November 1
1906 – The morning daily newspaper the Inter-Ocean and the Citizen, a weekly paper, combined to form the Citizen Publishing Company which began publishing a new afternoon daily: The Key West Citizen. Walter W. Thompson was president, Marcy H. Darnell business manager, and T.T. Thompson treasurer.
1939 – Naval Station Key West was formally reopened after having been under caretaker status. To celebrate, factory whistles, church bells, and sirens were sounded across town for 10 minutes. A parade then went down Duval Street, followed by a dance.
1956 – At the request of Art McKee, Jr. of Plantation Key, state authorities granted permission for a cannon to be temporarily removed from an Upper Keys shipwreck site so it could be filmed by a CBS television crew. The cannon had to be returned to its original location when the shoot ended.
1960 – The Key West-Havana ferry arrived in the night on its final trip from Cuba. There were 287 passengers and 86 cars among which were an undisclosed number belonging to the American Embassy in Havana.
1966 – Monroe County Sheriff Reace Thompson announced that the department would begin using a breathalyzer machine to test drivers suspected of being intoxicated. Nineteen deputies and six Key West Police Officers would be trained to use the device.
Information compiled by Dr. Corey Malcom, Lead Historian, Monroe County Public Library, Florida Keys History Center.
Image: Naval Station Key West in caretaker status, 1937. From the Ida Woodward Barron Collection. Monroe County Public Library, Florida Keys History Center.
