The Palace Restaurant & Saloon

The Palace has stood on Whiskey Row since September 1877, making it the oldest continuously operating restaurant and bar in Arizona. Wyatt and Virgil Earp and Doc Holliday were among its regulars in the years they spent in Prescott. When fire tore through the Row on July 14, 1900, drinkers carried the ornately carved Brunswick bar out of the burning building and across the street to save it; the Palace was rebuilt the following year, and that same bar is still in use. Staff and regulars describe a figure they call the Phantom Cowboy who walks up to the bar at closing for one last drink, and a second presence some name as Nevins, a mortician said to have lost his funeral home at the poker table in the back room. No record confirms Nevins.