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[2] [6] Both Jimmy Buffett and Bob Marley started their careers in the hotel's "Chart Room Bar"; Wolkowsky was the first to hire Buffett in Key West. [ 2 ] The Pier House became a destination for celebrities and media types, mostly because of Wolkowsky's unique personality and laissez-faire attitude, as well as his acute public relations ; he ...
Captain Tony's Saloon is a bar in Key West, Florida, United States, located at 428 Greene Street. The bar has been patronized through the years by many well-known artists, writers and celebrities. When a celebrity visits, a barstool is added that is painted with that patron's name.
Buffett wrote the song about Phillip Clark, at the Chart Room where Buffett first performed after his move to Key West, Florida. [3] The song contains the bittersweet confession of a modern-day, washed-up drug smuggler as he looks back on the first 40 years of his life, expresses lament that his preferred vocation of piracy on the high seas was ...
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In 1985, singer Jimmy Buffett opened his first successful "Margaritaville" retail store in Key West, Florida, following a failed Margaritaville in Gulf Shores, Alabama. [2] [3] In 2002, he expanded his business ventures by partnering with Outback Steakhouse to develop the first Cheeseburger in Paradise restaurant in Southport, Indiana.
The Key West businessman accused of fatally shooting an unarmed man for urinating on the outside of a building he owns was denied bond during his first appearance before a judge.
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]