I went there as a teen. Lots of cat. Hemmingway loved cats! There was one cat that was the last survivor of when the Old Man lived there. It was about 20 years old, an orange tabby, and could not meow anymore.
Hemingway moved into the “Finca Vijia) in Havana Cuba and lived there for 30 years. He had many cats and dogs but I doubt he abandoned any animals at his Key West home. You should check out Hemingway’s pool there, looks just like one you showed here.
Thanks for the tour. I visited Key West once but never saw Hemingway's house and I don't know why. Now, I'll probably will never get back there. The cats supposedly all have 6 toes on each foot. It's good to see the house has withstood all the hurricanes that have wiped out so much of the other places on the Keys.
I visited there and one of the staff told me that the cats have a private physician who even stayed in the home caring for the cats during a hurricane!
It's been about 35 years since I first toured this beautiful home. Pauline's uncle purchased it for them and underwrote alot of their lifestyle. Hadley was his first wife, Pauline his second, Martha and then Mary. Thanks for the tour!
Tom, thank you so much for this video. And it's really cool that you are there with your dad. I visited the house a couple of times with my own father. A number of years ago. Special memories!
Thank-you for the video. It brings back the joy we had when we toured his home back a few years ago. He certainly had a larger than life persona. But it is yet another reminder that you never know the demons a person may be battling.
Thank you for this lovely video. I've lived in Florida for many years now, South West, Central and North East and nothing compares to the beauty and natural elegance of Key West! Especially when it was a quiet little key and Hemingway escaped there to write. Your voice eloquently guided me through the house I've always wanted to visit. It was such a pleasant tour, I dare say you should have been the one doing it instead of the gentleman from Ohio. Not to mention I simply adore the Hemingway cats!💜😼💙 I hope to see more videos and hear about your latest journeys. Spot on! Also, as a child my grandfather would regularly play the storyteller Tom T. Hall and his many adventures with all sorts of animals and I just noticed your name is Tom Hall. Not sure if he's any relation but you certainly have the same golden voice as he did. Much luck to you Tom!
Correction : Hadley was not his girlfriend, she was his first wife who lived in Paris with him and "Bumby", his first son. The other women on the wall were also his wives. Mary (whom he called Miss Mary) was the last one. She was awakened by the shotgun blast the morning he killed himself, in Ketchum. Two things you didnt show us were the penny embedded in a tile near the pool. This is related to the time when he returned from covering an assignment for the papers (may be the Spanish Civil War) and finding that his wife had the pool built, which, as you said, cost $20,000 in the 1930s. A fortune for the time. He became angry and started yelling at her that "as long as you're going to spend all my money, you might as well take my last pennies !" Then he took the change from his pocket, a few pennies, and threw them at her. She picked one up and had it put into a tile, which is still there. The other item you left out was the urinal from Sloppy Joe's Bar, where he would go after his daily writing. One late night, after much drinking, he went to the toilet and after urinating, it occurred to him that he'd spent so much time drinking in the bar through the years, that he'd actually paid for the urinal, so he tore it off the wall and carried it home on his shoulder. The urinal is also someplace on the property, stuck to a wall outside, for all to see. You missed it. But this is the first time Ive gone inside his home, even though I lived in Key West from December 1960 to June 1966, where I spent muy teen years and have been there many times. Never went to Hem's house. I did see the Audubon House on a school trip while in junior high. What happened to the "cat walk" that used to go from the house to his writing room ? Was it destroyed ???
I loved going to his home. So long ago. So much History in Key West. I wanted one of those cats!! I've read his books. Saw a room at the Grove Park Inn he stayed in while writing. I stayed at Grove Park a few times. Scary walking those halls alone at night during the winter. All I could think of was the Shining. Lordy 🙏. Thanks for sharing.🌹
$20,000 was a lot of money for an inground pool in the 1930s. I vaguely remember there is a 1937 wheat penny that stuck in a concrete along the pool decking, Hemingway, sticking it in the wet cement, saying “she got every other penny, I had“, referring to his wife and the cost of the pool so he decided to throw the last one into the cement.
Visited Hemmingway House and enjoyed the self tour throughout, as well as the gift shop and overview of the famous swimming pool. For those that cannot make the stairs, the staff will set up a video in the kitchen area. No credit cards are accepted at the Hemmingway House, only cash.
i ve been there very nice house . cat litter smell out side in the garden was strong . very well kept . the truman house is also nearby very nice to . is like going back in time . he lived quite adventured life .
One of his sons tells the story of being outside this house in the yard playing and they (the children) were being too loud and their father came out on the balcony and yelled at them to be quiet he was trying to write!!!! Ernest Hemingway was trying to write! Somebody’s dad just happens to be Ernest Hemingway who was trying to write! Gets me every time I think of it.
Thanks for the video. Really enjoyed it. I just returned today from a short stay in Key West but unfortunately didn't make it to the museum. Next time for sure!
When Ernest was in his early 20's he came by train to the Upper Peninsula of Michigan , to a town called Seney, he got off and asked where would their be some good fishing at, the person said over by where the train crosses the Fox river, story has it, he wrote a book called "The Big Two Hearted River" he lay against a tree and caught some Trout, but many wondered why he didn't call the book, "The Fox River" The Big Two Heart River is some 25 miles or more away, makes you wonder ?
I was there once and they told me everything in here is orginal. I then said how about these plexiglass cases are those orginal? They then said get the *F* out.
Have been to Key West 3 times and have visited the Hemingway house 3 times. My next trip to the Keys is planned for mid-June and likely another visit to the house. Hadley was in wife not girlfriend in Paris. The tour guides can be inconsistent with their info so you may wish to do some of your on research. I would definitely challenge the assertion that Hemingway did 70% of his life's work while he lived in Key West, but whatever puts Key West in the best light. Right?
I heard he built the wall himself for privacy and went around with a wheelbarrow collecting anything he could use. I was just there last year and I had the best time with my family 🤙🏽🌴
I wish people who make videos of historic homes of influential people would do their homework first. A movie is not doing your homework. Hadley Richardson was his first wife. No mention of Hemingway's comment about the pool and his last dime. Hemingway often stood at a desk writing for hours.
My hubby and I toured the place, great history but the dogent was a bitch and their prepared bio of E. Hemingway was skewed. They need to read some biographies and maybe some of his writing. We saw some of his cats:-}
Did you see the cat water trough? Hemingway made it out of a urinal he stole from his friends bar 😂 the wife was not amused, needless to say.... But Ernest always had a dry sense of humor lol
Actually he didn’t steal it. According to the Florida Historic Society one drunken night he and Sloppy Joe himself carried it over after Hemingway himself had exclaimed to Joe (real name Joe Russell) one night…”I’ve pissed away so much money in this place I ought to have that”. Since Joe was moving the joint to a block away…where the rent was cheaper…he agreed and off it went to the 6 toed kitties.
Love hearing Mandarin in the Florida Keys. In Hemingway's house no less... Haha just joking. Although the Keys are really quite some distance from China!
Lovely home. I will never get here in person, so am grateful for this video tour. Thanks for posting!
Nice to see Earnest Hemmingway's house through this video. Thanks.
I went there as a teen. Lots of cat. Hemmingway loved cats! There was one cat that was the last survivor of when the Old Man lived there. It was about 20 years old, an orange tabby, and could not meow anymore.
Awww..😟😢
Hemingway moved into the “Finca Vijia) in Havana Cuba and lived there for 30 years. He had many cats and dogs but I doubt he abandoned any animals at his Key West home. You should check out Hemingway’s pool there, looks just like one you showed here.
Nice tour! I would love to live in that style of house, large rooms and large windows, that alone would inspire a person to write!
Cool pad!😎
Nice job! Thanks for the tour. Great that you could do that with your dad! I enjoyed it. Jeff S.
Thanks for the tour. I visited Key West once but never saw Hemingway's house and I don't know why. Now, I'll probably will never get back there. The cats supposedly all have 6 toes on each foot. It's good to see the house has withstood all the hurricanes that have wiped out so much of the other places on the Keys.
I visited there and one of the staff told me that the cats have a private physician who even stayed in the home caring for the cats during a hurricane!
It's been about 35 years since I first toured this beautiful home. Pauline's uncle purchased it for them and underwrote alot of their lifestyle. Hadley was his first wife, Pauline his second, Martha and then Mary. Thanks for the tour!
1st and 4th wives the Best.
Tom, thank you so much for this video. And it's really cool that you are there with your dad. I visited the house a couple of times with my own father. A number of years ago. Special memories!
Great tour of the museum. Never been there but now feel like I was. Thanks!
On my bucket list for sure..........Will take my sister as her passion is writing and she will love this tour. Wonderful walk through.......
Wow your video is awesome it made me feel like I was right there with you. Thank you for sharing.
Beautiful place and I love the cats too🐈
Thank you,kindly for the detailed tour. Like the cats 🐈 roaming around.
So lush and beautiful!
This was the best part of my family vacation!!
Thank-you for the video. It brings back the joy we had when we toured his home back a few years ago. He certainly had a larger than life persona. But it is yet another reminder that you never know the demons a person may be battling.
What a great tour. Thanks for sharing, Tom😀
we went there last year *VERY NICE HOUSE* and the cats are still living there.... ;-)
I would love to have a house built like that!
Thank you for this lovely video. I've lived in Florida for many years now, South West, Central and North East and nothing compares to the beauty and natural elegance of Key West! Especially when it was a quiet little key and Hemingway escaped there to write. Your voice eloquently guided me through the house I've always wanted to visit. It was such a pleasant tour, I dare say you should have been the one doing it instead of the gentleman from Ohio. Not to mention I simply adore the Hemingway cats!💜😼💙 I hope to see more videos and hear about your latest journeys. Spot on! Also, as a child my grandfather would regularly play the storyteller Tom T. Hall and his many adventures with all sorts of animals and I just noticed your name is Tom Hall. Not sure if he's any relation but you certainly have the same golden voice as he did. Much luck to you Tom!
Went once in the 90s on a spring break trip. Niot as thrilling as his Cuba place, but have to go back sometime.
Thanks for the wonderful tour. So good to see your dad again. Tears
( Why, did he pass already?)
Correction : Hadley was not his girlfriend, she was his first wife who lived in Paris with him and "Bumby", his first son. The other women on the wall were also his wives. Mary (whom he called Miss Mary) was the last one. She was awakened by the shotgun blast the morning he killed himself, in Ketchum. Two things you didnt show us were the penny embedded in a tile near the pool. This is related to the time when he returned from covering an assignment for the papers (may be the Spanish Civil War) and finding that his wife had the pool built, which, as you said, cost $20,000 in the 1930s. A fortune for the time. He became angry and started yelling at her that "as long as you're going to spend all my money, you might as well take my last pennies !" Then he took the change from his pocket, a few pennies, and threw them at her. She picked one up and had it put into a tile, which is still there. The other item you left out was the urinal from Sloppy Joe's Bar, where he would go after his daily writing. One late night, after much drinking, he went to the toilet and after urinating, it occurred to him that he'd spent so much time drinking in the bar through the years, that he'd actually paid for the urinal, so he tore it off the wall and carried it home on his shoulder. The urinal is also someplace on the property, stuck to a wall outside, for all to see. You missed it. But this is the first time Ive gone inside his home, even though I lived in Key West from December 1960 to June 1966, where I spent muy teen years and have been there many times. Never went to Hem's house. I did see the Audubon House on a school trip while in junior high. What happened to the "cat walk" that used to go from the house to his writing room ? Was it destroyed ???
Thank you for the visual tour!!
Nice job, thank you.
Didn’t get to go there in 95 when we spent time in the Keys. 5 weeks & didn’t take time. I regret that but an excuse to go back!
Great tour, thanks
Thank you Tom!! I so enjoyed this from cold N.J.
I loved going to his home. So long ago. So much History in Key West. I wanted one of those cats!! I've read his books. Saw a room at the Grove Park Inn he stayed in while writing. I stayed at Grove Park a few times. Scary walking those halls alone at night during the winter. All I could think of was the Shining. Lordy 🙏. Thanks for sharing.🌹
You used to be able to enter a lotto for the kittens. They average a litter or two a year. Maybe email the Hemingway house and ask. You never know! 🙂
$20,000 was a lot of money for an inground pool in the 1930s. I vaguely remember there is a 1937 wheat penny that stuck in a concrete along the pool decking, Hemingway, sticking it in the wet cement, saying “she got every other penny, I had“, referring to his wife and the cost of the pool so he decided to throw the last one into the cement.
Very nice tour, thanks for sharing.
Well done ... thank you !!
Visited Hemmingway House and enjoyed the self tour throughout, as well as the gift shop and overview of the famous swimming pool. For those that cannot make the stairs, the staff will set up a video in the kitchen area. No credit cards are accepted at the Hemmingway House, only cash.
i ve been there very nice house . cat litter smell out side in the garden was strong . very well kept . the truman house is also nearby very nice to . is like going back in time . he lived quite adventured life .
On the large area identified as a "dancefloor" there once stood one of the largest banyon trees in town. Long lost to a hurricane.
I thought Hemingway wrote standing up because of a bad back. anyway a great video.
Excellent! Thanks very much.
Great Video!...
My wife and I are headed to Key West in August (2nd Trip) and plan on doing the house tour again!
Go to the national park fortress Island
My favorite house in Key West.
Mine too. Cool pad 😎
I was on a Carnival Cruise about 8 years ago and our excursion took us to Ernest Hemingway’s house. One of the best days of the whole cruise.
One of his sons tells the story of being outside this house in the yard playing and they (the children) were being too loud and their father came out on the balcony and yelled at them to be quiet he was trying to write!!!! Ernest Hemingway was trying to write! Somebody’s dad just happens to be Ernest Hemingway who was trying to write! Gets me every time I think of it.
thank you for sharing this video Tom Hall, what a gem
Beautiful House!
Thx for the tour 👍
Thanks for the video. Really enjoyed it. I just returned today from a short stay in Key West but unfortunately didn't make it to the museum. Next time for sure!
TY I so enjoyed this tour !
Thanks 🙏 for sharing!
Hello, Thank You for sharing. I really enjoyed your video and input.
When Ernest was in his early 20's he came by train to the Upper Peninsula of Michigan , to a town called Seney, he got off and asked where would their be some good fishing at, the person said over by where the train crosses the Fox river, story has it, he wrote a book called "The Big Two Hearted River" he lay against a tree and caught some Trout, but many wondered why he didn't call the book, "The Fox River" The Big Two Heart River is some 25 miles or more away, makes you wonder ?
Poetic license, maybe? It sounds more poetic
Outstanding!
$13 for adult ice a good price back then I think it’s a lot more now. There was a Hemingway look like contest at Sloppy Joe’s last week.
Looks much larger inside that I thought from the outside view
Ernest Hemingway fascinates me.
That guy could write!
Very nice....Thank you...
Great Video Thankyou
Fabulous video
You paid $13.50 and I didn't have to anything so thank you for the free tour.
🖖👽💨💨
Nice!
I was there once and they told me everything in here is orginal. I then said how about these plexiglass cases are those orginal? They then said get the *F* out.
Love your dad.
Have been to Key West 3 times and have visited the Hemingway house 3 times. My next trip to the Keys is planned for mid-June and likely another visit to the house. Hadley was in wife not girlfriend in Paris. The tour guides can be inconsistent with their info so you may wish to do some of your on research. I would definitely challenge the assertion that Hemingway did 70% of his life's work while he lived in Key West, but whatever puts Key West in the best light. Right?
Been to his grave?
@@TomHallOnline Spent a bit of time in Idaho during my Army years but never made it to Ketchum.
i loved the cats
I heard he built the wall himself for privacy and went around with a wheelbarrow collecting anything he could use. I was just there last year and I had the best time with my family 🤙🏽🌴
Thanks
I'm not sure I'd want to swim in a pool with bulbs back in the 30s seems deadly lol
LoL
Wow..(Such talkative people there) lol
A really great tour and nice Host. He was a unique man, and left quite a lineage.
Best Wellbeing to all ❤
Did they remove the tree house office you could reach from the master bedroom?
Had the motel room across the street.
I ,ve visited 3 times in the past 2 years and we were not allowed to film the tour guides talking .
By the way, one “M” in Hemingway, not two :)
Hemingway is spelled with one M!
Angie Hemingway are you related?
4 wives....Hadley, Pauline, Martha, Mary
Want to go to the Keys
Yes!
As his notoriety increased, so did curiosity about him. Hemingway built the brick wall to keep out the tourists and annoying people with cameras.
Where was Buddy?
Chillin at the hotel...
I wish people who make videos of historic homes of influential people would do their homework first. A movie is not doing your homework. Hadley Richardson was his first wife. No mention of Hemingway's comment about the pool and his last dime. Hemingway often stood at a desk writing for hours.
Mr. Baldwin's house.
My hubby and I toured the place, great history but the dogent was a bitch and their prepared bio of E. Hemingway was skewed. They need to read some biographies and maybe some of his writing.
We saw some of his cats:-}
Did you see the cat water trough? Hemingway made it out of a urinal he stole from his friends bar 😂 the wife was not amused, needless to say.... But Ernest always had a dry sense of humor lol
Actually he didn’t steal it. According to the Florida Historic Society one drunken night he and Sloppy Joe himself carried it over after Hemingway himself had exclaimed to Joe (real name Joe Russell) one night…”I’ve pissed away so much money in this place I ought to have that”. Since Joe was moving the joint to a block away…where the rent was cheaper…he agreed and off it went to the 6 toed kitties.
Spell his name correctly!
i went there
What did you like the most about it?
Oh man, I loved the tour until we saw the cat graveyard. I'm a big cat guy, so sad. But glad they do that for our feline friends!
Love hearing Mandarin in the Florida Keys. In Hemingway's house no less... Haha just joking. Although the Keys are really quite some distance from China!
Expensive tickets.
Lost me when you called Hadley his "girlfriend"... Might want to actually research what you're talking about before you go making a video like this.
Thanks