Duval Street Live Cam

Is this paradise? I thought it would be less... weird?

Hosted by:
  • Sloppy Joe's Bar
  • 201 Duval Street - Key West
  • Florida 33040 - United States
  • [email protected]
  • (305) 294-5717
  • https://sloppyjoes.com/

Key West is a compact island

But his Depression-era neighbors didn't fare as well. By 1934 the per capita income of Key West was only $7 a month. That July, municipal and county officials closed the city government and transferred its legal powers to Florida Governor David Sholtz. Sholtz put the entire island on welfare.

The job of restoring Key West's economy fell on the recently formed Federal Emergency Relief Administration (FERA). Relief administrator Julius Stone, Jr. decided Key West's natural assets - warm weather, beautiful waters, wonderful fishing and an isolated, Caribbean atmosphere - would save it. Cleaned up and repackaged, it was sold as a tourist destination.