If Tombstone is the “Town to Tough to Die” than the Crystal Palace Saloon should also be also known as “El Gato De Cristal.” Like a cat with nine lives, the Crystal Palace at the corner of Fifth and Allen Streets has been reborn over and over since it first opened as the Golden Eagle Brewery in 1879. Rising from the ashes of the 1881 fire as the Crystal Palace, the saloon was known as one of the town’s finest dining and gambling establishments. Prohibition led the famed watering hole t


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