"Chances are that when you return home after your trip to Key West , someone will ask you if you went to the Green Parrot. It's that kind of iconic bar, the kind your parents' friends ended up atover spring break in college long ago.The bar started asalocal grocery store about a hundred years ago; the building became the Brown Derby, a bar that was popular first with the submarine sailors from the naval base down the street. When the naval base closed in the '70s, the bar transitioned into a hangout for fishermen andlocal sailors andthe hippies that began to drift into town. The Green Parrotstill has the air of a honky-tonk, lit exclusively by spotlightand neon, with a roster of almost-nightly live music, mostly of the bluesy, rollicking sort."
