My sister Susan and I watched the 3-part Ken Burns documentary about the life of Ernest Hemingway on PBS a few weeks ago, and reminisced about the last time we were in Key West, Florida, where Hemingway lived for 8 years. This was back around 1977 or so. We were visiting our parents, Nelson and Mary, down in Stuart, Florida, and on a lark, we all drove down to Key West for a few days. We toured the Hemingway House, watched the sunset at the Mallory Street Dock, took a harbor cruise, and walked around the town, where I took the photograph above of Susan and my mother in front of Captain Tony's Saloon. This was the original location of Sloppy Joe's Bar, where Hemingway used to drink, and who even gave the place it's name. Sloppy Joe's still exists, of course. It moved to it's present location in 1937, after the landlord wanted to raise the rent from three dollars a week to four, which the bar's owner refused to pay. Makes perfect sense to me.
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