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[8] By 1990, the Hampton Inn chain included over 220 properties with more than 27,000 rooms. [9] Hampton Inn and Suites was introduced in 1995, which featured two-room suite style hotel rooms complete with living room and kitchen areas. [7] Raymond E. Schultz was credited with creating the Hampton Inn brand.
The "Old Town" neighborhood is located on the west side of the island and is within the Key West Historic District. The district is listed on the National Register of Historic Places (NRHP). [1] The property has served various uses: as a grocery and butcher shop, a residence with a doctor's office, a boardinghouse, and a bed and breakfast inn.
Shoney's is a family casual restaurant, offering traditional American-style food such as hamburgers, chicken, steaks, fish, sandwiches, salads and desserts. [59] [63] Some of its iconic menu items include the All American Burger, Slim Jim Sandwich, hot fudge cake [64] and strawberry pie. [65]
Key West is closer to Havana (about 106 miles or 171 kilometers by air or sea) [8] than it is to Miami (130 miles or 210 kilometers by air or 165 miles or 266 kilometers by road). [7] Key West is the usual endpoint for marathon swims from Cuba, including Diana Nyad's 2013 swim [33] [34] and Susie Maroney's 1997 swim from within a shark cage. [35]
Betsy the Lobster is a sculpture in Islamorada, Florida depicting a large Caribbean spiny lobster. Made out of fiberglass, it was anatomically correct and was completed in 1985. It is the second-most photographed attraction in the Florida Keys, after the Southernmost Point Buoy. [1]
Old Original Bookbinder's was a seafood restaurant at 125 Walnut Street in Philadelphia.It was known for its lobsters and its Bookbinder's soup.. The restaurant was decorated with bas-reliefs of U.S. Presidents on its stained-glass façade and the Gettysburg Address written in bronze near the front door.
The "Great Sign" was a familiar sight on U.S. highways in the 1950s, 1960s, and 1970s. A Holiday Inn in New Orleans, pictured on a postcard c. 1975. The "Great Sign" was the roadside sign used by Holiday Inn during its original era of expansion from the 1950s to 1970s.
The first public library in the Keys opened in Key West in 1853, and today there are five locations throughout the Keys that serve over 350,000 young people and adults. The current Islamorada library is housed in a Works Progress Administration (WPA) building, built originally as the Matecumbe School in the late 1930s. It was designed to be ...