Key West The way it was

Key west Florida 42 years ago that’s right I’m old this was the first year I started taking photos and actually selling them to Kennedy studios I’ve already published nine postcards before I turned 22, what’s unique about this sunset is it’s not Mallory Square it’s Simonton Street, back then a bunch of us locals would meet there every night for our special Sunset ritual smoke some weed do a couple bumps we were too close to the water to do lines bumps were good though people even brought containers with margaritas we also met there during the day to dive off the pier and swim against the current, I published a lot of images from that pier, In 1979 Lisa and I went on our first date there I had to introduce her to my friends show her off, if you go there now my aunt Josie has a tiki bar there laggerheads stop by there and watch the sunset have a cocktail and tell my aunt Josie Keith sent you

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