The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1940-04-29
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POINTS OF INTEREST

head streets. Seat of a county
composed mostly of keys going
$50 miles out into the sea.
U. S. NAVAL STATION
Whitehead and Greene streets.
Hub of Neutrality Patrol in Flor
ida Straits ana Gulf of Mexico
waters. Approximately 1000 Of
ficers, sailors, marines, aviators
are stationed here to protect our
interests in Caribbean waters.
There are usually from four to
six destroyers anchored at the
Station pier and in the outer har-
Dor No visitors allowed. Found
ed 1922.
ONLY OPEN AIR AQUARIUM
in the United States-Whitehead
and Front streets. Thousands of
rainbow colored reef fish in
natural reef backgrounds. Nurse
sharks, giant Jewish, only living
baby tarpon in captivity, turtles.
us. COAST GUARD LIGHT
HOUSE BUILDING EXHIBIT of
ship models and waterway mark
ers. Next to Aquarium.
ART CENTER~-Whitehead and
Front Streets. Permanent exhi-
bition of Key West scenes from
brushes of Key West Society of
Artists and visiting artists Also
exhibitions circuited
through Florida WPA Art Prof.
ect.
DUvAL STREET (north end)
CHARTER BOAT DOcK-Berth
Of seagoing wrecking tug Warb-
.er, which often responds to calls
Of distress from ships at sea.
Usually, small sightseeing motor
boats and sightseeing plane. Win
.er sailings to Fort Jefferson in
he Tortugas, 60 miles away, by
Sutton Lines.
CITY HALL-Fire and Police
Departments. Green and Ann
Streets. The Key West Citizen
only daily newspaper
published in Monroe County, di-
'ectly 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,
Did sailing wrecks on shore,
yachts and fishing boats anchor
ed in harbor.
KEY WEST POST OFFICE
Caroline and Simonton Streets.
THOMPSON INTERESTS Adj
ninistration Building and Docks.
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. Mackerel Fishing Fleet.
Fleet. Ask when
turtle schooner comes in.
GULF MARINE STATION
Charter Boat Docks. Caroline
near Margaret.
CRAIG DOCKS. Marine Sta
lion, Charter Boat Docks and
Yacht Basin. Caroline and Grin.
nell Streets. Yachts from all over
country anchor here. SIS. Cuba,
which leaves for Havana and
Tampa, docks at the P. & o. pier
nearby. Here is abandoned term
nal of railroad that went to sea.
MUNICIPAL SPONGE DOCK
Caroline and Grinnell Streets.
Key West sponge fisher
men return after trips lasting as
ong as three months to sell their
;ponges to northern buyers at
auction.
ARMY BARRACKS AND
NAVAL AIRBASE-Palm Drive,
at Eaton and White
Army Barracks to your
light. Naval base with giant
oB Y 2 patrol planes drawn up
IN shore to 0your left. At end
If Palm Drive note Garrison
Blight, under development, and
;oon to be a municipal yacht
basin. Across basin on fill is Key
Vest Yacht Club
BAYVIEW PARK is at the end
If Palm Drive. Here are play
chess and checker tables,
and two memorials,
me to Cuban Patriot Jose Marti,
which was given by the Cuban
and the other to
soldiers of New York who died in
Key West.
ABANDONED CIGAR FAC
TORIES Roosevelt Boulevard to
Bertha Street and turn right. Key
Vest once produced 100,000,000
,igars annually, employed 10000
vorkmen. Nearly to end of Ber-
ha street note remains of salt
ponds built in 1888 where $4,000
pounds of salt from sea water was
obtained yearly.
1x-Crr 1x-a SSxr ANN CARAVANS