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| Above, Hemingway's urinal in 2019. Photo by Armand Vaquer. |
Back in 2019, a friend and I took a cruise to Havana, Cuba. En route, we stopped in Key West, Florida for a day's worth of shopping and exploring.
One of the things I did while in Key West was to visit the Hemingway Home & Museum. It was basically a self-guided tour of home, grounds and his office.
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| Above, Sloppy Joe's Bar where the urinal once resided. Photo by Armand Vaquer. |
One of the things I saw while exploring the grounds was an old urinal that Hemingway lugged home from a bar. The bar, Sloppy Joe's, was undergoing renovations in the late 1930s and the urinal would have likely been put in a dumpster. So, Hemingway liberated it.
That is the topic of an article in Secret Miami.
They begin the article with:
When you think of Ernest Hemingway’s time in Key West, you’re likely picturing the famed novelist hunched over a typewriter in his studio or perhaps deep-sea fishing on his boat, the Pilar.
But when exploring the grounds of his former residence — now known as The Hemingway Home and Museum — one of the most unique artifacts you’ll find isn’t a first edition or a fishing rod. It’s a porcelain urinal he actually dragged home from a bar!
To read more, go here.
A bit of trivia: There's also a Sloppy Joe's Bar in Havana, Cuba.
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