![]() ![]() Hemingway met her at "Sloppy Joe's" and she stayed on after her mother left town. In December 1936, writer Martha Gellhorn came to Key West with her mother for a vacation. ![]() That July he wrote Perkins, complaining about the "bloody sons of bitching winter visitors." But one of them would have a profound effect on his life. The crowd grew so large Hemingway locked the gate to keep them out, then, angry, he kicked it and broke his toe. Word spread she was staying with Ernest and Pauline and tourists gathered outside the house. ![]() In February 1936, temperamental red-headed movie actress Nancy Carroll, a 1930 Oscar nominee, visited 907 Whitehead. Finished in August 1935, the wall still couldn't shield Hemingway from the curious. Toby Bruce used the bricks for the wall visitors see now. Soon after the Esquire article came out, he bought about 19,000 paving bricks removed from the street during federal-sponsored construction of new city water and sewer systems. But truth was the writer was infuriated by the intrusions and blamed President Franklin Roosevelt's "New Deal" for yanking the island out of obscurity, ending its isolation and killing off his anonymity there. The tone of the article is tongue-in-cheek. "Since his home has been listed as an official attraction your correspondent feels that he owes it to the FERA to give such visitors their money's worth," Hemingway wrote in "The Sights of Whitehead Street: A Key West Letter," published in the April 1935 Esquire. Tourists wandered onto the writer's property, some walking right into his living room. Most had a tour map showing Hemingway's house as an attraction. Cleaned up and repackaged, it was sold as a tourist destination.īy 1935, Stone's efforts lured visitors. decided Key West's natural assets - warm weather, beautiful waters, wonderful fishing and an isolated, Caribbean atmosphere - would save it. The job of restoring Key West's economy fell on the recently formed Federal Emergency Relief Administration (FERA). That July, municipal and county officials closed the city government and transferred its legal powers to Florida Governor David Sholtz. By 1934 the per capita income of Key West was only $7 a month. Hemingway Days continues through Sunday with events including a quirky “Running of the Bulls” spoof, a street fair and the Key West Marlin Tournament that recalls the author’s passion for Florida Keys fishing.But his Depression-era neighbors didn't fare as well. The contest’s second preliminary round is set for Friday, the 124th anniversary of Hemingway’s July 21 birth, and the 2023 winner is set to be chosen Saturday night. Many are repeat contenders who bring their own cheering sections, and most attempt to copy the “Papa” persona and appearance adopted by Hemingway in his later years. Almost 140 contestants are competing in the challenge, a featured event of Key West’s annual Hemingway Days festival that ends Sunday, July 23.Ĭlosely observed by a judging panel of previous winners including 2022’s Jon Auvil, of Dade City, Florida, contestants take turns pontificating and parading across Sloppy Joe’s stage. Florida Keys News Bureau Tom Grizzard, right, winner of the 2008 “Papa” Hemingway Look-Alike Contest, and other past winners judge contestants during the 2023 contest Thursday, July 20, 2023, at Sloppy Joe’s Bar in Key West. ![]()
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