Ironic I thought to myself as I cycled by on Simonton Street. The pool chemical store to the left, the Sugar Apple all natural store to the right.
I was in the neighborhood to photograph Pierce Lane, a slip of a street that runs alongside the industrial powerhouse here which is Key West Chemical Supply:
I was in the neighborhood to photograph Pierce Lane, a slip of a street that runs alongside the industrial powerhouse here which is Key West Chemical Supply:
The north side of Pierce Lane is dominated by Key West Chemical's warehouse:
And looming above the warehouse the downtown cell phone tower that gives the whole place an even more industrial look. The only other such tower serving Key West is on Stock Island, though there are plans being discussed about putting another one in on North Roosevelt Boulevard:
On the other side of the lane the pool chemical company was ventilating the store room with a big fan. A reminder that even in November it is necessary to throw the doors open on an overcast 80 degree afternoon (27C) to keep the chemical laden air moving:
As though a reminder were needed these are new homes built on Pierce Lane tell us that Key West has a high tolerance for "mixed use zoning." There simply isn't enough land to do otherwise and these new homes need protection apparently:
But there is still plenty of old stock buildings in the darker recesses at the back of the lane:
And, as though to compensate there is also the back of the brand new hotel which actually faces onto Truman Avenue. It is built in the modern style, sort of industrial chic warehouse with firm colors and a touch of metal in the decorations. I quite like it even though it is unusual for Key West:
Complete with parking under the building. Very convenient. The scooter is riding towards Duval on Truman Avenue on the other side of the hotel:
This is a last look back at Pierce Lane towards Simonton Street:
After all my efforts cycling around town to photograph lanes and Peary Court I felt I deserved refreshment before I went to rest at the Tropic for a matinée movie. I stopped off at my new favorite place for a quite lunch, on the 1200 block of Simonton. Badboy Burrito was as good as ever:
A stool in the window and a Gaucho Ernesto, jalapeno, beef rice and beans with a bottle of water (I forgot to bring my own flask, mea culpa!) for ten dollars set me straight. Excellent food, including the fresh salsa and blue chips on the banana leaf on the plate, it's safe to say Key West finally has a superb burrito shop to call it's own.
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With a name like Badboy Burrito, it just sounds really good.
Better living through chemistry, I frequently say.
Sugar Apple peddles alternative pharmacy about which I have my doubts, and I don't have a pool. And badboy made me my own yesterday pork chili cabbage jalapeno cheese and waterfront dining. More on that tomorrow.
Dear Sir:
I feel funny photographing my meals, as it seems akin to a public execution. It is also very odd reading these posts that illustrate a daily travel through your world, on a bicycle. Stranger still is your compulsion to photograph the bike.
I have begun to work in deadly earnest on the idea you gave me three weeks ago. I may have to venture down there at some point for first-hand data. Then again, facts mean nothing to a humor writer.
Fondest regards,
Jack • reep • Toad
Twisted Roads
the bike is art of my life. Just like you.
I used to live at the house in
the house at the end of Pierce Ln.
The address is 11 Pierce Ln.and
when I changed my voters
registration I had to prove
Pierce Ln. existed,, nobody
had voted from there in years.
I hope I get as funny a comment from Pinder Lane later this week.
Mike,
Let me clarify my previous post. Over 20 years ago, after my house, on Truman Avenue was sold I rented the house located at 11 Pierce Lane. (the 10th picture in your Pierce Lane installment, the one with the large Banyon tree) the last house on the left.I then went to the driver’s license office located near the airport and Mrs. Danials processed my change of address and issued me my new driver’s license with
11 Pierce Lane, which I still have next to my FKCC identification card. I then went to the county voter’s office located on Whitehead Street, to change my voter identification card, they told me Pierce Lane did not exist, after providing property tax information and documentation from the city they issued me my new voter’s identification card, for 11 Pierce Lane. They stated that nobody had from any address on Pierce Lane ever voted according to their records.
Ralph Alan
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