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The '''Trader Jon's building''' is the name most commonly used to describe the two-story brick building at 511 South [[Palafox Street]], so-named for its most famous tenant, the [[Trader Jon's]] nightclub.
Erected in [[1896]], it was the home to a shoe repair shop owned by [[Samuel Charles]], a prominent African-American businessmen of the early 1900s, and to [[Birgar Testman]]'s ship chandlery in the 1920s.
It was occupied by the eponymous Trader Jon's, a favorite haunt of local Navy personnel and home to a renowned collection of military memorabilia, from the 1950s until 2003. When [[Hurricane Ivan]] destroyed the [[Phenix Building]] in 2004, the owners of displaced retail store [[Sarah's]] considered moving into the adjacent Trader Jon's building, but ultimately decided instead to close shop forever.