Headlines
20 Years ago
- Thread starter Bobcat
- Start date
Serious News
What's Happening
Bobcat
Founding Member
50 years ago.
Stacy Rowell, the owner of the Ford dealership, caught a sailor walking out of his car lot with a wheel he had removed from one of the cars.
Robert E. Curry, digging for bottles on Rest Beach, found a set of brass goblets and tray that were buried about four and half feet underground.
Stacy Rowell, the owner of the Ford dealership, caught a sailor walking out of his car lot with a wheel he had removed from one of the cars.
Robert E. Curry, digging for bottles on Rest Beach, found a set of brass goblets and tray that were buried about four and half feet underground.
Bobcat
Founding Member
Convent of Mary Immaculate in 1968 before it was torn down. From the Monroe County Library Collection.
Friday, November 28, 2014
50 YEARS AGO:
The Florida Keys Aqueduct Commission announced it had retained the Flour Corporation to study Monroe County's pressing water problem.
A federal court jury in Miami found that cigarettes were reasonably safe and wholesome for human consumption.:USA:
Key West Police Chief Perez ordered his officers to stop bolita in the city, ordering them to "arrest everybody with a bolita ticket and I mean everybody."
The Old Island Restoration Foundation sent a plea to Bishop Coleman Carroll to save the original wooden building of the Convent of Mary Immaculate.
Bobcat
Founding Member
Billy White and Don DeMariawith sharks caught at Cosgrove off Key West in 1985.
Monday, December 1, 2014
50 YEARS AGO:
State Conservation biologists were using cyanide to study methods of reducing what had been termed as an alarming increase in the shark population in the Keys.
A Royal Air Force crew, from Ballykelly Air Force Base in North Ireland, arrived at the Naval Air Station for training with VX-1.
Tony Estenoz was the only Key West winner in Sunday's outboard racing at Boca Chica in the Fall Regatta sponsored by the Key West Outboard Club.
Bobcat
Founding Member
Small outboard racing boats in Key West Bight.
50 years ago.
The Key West Outboard Club closed the year with races at Boca Chica. The winners for the year were Steve Russell (Junior 36 cu. in.), Tony Estenoz (Senior 26 cu. in.), Burt Ware (Cruisers), Nilo Rodriguez (Cruisettes) and Burt Ware (free-for-all).
Bobcat
Founding Member
Elks club at 313 Duval Street C 1965. Photo by Don Pinder.
Tuesday, December 16, 2014
50 YEARS AGO:
State beverage agents and sheriff's deputies raided the Elks Club for gambling violations and seized slot machines, crap tables and roulette wheels. No arrests were made and none were expected.:huh:
The Tomato Patch Bar on Duval Street was placed "on limits" by the Armed Forces Disciplinary Control Board and the Boca Chica Bar on Stock Island was placed "off limits.":blush5:
Bobcat
Founding Member
The Boca Chica Bar on US 1 on Stock Island C 1965. Photo by Don Pinder.
50 YEARS AGO:
The Armed Forces Disciplinary Control Board issued a clarification that the only places off limits in the Lower Keys were the Boca Chica Bar on Stock Island and the Habana Madrid in Key West.
Bobcat
Founding Member
The Hi Hat Café. c1965
Sunday, December 21, 2014
50 YEARS AGO:
Three card players were arrested by Deputy Sheriff Ed Curry for gambling at the Hi Hat Café at 400 Petronia St.:dupe:
The Fraternal Order of Police passed out ice cream bars and fudgesicles to the prisoners in the city and county jail.
Similar threads
- Sticky