About this location
A few stories people tell about this place
1. At Key West Car Wash, a regular noticed something odd one morning. As he watched through the window, a small dog kept circling the same spot on the driveway, sniffing intently. The regular leaned in closer and saw that the dog was sniffing an old tire valve stem. Curious, he walked outside and followed the trail of tiny paw prints leading to a nearby bush. There, nestled among some leaves, lay a single coin—an old quarter. The dog’s owner turned out to be just a delivery driver who often parked there for a quick break. Since then, customers joke that Key West Car Wash has its very own ‘coin fairy’.
2. At Key West Car Wash, a sign appeared overnight: ‘Wash your car or lose it forever.’ Employees shrugged it off until customers started leaving their vehicles unattended. Soon enough, everyone in town was rushing to get their cars washed before sunset. One old guy even parked his truck there every morning for weeks—just to be safe. Turned out, it was all a prank by a local kid who loved practical jokes. The sign vanished one night, and ever since then, people joke that Key West Car Wash has the best customer retention rate on the island.
3. At Key West Car Wash, a curious child pointed and giggled one afternoon. ‘Daddy,’ she asked, ‘why is the soap dancing on that car?’ Her father smiled and explained, ‘Honey, it’s not dancing—it’s just enjoying its vacation from being stuck inside a bottle!’ The whole place burst into laughter as the sudsy bubbles floated away in the breeze.
4. At Key West Car Wash, a delivery driver stopped mid-wax one day, staring in disbelief. On the conveyor belt lay an old, dusty book—its cover unreadable but its title page declared it belonged to none other than Ernest Hemingway himself. The delivery driver flipped through the pages curiously, finding only yellowed sheets filled with scribbled notes and doodles. Smiling, he decided to keep the mysterious treasure as a souvenir. From then on, whenever anyone asked about the strange book, the owner of Key West Car Wash would wink and say, ‘Ernest Hemingway once washed his car here!’