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Rating: 5 | Votes: 1 | Date: 03/07/2026 00:52:00

A University of Arizona professor won a naming contest in 1971 because the bar's manager looked like Grizzly Adams - whose TV co-star was a bear named Gentle Ben. Gentle Ben's Brewing Company, at 865 East University Boulevard in Tucson's Main Gate Square, has been the Wildcats' bar for more than half a century and gave the city its first craft brewery. The original Gentle Ben's operated from 1971 in a converted house at 841 North Tyndall Avenue - a spot now absorbed into a hotel lobby. Dennis a...