The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1947-03-18
The
OBSERVATION
POST
BILL LEE


Raymond u. Navarro believes
in boosting Key West.
Ray runs the sightseeing trips
with a bus he operates from
Duval and Fleming streets. The
bus seats IL besides himself and
his dog, which perches on top for
the trip.
When Ray gets a load, off the
bus goes. And so does Rays
tongue, at the rate of better
than mile minute. To listen
to Ray extoll the virtues of
Key West is an education in the
history of the city.
You don't pay me until
you make the trip. is Navar-
ro's way of starting. Then if
you come back and say you
+, didn't enjoy it, the trips on
the house-or bus.
You should CLEAN more in
formation about Key West than
you can get in any other way.
! will say that it is a most in
sfructive trip. Well. here we
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He points out the three radio
towers al the Naval Station ex-
planning they form a most pow
erful radio contact with the
outside world. In rapid success
sion Navarro point out: !.
The County Court House,
which he says is the seat OF
government of the longest coun-
ty in the United States. (,
The Old Marine Hospital in
the Naval Base is one of the old
est in the country.
That an 80-mile- an-hour
hurricane is only a zephYer.
and that only two men ever
have been killed by storms on
the island of Key West.
They were caught out in
in the storms. Navarro says.
Other folks remained in their
own homes. And they were
not injured. Strange isn't it?"
He points out the japanese
submarine in the N avail Base,
saying it was a two-man job to
operate it.
I'm the only driver in town
that will take you to the Navy
Base, Navarro states, as he
turns into the yard. - a..nao
Then he points out, in quick
succession, old Fort Taylor, old
Post Office building, where he
says some bricks were once flung
out Of line in q high wind; the
number, OF, submarines and other
vessels in the base; tells when the
concrete pier, in the yard was
built. <.1
In Duval Street he stops for
few moments in front Of st.
Paurs Episcopal Church, relat-
ing its early history: points TO
the oldest house in Key West.
and tells how the widow Caro-
line Lowe used to fly the Con-
federate Flag from her home
and hid the flag in the walls of
her little tower above the
house.
Navarro next goes down Caro-
line Street as far as Thompson:
turtle docks. But on the way
he tells of the beauties of the
Towering trees and shrubs tina
pass enroute, and names them.
He has some rather tall tales t.
tell about the turtles. To hea
Navarro tell it the turtles are al
from 400 to 500 years old whel
brought to the turtle crawls ant
the visitors he takes along be
lieve him.
They're caught in water so
to rs feet deep off the coast of
Nicaragua. Navarro says.
He explains the turtle soup
business from A to z. telling
what parts of the turtles be-
come steaks. what parts bouil-
lon and what parts scrap.
He goes up Grinnell Street t
the Cemetary and tells all tn
way about the limberger tree tina
grows a fruit that smells exact
" like the real thing. He pick
a bit of fruit from one limberge
tree and lets the passengers o
the bus smell it.
In the Cemetery, he points OF
the old graves. Then he turns
the Maine Memorial plot an
indicates the number of grave
of the sailors who were aboar
the vessel and who died as n
suit of the sinking of the Shi
in Havana.
The plot in which the remain
of the Cuban patriots who die
from Cuban independence i,
next on the list. Navarro show
the grave of the woman who
buried in a vault entirely out
the ground.
In White str e ct, Navar
points out the home of Monr'
Motors, Inc, which he describ