Here's the exterior of the second location of El Anon captured on a post card. In the early 1940's, Jesus decided it was time for improvement, so he built a concrete building on Duval Street at the corner of Amelia- just across the side street from The Cuban Club.

Lala Tynes was in charge of the kitchen there. Every day she would prepare a standard Cuban menu with several selections, and you could always order a Cuban Mix sandwich. During those days in Key West, what we know today as the Cuban Mix was considerably different­ the sandwich wasn't pressed and it was referred to simply as a "ham sandwich," although the ingredients were the same as today's. Evidently it was the influx of "new" Cubans in the 1960's and 70's that brought the concept of toasting and pressing the bread and gave the wonderfully tasty concoction the name "Cuban Mix."

The dining room featured out-sized ceiling fans and a big glass wall, behind which one could watch the ice cream machines doing their thing. Eye-witnesses report they looked like big front-loading washing machines. As a job perk, just as Jesus Carmona had been given cigars for his personal use fifty years earlier by the Gato cigar factory, Lala Tynes was sent home each night with a pint of homemade ice cream. The difference now? Mrs. Tynes and her grandchildren consumed that ice cream every night!

The popularity of the shop continued well into the early 1960's, when Jesus Carmona passed away.
Jesus Carmona's little ice cream shop on Duval Street is still fondly remembered today. The "taste" of the El Anon product was brought back a few years ago on a lark by Hugh Morgan and Freddy Salinero, two of Jesus' grandsons, and served at El Meson de Pepe's down on Wall Street. The Duval/Amelia location is where you'll now find The Keys piano bar.