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If you are looking for a traditional wooden wall, wooden bar, windowless dive-- look no further. Drink prices are reasonable, especially during the day.
The owner has recently doubled the size of the bar, offering the traditional honky tonk one one side, and a fine ale and whiskey bar on the other.
The Yucca now accepts credit cards for the first time since forever, which is a convenience most people take for granted these days.
There is live music every night, some touring acts, some local acts, and some regular gigs that draw in locals.
I've heard this bar referred to as "rough" or "tough" or "rowdy", and while that hasn't been my experience, what do you really expect from a place with this much character and everlasting style. This is the type of bar that separates the men from the boys, the alcoholics from the drunks, and coherent from the incoherent.
The parking is in the back ,like any respectable dive bar should be, and the good ole boys that drink there during the day are a fine bunch a fellas. I like their deep contempt for the youngsters that wreck the place every night. But every night, those young and hip crowds create a culture that is truely Tempe-- Good and bad, and that ain't bad.
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