The Museum Club of Flagstaff to reopen Dec. 29

The Museum Club in Flagstaff, Arizona, officially will reopen at 5 p.m. Dec. 29 for the New Year’s weekend after the Route 66 landmark acquired new owners.

The Facebook page for the historic nightclub made the announcement with a series of posts Monday, including this Facebook Live video on a local radio station.

Ty Mount (of the locally based Ty One On Band, which will be performing at the Museum Club that weekend) and Dru Douthit, both of Flagstaff, said they purchased the club and plan to bring back things that made it famous, including dime-beer nights.

The reopening also was reported by KAFF News.

The new owners say there will be no cover opening weekend and a “Zoo Club Membership” they will start with great incentives to come.

The Museum Club had been continuously operating since 1936 until it unexpectedly closed in September.

Built by taxidermist Dean Eldredge in 1931, the Museum Club once boasted nearly 30,000 items from his collection of stuffed animals, rifles, and Native American artifacts. It became a bar after the repeal of Prohibition and served a recording studio through the 1950s.

The Museum Club earned enduring fame when Don and Thorna Scott bought it in the early 1960s and booked the likes of Willie Nelson, Wynn Stewart, Wanda Jackson, Waylon Jennings and Bob Wills and the Texas Playboys as performers. Although the Scotts met their ends tragically — her by a fall down the stairs, him by suicide — other owners continued to play up the Museum Club’s country-western roots through the early part of the 21st century.

(Image of the Museum Club in 2007 by Al_HikesAZ via Flickr)

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