The Legal Tender Saloon 80 W. Congress Tucson Arizona C.1910-2013 #4
by David Lee Guss
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The Legal Tender Saloon 80 W. Congress Tucson Arizona C.1910-2013 #4
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David Lee Guss
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The Legal Tender was the first two story brick structure in Tucson. Formerly a private residence of banker William C. Davis, it was remodeled into the Tender around 1900.
The bottom floor was the saloon (which had the longest bar in Tucson) with rooms rented on the second floor to females called "happy girls."
These rooms in turn "became rentals and apartments renting from $6 to $8 a week for a room, $45 to $55 a month for an apartment."
In the 1940's the bar's table and booths became a short lived cafe, then were converted into a dance floor patronized largely by Mexicans or Native Americans.
The last call, attended by Mayor Jim Corbett and many other city officials, for the Legal Tender was in late 1969, as it was bulldozed for Urban Renewal.
It was long rumored that Pancho Villa drank at the Legal Tender when he visited Tucson in March 1913.
Historians claim this rumor is false, but Pancho's spirit remains for his statue is standing on a patch of grass called La Plaza de la Messilla; exactly where the Legal Tender had been located.
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