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The novel is a roman à clef, with many key figures of the Beat movement represented by characters in the book, including Kerouac, himself, as the narrator, Sal Paradise. The idea for the book formed during the late 1940s in a series of notebooks and was then typed out, on a continuous reel of paper, during three weeks in April 1951.
Disney's Old Key West Resort is a Disney Vacation Club (DVC) resort located at the Walt Disney World Resort in Lake Buena Vista, Florida. It opened on December 20, 1991 as the company's first timeshare property, and as such, was simply named Disney's Vacation Club Resort. The property was renamed Disney's Old Key West Resort in January 1996 ...
Key West is closer to Havana (about 106 miles or 171 kilometers by air or sea) [8] than it is to Miami (130 miles or 210 kilometers by air or 165 miles or 266 kilometers by road). [7] Key West is the usual endpoint for marathon swims from Cuba, including Diana Nyad's 2013 swim [33] [34] and Susie Maroney's 1997 swim from within a shark cage. [35]
The town of Key West was settled in 1834, the year after Dubuque's founding. There was plenty of timber, prairie land and streams for water in section 12 of Table Mound Township, in Dubuque County, on the road that became the Old Military Road. Key West's population was 56 in 1902, [2] and 52 in 1915. [3]
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The production faced a lawsuit by tourism mogul Ed Swift, a neighbor to the Driftwood Drive house, who sought to stop filming at the location, on the grounds that the production's floodlights, commercial-sized air conditioners, and outdoor cameras capable of rotating towards his house were a nuisance, and that local zoning laws prohibit commercial use of Key Haven homes.
A Florida Keys woman alleges that Island House, a decades-old resort in Key West’s Old Town, discriminates against cisgender women, transgender people and those who identify as non-binary by ...
The Key West Historic District (also known as Old Town of the City of Key West) is a U.S. historic district (designated as such on March 11, 1971) located in Key West, Florida. It encompasses approximately 4,000 acres (16 km 2 ), bounded by White, Angela, Windsor, Passover, Thomas and Whitehead Streets, and the Gulf of Mexico .