When I first moved to Key West in 1976 I was 20 years old kind of a hip Italian guy for my age from Elizabeth New Jersey but definitely a virgin to society of the people in Key West not many people worked and we’re always smoking weed and snorting cocaine there was a bar around the corner from my grandfathers bar called the monster it was a super wild gay bar hot tub‘s unbelievable sound system a lot of dark corners and some of the best bartenders in America it was a tropical studio 54 my grandfather was very good friends with the owner and my great uncle Sal would hang out there I went there a bunch of times it was rough I was very homophobic and straight as an arrow as I still am today The things I witnessed in there were epic I was never one of those disco dancers I was from the hippie world but the girls who I dated love to dance and go there so I would drink piña colada’s and just watch pretty wild times Key West the way it was