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| − | '''Bob Snow''' is an entrepreneur who founded [[Seville Quarter]] in [[1967]]. A Minnesota native, Snow was a | + | '''Bob Snow''' is an entrepreneur who founded [[Seville Quarter]] in [[1967]]. |
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| + | A Minnesota native, Snow was a Naval Aviator stationed at [[NAS Pensacola]] and worked part-time as a trumpet player and Dixieland band leader. He started the [[Rosie O'Grady's]] music club in a dilapidated warehouse in [[downtown Pensacola]] and went on to establish a similar entertainment complex, [[Wikipedia:Church Street Station (Orlando)|Church Street Station]] — complete with another "Rosie O'Grady's" and "Phineas Phogg's" — in Orlando in 1974. | ||
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| + | Snow sold the Seville Quarter complex to a group of investors in May [[1985]],{{date uncertain}} and repurchased it about a year later when it fell into foreclosure. With his focus turned to Church Street Station and other projects, Snow sold the Pensacola business to his longtime attorney [[Wilmer Mitchell]] in [[1988]]. | ||
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Revision as of 16:31, 5 August 2009
Bob Snow is an entrepreneur who founded Seville Quarter in 1967.
A Minnesota native, Snow was a Naval Aviator stationed at NAS Pensacola and worked part-time as a trumpet player and Dixieland band leader. He started the Rosie O'Grady's music club in a dilapidated warehouse in downtown Pensacola and went on to establish a similar entertainment complex, Church Street Station — complete with another "Rosie O'Grady's" and "Phineas Phogg's" — in Orlando in 1974.
Snow sold the Seville Quarter complex to a group of investors in May 1985,[date uncertain] and repurchased it about a year later when it fell into foreclosure. With his focus turned to Church Street Station and other projects, Snow sold the Pensacola business to his longtime attorney Wilmer Mitchell in 1988.
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