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==History==
===Beginnings===
Seville Quarter started as "Rosie O'Grady's Warehouse," a beer-and-peanuts nightclub specializing in Dixieland jazz. It was founded by [[Bob Snow]], an ex-Navy pilot and former trumpet player for the Minneapolis symphony whose band , South Hangar Six, played jazz at private parties and nightclubs around Pensacola.
Snow rented a dilapidated [[Rosie O'Grady's Warehouse|brick warehouse]] on East [[Government Street]] (formerly home of the [[Pensacola Cigar and Tobacco Company]]) for $140 per month, and he and his bandmates made repairs and built a small bandstand. His total startup budget was limited to a last military paycheck of $400, $1,500 for the sale of his sports car, $1,700 from pawning an antique shotgun collection, and $50 from some old bottles he found behind the warehouse.<ref>J. Earle Bowden. "Seville Quarter entertainment complex needs new touch of genius." ''Pensacola News Journal'', September 14, 1986.</ref> When an air conditioning contractor demanded up-front payment for the $3,500 cooling system, Snow couldn't afford to pay. Luckily, attorney [[Wilmer Mitchell]] was able to convince the [[Citizens and People's National Bank]] to issue a $5,000 loan.<ref name="newbeat">"Rosie O'Grady's good times return with a new beat and look." ''Pensacola Journal'', May 13, 1983.</ref>
