Key West
About Key West
Key West is an island in the Straits of Florida, at the southern end of the U.S. state of Florida. Together with all or parts of the separate islands of Dredgers Key, Fleming Key, Sunset Key, and the northern part of Stock Island, it constitutes the City of Key West.
On the show — 27 mentions total
At one point about 10% of Key West's population was chickens.
from 533: No Such Thing As The Farto Phone, 2024-05-30 at 00:41:34 · read transcript
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He would provide food and accommodation just for the first couple of days when you arrived in Key West and then maybe even sort you out with a job and stuff like that. That's interesting. Yeah. It's very close. In fact, I think is it closer to Cuba than it is to Miami? It's close. It's a hop, skip and a jump. Harder to drive, I could say that much.
533: No Such Thing As The Farto Phone, 2024-05-30 · listen
The other thing was that he was like the unofficial welcome for Cuban exiles. A lot of people were leaving Cuba at the time because Castro had just come in, right? He would provide food and accommodation just for the first couple of days when you arrived in Key West and then maybe even sort you out with a job and stuff like that. That's interesting. Yeah.
533: No Such Thing As The Farto Phone, 2024-05-30 · listen
I think there are still some bits of railway, I think. I think so. It was called Flagellas folly. It was Henry Flagellar, who was a millionaire and he had this vision of a railway all the way down to Key West, all the way through the Florida Keys, all the bridges that you drive over now. It was his life's work. It took $50 million of his money.
No Such Thing As The Farto Phone, 2024-05-30 · listen
Coordinates: 24.5550, -81.7819