The Carefree Cave Creek Chamber partners with the Apache Junction Area Chamber, Gilbert Chamber, Mesa Chamber, Queen Creek Chamber, Scottsdale Chamber, and the Tempe Chamber to form The East Valley Chamber of Commerce Alliance. Together we advocate for 5000+ businesses at the state and federal levels since 1999.
There are four key areas of influence for the EVCCA, Lowering the cost of doing business, building a trained workforce, increasing private sector jobs, plus efficient and effective government.
The priorities of the East Valley Chamber of Commerce Alliance are protecting employer’s workplace policies, election reform, education, and transportation.
The EVCCA 2022 agenda contains supportive and opposing statements we advocate for on behalf of the 5000+ businesses represented by the EVCCA. These statements cover economic development, education (K-12 and post-secondary), election reform, energy, environment, government processes, health care, immigration, land management, protecting employer’s workplace policies, taxes, tort reform and transportation. To learn more about our supporting or opposing statements visit our website for the complete agenda Read More Here.
I look forward to talking with you regarding questions or concerns you have and how the Chamber might help you find answers to those questions.
Patty Villeneuve, President/CEO
Patty Villeneuve
President/CEO
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Every month we will feature a Membership feature that you can take advantage of just by being a Chamber Member!
Chamber Business Directory: Did you know that Chamber Website has 750,000 annual visitors with each visitor viewing 10 pages per visit equaling 663,000 pages per month. This is the number 1 place your customers and clients go first to find you! Is your listing up to date? Have you changed or added services? Do you have a new address, phone number or email address? Not sure? Go check by clicking HERE and type your business name in the search bar.
This spot is your landing page on the Chamber Website. We recommend that is is consistent verbiage with your own website. You have 150 words to describe yourself that is key word searchable. Use those keywords specific to your business in your description to make it even easier to find you.
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John McCombs of AZ Perfect Comfort explains some of ways a Membership with Carefree Cave Creek Chamber of Commerce has benefitted his company.
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30 Years
Rancho Manana Golf Club
27 Years
Earth Care
21 Years
Kiwanis Carefree/ Marketplace
14 years
Lowes Home Improvement
13 Years
Bryan’s Black Mountain Barbeque
Foothills Caring Corps
12 Years
Andreas Schmalz- liberty Properties & Assoc
9 Years
GM Hunt Builders and remodelers
5 Years
Ciolim
The Rancho Milagro Foundation
4 Years
Dunn Edwards Paint
3 Years
The Sonoran Concierge
2 Years
Binkley & Associates, LLC
Purse Impressions
The View Carefree
Time to Ride
1 Year
Distinctive Development
Look at Me Now
TR Hill Executive Coaching
Welcome to the Chamber of Commerce community! We look forward to seeing you and getting to know you at our events.
Copper Rose Salon & Spa
Pool Scouts
Uncorked Media Group
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Join your fellow Chamber Members for an in person opportunity to network on the second Wednesday of every month!
Member: $10
Guest: $20
Additional Progressive Jackpot Entry: $10
Entry includes Networking, food& drink, a sleeve of raffle tickets
and entry into Progressive Jackpot!
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Dynamite Smiles invites you to join them after the ribbon is cut for an open house with food and beverages!
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748 Easy Street, Carefree
Whether you are a brand new member of the Chamber or you have been a Chamber member for years…this event is for you! Please join Chamber staff and Ambassadors on the second Friday of every month from 8-9:30AM at the Chamber office to receive information about how to get the most out of your Chamber benefits.
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Kraig Nelson, Cave Creek Museum Historian
The former World War Two paratrooper fired a few rounds into the ceiling of the bar, immediately the overly boisterous crowd calmed. Not only did the frightening report of the firearm get the bar patrons’ attention, but he was standing on the old wooden bar-top to add emphasis. This venerable pub has become the oldest continual business in Cave Creek, it is known as Harold’s Cave Creek Corral Bar. The stocky and pugnacious “ornery Irishman” Harold, and his calming wife Ruth, purchased the rustic western saloon in 1950. Harold’s Corral Bar was Cave Creek’s only surviving pub by the late forties and was established in the mid-thirties.
Mr. Johnny Walker (no relation to the scotch whiskey) started construction, in 1935, on a one-room wooden structure on about three acres. He called it the “Cave Creek Corral.” The Corral, with its single out-house, opened for business primarily to accommodate the Bartlett Dam workers, and later, the Horseshoe Dam workers. Three, eight-hour daily shifts, provided a thirsty clientele for the new Cave Creek pub. At least six other bars opened for the hearty construction workers, only Harold’s survived. Bartlett Dam was finished in 1939 and Horseshoe Dam in 1946.
Johnny Walker purchased the original 1880s mahogany bar from the Crystal Palace Saloon in Tombstone, Arizona. The Crystal Palace began as the Golden Eagle Brewery in 1879 and was one of Tombstone’s oldest bars, Wyatt Earp (didn’t drink alcohol) and Doc Holliday enjoyed beverages at this bar. The second level of the Golden Eagle building in Tombstone housed the office of U.S. Deputy Marshall Virgil Earp.
Harold, a Long Beach, California native, painted cars for General Motors after the War. Ruth, his piano-playing wife, and nurse, kept the hot-headed Harold, and the business, under control. Harold and Ruth Gavagan were married after eloping to Yuma. By March 1950, “Harold’s Cave Creek Corral” was established using Harold’s small inheritance. Born in Arizona, Ruth died in 2007, at the age of seventy-nine. She was described as a quiet, lovely lady with patience and fortitude. Harold passed in 1993. The Gavagans owned the venerable establishment from 1950 to 1987, thirty-seven years.
Harold was a showman and clever operator. In the 1950s, lions were part of a Sunday show to generate business. In the 1970s, five-hundred-pound tigers became the feline-stars of the fifty-cent show. Carl Mulhauser, a retired Barnum and Bailey animal trainer lived in a bunkhouse on the property, along with the “retired” circus cats.
It must have been quite a celebratory time at Cave Creek’s cherished saloon and restaurant in the 50s, 60s, and 70s, in fact, it still is today.
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748 Easy St., P.O. Box 734
Carefree, AZ 85377
480-488-3381
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