Tuesday, September 7, 2010

20 YEARS AGO

Key West officials held a meeting to discuss a black activist's allegations of police brutality in Bahama Village.

Florida environmentalists were urging President Bush to resist oil industry attempts to drill off the coast because of the conflict in the Iraq.

After five months, TV Marti broadcasting from Fat Albert on Cudjoe Key had virtually no viewers because the Cuban government jammed the signal.

50 YEARS AGO

Van Heusen shirts was telling the Key West story by giving a 12-page book about the island to everyone who bought a product from its spring line.

Monroe County closed the deal for $4,200 for land on Big Pine Key for the volunteer fire department that planned to begin construction within days.

Monroe County School Board Chairman Gerald Adams cracked down hard on member Ruth Alice Campbell during the regular meeting before a packed audience.

The Monroe County Commission passed an emergency resolution authorizing the construction of Key Haven Road on Raccoon Key.

100 YEARS AGO

Mrs. J.J. Philbrick, accompanied by her grandson, George Stricker, returned from a visit to Lemon City.

Thirty-six men arrived from New York on the Mallory steamer Concha. The men were workers for the Florida East Coast Railway extension to Key West.