
I stumbled across this picture over the weekend.
The Silver Slipper figures into the history of Sloppy Joe's, now a Key West tourist attraction, but a real saloon in the 1930's when this picture was painted (circa 1935) by Waldo Peirce.
The painting is certainly evocative of an era, of a time in Key West that has been little chronicled in what history I've managed to read up until now. I discovered that there might have been another Silver Slipper at a later time. The address given is 215 Virginia St., which would put it in Bahama Village between Thomas and Emma Sts. I never saw that reference before which is going to lead me to do some more research.
Incidentally, as I've mentioned before, I'm also posting at the Bahama Village web log on a variety of topics. I hope to be able to reveal more of the history of Bahama Village.


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