Location: 201 Duval Street Sloppy Joe’s Bar Menu And yes, they do serve a good “sloppy joe”. Very popular attraction with the day crowd seeking sandwiches, cold drinks, burgers, and other indulgences. More bar than restaurant, Sloppy Joe’s continues to serve up bar-food in their lively atmosphere during the daytime. This bar & restaurant has become a Key West institution. Because the floor was always wet with melted ice, his patrons taunted this Spanish Joe with running a sloppy place…and the name stuck. The new name was adopted from Jose Garcia’s Rio Havana Club which sold liquor and iced seafood. It was suggested by Ernest Hemingway, a favorite patron of Russell’s bar from the start, to change the bar name to Sloppy Joe’s. The bar was a place of shabby discomfort, good friends, gambling, fifteen-cent whiskey, and ten-cent shots of gin.

With the addition of a dance floor, the name was changed to the Silver Slipper.

Joe Russell was the original proprietor and the bar was then named the Blind Pig located in a rundown building that Russell leased for three dollars a week. The bar was destined to go through two name changes and a sudden change of location before it would become today’s Sloppy Joe’s Bar. Sloppy Joe’s Bar was born on December 5, 1933, the day prohibition ended. The famous Sloppy Joe’s Bar in Key West, where Hemingway drank and caroused. Stay Tuned with Greg you never know what's around the next corner.A casual and lively Key West party spot made famous by Ernest Hemingway. Update : In March 2018 Greg appeared on world renowned pioneering digital artist Laurence Gartels radio show G Talk. It is autobiographical, humorous, whimsical and ironic, done in a constantly developing style all his own. His artwork is owned by many artists and collectors today.His work ranges from abstract expessionism to illustrative dreamscapes to Pop Art. So feel free to join his ever growing group of collectors and purchase while the prices are reasonable While the main impetus for his painting is as an outlet for his creativity and not necessarily to sell, his work CAN be purchased right here. Musically you can find his art featured on CD covers such as South Florida Rockers’ 'Dancing In The Combat Zone' and Shark Valley Sisters’ 'VERA” and BLOWFLYs post mortem release 'BLOWFLY 77 Rusty Trombones'.on the back cover. His last showing was at the late great Hollywood FL artist Larry Joe Millers memorial event, 4 portraits of Larry Joe we're donated. His work has been shown and donated at various charity and art events throughout South Florida. Also his work has been shown at YOUTH OF NATIONS - ART ON THE EDGE GALLERY & STUDIO KANTER GALLERY in Ft Lauderdale, FL. His piece 'THE LAST SUPPER OF ALEIN JESUS came in among 19 winners of Ben Moores 'Art Below ' competition and as a result was exhibited during the Queens Jubilee at Liverpool Street Station in London, England. He is mostly known as the lead vocalist of the renowned New Wave / Miami punk band The Front,and for producing and directing punk guerilla documentaries INVISIBLE BANDS and THE FRONT THE BAND THAT TIME FORGOT.Īlthough Greg had always shown an interest in art since he was a child, he started seriously pursuing his painting around 1998. Learn more Gregory McLaughlin - Artist Gregory McLaughlin - artist -musician and guerilla documentary filmmaker resides in West Palm Beach Florida today.

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