? to wash away my sin. On the way there I (Baked Daily at the "Pouch") were not only very real, but his said in large spray-painted letters RICKY. Well, I knew who Ricky was, he I KNOW YOU WROTE IT BECAUSE A LITTLE considered asking him why I had to screams were more than authentic enough GIRL TOLD ME SHE SAW YOU WRITE IT! YOU clean my part off the wall and he Fried Squid for my taste and I felt pretty bad was the neighborhood bully, an older boy who had no time for young brats, as CAN GO TO JAIL FOR THAT YOU KNOW! didn't, but I thought'the better of it (when available). about him suffering like that. That put YOU'RE GOING TO WASH IT OFF RIGHT NOW!" because he looked so mad. A few -days the plan behind about half an hour be- he liked to identify me or my sisters. I was overwhelmed by the desire to ex- I was caught. I had considered later, his name also disappeared under Fresh Tuna cause we all had,to wait for Godfrey to a.wash of grey paint that didn't match really stop crying before we could send . press my distaste for his brash deface- denying it and claiming him to be tile (when available) ment of my favorite wall. I decided to victim of tropical rot of-the brain, very well. I suppose a few,Veterans of him off pretending to cry with a few Foreign Wars similarly backed him up Sandwiches and More onion tears for good measure. The rest add to his name, and in the process and a very severe case at that, but punish him for his marring of a once- that slimy girl had done me"in. , against the wall and he got a qood of the plan did work out perfectly and ,taste of his own medicine. I think that lackluster girl was pristine landmark. I didn't have any spreading some uninspired tale that I spray paint, but I knew where my mother kept her drawing1 charcoal. I went home "Well, yes, I guess I did write kissed my dog on the mouth or some- it, but I only meant it to be a joke thing. She really was more to be pitied and took the biggest piece I could find, knowing it to be delicate stuff and it's in charcoal and everything' and than scorned but I felt great satisfac- it will probably rain tomorrow, which tion in the way my plan worked out. and the surface of the wall to be quite rough. I wanted my message to stand is why I wrote it in charcoal, I didn't out. I came, back, and looking around to want it to last too long, and ..." NOW I KNEW that there were many see that no one was watching me, I add- "SHUT UP, YOU LITTLE TWERP. YOU'RE channels in which to express one's ed one big word underneath his name to COMING WITH ME RIGHT NOW AND YOU'RE inner desires. I felt X had breached indicate to the world what people who .GOING TO WASH IT OFF RIGHT NOW." N. Roosevelt Blvd. some sort of gap in my life. I had had write on walls are really like: I wrote At Garrison Bight a problem or annoying situation, I had out one big word underneath in bold HE CERTAINLY DIDN'T have to be so thought about it, acted on it and re- capital letters—STINKS. There, now it undiplomatic about it. I thought him to solved my peace of mind in the process. read as I though it should: be very blunt and totally lacking in I felt there was nothing I couldn't do. •RICKY humor, and possessed of an over- Perhaps I shouldn't have felt so cock- STINKS sensitive nature coupled with a very with 7 Days 7 AM-9PM 294-8082 sure about the whole thing, but that is poor self-image if he couldn't "even I got a good laugh and went home. 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But the his own request" after the entire incident was over. to disgrace the Navy." main tune was that besides the porno films, the line of Columnist Pearson related the happenings in full, al- striptease "artists" from the Havana-Madrid club danced though some of the juicier aspects were not described in through several numbers to enthusiastic cries of "Take it The Navy Relief charity campaigns calmed down after the detail. The grapevine in Key West worked overtime and' the off!" and they all complied in turn. But the manager of the 1953 fiasco. The fund raising went on, but the system whole town knew the sequence, although at first the investi- strip joint on Front Street, where Old Town Square is now changed. There was no more "division competition to achieve gation was difficult, since a lot of Key Westers clammed up located, says he left early and that so did his "girls" in tremendous sums." as did service people, except amidst their own circles, with order to appear at the Havana-Madrid on time for the regular The Cuban Club has been restored to its dignified place only hints about the true circumstances. strip show. in the community and the Naval Air Station has achieved prominence as the last frontier of government holdings here, HOWEVER, HIGHER-UPS in Washington set up a court- AFTER ANOTHER INTERLUDE when drinks were dispensed, as well as a degree of importance which is immeasurable in martial procedure, trial to be held in Charleston, S.C. mattresses were dragged from the wings £0 stage center. The national importance. Charges were brought against Lt. Cmdr. Gerry McDaniel, who main performer, "Shielah the Peelah," appeared and after a was accused of "disobedience of a lawful ordinance and con- disrobing routine, challenged the audience. "Anybody want to duct unbecoming of an officer and a gentleman;" he was ap- wrestle?" she called. Although'she pronounced it "wrassle,". parently the instigator of the smoker. the meaning was clear. The cost was reportedly $50 a throw Capt. A.E. Buckley, commanding officer of the Naval Air and no holds barred. Station, suffered a heart attack and was hospitalized. Rear A lusty sailor, Who could justly be branded as having Admiral Irving T. Duke, in command of the entire Naval Base, "hornpipe" fever, was happy to respond—but he claimed he was shortly afterward transferred to another post, replaced didn't have the wherewithal—the money, that is. So his here by Rear Adm. George C. Turner. ' buddies, who had urged him on, took up a collection and the necessary 50 bucks was raised for the volunteer participant THE ACTUAL TRIAL site was moved from Charleston to Pen- to get into the act. (Later, everybody did, so they say.) sacola, Florida. McDaniel, who had been arrested in March, The smoker turned out to be a hot time in the old town y was held for 40 days incommunicado. Seven enlisted men were that night, such a one as was rarely, if ever, or since, sent to the brig here. These men all claimed that they only provided. acted under orders and that the charges brought against them were cover-ups for higher officials. The public was inclined NAVY CHIEF FUTTERER was in_charge of the invitations to to agree. the Cuban Club fun and games for Feb. 9, and it was an- One of the enlisted men involved was Chief Lee Lawlor, _ nounced at the time of the court-martial that the list of now deceased, who became a Marine Patrol officer after leav- invitations would be made public. It was expected that names ing the Navy. He told me personally that he was ordered by' of people in unofficial capacity would be revealed, too. his superior officers to go out to Stock Island and pick up However, there were conflicts and denials by so many of the two prostitutes and deliver them to the Cuban Club on the local men that the list was not certified. night of Feb. 9. An account of the trial appeared Aug. 14. It was held His terse comment was, "I did as I was told; arrange- before Capt. Charon Murphy, Naval Station Chief of Staff. ments had already been made by an officer to enlist the Attorney J.Y. Porter IV, native Conch and ex-Naval officer, girls for the show." was present with two stenographers and one reporter, Jim Cobb of the Citizen. AT THE COURT-MARTIAL, "Shielah the Peelah" was called Boatswain's Mate Raymond Robinson was found guilty of on to testify as to her part in the sex act, courtesy of two charges in connection with the "Star Smoker." He was Mom's Tea Room. She showed up draped in an expensive mink restrained in the Naval Base for 30 days and paid a $100 coat and nonchalantly answered questions on the stand, in- fine. One of the charges was "entering the Stock Island terspersing testimony with pungent remarks. When one of the bawdy house, which was out of bounds for.the Navy." Charges prosecutors demeaned her "profession" she haughtily de- of being "a panderer" were later dropped. claimed, "My work brings me a very good living." She Light fines and brief jail terms were handed out to en- smoothed the luxuriant fur of her coat and asked the ques- listed Navy men. Lt. CmdV. McDaniel "beat the rap" with a tioning attorney saucily, "Could YOU afford an expensive severe reprimand and forfeiture of service pay. mink like this?" The courtroom erupted in laughter. You Don't Share MAX VOLPIAN Easter 1100 TRUMAN AVE. Joy A 5T£? 296-6698 • CASH REGISTERS J---U • • INVENTORY CONTROL • SYSTEMS CONSULTING -ft THE • GUEST CHECKS & SUPPLIES ii Remember friends .. .to share St. and family with featuring Patrick's Day fun with beautiful Hallmark NOISELESS a Hallmark card for cards for Sunday, HEAVY DUTY Tuesday, March 17. April 19. ONE SWEDA CASH REGISTERS © 1980 Hallmark Cards,, Inc. '( MON.-FRI. 9-5 SAT. 9-12 17 16 Mexican Food & Cocktails * New! Macrame ORCHID TREE 'ENTERTAINMENT NIGHTLY' Vertical Blinds d • Levolor Blinds mOS©IV * Slipcovers RESTAURANT . • Bedspreads the setting for unique and casual dining FEATURING CD • Ficks Reed and Exciting Tofu Entrees Brown Jordan Natural, International, Sea Foods • mm yty' Furniture Fine Beer & Wine X) C^. .• Custom Draperies DINNER HOURS SUNDAY BRUNCH & • Wallpaper 1128SimontonSt. 6:00 PM - 11 PM 9:00 AM — 2 PM REGGAE NITES Hours 296-2807 on Wed. and Sun. Monday thru Friday 8 AM - 3 AM 6PM-10PM Saturday By Appointment Homemade Sandwiches 921 Truman Ave. 296-9104 your full service pet shop Catering for all occasions • • • 1025 White St. Congenial Family Bar Select a Friend 294-1278 Package Store from the large variety of Our prices competitive Reasonable Prices pets of all types with those of anyone Established 33 Years Open 12-12 Monday - Saturday in the Keys 1-12 Sundays WE DO DOG & CAT GROOMING 42B Greene St. 296-9417 5O9'/2 Duval 294-9215 KEY PLAZA ' 296-6912 The clubhouse is to contain a pro the City Commission of the City of Key shop, restaurant, lounge, locker rooms, WEst, Florida providing for the author- had ended. No public discussion was rest rooms, administrative offices, izing the execution of this agreement (/Sender - ^Janii, -_//if. permitted by the Mayor on the resolu- sales office, and rental office. and the lease." tion. REALTOR EdiTORIAl BY BILL. WESTRAY Tennis courts, handball courts, We wonder about this, since only a saunas and Other recreational facili- resolution (No. 81-19) has been adopted FULL REAL ESTATE SERVICE WHEN THIS QUESTION was previously ties mentioned prominently as improve- to date. 409 FLEMING ST. IN A SURPRISE move Wednesday on the agenda for the regular commis- ments "during discussion, are omitted 296-6200 or 296-6231 night, Feb. 18, the Key West City Com- • sion meeting on last Jan. 19, it was in from the required improvements. WE HAVE CONTINUED to express our mission, following heated discussion at the form of an ordinance which requires concerns about these sales and lease what was announced as a "workshop" two readings for adoption, rather than DOUBLE BONDS are to be furnished agreements over the past several months meeting, adopted a resolution directing one reading for a resolution. Pro- by the Lessee to the City to guarantee in the hope that terms more favorable the Mayor to execute a sales agreement cedurally, resolutions are normally completion of the required improvements to the City and its people could be se- and a ground lease agreement for the used for temporary decisions, whereas in an amount to be determined that will cured from Arnheim and Wood, or possi- municipal golf course to Toby Arnheim ordinances are for permanent decisions. be "...not less than the cost of the bly f-rom "some other developer. During and Norman Wood. The vote was divided improvements: as estimated by one or all the discussion and debate, matters 3 to 2 with Bruce Esquinaldo, Mayor Mc- THIS PART OF the scenario had ap- more of the architects prior to the seemed to proceed in an orderly fash- Coy and Alton Weekley voting "for" and parently besn carefully planned and was issuance of the building permit." The ion, out in the open under public Richard Heyman and Mary Graham voting carefully executed. At least two com- closing date for the sale and lease is scrutiny, in a way with which we could "against." missioners had not seen and were not planned for March 25, 1981. But since not quarrel. But the precipitous action The vote of Esquinaldo and McCoy, aw,are that a resolution was to be of- the bonds don't commence until all per- of pulling a1 new resolution "out of a continuing proponents of the deal, as fered. The resolution was apparently mits have been approved, which will be hat" and adopting it after a few well as Fleyman and Graham, the out- Hand-Gifted .-• •not distributed to anyone in advance. some considerable time later, the bond minutes' consideration without allowing Open 9 - 5 • Closed Sunday spoken critics, were foregone conclu- On Friday, Feb. 20, the Mayor exe- guarantees will not have been in effect the public, the" media, and even some * Silver G& Gold during the period between the closing commissioners to give it fair consid- c c THERE IS IN THE CITY CHARTER REFERENDUM PROVISIONS WHEREBY DECISIONS date of the sale and the starting date eration is very objectionable. We are Key West OF THE CITY COMMISSION CAN BE OVERTURNED BY A MAJORITY OF THE of the bonds. critical of the process that was fol- ELECTORS, THIS POSSIBILITY MAY HAVE TO BE CONSIDERED IN THIS CASE, Thus, a "loophole" or gap appears lowed on Feb. 18 of substituting a to occur during which the City has sold resolution for an ordinance and of sions. Only Weekley had expressed in- cuted both agreements for the City and its land but will have no guarantee that those who had an advance part in it. decision, but he, after seemingly Arnheim and Wood signed for the pur- the golf course will be built. wringing a last minute concession from chaser and lessee. "Tex" Schram and THERE IS IN the City Charter, ref- Arnheim and Wood in the form of a per- Clint Murchison, the declared backers THE PREVIOUSLY OBJECTIONABLE pro- erendum provisions whereby decisions of centage of the golf cart rents, also of Arnheim and Wood, did not sign the vision for mortgage of the fee, that is, the City Commission can be overturned INTARC. capitulated following a dramatic pause agreements. mortgage of the city-owned golf course by a majority of the electors. This INTERIOR ARCHITECTURE of seeming final doubt. land for the construction loans, HAS possibility may have to be considered. ENVIRONMENTAL DESIGN WE REGRET THAT little change in BEEN REMOVED. in this case. INTERIOR DESIGN OPEN 6:30 AM TIL 10 PM PHONE 294-9279. NOT REMOVED is a provision that SPACE PLANNING FOR: THE ACTION CAME as a surprise be- terms of consideration or price has « RESTAURANTS MALONEY AVE. & 4th AVE. ACROSS FROM BOYD'S cause the'meeting had been announced as occurred in either agreement. The City the City permit the building ". . .of not • LOUNGES a "workshop" at,which no.decisions or sells 42.65 acres for $1,000,000. The less than 500 single-family residential • RESIDENCES official actions were expected to be City leases 158.28 acres of land for units under a zoning classification 1 Ib. T-Bone Steak • Beer & Wine taken. Apparently, the workshop was five percent of the gross public and satisfactory to the Purchaser." The' Bar B Que Ribs, Chicken & Pork • Complete Breakfast switched to a special meeting by Mayor private greens fees and golf cart rent- City may not impose "...any set-back, Shrimp, Oysters S. Scallops • Homemade Chill McCoy at the last minute on Wednesday al fees, or $36,000 a year, whichever buffer zone, planting or other limita- Hot Corned Beef & Pastrami • Conch Ghowder afternoon. • •• is greater. The lessee is allowed two tions..." unsatisfactory to the Pur- 414 SIMONTON ST. Coney Island French Fries & Fritters Few persons in the audience knew years after all building and environ- chaser . that the meeting was special. Even the mental permits are approved, to com- roll call was omitted at the outset and plete all required improvements which .• THE SALES AGREEMENT also provides KEY WEST 296-2008 was added as an afterthought some time , consist of a multistory frame club- that on the closing date the City shall after discussion commenced., The resolu- house of about 8,700 square feet, and deliver to the Purchaser "...a certi- SURF & TURF «*> • LOBSTER DINNER tion was not on the agenda or made an 18-hole championship-quality golf fied copy of the ordinance passed by WE COOK YOUR FISH available to the media in advance, and course built to specifications and came as a surprise after, all discussion drawings prepared by Rees Jones, Inc. Your key to the Key. \lA hour guided tour of 60 of the Tropical* Punk most unusual historical sites X-Rated •Classical OLD ISLRND £ME^L you've ever seen. The Key West ConchTour Train BIRD CO. lisJ^ Mallory Square. Roosevelt Blvd.. and Wilton Cake Products 503 Greene StTF^ff Duval & Angela Streets Depots We have it. 9 AM-4PM \,;. Fresh Coffee Beans • / 294-2932 L> W (3051294-51W. cards • gifts • postcards • t-shirts PflRROTS b*--. ^,\V A Wometco 'f Grind - A - Spice - ^ ; COCKflTOOS : Vv \™ v Attraction. mRCflws *V^' :' ?, Wok Sets / W Strong healthy birds V^ -.' Polynesian Cuisine thQt liVe' ^^'W evep/thiftg"Tor the kItchBn and Sexlng arid breeding /fZiP^^S Rum Concoctions pairs available. t^^^PfiWlB \ k:: and ^§ in a WELDED WIRES BULK SEED " 1 Airline shipping boxes available alwaytsomeihmg^nbw Tropical island Bob LaPollce Atmosphere Tommy Richardson 611 Duval 294-6912 5 32 DUVAL Jerry Richardson Buy - Sell - Trad© U.S. 1 at Garrison Bight OPEN DAILY 18 19 LIGHT OF THE AGES In tkz land o£ dnzami Becoming and bzlng a pant o& In thz mld&t of, Inianlty-- wke.nz we wandzn th/iough action end gzitlcalatlon Thz light that nzvzt wavziti, tkz yzllow wood, Ai we. each go to do oaA. own thing not zvzn In thz &tKongzit wlndt,, I ipy a Kubbzn. t>izz Ion you to climb; and Kace. toward thz crumbling, Thz light o& thz ag£4, i One. that will btnd with youA viayi. Should It come,. flatzd through thz Kzzdy thhoati And thz God'& >ialn camzi douin Sklnz thz amzthy&t and tkz &llve.ti, aft mutant dotlowzii. on all o$ UA, Shine: tke. manKow o£ youJi IOVZ'A dzllgkt; Thz light oi thz tlmzi pA.ouofe.e-4 OULK. in.tzlle.cti, And iklnz thz light aft tkz agzi, all tkz tlmz, Stimulating outi mind'& zyz to i&z tke. Thz onz that will not die., Shine, alwayt,, z\izn. whzn we kavz {otigottzn vlbKatlon coming Into'lti own; Thz onz that glvzi thz &alth, thz light 0)5 all lliz and bzlng-- Thz juitlcz a{ It all. by Vhozbz Coan ftQUAMHRFNE LOTS AND LAND FOR BETTY M. BROTHERS and SEA LOVERS! BL00DST0NE REAL ESTATE, INC. The Exotic Oam of March LICENSED REAL ESTATE BROKER ROBERT J. REIN, Manager WM. GAMBLE JEWELER, INC. PHONE (305) 872-2261 600 Duval St Office: US. -I & ATLANTIC OCEAN Downtown-Key West Florida, 33040 LITTLE TORCH KEY, FLORIDA _Two of the most exotic gems in the" world today are the clear sea green-to-blue Aquamarine Mailing Address: and the opaque Bloodstone, a strongly mascu- ' i My childhood dream was to live in a home BOX 456 - BIG PINE KEY, FLORIDA 33043 line stone of a dark green flecked with red. That looked out on the open sea The Aquamarine, which seems to capture in Breakfast Lunch Dinner its transparent depths something of the vitality ALL THESE BARGAIN PROPERTIES IN THE LOWER KEYS HAVE ASSUMABLE MORTGAGES OR SELLERS WILL CARRY and surging spirit of the ocean, is a talisman THE MORTGAGES! EXCLUSIVE — LOWER KEYS - BIG PINE KEY TO BIG COPPITT. r.- long believed to impart courage to the wearer, to curelaziness and to quicken the intellect. Canal Front home for boats, swimming and fishing $69,000. ;•-• f- Greek goldsmiths of the period before the conquest of Rome used Aquamarines in their FOR LONG TERM INVESTMENT/THIS CANAL LOT CLOSE TO KEY WEST IS EXTRA LARGE AND EXTRA LOW IN jewelry. The gem stones came to them from the PRICE. ONLY $5,000.00 FULL PRICE. MUST BE CASH. HURRY ON THIS ONE! Far East, traveling from ports on the Persian Entertainment Friday & Saturday 9:30-12:30 r. • r • Gulf across the Arabian sands by camel cara- INLAND LOTS $3,000.00, and up...good terms. van, then by galleys to Hellenic ports on the Mediterranean Sea. 310 front st. tel. 294-2042 The Aquamarine is a Big Boat Canal Lot, Little Torch Key, only $12,900, full price! variety of Beryl (alumi- num-beryllium silicate), SAILBOATS AND CRUISERS FIND PORT AT YOUR FRONT DOOR IN THIS IDEAL WATERFRONT COMMUNITY. NEW belonging to the same TWO STORY HOME, WITH FISHING AND SWIMMING IN CRYSTAL CLEAR WATERS. ONLY $80,000., $22,000 family of gems as the Emerald. It is found in required...owner will carry mortgage at 12%! An added advantage to boat owners, a fully equipped marina, such widely separated just around the corner! parts of the world as Brazil, Madagascar, the A-Frame Chalet Lots of Charm on Big Boat Canal, in superb waterfront neighborhood, only $79,000, good United States (Maine and No. Carolina) and Russia. terms. Gulf Beachfront, 100x160, $16,000 full price $6,800 down. The Bloodstone Open water view, and 10,000 sq. ft. of superior land in Sugarloaf Shores, 100 ft. large canal frontage, posh homes area, just $44,000. Men, most often, will prefer the darker Bloodstone, a gem which offers a sharp contrast Frontage, close to open water! Super neighborhood, only $35,000 50% down. in appearance. Bloodstone is a variety of precious quartz, slightly less hard than the Aquamarine. QUADRAPLEX! CHOICE INVESTMENT PROPERTY FOR CASH FLOW AND DEPRECIATION! WELL CRAFTED Medieval folk believed that the Bloodstone INTERIORS, AND STURDY EXTERIORS MAKE THIS Four 4 FAMILY APARTMENT BUILDING A SUPER BUY. THIS received its coloring from Christ's own blood BUILDING IS LOCATED ON U.S. 1, and has a BU 2 (excellent business zoning), HAS BEEN RENTED AS TWO falling upon a green stone at the foot of the OFFICES ON FIRST FLOOR, AND TWO LARGE APARTMENTS ON SECOND FLOOR. Only $179,500.00, Good Cross. Legend ascribes the Bloodstone with the terms. . power to impart wisdom to the wearer. The Bloodstone's deeper color and opaque quality lend themselves especially to men's Great Summerland Cove Isle, canal lot, 8000 sq. ft. $33,000. Summerland Key stilt house on spacious canal rings, either polished or cut as signets. Nine- $59,000. , ' - teenth-century lapidaries used Siberian Blood- stone for small carved objects, and similar articles are obtainable today. A Terrific Buy on Big Pine Key in desirable Tropical Boy Subdivision 70 ft. on deep canal, great surroundings, Ornamental cuff links or tie tacs set with 7,000 sq. ft. area, very high elevation, a super homesite for only $18,900 cash or terms at $7,500.00 Bloodstone is another interesting way of wear- down, 12% on balance. ing this handsome birthstone. Buddy Trailer with its own lovely lot, Big Pine Key, just $30,000. A Lasting Pleasure Truly fine jewelry will give you immeasur- Big Pipe Key home, mint condition close to open water and has seperate guest house. $69,900. able pleasure throughout your lifetime, and later, will become a treasured family heirloom. Therefore, selecting the jeweler who will guide For the large family with lots of money...people who can afford the finest in waterfront living...stunning your purchase is a matter of great importance. ocean view, a wraparound concrete dock, affording a boat port for sailboats and large cruisers. Separate This jeweler should possess a comprehensive bedroom and bath downstairs for invalid or elderly members of the family, or servant's quarters. 3 knowledge of gemology, proper instruments for bedrooms, 2 bath on top floor level...a total of 4 bedrooms, 3 bathrooms. All concrete home almost determining the quality of gemstones, business experience and ability, and above all, the integ- maintenance free, for more time, enjoying superb water sports and other activities. Only $175,000. rity to puss his sound judgment on to you. $7.5,000 required, balance at 12%. 3 bedroom, 2 bath home on two lots in the heart of Eden Pines, Big Pine Key, $75,000. I AND EASILY MAINTAINED, 3 BEDROOMS, 2 BATHS, DRESSING ROOM. CENTRAL AIR. 21 attuned to the iguana and its habits. The following evening at sunset was quite a different story. A young hippy girl passed by John, apparently without seeing the lizards. John held one out a KeyWc/t few feet from her, expecting a plea- santly curious reaction. Instead she shr-.eked and bolted. Hardly the re- \, action John is accustomed to from thfi I/land H6RB young. MEEK IS TALL and angular, steely- For sale or for rent 30&-296-8627 BOOKSTORC eyed, with a whisky voice and gray crewcut. Articulate as a college pro- Personal Attention To Special Orders \v/ . i'.'g,.•IA*^''*1' * fessor, he spits out words with ease and refinement, whether describing the habits of his iguanas, or the more .metaphysical aspects of life itself We now have Key's bulk honey, 79$ Ib. which he claims to have only begun to "We can get any blooming book under the sun"*(almost) New shipment of imported coffee be&ns discover with his first peregrinations Best Sellers • Paperbacks • Gift Books • Children's Books • Nautical and into the Florida Keys. Largest selection of herbs, natural juices Although he spends most of his Sailing Books and bulk foods time in Key West, his home is in Sum- BOO SOUTHARD STREET merland Key which he refers to as 130 DUVAL ST. • KEY WEST, FLORIDA • 33040 (305) 294-2904 KEY WETST FLORIDA 33O40 "something-made-out-of-nothing." From TELEPHONE; 294 9IO3 a simple trailer purchased in 1966 he brother through a fence on one of their has fashioned a home for himself and stunt rides, John retired from riding coined phrase, "bull guano." Similar to the iguanas from a variety of scraps altogether, though his brother was not the more familiar "b.s.," the "s" in MUSIC + NEWS * SPORTS gathered from beachcombing and flea seriously injured. this case comes from a bat rather than market expeditions. And somewhere near- I a bull, and Meek's love for bull guano JAZZ SHOW SUNDAY NIGHTS Igisanamasi by, the exact location undisclosed, is IN THE 30S Meek built and main- BY JOHN LESLIE perhaps better explains a hobbv that John's island, "Tnoliver," where he tained racing cars in a tri-state Buck Knives... brings him close to the public. v three generations 4 V goes with selected female company to racing association. One of his cars, of tradition. On occasion he has given iguanas get tan all over. the famed Midget, forerunner of those AS ONE OF the six oldest animal away (usually to pretty qirls who play species not to undergo an evolutionary in our present-day soap-box derbies, a large part in his life), a practice ..._ very Iin«t in tdtft-bddini process, the iguana has one of the SOMETHING OF A sun-worshipper was once clocked in at 120 miles an quality ... Wily an heirloom he has had to discontinue, however, af- / F)nJy bilincrd knivei with strongest survival instincts known to then, Meek's day begins with breakfast hour in California. / faladn a liigb-cubwi Hain- WHS ter discovering that the animals were I reiliUntBuefciUel. • in the Deli, on the corner of Truman Racing was a lucrative business I Traditionally the flneil. man. Hardly surprising then that crusty often abandoned -once the new owner's and Simonton, and ends there with din- then and John made money, but as a top- John.Meek, known locally as the "Iguana interest waned. Man," should himself be a survivor. ner at night after sunset. A portrait flight mechanic he was soon snapped up Seventy-one years old, Meek, orig- of him done from a photograph in the by Henry Ford and put through school. FM 107.1 STEREO inally from Ohio, came to Key West the .New York Times hangs on the restaurant Throughout the depression he worked for first time in 1946 after taking part in wall. His friend, owner/cook John Bern- Ford before joining Van Huffel in 1941. the Daytona Speed Week in Daytona reuter, knows just what the Iguana Man, Beach. From that first visit to the who was once diabetic, can eat. MeeK IN KEY WEST that first time in Keys he lost interest in the ~rest of has been going to the Deli for the past 1946, he stayed on the corner of Truman Now In Key West 11 years, his diabetes now entirely and White where the Standard Station is Envin&BHBtil Circus Florida, returning annually to Key West If DUVAL STREET - KCV WKST. f LA. 33M0 until his retirement as shop foreman diet-controlled to the point that he no now. For $19.50 he purchased a round L*t lit* llDVMrt trow ind I'M muf C ftavw. . , from the Van Huffel Steel Tubing Com- longer needs insulin. trip ticket to Havana, Cuba, and flew from Key West's (then legitimately L pany in "1966. In '67 he purchased his first iguana from Ray's Pet Shop in i With good reason, then, John Meek named) International Airport. He re- Searstowh, and for the past 13 years has a healthy respect for restaurants. turned more than ever convinced that has sometimes delighted, sometimes hor- A respect that is not without his own this was the part of the world he want- rified the tourists, with his prehis- brand of humor however. An avid kite ed to live in. Each year that he came down he ex- toric lizards. flier, he has managed to keep as many "A BEAUTIFUL fVORM. TRADITION" as nine home-made kites in the air at plored deeper and deeper into the Keys, 294-4651 92S WHITE STREET BUT LET'S CLARIFY one matter from one,time. He once flew two rolls of taking any accessible path to find out the beginning. Unlike the entrepre- toilet paper over a friend's restaurant more about the flora and fauna. He neurs around Mallory Square, John is (not the Deli) and later went in to ex- learned diving and examined the ocean not out to make money from the tour- plain that it was not meant as a com- and its life, always recording his ob- ists. "These are my hobby," John says ment on the food.being served there. servations; something that he has firmly when asked about buying one of observed there many times and still has his iguanas. "They're not for. sale." LIFE IS A relatively tranquil ex- him perplexed is why angelfish swim Nor is he soliciting contributions. perience these days for John, the with the giant schools of mullet and "I'm,okay," he says, smiling. "I made iguanas notwithstanding. But that was snapper. some good investments when I was not always the case. In the 1920s, he young." built and raced Harley bikes across AT 71, HE is still asking, still Why iguanas then, one might ask? Ohio's dirt tracks. In 1927, along with curious. And above all, though a loner, One answer suggests a genuine attach- a brother, he became a professional he admits that the greatest pleasure of BEAUTIFUL SILK & FRESH ment to his pets, although he readily stunt man and racer. Together they all is sharing—something that took him REACTIONS TO THE'iguanas are di- created the first motorcycle polo team a long time to learn, but that he now FLORAL ARRANGEMENTS admits that they know no loyalty. And verse and often unexpected. While walk- THE RDRTER-ALLEN CO..-IKC. he demonstrates by plucking one from and went on tour. Incorporating stunt practices daily, even if nothing more ing along Mallory Square one sunset work within the game itself, they would than a little "bull guano" with a insurance since I11 his body and throwing it to a tourist. evening, the iguanas draped over his The,iguana shows not the least concern crash one bike into the front fork of stranger over coffee. FLOfiJST, INC. shoulders, John suddenly felt one of TREHORA with his change in-surroundings. "As another, the riders doing a practiced KEV PLAZA 294-SSO1 them lifted from him. He turned to see tumbling exercise as they escaped the WILUAM A. pREErrMH OK y long as he can get his four feet se- an 80-year-old woman expertly handling cured, he's happy," explains John. falling machines. PAVIP W. FREEMAN " fh TO ... wrap up your k Shop business day ... -tel- 4-1444 meet old friends and PUVAL ST. KEV WEST make new friends. 70* DuvalSt. 396-SKM5 The Key West Optician 817 Peacock Plaza, • Ph. 294-7411 ATTITUDE ADJUSTMENT HOUR S to 7 Hours: M-T-W-F 9 to 5:30: Thursday 9 to 9 23 22 received offers to dance in other com- panies at three times her present sal- ary, and has refused them all in order Dance First - Think Later BY KIM ROMANO to stay here and make this company a great one. "I don't want anything for noth- SHE HAS THE prettiest legs in Key West sun, Linda Kuchera speaks pas- sionately about a piece she is pres- ing. It's just that when you work so West. Her body could be considered hard for something, and financial lim- "perfect" as well: slender and chis- ently choreographing. A sequel to "Partly Cloudy on Venus," last year's itations get in the way, it's so frus- elled, designed for fluidity, grace, trating. ..." and strength. collaboration with local musician Ron A dancer in the award-winning film Miller, this dance is entitled "Before Some of Linda's concerns, however," The Turning Point, Linda Kuchera is the Completion"--a spiritual, "karmatic" have been alleviated by the recent artistic director of the Key West Dance presentation about self-evolution. establishment of a Board of Directors. Theatre. As she drapes her leg over a Chaired by Sally Lewis, the board is wicker chair at the Gasa Marina, she "PEOPLE LOVE TO see the sweat. instrumental in raising funds for the says she feels "pudgy." She has just The hard stuff has to appear effortless non-profit organization. This year a sunglass emporium others will carry out the administra- begun the grueling 10-hour-a-day re- —even if you're not well, you have to at hearsals for the performance which is a dance for the audience." Linda wears tive duties which have interfered with month away, and Linda Kuchera could not through two pairs of pointe shoes in" the dancers' time in the past. 120 duval street look any more healthy and radiant. one performance. (At $20 a pair, she tries to curtail her needs to 3 pairs a ON MARCH 28-29," the Key West Dance "INTUITIVELY, I WENT for things week.)' The mental, physical, and spir- Theatre will give their second major that a lot of girls overlooked. I want- itual discipline required to dance is performance at the Tennessee Williams ed to be a dancer so bad it stunk. I severe enough to warrant a "blow-out" Fine Arts Center. Between that and paid for my own lessons by babysitting release: "Dancers party, honey—they dancing at the Armory, the Coronation and returning Coke bottles. I always party hardy." One famous ballerina Ball for Old Island Days, and an "Open knew this was what I wanted to do. downs four Black Russians before a Rehearsal" at the studio, Linda and performance, another one smokes while Key West's dance company will be in- "I made these legs, I worked for doing barre work, and Linda and other spiring and captivating everyone with them. When I was 11, I read a book KWDT dancers let it all go at the their art. about leg structure and I figured out discos downtown. As Buckminster Fuller says: "Dance which muscles I had to use for certain first and think later. It's the natural movements in order to produce results. ONE WOULD THINK such intensive order." Then I made sure I used them." devotion to ballet should pay off—and literally, not just in terms of a beau- AT 17, LINDA had to lie about her tiful and well-disciplined body. Yet age in order to get a waitress position this is not the case in Key West. at Schrafft's in N.Y.C. and worked "Nobody, with my background would there 9 hours a day on Saturday and be here working for this kind of money Sunday to provide rent and enable her ... I've never had a baby before, but •, to dance in the Joffrey II ballet dur- if I had, I'm sure at times I would ing the week. When she arrived at the wonder, 'Why did I have this?1 That's studio each Monday morning with that the way I sometinjes feel about the Key "burnt-out" look, her boss would ac- West Dance Theatre." cuse her of heavy weekend partying and mirrors • new wave • sunsensor • designer • fishing she was too embarrassed to tell him WITHOUT COMMUNITY SUPPORT and the why. Most of the other dancers enjoyed incentive of that challenging "critical ray ban • carrera • foster grant. • colors in optics the luxury of wealth. eye," the dance theatre cannot flourish Sipping her Perrier in the Key and could, in fact, fade. Linda has etc. and etc. Family Sailing Aboard The HO ft. Continental Sloop •Hi l lie's PROVIDENCE baKar an»*»#d! restauranv&etir stai«•£**%t£ ^—-^ Continuing: Now Featuring in the Front Room and The great jazz upstairs on the Patio at Sunset ENTERTAINMENT EVERY NIGHT MICHAEL BRANDON & CHRIS FRANK Thurs.., Fri. & Sat. — from Sunset till 10 p.m. • First ship of the Continental Navy. • First ship to land Marines on foreign soil. ELAYNE CULPEPPER & DREW REID • •' First command of John Paul Jones. Bring the family and join us for a 3-hour sail aboard the Thurs., Fri. & Sat. — 10 p.m. till 2 a.m. most historic tali ship sailing in U.S. waters. See Key West from the decks of an exact reproduction of the original ship while we sail swiftly through the waters south of the island and out to the great Florida reef. NOW: tf&Zfc This is a once-in-a-lifetime adventure to sail aboard a ship Serving Dinner similar to the ships our forefathers used during the Revolutionary War. 6-12 nitely Lunch 10-5 $15/Adults, $25/Couple$ 8c Families in The Captain's Galley - Ca|l 294-4511 for reservations Every Wed. night is Audition Night - open mike - super sound system Departing at 11 a.m. & 3 p.m. from Pier A, the old Coast Guard Pier •I Hi IMS! adjacent to Mallory Dock, Downtown Key West i: nii*!ill\ '-*•*, 25 24 staunch ally, the Navy, dispatched a arrival on the scene of three 14-foot He also pioneered the use of ra- destroyer which discovered a near gale tiger sharks made them understandably dio in flight; At Palm Beach he tied off Havana. Thenceforward no one on nervous. In hoisting the aircraft towels around.the head of the wireless this side of the water paid any heed aboard, they inflicted significant operator, thus blanking out the deaf- First to Fly the Florida Straits to Cuban innuendoes. damage. ening roar of the plane's engine and BY COLIN G, JAMESON Ashore, the Cubans were now all enabling the technician to understand ACTUALLY McCURDY WAS bored to' adoration. They carried the hero to messages from as far away as Key West. MORE OF THE early exploits of whom the famous inventor served rasp- describes how the destroyers death, and eager to fly. Future exhibi- Camp Columbia, where McCurdy immedi- aviation were connected with this berry" vinegar , his preferred tipple. and Drayton conveyed the. flier to Ha- tion engagements loomed and must be ately put on a magnificent flying ex- McCURDY IMPROVED HIS expertise in small island than is generally recog- The host sought the help of his guests' vana "to acquaint him with the course fulfilled. So at the first hint that hibition in the spare plane stationed demonstrating to the military. In nized. For exa'mple, three Key West- , in sound-recording experiments. As he and to do some experimenting on the the winds were moderating he shipped there. He didn't even pause to change Washington that same year of 1911, based pilots established world over- grew older, young McCurdy; the con- manner of marking ^it? by means of his brother Lucian to Havana via the his clothes. ' taking off from a field behind the water distance records prior to World stant visitor, was often involved. smoke from the destroyers"—they were ever-present Navy. Lucian, who.had State, War and Navy building, he cir- War I. And in 1919 a Key Wester and Perhaps infected by example, he ran a relatively untried oilburners—"and watched hardened sailors get seasick, THE HAVANA POST noted that while cled the Washington Monument three his crew hung up the non-stop over- few scientific tests on his owl. also to give Mr, McCurdy an.opportun- radioed, "Take your bath today in the the aviator had not made it all/the times, then followed with an assort- water record which was bested later in ity to select a landing place in Hava- Jefferson Hotel!" way to Havana, he had flown "over ment of aerial feats. While the noto- the year by Alcock and Brown's trans- ONCE BELL, HOLDER of an honorary na." Cuba's territorial waters" and was riously conservative U.S. Army offi- atlantic., flight. degree in medicine from Heidelberg, McCurdy hoped to put.down at Camp But it was only a matter of days therefore ethically-entitled to its cers were little more enthusiastic None of these four record-holders prevented local surgeons from amputat- Columbia, site of Batista's seizure of before the destroyers deployed them- $5,000 share of the reward. The City than the Canadians had been before is,, featured in the Aviation Hall of ing the boy's hand when he almost blew power of 1933 and one of Havana's selves across the Straits and the of Havana also guaranteed its $3,000 them, the Japanese showed intense in- Fame^-at Dayton, Ohio, or listed in the it off while investigating the proper- present airports. great adventure began. slice. terest. They contracted for eight air- World Almanac. The first of them was ties of black powder. In return for advertising his planes on the spot. This not-so- indeed a Canadian by birth and perhaps , Mrs. Bell observed later experi- THE CITIZEN REPORTED that a plat- wares, the proprietor of the Romeo y inscrutable oriental ploy probably not eligible, though the New York ments of Bell, McCurdy and friends form was built on the Paulding to Juliet cigar factories presented Mc- provoked more merriment than suspi- Herald referred to him as "a Canadian with kites. She decided to finance the "make a new start in case the machine McCURDY, UNLIKE HIS French fore- Curdy with a $1,000 check. President cion, though Japan had recently as- by birth but, an American by aviation." group as an "Aerial Experiment Associ- is not badly damaged /by landing in runner, Bleriot, conqueror of the Eng- Gomez of Cuba threw a fabulous party tonished everybody by wiping up the ation," with her husband as leader. the water^/ lish Channel a year and a half ear- at which all local notables rejoiced. Russians in the Far East. HIS NAME WAS John Alexander Doug- Glenn Curtiss, then a motorcycle manu- "The~plucky aviator does not in- lier, would be out of sight of land. During the proceedings, the president McCurdy graduated from stunting las McCurdy. Key West, at least, has facturer, joined them. On moving to tend to let a little thing like a dip The Navy had doped out a way to find handed McCurdy a brilliantly decorated to manufacturing. This enabled, him to good reason to honor him. Havana for him. If electrical activity 8 x 10 envelope containing, he said, a make a solid contribution in the early At 7:00 a.m. January 30, 1911 al- in the engine made the compass go hay- special $10,000 reward from the Gov- part of World War I. The U.S. neutral- most every ablebodied Key Wester was wire (as happened with-one of his ernment. ity laws forbade this country to sell swarming over Trumbo Island. The re- successors on this route); he could planes to Great Britain, but an air- mainder of the populace, had climbed to guide himself by the plumes of smoke craft without ailerons was not con- their roofs to circumvent the stern from the destroyers spaced at 20-mile WHEN McCURDY GOT back to his .ho- sidered a plane. McCurdy manufactured warning of President W.C. Maloney of intervals. tel room, he discovered that the enve- the ailerons in Canada, then shipped the Chamber of Commerce, to wit: Once on course the aviator was lope actually was stuffed with news- them to England for installation on "Mayor Fogarty has kindly tendered the faced with an unforeseen and bizarre paper clippings. Neither the city's the "non-planes" exported from the police to keep those off Trumbo Island situation. As Key West dropped behind, nor the Havana Post's prize was ever United States. who .have not obtained tickets . " he was astonished to find that appar- received. Next day the daily Bl Figaro printed a picture of Gomez1 non- ., ently the sea was in front of him, THE FACTORY METAMORPHOSED into a THE EVENT SO patronized was a instead of^below. This visual false- existent check. The Rorneo y Juliet draft did, flying school, which trained 600 pi- matter,of bread and butter to the 25- hood has been observed by the writer, lots without injury. It also turned year-old McCurdy, already•a prominent who ventures to think it explains however, prove to be cashable. And Mc- Curdy insisted that he "had. a whale of out the first twin-engined bomber, so barnstormer. There was an odds-on some of the Bermuda Triangle dis- it is told. But it was not until 1922 probability that the weather would • asters. a time anyway." Between flying exhibitions and that Canada-established the air arm keep him from trying for the $8,000 first proposed by McCurdy at his un- prize offered by the City of Havana "I BEHELD A mirage," McCurdy re- partying, McCurdy and his brother Lu- cian kept on having such "a whale of a lucky 1909 demonstration for the high and the Havana Post to the first aero- ported, "not as seamen see the phenom- brass. . naut to transit the Florida Straits. enon, but as though I were part of time." that they missed their boat for Nevertheless McCurdy figured that if it." Tampa, where the flier was scheduled the wind didn't die he could still Instants later the sight of Sand to put on his next show. During World War II J.A.D. Mc- perform enough aerobatics to justify Key straightened him out. The U.S.S. Curdy was Canadian Assistant Director charming $1.00 for,a ticket. Roe was also ahead •. Passing over at CRISIS! J. PIERPONT,Morgan's son- General of Aircraft Production and Supervisor of Purchasing. From 1947 to He had rented Trumbo Island, 500 feet, McCurdy could plainly see in-lAw to the rescue. He offered his the white-uniformed sailors at private launch to pursue the departing 1952 he served as Lieutenant Governor warning.that he would not take to the of his native Nova Scotia. History air unless 500 admissions were tal- quarters.' steamer. Catching up with it was easy, When the aircraft was observed a lark in fact. But the vessel's cap- still acclaims him as Canada's "first lied. Hence Mayor Fogarty\s cossacks. pilot." For us he is still the "first photo courtesy of Mr. and Mrs. Evilio Cabot by the Reid, the third ship, the CO tain refused to let the McCurdys : board. Something about regulations. man to fly the Straits of Florida," BUT NOW THE weather had suddenly the Curtiss factory at Hammondsport, • in the water stop-him, if he is at all rang up flank speed. The destroyer relented, and the much esteemed mete- N.Y., the "associates" produced a poured on the oil and let go for -Hava- And by the orders the skipper gave to able to make a fresh start from the his crew, he seemed to mean what he orologists , of a Jesuit school near • manned glider and eventually powered deck of the destrpyer."s na. Her arrow-straight white wake Havana had prophesied 24 hours of one of these with a Curtiss motorcycle would point the aviator to his correct said. calm. The pilot began to warm up his engine. CONCEIVABLY THE SHIP would run at heading. As the launch drifted astern, the engine, as the ticketholders cheered top speed (30 knots) into the wind. pair observed that the ship's coal scuttles, aft near the waterline, had and their cheapskate friends jeered IT WAS IN this period that Mc- This, with a good breeze blowing, AS McCURDY CHUGGED over her at them from, the nearest rooftops. would get McCurdy near.flying speed 700 feet, he waved his cap to acknowl- not been secured since refueling in Curdy and a friend invented the.ailer- Havana. They scrambled in. Once top- The aircraft was a glistening on. The latter got its name from the even without the efforts of his glori- edge the crew's visible if inaudible Curtiss biplane confected of Philip- fied motorcycle engine. It was a pres- cheers. side they faced a hopping mad captain, fact that when a famous French invent- plus catcalls from the passengers,, who pine bamboo and piano wire, with brac- or, Farman, heard it described, he cription for, operating the world's One of the Reid's men wrote'that ings of spruce. The wings, which first aircraft carrier. "coming overhead /MeCurdv/ looked very were delighted with the effect of coal called it "a little wing." During dust on white lirien suits. boasted a span of 12 feet, were World War I, Bell gave the patent to Each wingtip of the plane was much like a weaver spider in his web, sheathed in rubberized silk. Fully the U.S. Government. equipped with a pontoon, manufactured for he was literally surrounded by a THE CAPTAIN RAGED that what the loaded, the thing weighed less than a Bell himself never flew, and Mc- by a Key West tinsmith. It was an en- mesh of wire struts holding .the ma- grand piano. But it made a lot more tirely new aeronautical departure.. chine together. The plane had no brothers had done was a serious crime. Curdy, being the youngest of the Havana passengers were not allowed to noise, boiling along at the wizard "associates," was the last to take to Supposedly, if the aircraft went down, fuselage, no cockpit, neither any form velocity of 60 miles an hour. the pontoons would keep it more or of windshield. He wore no goggles— enter the United States without a phy- the air. In the June Bug, which he sical examination before sailing. helped design, he flew the first fig- less afloat until rescue came—pref- just met the breeze headbn." THE FLIER TOOK off with accus- erably fifom paulding with the plat- But after two hours- of winging Though no cases of yellow fever had ure eight.. The Silver Dart was his own been diagnosed in the temperate zone tomed ease. Before launching himself ,creation, in which he embodied the form. Planning was so thorough that a along as effortlessly as a wish, an . into the skies he could not resist backup demonstration plane had been oil line broke. Shades of that time- since the previous year, the dread lessons he had learned from the June disease was still endemic in the West- Cabinets & Remodeling circling the island and the shouting Bug. stationed at Camp Columbia in case Mc- consuming circling in Key West! Havana crowd. He did it once. He did it Curdy reached Havana without anything was right over there. It seemed close ern Hemisphere. . . • twice. He expended ten precious miles. THE ONLY INJURY suffered by Mc- to stunt in. . ' enough to swim to. Attracted by the commotion, the Claude's Carpentry As we shall see, this proved to' Curdy in his long career was when he ship's doctor appeared and solemnly be a mistake. cracked up the silver Dart while dem- DURING THE PREPARATIONS and for-, NOTHING TO DO but dunk all hopes ' swore that he "had examined /the sus- in the ocean. Even in the light chop pects/ that morning," thus saving them onstrating it to the Canadian military many days' after the-flier was all set French Doors who were understandably unimpressed. to go, the weather remained unpropi- the weight of the saddened McCurdy, froirTthe brig and an expedited wind-up of their tour. •'. ' ' - Windows Unable to score with the gen- tious, as anyone familiar with Janu- plus that of the sadder engine, par- J.A.D. McCURDY'S FIRST teacher of erals, McCurdy turned to barnstorming. ary in the area might have anticipat- tially submerged the custom-built Additions aeronautics was Alexander Graham Bell, This is what landed him in Key West in ed. The wind blew constantly,' The pontoons and much of the craft itself. All Custom Made inventor of the telephone. Bell, who January of 1911. Cubans—the better-protected habaneros "But I didn't even get my feet had been lured to Cape Breton Island at least--failed to understand how wet,'" McCurdy later recalled,- with IN THE COURSE of his barnstorming by a travel book written by Charles mere weather could keep McCurdy justifiable exaggeration.. career, McCurdy developed a number of Dudley Warner, Mary.Twain's collabora- grounded. They began to call him a He was standing on a pontoon, . exhibition techniques. During the pe- tor, bought a house at Baddeck from THE PRIZE OFFERED by the City of faker and a coward. The Havana Weather smoking a cigarette, when a boat from riod of his Cuban adventure perhaps ; McCurdy"s grandfather. Havana and the Post was a spinoff from Bureau (not the above-mentioned mete- the U.S.S. rerry arrived. He was only the most famous was what he called One of the earliest memories of the first Cuban Air Meet,. January 29 orologists) chimed in with a claim two miles from land. "battleship bombing," where he carried the flier, who was born in 1886, was to February 5. In preparing for his that for more than a week the Straits aloft a basket of oranges and amazed the Bell place. Wednesday at Mr. attempt to nail it down, McCurdy en- had been as calm as a bowl of gaz- THE PLANE WAS undamaged, but the the public by mentally calculating the CLAUDE DUSSEL Bell's was "education night," fre-. joyed the enthusiastic cooperation of pacho. sailors were unaccustomed to dealing trajectory that would land an orange (305)294-4497 quented by distinguished guests to the U.S. Navy. The Key West citizen Hearing the allegation, McCurdy's with such fragility. Furthermore, the on a square of cloth in a field. 26 27 Good NEWS 1K-- KEY WEST o H < a T.K.T. HOTS .o i ""rJky'/te ^Dynamite" ViDAY presents 33 ALL BEEF HOT DOGS INTRODUCTORY SAIL ft "THERE'S TREASURE in trash," is certainly true in Key FIRE COOKED TO KEEP FLAVOR IN West,, as many early-morning cyclists and junk afficionados $20.00- here know. It's always fun to observe in passing what FRENCH FRIES once existed in the interior dwellings of fellow-islanders. CUT DAILY FOR NATURAL TASTE Part of their personalities seems to be revealed, who they were, what they loved, and even what they created. COCA-COLA PRODUCTS IN 12 01. CANS WITH CUP & ICE Not too long ago, while apartment renovation was taking place, and the old was giving way to the new, ' FREE PARKING FOR PATRONS a mural, hand-painted by a former resident, was tossed WEEKENDS FROM NOON TIL' CLOSING out into the rubbish heap. Before it was .spirited away, folks stopped and stared, caught their breath, smiled "STOP BY" AND TRY and somehow walked away feeling spiritually uplifted, A as if they had been through an art gallery. Some even 296-6050 took a picture to remind them that beauty is where you HOT DOG, FRIES & COLD DRINK find it. ALL FOR ONLY $2.00 TAX INCL. WeekendL3 or 5 day courses THAT'S KEY WEST. Can't in basic and advanced sailing 117 Duval Street TUX FOR DINNER E4SY/1TMOSPHERE GENERAE NIGHTLY CHEF CR&ITIONS HEALTH ZjK STUDIO < FOODS CX )CENTERN' BAKERY BAR DELI LOCHL SEAFOOD Richard Baldwin . . OPEN EXOTIC DESSERTS MONDAY-SATURDAY 9:30 AM - 5:30 PM Florida's Top Body Builder SUNDAYS 11:00 AM - 4:00 PM MR. USA® Mr. Florida® Mr. Southern States • Runnerup Mr. Universe 520 Front Street Seminar Sat, March 21 Very Limited Attendance Breakfast 7:30-Noon Lunch from Noon Dinner from 6:00 Call Now Searstown 500 Duval 296-3250 Open Evenings 296-2400 29 lets are not far off. The shop is open 28 from noon until 7 p.m. daily and open coin collection. George plays the part see Williams Fine Art Center, now takes evenings by appointment. As Michael of Bobby. a departure from his older work into a THE KEY WEST Music Workshop is a said, "If there is a new wave of energy Some Remarks nine-week seminar in music, stressing a I have utmost faith in the fact new line of painting on clothing that on Duval Street, look for Ceremony to transforms sweatshirts, t-shirts and basic and fundamental approach to the that this will be an excellent staging, be riding the crest." RED BARN ACTORS' Studio needs mem- AMUSEMENT based on the high quality of perfor- overalls into wearable art, still work- practice of music. The Workshop, under orabilia from the Chicago World's Fair the direction of instrumentalist and BY ROBIN KAPLAN mance corning from the Red Barn Theatre ing in graphics and paper; and Peter THERE IS A woman in Key West sev- Gritt. Peter, award-winning banner- of 1933-1934 (Century of Progress). If composer Ron Miller, offers classes in in Line, and Miss Reardon Drinks A eral months of the year—she is other- anyone has anything from this exposi- Little , and Jacques Brel. Tickets are maker of Provincetown and Key West, Basic Theory, Group Improvisation, RUTH NEWTON, co-founder and direp- times traveling between New York City, tion that they would be willing to loan Rhythmic Structures, Sound Reinforce- tor of the Red Barn Actors' Studio has available at the box office behind the creates colorful panels breeze-wafting Saratoga Springs and Bali, among ether * on the 800 block of Duval, above The they can call Chris Stone or Linda Si- ment and Recording, Listening, and dis- announced the cast for their next pro- Woman's Club on Duval, or by calling far-distant points. Her name is Raya; grist at 296-9911. 296-9911. Bookshop on Fleming, and other loca- cussion and workshops in individual duction, David Hamet's two-act drama, her information and strengths are in- instruments. '••..,• American Buffalo. There are three cast tions . His work is the perfect expres- valuable to our community. To call her BRIEFLY NOTED: Stop by Gingerbread sion of the spirit of a designer who GALA FASHION SHOW for Wesley House The workshops are offered in the members: Tom George, who was last seen a masseuse would be a misnomer; she is to benefit under-privileged children in Line, playing the part of Arnall; Gallery to see the works of two local works with the wind as his medium of a healer. To call her a psychic would hope that the participants will develop and very talented artists, Richard De display. His recent showing at the East will be held March 2 from 8 to 10 p.m. an awareness of the basic tenets of Armando Lodigiani, who has worked-lo- be accurate and to test out her psy- at The Monster Restaurant and Disco. cally in Scenes and improvs and in Quatro and John Kiraly. A few small Martello Gallery was sensational. chic abilities and aptitude for under- music and that through in appreciation pieces by Bill Brockway are also on Ticket donation of $6.00 includes cock- and practice of these issues they might Plaza. Suite; and George Gugleotti, standing the past and present and for tail and hors d'oeuvres. Swankie's, most recently seen in the Tennessee display and whimsically wonderful. projecting into one's future, check her come to be able to express themselves COMPLEMENTING the studio/workshop/ Fonda's, Olde Island Racquet Club and. more fully in their own music. Williams Fine Arts Center production of out evenings at Claire Restaurant. House of Burgess are participating. The Tempest, and in the Waterfront CEREMONY at 7 20 Duval has been gallery concept is the permanent estab- Make an appointment with her for after The Key West Music Workshop is open about two months as a studio/re- lishment of "Costumes by Arik," a col- located in Building 133, Truman Annex. Playhouse production of P.S;, Your Cat dinner or catch a drink at the bar and MARC—MONROE ASSOCIATION FOR RE- Is Dead. tail outlet for designer of "hot cou- lection of costumes and accessories see her. Raya is available for palm For information and class.schedules ture" Rusty Davidson. His plans have arrangeable in' endless conbination. TARDED CITIZENS—was fortunate to have call 294-4103 or 294-0278. The Workshop American Buffalo, which opens readings and for readings with the purchased a used school bus•for recrea- grown, as Ceremony becomes a major cen- Rusty "Master of Ceremonies" Da- Tarot deck. She is exotic, delightful, will close Sunday, April 26. March 12, was first produced in Chicago vidson is looking to feature.local tional and educational purposes outside in 1977, then moved to New York to the ter for artists, designers and collec- uncanny. tors of signature, one-of-a-kind crea- people who have exciting visual ideas, of Key West. They are in need of all Ethel Barrymore Theatre, where it re- concepts that they are willing to kinds of camping equipment such as ceived numerous honors and awards in- tions both classical, contemporary and post-modern. translate into clothes and accessories tents, sleeping bags, cooking and eat- cluding The Drama Critics Award for that go beyond the ordinary. The kind ing utensils, coolers, etc. These will Best Play of the Year. The Sunday, Feb. 22 re-opening ex- hibition entitled "Ceremonial Expedi- of things they sell are a personal eliminate the need to eat in restau- statement, both of the artist and the rants and motels. IN THIS PRODUCTION, Armando will tion #1" marks the debut for new works of Rusty, who has been working on wearer. Ceremony, according to managing Call MARC 294-9526 or Woody Bes- play the part of Teach, the street-wise director Michael Jay Levin (author of cher at 294-9793. hustler who conspired with Dubrow, the painted fabrics, artwear and wear; George Bailey, whose work was formerly Gay Love Signs) is a stepping stone to junk shop owner, played by Tom George, other cities; New York and Milan out- to burglarize a nearby apartment of a displayed at La Bodega and the Tennes- We specialize in "Matching People and Places" W KEY VKT HAND PRINT FABRICS Do SEE OUR. IASHMS, FABRICS AND YOU'RI INVITED! ! to vfait our office in th« MDPMTING "OWert Sdwoi HOUR" buttdh« 336 Duval (conwr of Eaton Strtct) ER0CK5 2O8DITVA.LST 51? FRONT SI. CUSTOM SANDALS MADE IN ONE DAY QUVALSLT KEY WEST • ComnwrcUl • liwarimwrt Property 294-5155 n CLASSICAL COOKING . 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The people liv- towards Key West. j 30 . ing in Key West in 1946 couldn't have Stock Island brought signs of human imagined in their wildest dreams, the habitation of the civilian kind. A ; way of life in the Key West of today. street curved back on our left, cool Reluctantly we turned our backs on DMSO looking and shaded by large old trees. the southernmost point and headed back A Drive to Key West in 1946 By NETANNIS KLINE It seems that one of these attractive^ to Miami. It had been a trip well worth houses was known as "Mom's Tea Room" and remembering. We had no idea that one day Q£S1GN£R TERNS was heavily patronized by the local i we should be back to stay arid to find die of August, so we kept the top up for sailors' and others, who presumably liked shade. We knew nothing about the road that the Key West of 1946 really was what Mom served. just a memory. s down to the Keys, or what Key West was Not far from there was a small cir- like, but as we were soon leaving Flori- cular building which was the cock fight- da, it seemed to be a good idea to visit ing pit, also very popular, and legal. the southernmost city while we had the Stock Island was not heavily populated opportunity. and there were none of the industry or s! ; in 1946 there were almost no tour- stores or junkyards or trash and garbage o ists in south Florida after Easter, and of today. It was quite attractive and little traffic anyway, so after negoti- old-fashioned looking. N ating the city of Miami (no expressways or turnpikes) we were on our own most of NEXT, ACROSS THE bridge and onto • ISIAMD the | time. Immediately south of Miami we the island at the end of the road. The! C were driving through farmlands, on both city itself was still some way off. Salt BOUTIQUE sides, miles and miles of flat fields of ponds covered all of what is now Sears- R squash, okra, beans or whatever was in town and Key Plaza and across to where 517 OUVflU L WE LEFT FROM the Opa-Locka Naval season. This area is now covered by var- the high school is today. Bayfrorit Park KEY WEST V JftinocA, JO Air Station on a Saturday morning in our ious developments. and Garrison Bight began the city proper 4-2260 1941 Dodge convertible; it was the mid- I Next we passed Homestead, which was except for the Naval Hospital and the I mainly the'agricultural distribution wartime housing area on the north side SH OPEN 7 0BYS center for all the local produce. of Flagler Avenue. TO MID. SON.TO TPM N g : Heading on down the road and skirt- KINO PLAZA ing the edge of the Everglades, the classic cojun cooking mainland civilization was left behind. A It was evening by then and we were K ^ru new landscape surrounded us, water shin- looking for a place to stay. The streets and fine french cuisine ing through the sawgrass all around with were not busy, lights shone from the L little wooded islands here and there. homes, savory smells of onion, fish and we 1007 Simonton Street Water birds were stalking among the lily pork cooking were in the air, along with E pads in the roadside canals. This scene the perfume of night-blooming flowers. I Hours 6-11 Pm , remains unchanged today, except for the There were sounds of music, and many fa- ;TUST MEN (305) 294-7293 highway itself, because then it was so milies were sitting on their porches N narrow it was a squeeze for two cars to chatting with passers-by. On Duval pass in opposite directions. Street we found a small and cheap hotel to spend the night ... a long corridor with rooms on each side, their walls THE POUCH" KEY LARGO. SOME signs of life, a AS few cars, fishing boats out at sea. We stopping short of the high ceiling, — 2:00 drove on, further and further south, in opening into the hall and into each THE a solitude of sea, sky and sunshine. other; plus ceiling fans for more venti- Midday came and hunger called. As lation. Although small, our room was 3)uaal Sfkteel we looked for a place to get some food, quite elaborately furnished, with heavy we realized that we had seen very few old-fashioned pieces and a glamorous CoUboy ShiRiS restaurants and that none of them were black marble hand basin. Feeling like a 29A-7677 open anyway. Then noticing a little traveler in the South Seas, I slept N wooden shack precariously perched at the soundly after washing off the dust of « ° HRTS edge of the highway, we stopped; it was the day's drive. ..open. It was marked "Craig Post Office." The next day, Sunday, we spent PERTHER BfiNDS sightseeing. The streets were hot', dusty and very quiet. Cats dozed on the porches but the dogs actually slept right in the street as there was so little traffic. We even saw a man lean- P ing against a wall sleeping on the iR sidewalk. R THERE WASN'T A motel or guest house or any tourist attraction in sight, no IR signs or advertisements for the oldest AN INVESTMENT IN QUALITY D house, no Hemingway's home or Mallory Yves Saint Laurent Eyewear, elegantly detailed, quietly Square, no souvenir or T-shirt shops, no distinctive. Hand cut and hand polished for the look and I Conch Train, no campers or trailers, no feel of unmatched quality. S tourists, no street people or runaways. FOR Just the old houses, the huge shade £ I trees, the flowering shrubs and vines, MEN ANt> Inside the man said, "Oh no, there's the quiet lanes—a fascinating and nothing open for miles, but I'll make charming scene, like something half- OP SHOP features GLORIA VPN J4atka Studio you a sandwich." Now that was real remembered from a South Seas romantic « CERTIFIED INSTRUCTOR southern hospitality. We had a pleasant novel, very tropical and different. many designer frames Durga Karen GtfTS • oecoRrrnve chat with him and he pointed out a sign We walked towards what is now on the wall which said that the lowest Smathers Beach,, but it was a mass of barometric pressure ever recorded up to rubble and debris from a recent hurri- 4- that time had been*measured there at cane and there was no road past the old Craig Key in the Labor Day Hurricane of crumbling Martello anyway. It was not '35. possible to circumnavigate the island Setting off again, refr'eshed, we except by boat. OmnfoRt drove on down the narrow road. On and on Sauntering back towards Duval 5.II Classes Now Going On across the keys, over the bridges, with Street we admired the carpentry work on LINDA PATCHETT the sun glittering on the water and the the balconies of the peeling or un- MEW pelicans diving for fish, it was hard to painted houses. We stopped in one of the OPTICIAN < — : • imagine living anywhere so remote and so many bars, there were no other custo- quiet, and so far from.the mainland, but mers, and we', sat and rested while some- there, were little settled areas and URTERBEDS one in another room played a piano. 2947872 fishing camps and boats at sea, so we Bringing our drinks, the barmaid said Call for more information knew that people had come here'and de- brusquely, "You might stop talking while •HOT TUBS cided it was a good place to stay. he's playing the piano." This struck us very funny somehow. MONDAY thru FRIDAY 10 to 6 "CHEMICRLS MARATHON, A LARGER town, dusty-and H0 hot; we didn't stop. On over the Seven APPARENTLY, IN SUMMER, the quiet SATURDAY 11 to 4 * RCCESSDRIES Mile Bridge, the very same one we drive and traditional way of life was broken 'over today. Then the old Bahia Honda only by mainland fishing enthusiasts, a *HRM MOCKS Bridge, with a great view from the high few visitors like ourselves, sailors arch. from the base on payday and fishermen •• SUIMGS ^_ 416 Greenest. Then a big change at Boca Chica— Old Town • Telephone the road cut right through the middle of Key West (305) 294-8747 the Naval Air Station. There were the sounds of trucks and cars and people, the roar of planes overhead and revving 33 32 operated by a lessee, not a government teaches structures and provides struc- their abilities to take charge of their agency for they can seldom operate any- ture for the student (albeit too much lives may well come'to depend on thing very well. Observations on at times). External structure also chemically-induced sunny-side-up dreams comes in the form of expectations for and fantasies to overcome negative Why a subsidy? Charge fees for Marguaritaville BY MARTA VAGO' ICONOCIAST BY JIM KOGAN use, put the arm on people who rent the future ("my son the doctor"), rit- feelings about themselves. The line be- rooms to delegates by gimmicking the uals (going to church Sunday morning), tween recreational indulgence and ad- I AM OFTEN asked how I account for dictive self-destruction is not only None require evicting anyone—I do not fee schedule to favor participating assumptions (retirement at 65), values NEW INDUSTRY hotel/motel owners. With a good loca- the high incidence of drug and alcohol ("do unto others etc."), and other blurred but quickly crossed by persons believe in the bulldozer school of city abuse among Key West residents. Some who lack solid underpinnings either planning though I know why it is en- tion, include shops, concessionaires guidelines for living, loving and work- TO LURE IN some money, of course. people wonder if addiction to these ing. Internal structures, on the other psychologically or emotionally. Plus Build a small convention center. Not a tirely rational to its followers and and such and let them contribute, too. It should break even, on current ac- substances is simply an unavoidable hand, shape our self-motivated behavi- it matters not what or how Well certain big one, a small one. There are already their motives need not even be impugned consequence of frequent social drinking people did in life before coming to Key to explain it. count and debt retirement. ors and include discipline, the ability too many sharks fighting over the big and recreational drug use in a relax- to plan and follow through, a coherent West. If their previous successes were deals. But a small convention or trade ing, tropical climate, or if there are FINANCE IT WITH tax-exempt indus- self-concept, and a consistent rela- heavily dependent upon following care- show can't afford them and, besides, SO, A PARTIAL list of potential other, less obvious forces at work. Is tionship to the world and the people in fully defined external structures, they most of them are plagued with blatantly sites, not in any particular order: trial revenue bonds--why send any more it possible, for example, that a place may not do any better here than other than we must to Washington? Those guys it. Some people shape their lives most- extortionate union rip-offs. So, go for --The parochial school site, Si- like Key West attracts people who are ly according to external structures, transplants who moved to this island the game we can win. monton at Virginia. do nothing for us and do too much to prone to addiction? Or, can the life-, while others rely primarily on internal "to find themselves," never .having done If we only get another hundred mo- --Peggy Mills Garden, Simonton and us . styles for which our city is famous ac- definitions to determine their direc- so elsewhere. tel rooms filled for another hundred Angela. The facility will contribute to tually "undo" the coping abilities of tions and experiences. Those who oper- —NE corner of Simonton and Ange- local support by the jobs it creates days a year, and related business from some people? I believe that a combina- ate more by external structures tend to >-.,.; WHILE KEY WEST, or any other place room rent to T-shirts, it will be a la,- small and would use parking across in itself and in stores, hotels, cab tion of these factors is at work for at favor situations where expectations, the street and call for high-order de- companies, etc. that it helps to keep for that matter, cannot "cause" addic- help and the potential is a lot more least some of our addicted Key Westers. goals and limits are clear. In fact, tion, it can surely speed up an addic- than that. sign talent. alive. The business will probably not Since not everyone who lives here be- they often experience discomfort or --Navy Commissary site; this faci- support a further, direct ad valorem tive life-course for anyone who does comes addicted, yet the incidence of anxiety when these are either not pres- not have the strong internal means to THE FACILITY SHOULD be small, ef- lity, using valuable tax-free downtown tax on the facility itself. abuse is notably high, we must there- ent or not explicit. Conversely, in- land to undercut local merchants, sell- create order in his or her life. Key ficient and compact. I don't know where fore assume that a powerful mix of hu- ternally structured people welcome op-• West can rapidly become "Marguarita- we'd find a competent designer but they ing subsidized goods to a privileged YOU DON'T LIKE any of the sites man and environmental ingredients pro- portunities that minimize the impor- clientele, should move, at least to Boca listed? There are others but space is ville" for anyone who isn't clear must exist. Most architects, once they motes addiction among a certain segment tance of externally defined expecta- enough, disciplined enough or brave get out of New York, want to build huge Chica. We're no longer a military camp. limited in this paper. Just don't let of our population. I propose that the tions, and thrive in environments where --West side, Duval St., south of any politicians or government-related enough to live without the safety and sprawling things and "surround them with key to that "mix" is the lack of fami- external guidelines are either minimal security of outside expectations and a sea of concrete to insulate them from United, two adjacent parcels. "consultants" make a career out of it liar external structures on the one or flexible. --Part, not all, of, former Navy for we need business and jobs in our rewards. Cocktails, six-packs, uppers, the neighborhood and then put them out hand and the inability of some people and downers can indeed become attrac- in the woods where there is no neigh- frontage on Whitehead St. between town now. I doubt if I'd get serious to cope without those structures on THIS BRINGS US BACK to Key West, a Fleming and Greene. argument over that one, but you never tive substitutes for life and"work ex- borhood anyway. But the facility is not the other. Now, what do I mean by city whose laissez-faire atmosphere has periences that both satisfy and occa- much use unless it's downtown where —Vacant land, west side Duval at know! And don't let anyone put it out structure? long attracted people who shrink from Wall; no, not Mallory Dock, it's as on Stock Island or anywhere else out in sionally frustrate anyone who is re- delegates can spend their money in-the traditional-external structures, whe-. signed to living in the real world. shops. near as we have to a town square. the boondocks—it's supposed to bring ther or not they can cope without them. —Duval and Front, two parcels; jobs here, and we don't need more STRUCTURE, in the sense I am sug- Ultimately, no place can serve as an gesting here, includes things like Key VIesters whose internal structures antidote to reality, even our own IT NEEDS VERY little parking—the incorporate a new tour train depot and sprawl up the Keys. are strong can and do limit their alco- let the upper floor(s) span over Front goals, expectations, rules and limits. unique, fabulous Key West., Therefore, operator will lay on a limo (or Conch While overstructuring can stunt growth, hol and drug intake to nondestructive the riches of our island life can be Train?) when he has something going and St. This one calls for design talent AND, ONE MORE point to remember. use. However, those who have difficulty but is probably best. flexibility and creativity, a certain truly available only to those who have visitors' cars can sit beside the mo- The value of the scheme is in the per- functioning effectively in flexible, internal strength and structure, and manent jobs it creates or brings here, amount of- structure is necessary for tels or, even better, delegates' wives effective functioning. This is as true permissive situations are prone to who know the difference between sub- (and kids...) can use them to find new HOW MUCH MONEY? Built and operated not the jobs building it which is the abuse substances that reduce discomfort stance-induced euphoria and a deep- by whom? Subsidized by whom? I don't way most government-related projects for humans as it is for institutions, places to spend their men's money. And organizations, and most forms of crea- in facing them. Since both alcohol and rooted sense of well-beinq. what parking it does need should be in- know how much money and' no one else are sold to a gullible public (ever go drugs promote an artificial sense of does either until we have at least a to a highway justification hearing?) tive expression. People can experience side and stacked up—we don't want a structure either from the outside or well-being, overindulgence in their use moat around the place and we've no preliminary design. A contractor builds is common among persons who need to and his customer should probably be a the inside. Outside structures are im- space to waste on our island. posed on us from the moment we are ex- mask or counteract the anxieti.es or in- There are several possible sites. public authority, definitely not the adequacies they experience in openended City or County. The facility should be pected to eat on schedule or to use the. Some have for sale siqns on them, even. potty. 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K W 11-2 Safe te OLD KEY WEST open pRom 7:00 a.m. -~~* Now open for evening dining on Southard at Duval 296-2393 34 ': 35 nance will have on the integrity of the Master Plan as well as -on zoning poli- Plan and Critical Concern guidelines, functional planners of future develop- . ADD TO THESE existing problems, cies and enforcement. To begin with, and is a disturbing portent of dis- ment in the Keys and elsewhere in Flor- gentlemen, the impending development of A Letter to 611 Ryder the ordinance legitimizes gross histor- astrous things to come if State over- ida—in which case State officials may nearly 100 acres of the surplused Key ical violations of prior zoning laws sight is lifted without addressing the expect to be called upon in the midst West Naval Station, a project which in irresponsibility and disdain for the of repeated crises to open the public Solares Hill is publishing this letter, slide victory; and we turned.a poten- that have been under enforced for and of itself would critically strain tial 1,600 vote primary opposition co- years. Most dangerously, it sanctifies public welfare that this action repre- treasury and bail us out when we have the' support resources and planning ca- addressed to Gil Ryder and signed by sents. Prom a legalistic perspective, once..again outstripped our ability to Capt. Ed Davidson, Chairman of the alition against our reform-oriented an essentially industrial level of com- pacities of Monroe County even if there Sheriff Billy Freeman into a 1,100 vote mercial fishing, activity in the- midst this amendment is discriminatory in provide public services for our explod- were no growth at all elsewhere in the Florida Keys Citizens' Coalition, be- that it confers special privileges upon ing population. cause v/e believe the contents to be of victory in the run off. We also backed of many established residential areas, Keys. Couple all these concerns with the reform-minded county commission seriously threatening the property a certain class or occupation while ex- the statistical inevitability of the .general interest. The letter has been cluding others. Allowing commercial op- edited to the extent that we have elim- candidate Mrs. Wilhelmina Harvey in her values and quality of life of present LEST ANYONE DOUBT that barely re- eventual near passage of a major hurri- successful defeat of the construction and future residents. What many folks erations from residential property also strained development is rampaging once cane, for which the local government is inated that which we considered person- deprives the government of certain bus- al and irrelevant. and development oriented incumbent. do not understand is that only a few again in the Florida Keys, it need only typically, even defiantly unprepared, Both of the other two races won by can- particularly offensive practices need a iness tax revenues and unfairly and be noted that the completion cost of and it is clear that major steps must permit at all, and that all other com- inequitably shifts an additional burden be taken to enforce sensible policies 17 January 1981 didates whom we did not favor were all construction started during the Oc- heavily influenced by personalities, mercial fishing activities can be pur- of taxation upon those other businesses tober to September fiscal periods has before State oversight is withdrawn. We and neither victor campaigned on, or sued now or started in the future on who are compelled to invest in, operate grown from $40,197,000 in 1977 to $54,- need to study and effect a comprehen- From: Capt. Ed Davidson, Chairman any GU, RUl, RU5, and RU5P property in from, and pay taxes on appropriately sive rezoning of the Keys, and trans- Florida Keys Citizens' Coalition received a public mandate for, any 343,000 in 1978, followed by a jump to broad issues antagonistic to the plat- the Florida Keys. To quote specifically zoned business property. The amendment $75,333,000 in 1979 and a minor re- late that into a map that becomes part President, Fla. Keys Audubon Soc. from the cover letter sent by H. F. is furthermore vague on its face, lack- of the Master Plan; and we need as a Past Chairman, Monroe County forms of the major citizens' groups in trenchment -to $69,221,000 in 1980. This the Keys. Weinkam, Monroe County Director of ing adequate definitions of many key tremendous expansion has continued corollary to establish a population cap Zoning Board and Planning Building, Planning, and Zoning, to all terms and phrases, leaving room for despite skyrocketing investment costs, for the foreseeable future based on Council multiple interpretations, enforcement IT IS NONETHELESS necessary to ad- of the more than 200 permit applicants and is surging into 1981 with a first quantifiable support services and pre- under the new ordinance: "In effect difficulties, and law suits; and it was quarter increase over last year from dictable stresses on the unique Keys To: Gil Ryder mit that the Florida Keys remain passed 3-2 in violation of the 4/5 vote plagued, as they have been for 6 years what the above means - there are no re- 13.1 million to 29.8 million—a full environment and gifts of nature. But 917 Hibiscus Lane strictions in this ordinance on the required by the special legislative act 227%. Several.years ago, a Monroe the most crucial step needed now is the Key West, FL 33040 and will for 2 more to come, by a 3-2 when there is opposition to a zoning county commission voting pattern which (fishing use) of GU ... properties. County Zoning Department study revealed immediate repudiation of the industri- Also ... you may construct lobster change or permit. that if all presently zoned property in alization of residential property and Dear Gil, often ignores the public welfare in fa- vor of private and special interests traps, crab traps, fish, traps or fish the Keys were to be developed at cur- the reaffirmation of the philosophy and of unwise as well as occasionally nets using new material but not store IF THE MECHANISM of Critical Con- rent zonings and densities, it would and policies of the Master Plan which AS A PREFACE to this presentation them in RU-1, RU-5, and RU-5P zones for produce a population probably in excess has been historically ignored and on the status and effects of the Criti- unsavory policies. That is precisely cern is to have any meaningfulness in why the State authorities have been personal use without the required per- the other developing areas of the State of 350,000! Yet we cannot presently presently gutted with impunity. cal Concern designation of the Florida mit ... it is (only) forbidden to- provide adequate water, electricity, Keys, it is essential to explain that compelled repeatedly to intervene in where it will be needed in the future, order to prevent our characteristic store and dip new traps or used traps and if the provision for reimposition solid waste disposal, or transportation (signed) the recent elections were not at all or store and repair used traps in the for our existing census population the defeat of citizen reform and con- "semi-feasance" from degenerating into after de-designation is to have any Capt. Ed Davidson, Citizens' Coalition wholesale disaster—first with Critical above noted zones without the required meaning as a deterrent for future totaling 63,000; while the compounding - servation groups that some analysts permit," (emphasis added). effects of untreated sewage, run off have presumed. There were five impor- Concern, then with the Aqueduct Author- abuses, then it is imperative that the Copies to: Governor and Cabinet ity, now and again with Key West bank- State for once—having done virtually from scarified lands, and other devel- Legislative Delegation tant races, and total involvement in all opmental effects on water quality and of "them was beyond our capability; so ruptcies, and currently with the ram- THE ORDINANCE WAS adopted as a nothing about many controversial issues County Commission pant industrialization of residential since Critical Concern was' established our unique land and marine resource Dept. of Community Affairs the leaders of the Citizens' Coalition, special concession to several hundred base accumulate unaddressed. Like all realizing the corruptive effects of the property and the concomitant gutting of commercial fishermen (who do not wish in the Keys—must take determined ac- Citizens' Coalition Board the Master Plan embodied in County Or- tion to force the repeal of this mest other public services, police and fire Corps of Engineers immensely profitable and^alLbut unre- to operate from fish house and marina protection, health care, and education- strained narcotics importation indus- dinance No. 20-1980, passed on 6 Octo- facilities as many of their brethren blatant affront to the public interest . -Dept. of Environmental Regu- ber 1980. - and the.philosophy of sound planning al and recreational programs will only lation try, deliberately elected to emphasize "' legitimately do) contrary to the ex- become more inadequate if moderation is the law and order issues beyond all —-- pressed sentiments of thousands of Keys and zoning practices. If the State is unwilling to put any teeth into its not mandated for the future of the others. We found and supported a~™rela- THERE ARE MANY citizens and offi- iresidents as documented in the record Keys; and the State will inevitably be tively unknown reform-committed lawyer cials alike who_dg__not yet understand of three months worth of public hear- oversight function, then it may as well abandon the program entirely and allow called upon to rescue us with public in the person of now State Attorneys -the-shattering effects that this odious ings. It clearly makes a sham of basic monies time and again. • residential commercial fishing ordi- zoning philosophy and of the Master the unrestrained special interest, Kirk Zuelch, and backed him to a land- forces to become the titular as well as 25% OFF NOW OPEN 7 NIGHTS Put Some Sunshine In Your A WEEK DISCOVER Mornings ! KEY WEST ALOE SKIN CARE Here is a gift from the tropics. 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Steve and Verlen had his eyeglasses over the side. They were pairs, I asked him, as I asked Verlen, been in indirect contact by calling- just for reading and replacements were what his wife thinks about the trip. home, but this was the first time in on the way from home, but while he The- answers were quite different. Ver- weeks that they were speaking directly. Historic Canoe Journey BY STANBECKE R could see markers and read their large len 's and Jenny's nine children are They had much to discuss, including numerals, he could not read the chart grown and married, and they are both recommendations that-Capt. Ed had given to verify his position. He had just ready for new challenges. While Verlen ON SUNDAY, JAN. 4,.both the Herald about the "Ultimate Canoe Challenge." enjoyed a striking sunset. We met at about entering, the Mississippi River paddled 70 miles in 16^ hours to a undertakes this epic voyage, Jenny, who passes to avoid heavy maritime traffic. and citizen carried articles about a Both men seemed very credible and my 6:15 p.m. and paddled home through a point 30 miles from Key West, and he initial skepticism began to evaporate. magnificent afterglow, covering the has been a full-time homemaker, is now remarkable gentleman named Verlen Kru- was laughing about it. Verlen has a employed, self-supporting, and enjoying ger. Verlen, 58, and his teammate The schedule projected a Jan. 5, 1981 three miles in half an hour. ALTHOUGH STEVE PASSED through arrival in Key West so I wrote to Mike •marvelous sense of humor rooted in in- the experience. Sarah, Steve's wife'and quickly and experienced some of our Steven Landick, 27, are engaged in an ALSO MET BEVERLY FELDPAUSCH, 28, telligence, some profound religious ' a daughter of Verlen's, hates the sep- historic journey across North America, Reynolds, editor of the U.S. Canoe As- who last summer did the 1400 mile worst weather while Verlen enjoyed some sociation journal, who was also editing convictions, and an iron will. After a by canoe. They will travel more than Alaska Traverse with one other woman, good 'rest, repairs to the canoe and re- 28,000 miles by paddle and portage in and distributing the challenge news- following the Yukon River to the Ber- packing, Verlen left on Monday morning two and one-half years, realizing a letter. Mike returned a 'good confirming ing Sea. Verlen trained Bev as a canoe long-held dream. letter and I volunteered to be a mail for Long Key, where he could cross racer and they are very close, se Bev Florida Bay to Flamingo. After five years of planning, they •drop and source of assistance to the drove from Michigan, with her boyfriend started at Red Rock Lake, Montana on voyageurs. and. some other friends, to paddle with May X, 1980. First the Missouri River Verlen for a few days while her friends ON FRIDAY, JAN. 9, Steve Landick to St. Louis, then the Illinois to take played in the Keys. phoned to say that he was alongside one Michigan, across the Great Lakes and Next day I joined Verlen and Bev of the many sailboats in Key West Har- along the St. Lawrence to Quebec. They for an 18-mile paddle to Sugarloaf bor for "some big race." The crew in- crossed Maine to the Allagash which Creek, where, we met Bev's friends. vited him to sleep on board so he would carried them to the St. John and into There, we loaded Bev's Loon and my stay as he had to do some food shop- the Atlantic Ocean through the Bay of Bucktail on her van, and they started ping. We agreed to meet at Boyd's Camp-- Fundy. When they reached the Atlantic, back to Michigan, dropping, me and the ground in the morning so Steve could October 6, 1980, 5700 miles and five Bucktail at Little Torch Key, while start toward Little Torch while waiting months of travel were behind them. At Verlen paddled on to Boyd's Campground for stores to open. That day, brisk Key West they had logged more than pn Stock Island. northerly air prepared us for the worst 8 300 miles and looked • forward to reach- "nor"wester" on the season. By the time ing New Orleans where the next major ON SATURDAY, VERLEN paddled to the Steve arrived at my home the wind was foot of Front Street where we met at rising and the temperature falling leg of their journey would begin. How- Steven G. Landick ever, that lies in the future, and I Verlen Kruger Capt. Ed Crusoe's "Pilot Shack." Capt. rapidly. Ed, Key West's Bar Pilot and Harbor- want to share with you some experience ON DEC. 17, 1980, Verlen phoned Next morning, Sunday, I was in of the days I spent with these extra- master, had some office work and looked layers of sweaters and woolly socks when from St. Augustine. He sounded very after Verlen's canoe while I "piloted" ordinary men. mellow and unassuming, and I got the Steve came out of his room grinning and £he voyageur about town. After Capt. Ed saying, "Cold this morning; isn't it? impression of humor, energy and great and Verlen and I had dinner at the A&B . VERLEN ARRIVED BEFORE Steve, who. joy bubbling quietly aricl steadily be- Think I'll go check my gear." He walked Lobster House, Verlen started back to out into 25 knots of wind, at about 35 flew home for Christmas. They had sep*- neath a conservative surface. He next Little Torch Key. His experience that called from Key Largo and again on F., in his. skivvies! Unassuming, gentle arated before, and Verlen was certain night reveals much about the man. photo by Bruce Slelnber' that Steve would catch up long before Jan. 1, 1981, from Boot Key Marina in personalities often mask the fact that Stan Becker New Orleans. Although Steve later in- Marathon. Verlen estimated that he and - When we parted, Verlen said he both Verlen Kruger and Steven Landick aration imposed on them. However, Sarah, lovely days here, both were attracted sisted that Verlen overrated him, he a paddling companion would arrive at my would reach my place at 11:30 a.m. if are extraordinarily, tough men; the sort the only one of Verlen's daughters who by the Keys, and we will surely see does travel at a racer's pace which he place between 9 and 10 p.m., so I of- he slept, but he might paddle straight who realistically plan to paddle and has become a skilled canoeist, promised them back once their great journey is through and arrive at 5 a.m. He arrived portage 28,000 miles in 'two and one-half to be completely supportive, as long as over. For now, spring thaw on the Mis- can maintain, reportedly, for 20-30 fered to meet them at an entrance chan- 1 consecutive hours. nel to guide them through the confusion at 11:30 a.m., smiling and energetic, years! Steve worked, in that cold wind any future journeys include her. That sissippi and winter freeze in the Arctic of lights in my area. I checked their although his face showed fatigue. He for more than 10 minutes before coming suits Steve perfectly.. govern their schedule. MY INVOLVEMENT BEGAN in June 1980. course and consequently revised esti- had not slept, and chuckled as he told in, assuring me that his gear was fine, That night, Verlen phoned from On opening a newly-arrived July issue mated arrival at our meeting point to me that when daylight came he found and then getting dressed. Fort Myers, where he was sheltering in of canoe magazine, I saw an article 6-7 p.m. Went to meet them anyway and himself across the Seven Mile Bridge, .the lee of a bridge, waiting out the KEY WEST CLOTHES - FOR -THAT HEY msr UrnSSf SELECTION OF PAhlMA HAS tl A STORE FOR U>(AVb AMD LOCQS? dine on the beach HAWAIIAN AND 7R0P/CAL 9m$ ON - OMH& FOR breakfast • lunch * dinner BOTH M^ AND MUEN ^. lOAM-lOPM SUNDAY 10-h 501 WVAL z.94-5959 restaurant«beach club«simonton st. on the ocean david'wolkowsky 2944669 38 BROWSE A'BRAUN unique boutique SHOPPE Designer FINE JEWELRY Clothes Hand-made 14K gold, 12K gold filled & Scott Barry TO COFFEE unique sterling silver & gold 24K gold plated jewelry Willi Smith vermeil jewelry, some with all with natural & a Carol Horn nautical themes. doctou te.ll me. you tui-Ut and twin my itomadi make, me ntnvowt, precious stones. ip-uUtb have, told me. you. oAe eating away my i Marta Salvadori i know -it'& all tftue. but when i touch my llpk to you at Key West OBJETS D'ART wfteit i can tcute. you with my tongue, Signed oil paintings by local Gilts nautical. 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ROOSEVELT) Harbor House 423 Front St. .^P-W.? * AND MALLORY SQ. DEPOT ONLY 41 40 the Key West tree law, which he ferns bask in dappled sunlight believes could save the garden from and poinsettias bloom with a destruction at the hands of developers. blaze of color. 9 The law makes it illegal to cut down BY BILL LORRAINE "At the right of the What Will Happen to Peggy Mills Garden? any tree that is at least ten feet entryway a chocolate orchid tall and measures 9 inches in diameter grows on the trunk of an um- condition of the sale, but of course, deal possible for his clients. He at a point four feet about the ground. brella tree, and nearby a KEY WEST'S BEAUTIFUL Peggy Mills' that depends on the good faith of said that there was a sales contract In addition, the law protects a large huge "tinajone" dominates this Garden, located in the middle of old whoever buys the property." on the land right now, but that it list of exotic trees without regard secluded corner. While azaleas, town at the corner of Simonton and was not yet final. Asked if the to their size. Many of these exotic bougainvilleas, poinsettias, Angela Streets, is for sale. Sure enough, the heirs are trying potential buyers planned to build species can be found in Peggy Mills Amazon lilies, hibiscus, orchid to keep the garden intact. They i*ven condominiums or townhouses on the Garden - in fact, many plants in trees and other foliage plants Since Mrs. Mills died over a year printed a colorful brochure to garden property he replied, "No the garden can be found nowhere else provide lush beauty, a sandal- ago, the question of what will happen interest potential buyers in which comment." Asked if the LaRue in North America. wood tree showers the bricked to the garden has been the subject of they say that the property would be Corporation from New York was buying path with seeds that look much a wide variety of rumors and dreams. "most attractive to the investor it, "no comment". Asked who might - like candy red-hots." One version has it that the garden who jwould acquire the property to give the Solares Hill more information will be plowed under by bulldozers continue as a tourist attraction, about the plans for the property, he Peggy Mills started her garden and a concrete condominium will said, "no comment" in a downright while having one of the largest . . . in 1930 and during her lifetime she ENROLLED IN A speciallv-designed replace it. But this is probably residential estates on the island of nice way, with a genuine desire to not possible because of the Key West never stopped working on it. She "Business Transactions Specialist Key West." help in the tone of his voice. Asked applied for a U.S. Department of tree law that makes it illegal to about efforts to keep the garden Program" that marks the first cooper- cut down trees more than ten feet Agriculture permit to collect and ative effort of Florida Keys .Community a tourist attraction for Key West, import plants from all over the world. 1 7 tall. It seems more likely that we HOWEVER, a few people.agree with Bigler responded, "Yes, we did try College and the Private Industr - will soon see townhouse apartments that bit of investment advice, and She supervised the laying of 100,000 Council of "onroe County, Inc., is to get the city interested, but we century-old bricks to form curving built within the present garden most groups seriously interested in were not successful," he said, adding Rose Marie Blals, v;ho calls the course grounds, squeezed in between the buying the land as an investment see garden paths and shaded patios an "excellent start for what I really fuel to another rumor. Asked who he where visitors can sit and enjoy the existing trees. When.the land is spoke to with the city, "no comment." want to do for a future career." finally sold, the new owners can garden. She shipped in special apply to the city for a "variance" soil by barge and railroad. She FKCC President Dr. LOTS OF PEOPLE I talked with converted the unused cisterns into to cut.down just a few selected trees had heard this rumor that the city Seeker, left, said "I am looking here and there to make room for the pools of beauty and mystery. forward to a relationship (with was going to somehow acquire the Thousands of orchids bloom in dozens townhouses.. When this kind of request garden as a "city treasure" since PIC) which benefits many persons is weighed against the $825,000 asking of varieties throughout the garden, in their learning of marketable it,was such an asset to the tourist which earned Mrs. Mills the nickname price for the property, the city industry. But the rumor seems to skills" such as through this course will probably cooperate. "Lady of the Orchids".. A unique in business money-handling, book- have no basis in fact. City Com- feature of the garden are the huge missioner Richard Heyman thinks it LIKE MANY VISITORS to the garden, balancing and related fiscal skills. earthenware jars called "tinajones", PIC Executive Director Joe Alonzo, BUT DON'T BLAME the.three heirs would be great if the city could keep writer Dorothy Francis found the place each weighing a ton or more, which to the estate if the garden is not the garden tours operating, but has , a source of. inspiration. Her descrip- right, stressed this is a pilot she shipped from Cuba and placed project that is "meeting the expressed kept intact. Peggy Mills willed the not heard about any plan for the city tion reminds us of what an important throughout the grounds. They were garden property jointly to her two to own the land. Margaret Foresman, treasure the garden has become. needs of the local business community," once used in colonial Latin America and the first of what he hopes will sisters and her brother, John Long administrative assistant to the city _ for storing rain water, and they from Saluda, South Carolina, who is manager thought the idea of Key West "As visitors pass through be a number of such innovative nro- are the only jars of their kind in crrams. in charge of the estate. The three owning the land was ridiculous, given the wrought-iron gateway into the United States. must sell the land in order to-rsplit the city's present poor financial the walled garden they will up and share in the estate's proceeds. ... it as a good site for a complex of condition. Mayor McCoy said he see a ma2e of bricked paths In 19 6 8 the Key West Chamber of Mr. Long said by telephone, "My ^luxury apartment units set within thought the chances that the city shaded by palms, cacti, sandal- Commerce persuaded Mrs. Mills to intentions have been to try to sell the existing exotic tropical garden,—.• would acquire the land were "very wood, and other tropical trees. open her garden to the public. Until it to someone who would keep it a low". He also said that neither he Straight ahead is a towering the land is sold, it will continue to garden, and we have taken consider- Attorney John Bigler is in charge nor anyone else at City Hall has breadfruit tree whose trunk is operate as a tropical .garden tour. able extra time and a good deal of of the management and sale of the been contacted about the matter to covered with a variety of Enjoy it while you still can. searching to. find the right buyer. property in Key West. When questioned, even consider the possibilities. succulents, bromeliads, orchids. I have even tried to make the preser- he responded like a close-mouthed At the base of the tree crotons, vation of the garden part of the businessman trying to make the best Mayor McCoy did remind me about Moses-in-the-Bullrushes and L A European Style COME WATCH US ENAMEL Coffeehouse A craft, an art, a tradition... DAILY SPECIALS the Where You Get Good Value Every-Day community's SPECIAL EVERY DAY 10:30 AM TO i PM Bookstone Lunch $1.59 a aiversiiiea advertising agency ; : Choice o1 Chicken. Shrimp, Fish or Hamburger ? •' v: ••• • uniquely geared , Choice of Fr. Fries. Mashed Potatoes. Corn or Salad .to suit your; business needs.':-; SPECIAL EVERY DAY 10:30 AM TO (0 PM the priest selection of #1 Key Lime Square' 296-3080 Hamburger Deluxe,... $2.04 holiday gifts Quarter-Pound Burger on a Toasted Bun. with Cole Slaw and Fr. 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The most efficient sun screen ever developed, *February, 1981 - PfC is solidly in business matching the needs of tated ind manufactured in Hawaii. individual Keys private enterprise employers with the job-training and job needs of Keys residents! MOO FRONT STREET KEY WEST '158 Truman Annex With the cooperation of fhe South Florida Employment How This Happened • and Training Consortium and a local "steering tributed by ARGOT Ltd! 294-6055 committee" of three (EdToppino, Bill Mariin, Curt language of the Blair) thot grew to a 21-person volunteer board ol directors, the Monroe PIC was established, starting witha staff of two. NOW PIC Offers - A job training and placement resource to those who need jobs and those Keys employers who need valuable employees. To provide that service, PIC now KEY WEST'S has o staff of 7 professionals WHO GO fNTO THE KEYS COMMUNITY TO MEET ACTUAL NEEDS, supported by a board of directors, most of whom hove been with PIC from the beginning. • HOROSCOPE OLD TOWN REALTY INC. MIS isr tmmtmm. CfcrEa SUN IN PISCES, after 20th in \ Aries. EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE Aries. URANUS IN SAGITTARIUS.turning Chairman Vv ^| '.'•.!. *Key West and the Lower Keys' Mr. Edward Toppino, President yENUS IN PISCES, after 24th retrograde on the 5th, re-enterin,g Toppino Development Company in Aries. Scorpio on the 22nd. 1 most complete list of residential Vice-Chairman and commercial properties, Mr. William J. Martin, President & Publisher MERCURY IN AQUARIUS, after 17th NEPTUNE IN SAGITTARIUS, turning Keynoter Publishing Co., Inc. in Pisces. retrograde on ttie 2 7th. Secretary Mrs. Mena M. Chase SATURN IN LIBRA, retrograde.- PLUTO IN'LIBRA, retrograde. REALTY WORLD 'Home and apartment rental services. Treasurer JUPITER IN LIBRA, retrograde. NORTH NODE IN 9 degrees of Leo. ' Mr. Afvin Burney, President United Teachers of Monroe County MARS IN PISCES, after 16th in Membef-AMarge CALL OR WRITE FOR OUR LISTING REPORTS Mr. James E. Felton, President A & B Lobster House, Inc. THE NEW MOON on March 6 in Pisces creativity, and friendliness will 605 Simonton St. is in the tenth house of the Key- mark an upswing for the City. Key West, Florida 33040 Success-oriented persons who have guided the formation and West chart. This is the house of Saturn, our ruler in Libra is in Telephone: 305 294-5525 operation of PIC In the Keys, generously volunteering their time, publicity; in, good aspect to the retrograde motion in the 5th energies and expertise ore: 6th house of work, and health. house. This signifies fresh P.O. Box 1 DIRECTORS These areas will be receiving opportunities and new ideas with 1 Summerland Key, Florida 33042 Mr. Toby A. Arnheim. General Partner. favorable influences. The work which to approach local problems. CHL Partnership. Key West Telephone: 305 745-3645 Dr. Frank Bervaldi, DD5, Director and Vice President, market will improve and services Air Florida, Key West will also be upgraded. Mercury, Mr. George Christopher, Controller, Presenting: the co-ruler of Key West's chart, Fishermen's Hospital, Inc.. Marathon Mr. Sal Coletti. President, will also be in this sector. Seahorse Motel, Marathon Communications will be more clearly Dr. Otha P. Cox, Jr., District Administrator, Monroe County Public Schools, Key West defined and consequently city Mr WiEiiom 5, Daniels, President Fashions, for problems will be improving. The Marathon Bonk Mr. Benjamin Fernandez, President, THE FULL MOON on March 20 in 29 Kev West Chemical & Paoer Suooly, Inc. CHRISTIAN SCIENCE Mr. Michael Holpern, Atty. At Law the degrees of Virgo will be the Mr. Jay Hordel, Business Manager, , second full moon in Virgo in Southern Bell Telephone, Key West < Ms. Jessie Lenora Hobbs, Administrative Assistant Mother-to-be 1981. This will be an especially Marathon High School, Marathon potent full moon. Twenty-nine A church service Mr. John M. Koenig, President, full of stirring new ideas. Florida Keys, First State Bank and The Boulevard Bank, Key Wesi degrees is a critical degree, Mr, KenMeeks. President and Board Chairman, and particularly in Pisces, the (And warm, friendly people.) The Islamorada Bank, Istamorada Mr. Peter E. Riley. Vice President/Operations. placement of the Sun during this RBC Lumber Co., Marathon full moon. Emotions will be A Sunday School 48ft a place to grow Mr. Henry C. Singleton, Jr.. President. accentuated. The following day,. . Singleton Fleets. inc.. Key West Mrs. Carolyn L, Smith, March 21st, will be the Spring e WKWF Radio Siatian. Key West Equinox - another powerful day. A Reading Room Mr. Joseph M. Suiter. Executive Director, full of revolutionary new ideas. Fishermen's Hospital, Inc., Marathon The chart of Key West will be receiving these aspects in the (And helpful, encouraging books.) Q Direct links with the business community and those who need Fifth and Eleventh houses - very And a Wednesday job training and permanent fobs are provided now by this favorable. PtC staff of professionals: 1 Improvement in the areas that Key testimony meeting where the healing power of these new-old Joe Alamo, Executive Director Anthony A Castillo, Job Developments Coming soon - West is especially noted for - Henrietta E. Stevens. Assistant Director Placement ideas is told, and people can give their ShjortM-Pariter, Administrative S«fvic« Wonder Meirendei. Client Scrvces CliB Walters, Job Development, thanks to God. Grog Erhart, Classroom Training tnsliuctor Placeman*, 8 Planner Now that we've ON-THE-JOB TRAINING EMPLOYERS: cwic( THESE KEYS BUSINESSES SHARE PIC SUCCESS! introduced ChaHey Toppino S Sons, Inc. What-Moe Contradors. Inc. THE 524 Duvcsl St. at Smith Lane David Electric, Inc. Guard-All Security ourselves Key Weil Chemical and Supply. Inc. Island limpcried Cars "6* we'd love to have you come and share Joes All Breed Dog Grooming The Boot Hayse KEY WEST FisfierETsanVBospitat May Sondi Excoplional Child Ce Natural Foods with us ... any time you can. Mo roth on Builders Supply Co. JobnW. Buckner.M.D.P.A. Security Contacting A Service CriTistinc's House off towers SCHOOL Suddath Van Line* Gr*en Keys Nursery First Church of Christ, Scientist Key Weal Cigar Factory Billies Bar S Restaurant Vitamins — Minerals Kevinmode Cabinets ooSov 327 Elizabeth St. First Federal of the Florida Keys Two friend* Patio Restcu K&y Wesilnsuronie. Inc. Body Care Antonio's Restaurant Gemini Printing Sec Camp Association, tnc. Sunday Service Greater Key Wesl Chamber oJ Commerce Dan-Ace Roalmg 601 DUVAL ST*2 and Sunday School Hiding Electric The Pampered Per Cook Books- FEcwersbyJSJ The Pier House Inn and 11:00 a.m. KiShiC Beach Oirb Restaurant Toiler Rental Center The Red'Bam 294-4385 (infant care provided) Duncan Au ID Sales Halpern 5 McCelland P.A. New Astrological Book Key West Water Sporfs. Inc. Newfound Harbor Marine Institute, tnc 5i3r!ey Sfeemer Corpet Cleoners Ony in Skint Southern Comfort Wafwbeds & Hot Tub* La Tcrrasza De Marti personal checks & credit cards Wednesday evening meetings Baza Accounting Section filand Au'o Swpp-fy ZEN Katf&haflRawSar 7:30 p.m. Swn^hjnft Produce Co. Conch Resource Recovery accepted Refy^n (o Ed«n Gardens Key Wes»Swide Pork Longest Established Health Paul And'ft liMurosxe SPEAR RcberiB Plumbing Sob's Gun Shap Food Store in Key West Reading Room Unil Cl Since 1972. 8 years on Duval St. in Church Building A RO. BOX835 FISHING Tues,, Thurs:, Sat. Children's PIC OFFERS - On-The-Job" Training Store KEY WEST Emma Gates, Owner Joe Monzon, Manager 12:00 noon to 4:00 p.m. with 50% of employees' training salaries reimbursed by in Old Towns Phone: 294-1808 the federal governmentl A"World of Work" employee FLA. 33040 (305)296-9568 All aura welcome recdiness program) A "Business Transactions Specialist Training" program In eooperofion with Florida Keys Community Collage. AM EQUAL OTMCTUNITY WPICHEEB IN COHJUNCtlON W, Sf FTC 45 44 TENNESSEE WILLIAMS EVENTS Monroe County Library BOOK SALE, rear FINE ARTS CENTER of Library, March 7. All books 25*. THE MARATHON LIONS CLUB dinner meetings, PRESENTS second and fourth Wednesdays, Indies Inn, Duck Key. 7:30 p.m. NAT'L ASSN. OP RETIRED FEDERAL EMPLOY- EES meets the last Sunday of each month \ at 3:45 p.m. at the Senior Citizens Plaza, 1400 Kennedy Dr. A MOTION MOTU3C AtlfRN/tllVE fC» KEY QUAKER UNPROGRAMMED MEETING FOR"WORSHIP at 802 Eaton St., Sundays at 10:30 a.m. Third floor, 294-1523 or 294-8612. 62C DUJVAL 294-3826 KEY WEST WOMAN'S CLUB, regular meeting held first Tuesday of each month at 2:30 p.m. at 319 Duval St. SlhCWTIMC 1 • 9 FH $3.CC Please send notice o£ events of public service to Solares Hill, 513 Fleming St., Room 3, by the 20th of the month preceding the event. MARCH TENNESSEE WILLIAMS (BACK BY FINE ARTS CENTER POPULAR DEMAND) DIRECTOR OFTHEATRE: WILLIAM PROSSER MARCELLO DANON presents PRESENTS UGOTOGNAZZI MICHEL SEHRAULT "LA CAGE AUX FOUES" "A MENAGE A CHUCKLES, 4 comedy of "One of those rare delights you'll want (En£3hSut*tkH) deadpan outraceousness," March 1st to see again and again and again!" - Tom Mum VILLAGE VOICE The strangest things happen —Judith Crist, Saturday Review "COUNE SERREAU'S UNISEXUAL COMEOY IS A TREATl It has an cnctuntingly liberat - when you wear polka dots '"Cousin Couslne' Is the most happy Poetess: Maya Angelou ed sense of humor aboul sex, A bten,WHY SHAKESPEARE healthy sensuality I have seen on film." NOT1" -Bmct Wrfiiamsw PLAVBOr 8:00 P.M. —John Simon, law York Mag, "A WITTY, TOUCHING AND Readings and Panel Discussions VERY UNIQUE FILM." -n»nM BY PHILIP BURTON of Black Women's Issues "Lowe everything to him" — Richard Burton MONDAYS AT 7:30 P.M. March 2 TICKETS : $4 MAR. 9 Measure for Measure Film: Of Human Bondage 16 The Tragedies 8:30 P.M. .unrAmcAT. 23 Othello AVAILABLE AT. 30 Antony & Cleopatra March 7 & 8 II J. THEATRE BOX OFFICE (294-6363) FAST BUCK FREDDIE'S, 500 DUVAL Theatre: For Colored Girls Who Have Considered not! »@j«* Suicide When the Rain- K FILM Q¥ COLIM SERSf MJ' bow is Enuf 8:00 P.M. March 21 1-7 8-14 15-21 Music: Lionel Hampton & Orchestra 2 ACADEMY AWARD NOMINATIONS UNANIMOUS ACCLAIM! - PETER SELLERS—Bosl Aclor - "A stunning marvelous movie." -ujsmim, N V r>.iifm 8:00 P.M, & 10:30 P.M. MELVVN DOUGLAS —Best Supporting Aclor — High cost of electricity "It's marvelous. An absolute must." -Botji_.i>»,vvAao-rv "An extraordinary film." -Mart.nBernheimBt.t. A Times getting you down? March 26 THE CRITICS AND PUBLIC AGREE... "A treat (or everyone." -Genesiunn.N8C.rv 1 "A beautiful, beautiful movie: -amaunmn, N V oaiir K Concert: Leonard Pennario nthing funnier titan "A fare gem!" — RexFteed.SyndicaledColumniBI Have you considered the 8:30 PM Mll s scope and beauty !sbreatrtlaklngr~jRipp, Parents' Mag Peter Sellers in^Being There." "It'sa beautiful picture." -Arch«fwirwi«n, N«W ra Please call Howard Finkle at 296-9974 for appointment. THE CHILDREN OF Semco GLOBE AWARDS TH£l£fEE STEEET A sio'yioia Dr PRINCESS GRACE OF MONACO Solar Heating Systems An Eane Mack Film , hOMa-faim* Release Box Office : $5 11-4 daily DAVID MAMET admission 22-28 29-APRIL 4 RED BARN THEATRE March 12 -29 Thurs - Sun. 319 DUVAL 296-9911 Key West 47 46 Faroun, The Little Clown Mar. 28 Why The Sun And The Moon Are SPECIALMIS EVENTS In The Sky, Arrow To The Sun, and Harold And The' Purple TIPS ON BOOT CARE March previewing: Opening of RICH'S This is a membership gallery, featur- Crayon Here is o step by step procedure to lengthen the life of your boots and to improve their appearance. evening restaurant at the Eden House, ing individual wall shows every two 1015 Fleming, 296-6868. A warm rich at- weeks. Public lectures given from time TWFAC (see above, Poetry). Fifth in by Sam Lucchese mosphere with indoor-outdoor charm, to time on subjects pertinent to art series: Great Actresses In Film. soft glow lighting in an intimate set- and artists. Mar. 2 Bette Davis in Of Human Bond- ting. Something for everyone, from age, 8:30 p.m. steak espanole to seafood and quiche. LIGHTHOUSE AND MILITARY MUSEUM, 938 Wed.-Sun., 6 to 10 p.m. Whitehead, 294-0012. The highest view MONROE COUNTY LIBRARY, Adult films of Key West can be had here, along with every Wednesday at 7:30 p.m. Opening March 7: THE ARTISTS' WAREHOUSE a survey of aircraft and wartime ma- Mar. 4 Coral Jungle and Prowlers of at the Old Sponge House on Charles St., terials convenient to island defense. the Everglades featuring the acrylics and oils of Mar. 11 Georgia O'Keefe Karen Clemens and the pottery of Loys MOIRA, THE ART GALLERY IN KEY LIME SQ. Mar. 18 anonymous Was A Woman and Ma- Locklear, 6-10 p.m. 294-1254. 10-5 Tues.day-Saturday. Jim tisse: A Sort of Paradise Lehmkuhl, artist-in-residence, will be March 17 - St. Patrick's Day. Wear your featured in a one-man show through the SELF-HELP green and take every opportun- 19th of March. Pennsylvania's Jim Sal- ity to sport about and ca- em's works are also on display, as Alcoholics Anonymous, 294-90 26. rouse! Eat some corned beef well as the continuing "Main Street Domestic Abuse Shelter Volunteers to and cabbage, if you might be USA" show of Kathleen Elgin. A com- meet Mar. 2 at 7 p.m. at the 1 1 Sigsbee Elementary School, Rm. needin some extra bit o the fortable musical atmosphere set in A) Wipe Off Dust HINTS ON THE CARE AND FEEDING OF DOOTS. GOATSKIN AND KIDSKIN blarney! elegant style. 28. Call 294-5586 for further information. Remember that leather is skin and These leathers con be treated the will teocf the way skin does so the Many spots ond marks on some as regular calf or cowhide. OLD ISLAND DAYS: For complete informa- ROOFTOP GALLERY, 423 Front St., 294- Emotional Health Anonymous, 729 Fleming most important thing you can do leather can be cleoned off with However, rhey are lighter weight, tion, visit Chamber of Commerce at Mal- 5892. 10-5 daily. Small but mighty, at 10 a.m., Thursdays. in caring for ony piece of footwear an ordinary pencil eraser. This thinner and, softer. They can nor is to KEEP IT FREE OF DUST. Dust will is ttue especially on whire rake rough weor. They crease lory Square. Or call 294-9501. this special artist's showcase in- Overeaters Anonymous, same address, sertle in the creases of boots or leather. 7:30 p.m. Tuesdays. more sharply and rhe dirt in rhe Mar. 6-7 House Tours cludes handcrafted jewelry and the shoes. The dust acts like sand- Many spors can be cleaned with creases does more damage. They Mar. 12-15 Antique Show intriguing "Two Kisses From God, Plus Conscious Pregnancy Classes, 296-6259. paper, cutting or the finish with o solution of 1/2 white vinegar should be cared for more often. Mar. 13-15 Mini Flower Show Two" by Henry Lawrence Faulkner, famed Key West Singles, for meeting informa- every step you take. 5ooner or and 1/2 water. This treatment is Mar. Key West artist, singer, and philoso- tion, call 296-6977, 296-3423 lorer ir will cut through not only the particularly effecrive on "sugar" 14 Ceramics and Crafts Show and or 294-6973. finish bur the fibre itself and the or "alcohol spots." PIGSKIN pher . ^ leathet will split. Obviously you con nor trear Mar. Sale Mail-A-Book_Program, Library, 294-8488. Oil and gtease can be cleoned smooth pigskin ond sueded Mar. 21 Shell Blowing Contest OLDEST HOUSE MUSEUM, 322 Duval St., Metropolitan Community Church, 319 Du- SO WIPE OFF YOUR DOOTS...OF- off leather wirh a spray-on spot pigskin the same. Fot smooth pig Mar. 21 Key West Delicacies 294-9502. Antique lovers will enjoy val, Sundays at noon. TEN not just before you shine remover. we recommend rhe some care in 22 Blessing of the Shrimp Fleet rhem, bur every rime you take Rubber cemenr is another good general as calf or cowhide. Ir will this excursion into the furniture, them off. Wipe rhe dust off boots with Shrimp and Sauce Sampler housewares and decorations of old WOMEN'S CENTER, 602 Duval St., 8-4:30 "oil spot" remover. PUT Ir over help to rreat o NEW pair of smooth with anything you hove handy. rhe spot ond let it dry. Rub if off. .. pigskin with three coars of silicone THEATRE APIS, ETC. island interiors "way back when." Be daily. Classes for March:. Unless you sit at a desk in an air Voile! The spot is gone. P. 5. This 24 hours oporr before you wear- sure to visit the kitchen out back. Mar. 3 C.P.R., 6:30-9:30 p.m., Fla. You do not need a special brush conditioned office never wear tteatmenr is nor for suede. rhem, or cloth. You DO need to make rhe same pair of boors two days THE RED BARN THEATRE, 319 Duval St. The sueded pigskin is. of course, Rear. 294-5721. Opening March 12: Keys Memorial Hospital rhis a hobir. You can't wipe them in a row. they need ro rest and Never, bur NEVER pur wer boots POETRY READINGS, LEARNING. ETC, off too ofTen. have o chonce to ait out. - even close ro heat to dry. quire differenr. The rhree coats of American Buffalo by David Mamet. Mar. 19 IRS Business Tax Workshop, silicone before you weor rhe boors 9-3, FKAA, Room 2408. is good for rhese boots, too. After GUILD HALL POETRY SOCIETY, 614 Duval, D) Wash OFF Any Loose Dirt. TENNESSEE WILLIAMS FINE ARTS CENTER 296-9359. Open reading held the first Mar. 28 Beginning Children's Theatre, rhar a good nylon brush used wirh 9:30-11, TWFAC You con use saddle soap IF YOU o spray or suede cleaner is abour (TWFAC) Stock Island. 294-6363. Sunday of every month, except March, DO NOT LET IT DRY on rhe boors all you con do. i Mar. 7-8 For Colored Girls Who Have when it will be held on the second Mar. 28 Advanced Children's Theatre, ond do not rub it in. Use it the However, keep in mind thot Considered Suicide When The Sunday, March 8, at 8 p.m. Poets past, 1-2:30 p.m., TWFAC same woy you use soap on your learher should nor be bought for Rainbow Is Enuf--a. play to present and future are invited to come foce. You con buy a learher oil looks. The tanner hos prepared ir WORKSHOPS IN LIFE PAINTING AND DRAWING soap that will cleon jusr os well for rough wear and very lirrle core. celebrate Black Heritage Week, and share their works. 8 p.m. with Malcolm Ross. Monday evenings at 7 ond you don'r hove to worry They can wirhstand almost any- p.m. and Friday afternoons at 2. ($2-$3 obour irs drying on rhe boots. It hos thing shorr of ourrighr abuse. Mar. 11 Black Heritage Night, with TENNESSEE WILLIAMS FINE ARTS CENTER on oil base and is good fot We certainly hope rliese sugges- lectures and music,- 7 p.m. model fee.) For further information, leather. (TWFAC), Stock Island, Fla. Keys Com- call 294-8301. rions will be helpful, Mar. 26 Leonard Pennario, Piano. 8:30 munity College campus, 294-6363. p.m. Mar. 1 A lecture by poet Maya Ange- SBKEJUHZEOEliS lou. 8 p.m. GALLERIES Saturday, March 7, at the airport fair- C) Apply A Coat Of Shoe Cream. GREAT BOOKS DISCUSSION PROGRAM, Li- This Is different from wax or liquid grounds, the Jaycees will hold a polish. Ir should be used in o color ARTISTS UNLIMITED, 221 Duval St. , 296- brary at 700 Fleming St. Theme: The COMMUNITY PICNIC for all senior citi- 5625. Hours: 12-5 p.m. or by appoint- rhor marches the leather ond it Search for Meaning. Meets every other zens , to include chicken barbecue FREE should be rubbed into the boots, You should now be all ready ro increase rhe life span of your ment. A delightful gallery in a Conch- Monday, .7-9 p.m. Read selection in for the elderly, plus horseshoes, especially over scuff morks at boots and enhance rheir beauty as well. Outlet's go a step style setting, with an international order to discuss. bingo, games, guest speakers and FREE scratches. Give the creom a few furrher and lisr some special information about special reputation. minutes to dry and then brush or leothets. This way you con pin down exactly how you Mar. 2 Father Sergiushy Leo Tolstoy TRANSPORTATION from three locations: rag the boots to a shine. tteat every pair of boots in yout closet. Mar.16 A Nasty story by Fedor Dos- EAST MARTELLO, S. Roosevelt Blvd., 296- S.S. Plaza, Douglas School and the • toevsky Armory. Call Steve Nahm for more infor- 3913. 9:30-5 daily except Christmas. A Stop in. We will be very happy to Mar. 30 The Dark Night by Ramon mation, at 296-8526. 'fort-museum' with some of the most in- D) Apply A Thin Coat Of Wax. ANTEATER LIZARD OSTRICH help you in any way we can. teresting artifacts of Keys' history Yendia There ore several good brands of ELEPHANT ALLIGATOR This is truly learher fir for a king and SENIOR CITIZEN CENTER, 600 White St., wax polish available. The wax ir should be rreored as such. While and lore. March 4-28: Norma Renner, MONDAY MORNING BOOK REVIEWS, Library 294-2801. Regular meeting,.March 9. SNAKESKIN TURTLE Bill Ford and Ronald Babbit: Woodcarv- should also be in a marching ' ir does not need ony extra special at 700 Fleming. 10:30 a.m. Blood pressure testing, 7-7:30, fol- color. This coor of wax not only ANTELOPE HORNDACK otrention it would be a sin to neg- ingv wood sculpture and watercolor, Mar. 2 Herman Wouk, reviewed by lowed by program featuring the Key West gives the boor a brighret shine but lect something so teolly elegant. If respectively. ir also helps prevent water sporting These leathers ate usually drier you will jusr give it reasonable Helen and Bowman Cutter High School band. Director Joe Wilt than cowhides and they oil have amounts of core you will be richly Mar. 9 Will Durant by Ross McKee ond rhe absorption of many things FARRINGTON GALLERIES, 711 Duval St., will.conduct a sing-along. Legislative leather would rather live withour. an itregulor surface This means rewarded. Mar. 16 Philip Burton by Robert they need more conditioners 294-6911. An artist-supply gallery, ambitions of the organization will also Again, give the wax a few min- Mitchner be discussed. utes to dry and brush or rag rhe more often to prevent splitting. Ir featuring new work of Mario Sanchez, Mar. 23 Shakespeare by William boots to o high shine. means rhey ore more vulnerable' including his woodcarving "Bucket of Prosser to dusr settling in the creoses and Fish," and the new biography on him by RFfilllAR FVENTS 1 doing damage sooner. The very Mar. 30 Walker Percy by Helen Thielen Then rhere is 'conditioning' . fact that they have a hard surface OIL TANNED Katherine Proby. and Jean Lawrence AQUEDUCT AUTHORITY meeting, 1100 Ken- Leather conditioning is a lot like ond look so pretty makes ir hard ro WORK LEATHERS skin conditioning You put in oils nedy Drive, 296-2454. On March 12 and get much conditioner down into These boors have a lor of extta oils GINGERBREAD SQUARE GALLERY, 902 Duval, ond conditioners ro replace those the skin. So...thinner coats, more SHAKESPEARE LECTURE SERIES by Philip 23 the meetings will be at West Palm thar have dried up since rhe put into rhem or the s'orr, bur be- 296-8900. 11-6 every day. Reopening Burton, TWFAC (see above, Poetry) . often ore what you musr plon on. cause of where ond when they Beach, 10 a.m., to directly follow leather was originally ronned. These boors con dry our jusr sirring weekend eves 7-10 p.m. This art gallery Some leathers will need more ore usually worn, if gets pulled Mar. 9 Measure, for Measure district meeting at 8:30 a.m. in rhe closer. our. So rake o little more core blends the modern and primitive styles Mar. 16 The Tragedies then others. Ir needs to be done in the works Of Stell Adams, Henry Law- more ofren in dry dimores or You wouldn'r work a horse and Mar. 23 Othello CITY COMMISSION meeting, first and • when leather is subjected ro re- nor feed ir. Here you don r have ro rence Faulkner, and many more. Fea- SHARKSKIN worry about a good heavy coar of tured shows continued bi-weekly. March Mar. 30 Antony and Cleopatra third Mondays at 8 p.m., City Hall, peered "werrings ond dryings'. If corner Simonton and Angela. you shine your boots regularly it Oecouse sharkskins are rhe harvest oil. These leathers are prepared ro 3: Alice Terry. March 31: Dick Stein. FILMS does nor have to be done every of many people in many differenr soak it up. If they get really ploces you can experience o great soaked in snow .warer or whar CITY ELECTRIC UTILITY BOARD meetings, lime you shine your boors ; HAITIAN ART CO., 600 Frances St., 296- MONROE COUNTY LIBRARY, 700 Fleming, To condition your boors properly deal of difference from skin ro have you, clean rhem off and oil second and fourth Wednesdays, 5 p.m., apply rhe condirioner while the skin. This is a very rough, scuff resis- rhem rhen and rhere. Ir will slow 8932. Key West's newest gallery is like 2-94-8488. Children's films every Satur- the drying process bur ir helps ro day at 10 a.m. Free. Board Room, 930 Caroline St. boors are still damp from soaping. tanr leothet bur ir con dry our. a trip to Haiti itself, replete with y a.m. r Moisr leather will absorb more of When ir does dry out it splits ond - keep rhe oil down deep where ir 7 Th belongs.. Besides in rhese boors colorful island jungles, masks and tra- Mar. 7 Norman The Doorman, A Story, A MONROE COUNTY COMMISSION meetings, 294- rhe conditioner. Keep in mind the feats. You should give ihese boots 126 Duval Street ditions. Owner Ruth Kravitz encourages Q lirrle exrra ails and condirioners you don't care as much obour a Story, and Supermouse Rides 4641. Meetings March 10 at 10 a.m. in leather can only absorb so much all interested to stop by and see her condirioner or cne rime. Pouring it ro keep the 'leather soft and flexi- pretty shine as roughness 296-5661 Again 1 ble. Pur o lirrle exrra oil around the selection, and "visit a little bit of Mar. 14 Key West, March 24 at 10 a.m. in Plan- on will just wosre it and probably .Mole And The Rocket and Popeye tation Key. . leave rhe boots sticky and dull, .a edge where the sole is sewn to the Haiti." The Sailor Meets Sinbad The case of too much of a good thing. foot. Sailor (Events continued on preceding page) KEY WEST ART CENTER, 301 Front St., Mar. 21 294-1241. 10-5 daily; Sundays H-4- Cricket On Times Square and 48 Have Your Tax Return. Writers Done. By a Pro. Criticism and Editing of o Very reasonable rates Manuscripts by Professional o Same day service, in most cases o Out-of-state income tax returns Editor and Science/SF Writer o Very reasonable rates Write for Schedule of Services and Rates. Submit One Manuscrrpt for Free Tax Olinic Bruce Ritson Evaluation. 513 Fleming St. / Key West, FL. 33040 / h> J.V.R. Williams Bogarfs Back arid Route 7, Box 54, Waldorf, MD 20601 The Rooftop's Got Him 10-8 Mon. - Fri. f(P 10-6 Sat. /% Northern Italian Cuisine 615 Duval Street, Key West 294-6565 "FISH 35 (A SEAFOOD HOUSE) Varieties of local fish for the varieties of local people 4-3374 Catty-Comer 132 Duval St. From Sloppy Joe^s