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Article: UNCOVERING HEMINGWAY'S KEY WEST.(Sunday Magazine/Travel)

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Rocky Mountain News (Denver, CO)
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July 21, 1996
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Byline: Cheryl Blackerby

KEY WEST, Fla. -- T-shirt shops have taken over Duval Street like pollution-fed algae spreading over a coral reef. Soon, a Hard Rock Cafe will be the ultimate insult on this 174-year-old community's main street. The cafe will sell hats, souvenirs - and T-shirts.

Residents laugh about Sea World in Orlando opening a Key West theme park, while the real Key West has become a theme park. Historic buildings are being divided into condos, and a working waterfront that once accommodated freighters and ferries now has a Hilton and a Hyatt.

The Key West of Ernest Hemingway, Tennessee Williams, Robert Frost and Wallace Stevens is ...

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