AMAZING LIVES


SEEING THE REAL KEYS


n A N I N T E R V I E W W I T H Don Kincaid


Victoria Leigh | VL What was Key West like when you were a child? Don Kincaid | DK Both my parents are from Key West. My dad was in the service, so we lived most the time someplace else, but this is where I went to school for a couple of years and would always come back to visit my grandparents and cousin. It was my hometown no matter where I lived. My family all lived on Laird Street back in the 1960s and actually still has property there.


VICTORIA LEIGH


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VLWhat was Laird Street like in the ‘50s and ‘60s? DK It was pretty quiet. You’d go out and the only thing you could really hear was the air conditioning going on in somebody’s house. You very seldom heard what we have now which are fire engines, motorcycles and emergency vehicles going by at all times. It was a very, very quiet place at that time.


VL It probably didn’t have that many people in it, right? DKTe population cap has not changed all that much since those times. It was around 24,000 back then, and we’re at about 28,000 now if you don’t count the people here just for a couple months out of the year. Everybody seemed to know one another, and the sailors really ran Duval Street back in those days.


VL How did you spend your summers in Key West? DKMy dad was in the Air Force, so we lived in California, Texas, New Mexico, Virginia, the Philippine Islands and Europe, and whenever I was here in the summertime I would go snorkeling every afternoon off the south side of the island. My territory was everywhere from the airport


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