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Bird Cage Theatre, Tombstone, AZ

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Bird Cage Theatre

Walk through an 1881 Tombstone theater, saloon and gambling hall with its original fixtures and bullet holes in the walls.

535 E Allen St · Tombstone, AZ

About Bird Cage Theatre

The Bird Cage Theatre opened on Allen Street in December 1881 as a theater, saloon and gambling hall, and today it is a museum. On a self-guided tour you walk through the original theater, saloon, gambling rooms and bordello spaces, past the balcony boxes known as bird cages and more than 140 bullet holes. Also on display are the Black Moriah hearse that carried Tombstone residents to Boothill Graveyard and the basement poker room. Ghost tours run at night.

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