David Wolkowsky

[2] After graduating from the University of Pennsylvania in 1943, he joined the merchant marine and moved to New York, where worked as a floor walker for Lord & Taylor, making $25/week.

[2] Under the name David Williams, to avoid anti-Semitism, he began the rejuvenation of Society Hill and Rittenhouse Square; his projects received accolades from Town & Country magazine in 1955.

[3] Unable to retire, he rescued a condemned bar on family land on Greene Street, which was the original home of "Sloppy Joe's" of Ernest Hemingway fame.

From there, he developed property on lower Duval and Front Streets including "Pirate's Alley" and the "Original Cigar Factory".

He transformed the Steamship office into "Tony's Fish Market", a restaurant and cocktail lounge where guests could watch shrimp boats in the channel on their way into port.

He is known for serving hot dogs, white wine and potato chips to guests including British Prime Minister Edward Heath, various Rockefellers, Mellons and Vanderbilts.

[14] Wolkowsky rented his bamboo-covered waterfront trailer to Truman Capote, who wanted to spend the winter in Key West.

Years later, the papers were reportedly stolen from Wolkowsky's penthouse apartment, high atop Key West's former S. H. Kress & Co. five and dime.