Key West Back in the Day

For many years, an outline of my posterior adorned the upstairs bar top at Bagatelle, the lower Duval Street restaurant that was a high-rollers’...

Working with Michael Whalton was never boring.  He was one of those incomparable people whose efforts in the 1980s left a lasting imprint — who...

When Jimmy Buffett wrote, “I’m goin’ down to Fausto’s/get some chocolate milk” in his 1976 classic “My Head Hurts, My Feet Stink, and I...

During Key West’s “bad old days,” the scariest thing I ever did was drive a malfunctioning Toyota truck across the old Seven Mile Bridge...

Before Key West earned its reputation as a must-visit tourism destination, there was a waterfront bar and restaurant that locals made their own —...

Back when I was a 20-something hippie enchanted with my Key West  home, my friends and I had a lot of time on our...

Key West is a great place to be a dog.  Still true today, that statement was particularly accurate in the 1970s and early ’80s.  Back then,...

Working as a Key West food and cocktail waitress in the late 1970s, I learned several important life lessons. They weren’t about waitressing techniques,...

There’s always been something magical about Old Town Key West at night. It can still be sensed today, but it was especially apparent in...

Before Fred the Tree sprouted on the Old Seven Mile Bridge, becoming an iconic landmark for drivers traveling along the Florida Keys Overseas Highway,...