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Article: In Key West, times change
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- Oakland Tribune
- Article date:
- May 7, 2004
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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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