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Alabama Jack's
Card Sound Road is the old way into the Keys, laid along the route of the first Overseas Highway, and Alabama Jack's sits on it about a mile short of the bridge. Jack Stratham was a Georgia man out of…
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Baby's Coffee
Baby's Coffee is named after a building it left behind. Gary and Olga Teplitsky came down from New York in 1991 to start a coffee roasting company, and opened in a small place at the uptown end of Duv…
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Green Parrot Bar
Antonio Sanchez opened a grocery at the southeast corner of Whitehead and Southard in 1890, and something has been trading in the building ever since, which is the basis for the Green Parrot's claim t…
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Mrs. Mac's Kitchen
The building went up in 1947 as Grainger's Gulf Side Inn, one of the few places along this stretch of the Overseas Highway where a traveller could get a meal. Jeff MacFarland opened Mrs. Mac's Kitchen…
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No Name Pub
No Name Pub opened in 1931 as a general store and bait and tackle shop on Big Pine Key, on the road that led to the No Name Key ferry. The first Overseas Highway had opened three years earlier with a …
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Porky's Bayside
Porky's Bayside began around the middle of the last century as Bill Thompson's Villas and Marina, on the bay side of Key Vaca. The sources disagree about exactly when: the restaurant says 1950 and the…