Harold’s Corral is One of Arizona’s 17 Most Iconic Bars!
Harold’s Cave Creek Corral 6895 East Cave Creek Road, Cave Creek 480-488-1906 This barn-like hall was originally built in the name of an old Arizona tradition: getting a piece of the massive federal largess that’s flowed in here through the years. The workers who built the Bartlett Dam in the late 1930s needed a nearby place to spend their paychecks and forget their cares. An entrepreneur named Johnny Walker was there to help them with a place he called the Corral Bar. A promoter named Harold Gavagan bought it a few years later, filled it with honky-tonk gimcracks, brought in some country-and-western bands and called it a [...]