Category 3010 - Question 29

What was the origin of Sloppy Joe's bar in Key West Florida?

The official beginning of what would become Sloppy Joe's Bar was December 5, 1933, the day Prohibition was repealed. Before that it had been a speakeasy (an illicit establishment).

It went through two name changes and a sudden change of location before it became the Sloppy Joe's seen by millions of visitors to Florida.