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2 businesses at this address since 1950

Rosie O'Grady's Good Time Emporium

129 W Church St, Orlando, FL

Bob Snow's sawdust-floored Dixieland saloon opened on July 19, 1974 and became the seed of Church Street Station, one of downtown Orlando's biggest draws.

📅 1974–2001🏛️ BarClosed
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The story

Bob Snow announced a downtown Orlando entertainment complex in 1972 and opened Rosie O'Grady's Good Time Emporium on July 19, 1974. It was modeled on his Pensacola complex from the late 1960s. The room had sawdust on the floor, singing waiters who opened each night with a welcome song and closed with a patriotic finale. Band members and can-can dancers sometimes arrived by a brass fireman's pole, and Ruth Crews performed as the "Red Hot Mama" for about 25 years.

Rosie's grew into Church Street Station, which sold admission to several nightclubs for one price and was popular through the 1970s and 1980s. Snow sold his interest in 1988 and 1989. Rosie O'Grady's and the Terror on Church Street haunted house closed in 2001 after F.F. South & Co. bought the property. The space later held the Orlando Improv and then, by 2011, Mojo Cajun Bar & Grill.

What's There Now

The address was listed as Mojo Cajun Bar & Grill in 2011; current use was not confirmed, and the Church Street Station area has been under redevelopment.

Everything that was here

Did you know?

Rosie O'Grady's Flying Circus offered balloon rides, which were still available in 1994 for US$100.
The Cheyenne Saloon & Opera House, opened by Snow in 1982, hosted weekly Nashville Network tapings for seven years, and Garth Brooks and Alan Jackson played there before they were famous.
The old Church Street depot nearby was built in 1889 and was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1976.

Nearby history

Church Street Station entertainment district

4 Depot Place · 94 m away
Bob Snow's club-hopping complex built around the depot and neighboring Church Street buildings.

Rialto Theatre

27 W Church St · 183 m away
A 450-seat Mission Revival grindhouse with a huge marquee and double features; Cinema Treasures says demolished, a 2011

Astor Theatre

37 W Pine St · 192 m away
Renamed after a 1953 sale to the B. S. Moss Theatre Corporation.

King Henry's Feast

15 W Church St · 203 m away
Dinner attraction in the Church Street portion that later relocated to International Drive.

Dickson & Ives

214 S Orange Ave · 244 m away
A grocery that became a department store in 1913, was rebuilt in 1920, and closed on April 11, 1965.

McCrory's (Woolworth-McCrory Building)

101 S Orange Ave · 267 m away
A 1942 Art Moderne five-and-dime that kept parts of an 1888 building and was torn down in 2003.

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Sourceshttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Church_Street_Stationhttps://richesmi.cah.ucf.edu/omeka/items/show/2077