 | No Name Pub history takes us far back to 1931 when we were a
general store
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
No Name Pub history.
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. | 
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| 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.
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.
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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." |
