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Allen Street

The boardwalks of Allen Street, Tombstone look today very much as they must have looked when John Henry Holliday walked them in the early 1880s.

At dusk there is an eerie quality to them.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Big Nose Kate's Saloon

Big Nose Kate's Saloon on Allan Street stands on the site of the old Grand Hotel. The original building, built in 1881 was "the place to stay".  Some of the hotel's famous and infamous guests were Lily Langtry, Eddie Foy, 'Doc' Holliday and Wyatt Earp.  On Oct.25, 1881, the night before the gunfight at the O.K. Corral, the Clantons and McLaurys  were guests there.  You can still visit the original gambling room, in the basement of the saloon, and see "The Shaft" .  This is an entrance to a silver mine, dug out by the Grand Hotel's janitor and odd job man, known simply as "the swamper".  It is still unknown if "the swamper" spent his silver or if he hoarded it in an unknown niche somewhere on the premises of The Grand Hotel. 

On the other side of Allan Street from Big Nose Kate's you can still make out the sign over What was Campbell and Hatch's Billiards parlour - the site of Morgan Earp's assassination.