Article: In Key West, times change

City can't resist

pop-culture's calling

By Kathy Lally

BALTIMORE SUN

KEY WEST, Fla. -- He was not such an old man and he fished and he fought and he wrote and he never went many days without drinking at Sloppy Joe's.

And the city loved the man, for he was a two-fisted tough guy, adventuring and writerly and untamed. And they made Sloppy Joe's bar into a shrine to the man and Sloppy Joe's was Key West and Key West was Sloppy Joe's and the man was Ernest Hemingway.

And if the man went to Sloppy Joe's today he would find many Hemingway T-shirts and men drinking until the sun rises and women drinking until the bells toll. And the man would look at the menu at Sloppy Joe's and he would see ...

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