The Oriental Saloon opened in 1880 in Tombstone, founded by Milton Joyce with gaming concessions run by Lou Rickenbaugh, and was praised by the Epitaph News as “the most elegantly furnished saloon this side of the Golden Gate.” Wyatt Earp bought a share of the gaming tables. It became one of Tombstone’s most notorious saloons because of several shooting deaths on the front walk and confrontations involving Milt Joyce, Doc Holliday, and later Virgil Earp, including one exchange of gunfire. The Oriental burned in the 1881 fire, which spread so quickly that Joyce could save nothing, but the owners, Vizina and Cook, rebuilt quickly and reopened it. It was threatened again in the 1882 fire, but firemen kept damage minor by maintaining a steady stream of water on the building. Joyce left Tombstone in 1884. When state prohibition reached Tombstone in 1914, the Oriental became a drug store for a number of years, and afterward it had many tenants and uses while remaining in its original historic location.