Key West’s history may be steeped in spirits; Prohibition’s rumrunners put some of the first speakeasies on the map here. And Duvall Street’s iconic bars, Sloppy Joe’s and Captain Tony’s ...

On the surface, Key West—that four-by-one-mile sliver of sand at the southernmost part of the United States—seems to follow the same formula: Its bars certainly mirror the larger-than-life ...

In hard-drinking Key West on Monday, Sept. 14, bars were allowed to reopen. But many had already done so by obtaining food licenses so they could serve booze.

CONVERTITO Key West, to me, always finds a way to bounce back. Every time we're dealt this bad news economically, in particular, we find a way to regenerate. And that's what happens in the mid-70s.

Then all bars and nightclubs in Florida got shut down for 30 days by Gov. Ron DeSantis, cutting off income for a workforce filled with bartenders, servers and bar backs who make their living off tips.