BAR SIGNS

NOT a bar

 

"Fallout shelter" themed bar.

Was just around the corner from where I lived while in HS.

They had serval things going - never checked ID, the AC was set to max all summer long and they sold Lucky Lager Dark.

 

A bar with a history

Back in the day


just before demo

Historic Name: Duke's Drive-In (1945/46) and Beau Brummel Social Club
Address: 1148 N. Main Avenue (1148 N. 12th Avenue)
Construction Date: 1945/46
Architect: Arthur T. Brown
see - Future of former Beau Brummel Social Club looks bleak for a long read history. Tucson's first "Black" club.
The Beau Brummel Club was also helpful in the integration of major league baseball. In 1947, starting a 15-year relationship with our town, Bill Veeck, owner of the Cleveland Indians, brought his newly integrated team to Tucson for spring training. The Pioneer Hotel, the team headquarters, had a strict "whites only" policy then so Dukes Drive-In became the place for black professional baseball players to eat and socialize. This included such Cleveland Indians stars as Larry Doby, Satchel Paige, and Harry "Suitcase" Simpson.
The Indians did Spring training at High Corbett field. Watched a lot of cheap pro ball there.

 

more photos here - theroyalroomtucson

Place (too nice to be a joint) is on 6Th, just down the street a bit from where my Grandfather had a coffee shop.

 

was just the end of Speedway Ave. Drove past this place a lot - still there and well-maintained.
One of the last of the Tiki bars, a holdover from post WWII vet drinking holes.

"Tiki bars' were a short lived theme of the 50's and now quite rare these days.

 

This is a strange one - The Hut


I would call this A bar, but NOT a Tiki bar in the true sense.
The head came from a mini golf course (Magic carpet golf off off Speedway Ave) and went on top of an old dive bar down by the UofA campus. Opened in 2001 with the head added in 2009, and is very much a campus hangout, nothing a respectful drinker would ever enter.

see THE HUT - Updated September 2025 - 108 Photos & 149 Reviews - 305 N 4th Ave, Tucson, Arizona - Dive Bars - Phone Number - Yelp