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Florida Keys Art,Artist . Updated 1/28/2024

Keys Famous Recycling Artist

 ,WEIRD FLORIDA: ROADS LESS TRAVELED

Charlie Carlson visits one of the weirdest guys in the world, the one and only Hong Kong Willie. WEIRD FLORIDA: ROADS LESS TRAVELED

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S.L. GIMBEL FOUNDATION.
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  To Live a life in the art world and be so blessed to make a social impact. Artists are to give back, talent is to tell a story, to make change. Reuse is a life experience  




 Key West Legendary Recycling Artist,


Blue Marlin Dream of Key West.
$225,000  Hong Kong Willie Art











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Florida Keys Famous People,

Remember The Name Hongkongwillie.World Famous Reuse Artis,

The first time i can remember, The Florida Keys. The long road , narrow water on both sides. Beach, not to my understanding. Key West, Duval St, only what tourists see, was my first impression. WOW, that would change.

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 i received a phone call from Al in Ramrod Key, a Florida Key. A Key that is about 27 miles from Key West. Al: a rocker, drummer, out there kind a guy. Al and i met in a funny way. Al living near some small town in Massachusetts also having this cool place in the Florida Keys.

All in Ramrod Key, a Florida Key

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NO NAME PUB BIG PINE KEY

Al, Artist,The Florida Keys

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Artist have this draw to the Keys, Why, Well it took this road to discover. Al now living in Ramrod, calling to tell what had happen in the Isle of Ramrod. Not to mention Cat, oh i forgot, Cat is how i met Al. Tomorrow or When its Write.

FAMOUS KEY WEST PEOPLE

Mona

Sings the Blues

at Dockside,

Marathon, Florida




I KNOW WHAT IT MEANS,WHEN YOU SAY I GOTTA GO FISHIN AGAIN



Al, someone that, well to say what a friend. Some nights sleeping on his pool table. and not far is No Name Pub, well there you go, pub, by any other name spells trouble. Well contrary to your disbelief, what a place of history. This is where it begins.or When its begins.

NO NAME PUB BIG PINE KEY

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This once remote Key, NO NAME KEY,NO NAME PUB, remote, to say the

least, pub , when seeing the place, everything you can believe, and more,

just from the appearance. Now no matter what you have heard second

thoughts still occur.. Its still time turn around, not to night. The

Rainbow Trail by Zane Grey, was spoken here, my first exposure to the

days of Zane Grey, oh I'm getting ahead of myself. No Name Pub, a Zayne

Grey second office in the Keys, later to be one of mine. No Name Pub,

the history, the wild west, well, great writers, why they come here, No

Name Pub. Real artist, Real Treasure hunters, Fisherman, and the trade no

one saw, all came. No one made a big deal who came or left.

Black Bird of Key Largo

Key West Artist Hong Kong Willie Art

$98,000.00 USD
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Black Bird of Key Largo

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“Black Bird of Key Largo”To Buy Now click this link The allurement of the winds blowing in the palm trees and the moon shining through and the “Black Bird of Key Largo” looking upon.Hong Kong Willie**HONG KONG WILLIE artist Kim Brown, chose aged Florida sawmill stock as canvas. Recovered Brass Hanger: Key West lobster trap rigging. Originally connects and suspends rigging of spiny lobster traps in Key West waters. Candy-like appearance due to multiple protective layers. Assigned number in artist register by Fisherman ID tag, corresponding burn-etched # rear of piece. Key recovered by Robert Jordan, acclaimed treasure hunter: also in identification of piece and artist.*Prior to shipping, final coating will be applied to each piece.

Dimensions:

24″ L

8″ W

4″ H

Weight: 17+ LB

No Name Pub history takes us far back to 1931 when we were a

Link to no name Pub

www.nonamepub.co m/history.html

general store

NO NAME PUB BIG PINE KEY

and bait and tackle shop.

We remained that way until 1936 when the owners added a

small room on to the

main structure which became an eatery. Thus the Pub was born.

Our early customers included people from all walks of life, world

travelers that arrived from the mainland via Ferry to the local

Fisherman. The late 1930s brought an interesting twist to

In an effort to increase business the upstairs storage room was

converted into a Brothel. Unfortunately, the venture failed after

several years as the Fisherman were reported to be better looking than

the ladies.

The 1940s saw the end of the

Brothel and beginning of a real

Keys landmark.

Travelers (we had few tourists back then) and locals alike began to discover this quirky out of the way place.

The ladies would do their shopping in the general store as the men

would browse the bait and tackle shop, then kick back and have a beer

and sandwich in our eatery.

It was during the 1950s that the general store and bait and tackle shop closed.

The Pub was now 100% bar and restaurant.

No Name was added to the already Pub name and we became forever more the

No Name Pub.

No Name Pub

quickly became a Keys hangout.

NO NAME PUB BIG PINE KEY

Our honky tonk atmosphere of beer drinking, pool shooting and great food eating became known from

Miami To Key West.

The place would get so smokey and crowded the customers would spill out

into the backyard where dice, crap and card games would eventually

break out.

The old timers say the place never got raided because the Sheriff ran the dice games.

1960 brought about another addition for the better to the Pub.

It was during this era that our famous pizza was born. Two great cooks

from Italy brought their recipe with them when they worked here.

For over 40 years we still use

the same great recipe, we have to, when the cooks left they wrote the recipe on the kitchen wall so we would never forget.

The 1970's and 80's was the rowdy time

of our history.

Jimmy Buffett's "Why don't we get drunk and screw" played on the juke

box while people would drink, eat and dance to excess in the Pub.

There was a lot of illegal money passing

through the Keys back then and everyone

loved to spend it. They had so much

money in fact they started hanging it on our walls

NO NAME PUB BIG PINE KEY

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As the new millennium arrived the rowdies grew up and the No Name Pub

became a place once again where people from all walks of life could

enjoy great food, cold beer and good conversation.

Our juke box is still here, the walls

are covered with a few more dollar bills and we are one of the last great

places with that old Florida Keys atmosphere.

"A nice place if you can find it."

As The Sign reads,this was true



Come inside the Hong Kong Willie Gallery! See

WEIRD,

WILD,

VIRAL,

FAMOUS,

HIPPIE SHOP,

FOR REAL,

Hong Kong Willie

Tampa Art Gallery



a view. WEIRD, WILD FAMOUS HIPPIE SHOP,"YOU GOTTA GO THERE, IT DOES

EXIST YOU GOTTA GO THERE. GOING VIRAL TO BE GREEN,HELP REPORTER PACKAGE



 Thinking over what Al,and i had talked about,or what was not.No Name Pub,why was it that so many famous people had found this mosquito infested island.,much less the pub. Was it because it set in some cove that pirates years ago found.
The first piece of art, Al, had heard, but where else. No Name Pub, selling bells, made out of scuba tanks. What a tip bell. Old times late 70's early 80's when Bob Jordan found the Atocha. Bob a real treasure hunter.,Pirates, No Name Key, and treasure.Al had been looking for some time for the first piece of art.Was it to be or was it going to be like Bob Jordan and the Keys. A short Link of Bob Jordan and the Atocha


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