The Mardi Gras Night Club at 92 Duval Street in the 1950’s.

TODAY IN KEY WEST HISTORY / February 3, 1953

1953 The Key West City Commission passed an ordinance outlawing soliciting the sale of alcoholic beverages in the city bars and nightclubs. Scores of local B-Girls were thrown out of work by the new law.

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