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'''Mary C. "Mollie " McCoy''' ([[1843]]-[[1920]]) was a Pensacola [[Wikipedia:Pimp|madam]] who operated a number of brothels well-known brothel in the city's [[red-light district]] during the late-nineteenth and early-twentieth centuries.
Records of her business can be found as early as the 1870s, when she successfully appealed a verdict brought against her for operating a brothel. [[Pensacola City Marshal|City Marshall]] [[Frank Touart]] had testified that "she took out a city license for a boarding house during my term of office" and that "during my time as City Marshal men were in the habit of visiting the house until very late hours of the night." However, her conviction was overturned due to "loose and unsatisfactory evidence upon which to convict a person of such an offense."<ref>[http://books.google.com/books?id=C3QDAAAAQAAJ Cases Argued and Adjudged in the Supreme Court of Florida During the Years 1878-9]</ref>
By the 1910s, McCoy owned several one of the higher-quality bordello houses on "the [[Zaragoza Street]] "Line," the most famous being [[Hazel]] located at 15 West [[Zaragoza Street]], a twenty-room brick house opulently decorated in baroque fashion, with Mollie's name in gilt lettering on the door. As described by Danton Walker, who played piano there before becoming a ''New York Daily News'' columnist, "The ceiling was high and windows floor length, masked by curtains of cherry colored satin; the walls were papered in gold and there were gilt chairs … a wood fire burned beneath a white marble mantel causing a lively sparkle among the crystal ornaments."<ref name="sportinglife">James R. McGovern. "'Sporting Life on the Line': Prostitution in Progressive Era Pensacola." ''Florida Historical Quarterly'', Volume LIV, Number 2, October 1975.</ref>
The prostitutes at McCoy's establishments, some of them from as far away as New Orleans and Louisville, were widely considered "the prettiest girls you ever saw."<ref name="sportinglife"/> Mollie forbade them to walk the streets during evening hours or to drink, smoke or act indecently in the public rooms.
She died on [[February 4]], [[1920]] and is buried at [[St. John's Cemetery]].
The building at 15 West Zaragoza, also known as the Liberty Hotel, later served as headquarters of the [[Waterfront Rescue Mission]] until its demolition in [[1966]]. Bricks were incorporated into the Mission's new building.
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