Wednesday, October 3, 2012

20 YEARS AGO

Key West received a grant to document historically significant properties in the Key West Bight.

The single-family residence at 1101 17th St. sold for a reported $189,900.

Lower Florida Keys Health System and the Key West Rotary Club donated $1,800 to the Salvation Army Disaster Fund.

50 YEARS AGO

Key West City Manager Bazel Crowe submitted his resignation to the City Commission, He had accepted a government job in Guam.

Rear Adm. James R. Lee, commander of Carrier Division 16, arrived for a four-day inspection visit to the Naval Base.

Wesley Dennis, brother of the late artist Morgan Dennis, was reproducing one of his brother's watercolors as a 15-by-5 foot mural on the wall of La Concha.