Historic Church Street Station
Restored eighteen-eighties brick railroad depot turned legendary jazz-era entertainment complex in a historic downtown district.
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About this audio guide
This guide traces how a snowstorm in Massachusetts rerouted a Navy veteran named Bob Snow to Orlando in the early 1970s, where a taxi driver mentioned a half-empty Victorian railroad depot on Church Street. It follows the ninety minutes Snow spent wandering the crumbling building and the Dixieland-themed venues he built there, from Rosie O'Grady's to the Cheyenne Saloon, drawing can-can dancers and a regular visitor in Bob Hope. The depot itself was raised in 1889, once just a whistle-stop nobody had heard of yet.
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