The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1940-03-27
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POINTS OF INTEREST
MONROE r COUNTY COURT
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composer mostly o. k2VS Eolll
$50 miles out into the sea.
1. $. H1VAL STATION
Whitehead and Greene streets
Huo q Neutrality Patrol in For
iGa Straits and Gull Of Mexic,
waters. Approximately 1000 cf
ficers. sailors, marines. aviator
;are stationed here - p1otc,. ouI
interests in Caribbean waters
Thee arc usually from fur {.
six destroyers anchored at thc
Station pier and in the outer hor
Dor. No visitors aIloWe1. Found
ed 1922.
ONLY OPEN All AQUARIUM
in tno United State--Nni.eAea@
and Front streets. Thousands OF
rainbow cOlored reef fish in
natural reef baciqrounGs. Nurse
sharks. giant Jewish, only living
baby tarpon in captivitv. turtles
US. COAST GUARD HIGHT
HOUSE BUILDING EXHIBIT 0!
ship models and waterway mark
crs. Next to Aquarium,
ART CENTER-Whitehca1 and
Front Streets. Permanent exhi-
bition Of Key West scenes from
brushes of Kew West Society Of
Artists and visiting artists. Also
travelling exhibitions circuited
through Florida WPA Art Prof
ect.
DUVAL STREET north end)
CHARTER BOAT DOCK-Berth
of seagoing wrecking tug Warb-
Ter, which often responds to calls
of distress from ships at sea.
Usually, small sightseeing motor
boats and sightseeing plane. Win
ter sailings to Fort jefferson in
the Tortugas, 60 miles away, by
Sutton Lines.
CITY HALL-Fire and Police
Departments. Green and Ann
Streets. The Kew West Citizen
Building, only daily newspaper
published in Monroe County. di-
rectly opposite.
FISH MARKETS - Elizabeth
and Greene Streets. Where tasty
Atlantic fish are sold dipped fresh
out Of water and dressed before
your eyes. Note boats on ways,
old sailing wrecks on shore,
yachts and fishing boats anchor
ed in harbor.
KEY WEST POST OFFICE
Caroline and Simonton Streets.
THOMPSON INTERESTS Ad-
ministration Building and Docks.
Caroline near Margaret Street.
Turtle CraWls, where 300-pound
turtle wait in pens to be slaught-
cred for meat or to be made into
famous turtle SOUP. Cedar Box
Mill. Mackercl FISHING Fleet.
Kingfishing Fleet Ask when
turtle schooner comes in.
GULF MARINE STATION
Charter Boat Docks. Caroline
near Margaret.
CRAIG DOCKS. Marine Sta
ton. Chatter Boat Docks an6
Yacht Basin. Caroline and Grin
nell Streets, Yachts from alI over
country anchor here SIS. Cuba.
which leaves for Havana and
Tampa, docks at the P. & O. pie
nearby. Here is abandoned term
inal of railroad that went to sea.
MUNICIPAL SPONGE DOCK
Caroline and Grinncll Streets.
Kcv West sponge fisher
men return after trips lasting as
long IS three months to sell their
ep0n"ce to northern BUYERS ct
ARMY BARRACKS AND
NAVAL AIRBASE--Palm Drive
at Eaton md Wl'ite
Streets. Army Barracks to v0ur
right Naval base with giant
PB Y 2 patrol planes drawn ITO
on shore to YOUR left. At end
Of Palm Drive note Garrison
Bioht under development. ard
soon to be a municipal yacht
basin, Across basin On fill is Key
Wost Yacht Club.
RAYVIEW PARK is at the end
IF Palm Drive. Here are play.
grounds, chess and checker tables
Switchboard and two memorials.
one to Cuban Patriot Jose Merit
which was given by the Cuban
Government and The other t.
-nldiors Of New York who died in
Kew West.
ABANDONED CIGAR FAC
TORTES-Roosevelt Boulevard to
Bertha Street and turn right. Kew
West once produced 100000 200
cigars annually employed 10000
workmen. Nearly to md Of Be
tina street note remains Of ea1t
ponds built in 1898 whore rs 900
pounds of salt from sea water was
obtained yearly.
REST BEACH AND CABHNAS
Roosevelt Boulevard and Ber-
tina Street.
EAST MARTEIT,o TOWER
Boulevard. One of the
finest old Notifications IN the
country, built during Civil War.
This is Atlantic side of Boule-
ward. Note ships at sea hugaine
the Reef to get out of the cur
rent of the Gulf Stream. They