1970 – The USS Quillback (SS 525) was open to the public for tours at Naval Station Key West’s Pier 1.

1930 – After having explored a change in routes, the Mallory Steamship company announced that existing service would remain.

1925 – A Keys-wide real estate boom had prompted Key West lot owners to clean their vacant properties.

1939 – A Works Progress Administration sewer line project employing 442 Key West men had, to date, laid 20 miles of sewer pipe in the city.

956 – The Cuban ferry, the City of Havana, sailed for the first time from the new terminal on Stock Island.

1955 – Mackerel and tarpon were running in Key West Harbor and dozens of fishermen were trying their luck from the Clyde-Mallory Dock.

1940 – Key Wester William W. Demeritt was commissioned a Captain in the Coast Guard.

1975 – A representative of the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development met the mayor of Key West and toured Duval Street with him.

2004 – The City of Key West hired Armando Parra as official chicken catcher to try to control the island’s free-ranging chicken population.

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