The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1952-01-28
A Letter-Like Trayelogue
Tinted with Local Color

,ame on the tree the posted list
f names of the un-passables,
hose who failed on the examlna-
ion: Il would like to get that OLD
,arnot in a dark corner!"
There. at Daytona Beach, we
orgathered with the Chris AT
insons, former Columbians, at
heir beautiful home; and met
gain an interesting friend who
new George Bernard Shawl
vas Just like shaking the hand OF
hat fan who shook the hand ot
ohm l.. Sullivan.
Then, we passed on down to
Fort Lauderdale, 10 the home OF
Alice Coe, the wife of a former
lirector of our Town Theater.
There on the sea front of the city.
We were shown a beautiful lot
1nce owned by the host of our
rip and sold for a song, which,
now, is worth a fabulous sum.
Fort Lauderdale once was sort
If stepping stone - Miami; now,
in its own right, it: is a conserva-
DRY greenhouse version of 4
Venice on wheels. We wish you
ould see what we mean!
From there we get out, really,
for Key West. :.
We had friends in the sWank
areas of Miami. hut they Wert
not at home. 81 IS
Some people ar4 hleSse III
vond count in this sp,pfis 4 "
We stopped for tlle night( YOU
know, the English don't like that
Notwithstanding say We should
ssy STAYED the nieat' or spent
he nightO--at q very com
Portable motel Just; this side OF
the Keys. We felt little like the
English on that word motel
until we got to knows motels, now
we defy anyone to shame us out
of use of that word For Motor
ists, motels are disp!acing hotels;
one drives up to the office, just
off the highway, crowded the
sign does not say NO vacancy"
engages a room, ara, there you
are, your car parked at the door,
no tips for the luggage, no ele-
vator, no tips for tie ice water:
in fact. a song missht be COM
posed: Eyes. we h.ve no tips.
etc, etc" The average room in
the up-to-date motel has twin
beds or a double, possibly, a
divan or davenport lin a sitting
room, an electric refrigerator
with ice cubes await:llg, an cleo
trio or gas stove. an electric heat
ing or cooling fan, some with
radio and telephone, Ii,odern bath
room. Jake says, "!.{ome amt.
nothin' like thisi" she water
glasses are encased ins wax paper.
One memorable hotel, con-
Quoted by Scotch couple, Kath-
leen and Andrew, whose burr
harked back to 'Asld Resky'
Edinburgh said, s'You are
Scoo-ch.' Yes and Nol-only half.
Their place was complete, Clean,
and comfortable. H,sw's that:
Amen---which means it is true
After a refreshing nights sleep
and hot early coffee Crowded
by our hosts private outfit, and
that cigarette, we tool. off over
the Keys and the coral; water for
the southern end of ouSr Journey.
That trip. half Terrestrial. halt
amphibian, half aerial.
If anything on this orb can
have three halves, that "trip is it.
The fresh water pit;e which
gave life to the Keys followed
us from the mainlnad and along
side the highway Tor d hundred
miles; that, more than the beau
ties of the sea and the sky and
the climate brought life back to
Key West when its 5000 starving
inhabitants were gwen their
death sentence by s5-,atled Gov
eminent econorny when recog.
milton of its Indispensable role as
submarine and sir base latter
World War u was allowed 10