No Name Pub on No Name Key Big Pine Key Hong Kong Willie Artist in the Florida Keys

February 11, 2009

No Name Pub, No Name Key, Hong KONG Willie Big Pine Key

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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Today “i seldom do this” i received a phone call from Al in Ramrod Key, a Florida Key. A Key that is about 27 miles from Key West. This is the day before the 2009 Super Bowl. 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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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.

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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.

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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.

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**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.

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

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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.

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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.”

As The Sign reads,this was true

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Today, the day after 2009 super bowl in Tampa, 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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Hand Made Bag
Shell: Burlap Coffee Bag
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Stitching: Recovered Yarn
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Hong Kong Willie. The name of the artist. In 1958 his mother took Hong Kong Willie to an art class. The name started then. An art teacher when doing crafts out of Gerber baby bottles, made a statement, in Hong Kong reuse was common. At that time he thought this was very interesting. His father had low-land, at that time landfills were common also. The county had told Hong Kong Willie’s father, it was safe, but as we now know this was not so. Something can come from bad to be good. Hong Kong Willie the name came from that art teacher impressing on that young mind that objects made for one use could be for many other uses. Hong Kong for the neat concept. Willie for an American name. So for many years Hong Kong Willie had a life of reuse. Hong Kong Willie saw forms in a different light, His life now was meaningful, knowing this was and would be his life. Art made from found objects, making less of a footprint on this world. Art and art teachers, HOW IMPORTANT. For the ones that have, and the ones who have not. Media can be found. Now 50 years later, we know now being green is important. We need to look at this very carefully. Our children and our world need a different understanding. Objects can be used in many different ways. Hong Kong Willie the tons of objects in his life that have been used, without much change, So for that art teacher what she did for my life. Thank You. I still have the Gerber baby bottle till this day. Hong Kong Willie.

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Hand Made Bag
Shell: Burlap Coffee Bag
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Handle, Label, Pockets:
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Source: Artist Worn Clothing
Dimensions:
Length(Strap to Bottom)-35″
Actual Length-11″
Width-17″

“Artist Born for this time, Lived on a landfill as a child. Reuse Became the way of life. To read the story from the inception of the Name Hong Kong Willie. Famed, by the humble statements form the Key West Citizen, viable art from reuse has found its time. 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. To think now of the past and the story of Hong Kong Willie, Why i have to say it was for a reason.
Hong Kong Willie Art Gallery In Tampa, a reuse Art Gallery. Artist Kim,Derek,and Joseph. reuse artist that have lived the life and are meant for the green movement in the world. A gallery that was born for this time. Artist living a freegan life,art that makes a social statement of reuse. Media that has a profound effect in making the word green truly a movement of reuse in the world today and the future

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Description

Hand Made Bag
Shell: Burlap Coffee Bag
Source: Third Generation Coffee Roaster
Stitching: Recovered Yarn
Source: Key West
Handle, Label, Pockets:
Source: Artist Worn Clothing (HKW)
Inner Chambers: 3
Dimensions:
Length(Strap to Bottom)-23″
Actual Length-15″
Width-22″

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Description

Hand Made Bag
Shell: Burlap Coffee Bag
Source: Third Generation Coffee Roaster
Stitching: Recovered Yarn
Source: Key West
Handle, Label, Pockets:
Source: Artist Worn Clothing (HKW)
Inner Chambers: 4
Dimensions:
Length(Strap to Bottom): 33″
Actual Length-20″
Width-14″

Recycling as a Lifestyle and a Business
By:

Chris Futrell, Florida Focus

TAMPA, Fla. – Have you ever seen the building on the corner of Fletcher and I-75 with a bunch of buoys strung everywhere? This small business that many think is an old bait n’ tackle shop is actually Hong Kong Willie.

Derek Brown, 26, and his family own and operate Hong Kong Willie. The little shop specializes in preservation art. The artists don’t take preservation too lightly either.

“99 percent of everything that has gone into a piece of art has been recycled and reused,” Brown said.

Just as unique as the art is, so is the company’s name. Brown says the name was created by his father, Joe Brown, in the 1950s.

“My father being in an art class, being affected by a teacher, they were melting Gerber baby food bottles,” Brown said. “The teacher interjected that Hong Kong had a great reuse and recycling program even then.”

Brown’s father then took that concept and later added the Americanized name Willie to the end. And that’s how Hong Kong Willie was born as a location that offers recycling in a different and creative way.

Hong Kong Willie artists are what are known as freegans. Freegans are less concerned with materialistic things and more concerned about reducing consumption to lessen the footprint humans leave on this planet.

“I’m sure everyone has their own perception of a freegan, possibly jumping into a dumpster or picking up something on the side of the road,” Brown said. “There [are] people who will have excess. There [are] also things that can be trash to one man, but art or a prize to another man.”

Brown and his family carry this practice through to their art. It’s his family’s way of life, turning trash, which would otherwise fill up landfills, into an art form.

The Brown family gets a lot of their inspiration for their art from the Florida Keys. In fact, this is where the deluge of buoys wrapping around the ‘Buoys Tree’ came from, the fishermen of Key West.

“It is Styrofoam, we understand that it does not degrade, but to blame the fishermen for their livelihood wouldn’t be correct, instead we find a usage for those,” Brown said.

Brown said there’s a usage for everything, even the hooks to hold the painted driftwood, which are also salvaged, to the wall are old bent forks. Everything’s reused here. Purses made out of old coffee bean sacks to “kitschy,” as Brown described it, jewelry made from old baseballs.

“Hong Kong Willie truly believes that a piece, whether it’s a bag or a painted artwork, it’s meant for one person.”

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Description

Hand Made Bag
Shell: Burlap Coffee Bag
Source: Third Generation Coffee Roaster
Stitching: Recovered Yarn
Source: Key West
Handle, Label, Pockets:
Source: Artist Worn Clothing (HKW)
Inner Chambers: 3
Dimensions:
Length(Strap to Bottom)-37″
Actual Length-10″
Width-14″

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Description

Hand Made Bag
Shell: Burlap Coffee Bag
Source: Third Generation Coffee Roaster
Stitching: Wool Yarn
Source: Recovered Game-Used Baseballs
Handle, Label, Pocket, Lining:
Source: Artist Worn Clothing (HKW)
Inner Pocket: 1
Dimensions:
Length(Strap to Bottom)-26″
Actual Length-19″
Width-18″(Measure @ Middle)

Hong Kong Willie. The name of the artist. In 1958 his mother took Hong Kong Willie to an art class. The name started then. An art teacher when doing crafts out of Gerber baby bottles, made a statement, in Hong Kong reuse was common. At that time he thought this was very interesting. His father had low-land, at that time landfills were common also. The county had told Hong Kong Willie’s father, it was safe, but as we now know this was not so. Something can come from bad to be good. Hong Kong Willie the name came from that art teacher impressing on that young mind that objects made for one use could be for many other uses. Hong Kong for the neat concept. Willie for an American name. So for many years Hong Kong Willie had a life of reuse. Hong Kong Willie saw forms in a different light, His life now was meaningful, knowing this was and would be his life. Art made from found objects, making less of a footprint on this world. Art and art teachers, HOW IMPORTANT. For the ones that have, and the ones who have not. Media can be found. Now 50 years later, we know now being green is important. We need to look at this very carefully. Our children and our world need a different understanding. Objects can be used in many different ways. Hong Kong Willie the tons of objects in his life that have been used, without much change, So for that art teacher what she did for my life. Thank You. I still have the Gerber baby bottle till this day. Hong Kong Willie.

www.hongkongwillie.com

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