The Shelter is a time capsule — a Cold War-era cocktail lounge on Grant Road that has resisted every redecoration impulse for over sixty years. Burnt-orange leather banquettes, lava lamps, fake fireplace, and a stiff, cheap martini at the bar.
The juke is heavy on Sinatra and the 1960s. The drinks are honest and the prices reasonable. It is a Tucson institution.