KEY WEST, Fla. — A white-bearded Arizona restaurateur has won Key West's annual "Papa" Hemingway Look-Alike Contest on his sixth attempt.
With over 130 entrants for the Key West Ernest Hemingway look a like contest Wally Collins of Phoenix was the winner. The winner was announced at the famous Sloppy Joe's Bar, which was a favorite of Ernest Hemingway during the 1930's.
Hemingway Look-Alike Contest victory with previous winners
Saturday, July 20, 2013, at Sloppy Joe's Bar in Key West, Fla.
Terry, 56, beat 125 other contestants.
Competitors in sportsman's attire paraded before a judging panel of former winners during two preliminary rounds and the finals trying to prove their resemblance to the real Hemingway.
Michael Groover, who is Paula Deen's husband, from Savannah Georgia was one of the contestants
Collins said "I didn't have as many wives as he had, and I have a lot more children and grandchildren , but there are a lot of things that he stood for that I really like.
The look a like contest is always a highlight of the annual Hemingway Days celebration which honors the Nobel Prise-winning author who lived and wrote in Key West from 1931 through the late 1939's. Hemingway's home, where he wrote the two novels "To Have and Have Not" and For Whom the Bell Tolls" is now a museum.
Ernest's Hemingway's granddaughter, Lorian Hemingway, directs a short story competition and a spoof on the running of the bulls in Pamplona Spain during the festival. It all ends with an arm wrestling contest at Sloppy Joes.
The festival was held July 15th - 20th of July. This is truly one of Florida's fun events.
Ernest Hemingway look-alikes push life-size, fake bulls during
the "Running of the Bulls" Saturday, July 20, 2013, outside
Sloppy Joe's Bar in Key West, Fla. The hijinks's spoofed the
event of the same name in Pamplona, Spain.
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