Posts in category History

The Naval Air Station about 1970. TODAY in KEY WEST HISTORY / September 30, 19761976 President Gerald Ford signed a military construction bill that included …

The Salem Monument in the Battleship Maine Plot in the Key West Cemetery. TODAY in KEY WEST HISTORY / September 29, 19181918 A liberty boat …

The Navy waterline installed on a railraod bridge. TODAY in KEY WEST HISTORY / September 28, 19401940 The Navy announced that a contract had been …

Headline from The Key West Citizen TODAY in KEY WEST HISTORY / September 27, 19551955 The Key West motel price war reached a new high …

John Lowe’s sawmill and ships ways at Greene and Simonton Street. TODAY in KEY WEST HISTORY / September 26, 19061906 John Lowe Jr. had wholesale …

The 2900 block of Riviera Drive in the eye of Hurricane Georges. TODAY in KEY WEST HISTORY / September 25, 19981998 Hurricane Georges, a category …

The Harvey Government Center. TODAY in KEY WEST HISTORY / September 24, 1997 1997 The Harvey Government Center at the Historic Truman School was dedicated …

The Federal Building on Simonton Street. TODAY in KEY WEST HISTORY / September 23, 1932 1932 The Post Office opened for business in the new …

The B’nai Zion on United Street. TODAY in KEY WEST HISTORY / September 22, 1968 1968 Formal ceremonies consecrating the ground on United Street where …

Bertha Street looking to the ocean during the 1948 Hurricane. TODAY in KEY WEST HISTORY / September 21, 1948 1948 A category three hurricane passed over …

St. Mary Star of the Sea Catholic Church on Duval Street. TODAY in KEY WEST HISTORY / September 20, 1919 1919 St. Mary Star of the …

The Spanish passenger liner Valbanera. TODAY in KEY WEST HISTORY / September 19, 1919 1919 The U.S. Navy Subchaser SC 203 found the wreckage of the …

Tennesse Williams’ home on Duncan Street. TODAY in KEY WEST HISTORY / September 18, 1983 1983 A group of New York actors, playwrights and theater supporters …

The Strand Theater on Duval Street. TODAY in KEY WEST HISTORY / September 17, 1947 1947 The Strand Theater signed a $25,000 contract to install a …

A chater boat rack beside North Roosevelt Boulevard. TODAY in KEY WEST HISTORY / September 16, 1957 1957 The city commission approved a lease with the …

The City of Key West in the harbor. TODAY in KEY WEST HISTORY / September 15, 1974 1974 The Cunard Line’s luxury cruise ship Ambassador was …

The 1944 Key West Telephone Book. TODAY in KEY WEST HISTORY / September 14, 1944 1944 Southern Bell Telephone and Telegraph finished distribution of 2,993 copies …

The Grotto beside St. Mary Star of the Sea Catholic Church. TODAY in KEY WEST HISTORY / September 13, 1987 1987 Sister Louis Gabriel died at …

USS Key West. TODAY in KEY WEST HISTORY / September 12, 1987 1987 The nuclear powered fast attack submarine the USS Key West was commissioned in …

South Beach and the end of Duval Street. TODAY in KEY WEST HISTORY / September 11, 1946 1946 In a special meeting the city commission passed …