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The Legal Tender Saloon 80 W. Congress Tucson Arizona c.1910-2013 Poster
by David Lee Guss
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The Legal Tender Saloon 80 W. Congress Tucson Arizona c.1910-2013 poster by David Lee Guss. Our posters are produced on acid-free papers using archival inks to guarantee that they last a lifetime without fading or loss of color. All posters include a 1" white border around the image to allow for future framing and matting, if desired.
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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... more
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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...
About David Lee Guss
I first became obsessed with photography and motion pictures while growing up in post WW2 Manila in the Philippine Islands in the late 1940's/early 1950's. Film noirs were a particular influence. But my first love remains the theater. I acted in numerous amateur productions from 1958 to 1978. In 1979 I earned a MA in drama from the University of Arizona; earlier getting a BA in English from the University of Minnesota, where I co-founded the first film society on campus and ran it for four years. While at the U of A, I studied with the master black and white photo essayist W. Eugene Smith (1918-1978) the last year of his life. I am the last person cited in Jim Hughes' definitive biography of Gene, as I wrote about attending his final...
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