New Year's Eve time travel offers tempting choices
The history of celebrating New Year’s Eve in Florida includes many gathering places, including Orlando’s Opera House in the 1880s, a South Florida shantyboat, Orlando’s Davis Armory, the Coliseum on North Orange Avenue, the Flamingo Club just east of town, and Rosie O’Grady’s Good Time Emporium, which opened in July 1974 and became an Orlando institution.
Source: orlandosentinel.com