In 1946, if you wound your way down Oak Creek Canyon to Sedona, you would find little else but a tavern building, a post office and a two-story wood building. The tavern was the center of the towns social life. It was the Oak Creek Tavern and it served as meeting place, pool hall, grocery store and saloon to the folks in the area and the tourists passing through.
Once inside, you’d find locals, cattle buyers, cowhands and workers from the Jerome Mine and the Clarkdale smelter playing pool, stopping for a cool one or buying food for the day. It was a friendly crowd, with a population fluctuating around 500 people, everybody knew everybody else.
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