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Ernest Hemingway's home32 views
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Denny's Key West style24 views
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Scooter and electric car rentals26 viewsTraffic is pretty tight in Key West and parking hard to find not to mention costly. Many tourists op to leave their car in one place and rent a scooter, small electric car, or bicycle instead.
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Dining at McDonald's Key style27 viewsI spoke to the owner of this McDonald's in Marathon, FL in the Keys who said he actually decorated the restaurant for the locals, not the tourists, to give them an inviting, and may I say charming place to eat.
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Tower above the Shipwreck Museum25 views
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Water cistern26 viewsBefore water was piped in by the Navy, the Keys depended on rain water saved in cisterns for their water needs. During the 1800s a great fire swept through the area. Residents watched from boats as fire hopped from roof to roof destroying their homes. Since then, only metal roofs, which had survived the fire, were allowed on homes. This also helped with gathering rain water in gutters into cisterns.
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Tropical fans in the McDonald's in Marathon, FL28 views
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Booths in McDonald's in Marathon, FL24 viewsNotice the horizontal slats which are commonly used by ship carpenters
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Very steep McDonald's drive thru28 viewsIt is steeper than it looks. Pulling out, you can't see the driveway so it is very much like a roller coaster ride and fun with a sharp turn to the right at the bottom.
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I believe this is part of a virtual geocache26 views
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Monument to wrecking30 viewsWhile wrecking (salvaging of shipwrecks) was the key business in Key West for a long time, wreckers were also responsible for saving thousands of lives of survivors as their first priority.
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