1942 – The Key West Chamber of Commerce was organizing a not-for-profit corporation to seek federal funding for the construction of much-needed housing on the island, saying of the shortage, “…if there is not immediate relief, many people now here will leave for places where they can be housed in a manner befitting their usual mode of living.”

1941 – A team of FBI agents raided the “Alice Reid House” at 1016 Howe Street in Key West and arrested Reid and her husband, a bartender, and an unnamed soldier on prostitution-related charges. The house was reputed to be a brothel, and a woman had been strangled there a month earlier.

1925 – The Norwegian steamship Capto arrived in Key West via the Panama Canal to discharge a cargo of 5 million feet of lumber from British Columbia. It was one of the largest lumber shipments in island history.

2000 – The last vestiges of the Howard Johnson’s restaurant on North Roosevelt Boulevard in Key West were removed.