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| - So, on the message boards Scoundrel's came up, I actually used to hang out there when I moved back to Vegas (yeah, the second time). I lived across the street at was then The Pointe, one of the best apartment complexes I lived at to this day, until they went condo. I have seen all kinds of changes with this bar over the years. I've seen it go from many identities from the small rocker dive bar I first knew it as.
So, no one had done a review about it in the decade I've known about it? Spidey sense tingling, I wonder what's going on. This seems like a place yelpers would have hit by now.
There are some interesting stories I remember from this place. Yelp is a great writing exercise for me. I write a review, but I also then expand things a second part with elaborated memories of drunken bad mistakes that sometime you'll eventually be able to read. I remember the kitchen and getting a lot of great food here. I ate in the dining room a lot, each Thursday studying the Mercury (now Citylife) and Las Vegas Weekly, when it had the Life in Hell comic inside and before it became known as a glossy cover nightclub strip directory. I poured over all the club fliers I got from Tower Records Wow on how to plan my party weekends. I was into raves, God was I ever that young?
I worked in Henderson at a restaurant that's now closed, but on my nights off I wanted to go out and drink. I went to Scoundrels a lot before I branched out and discovered gems nearby like Royal Frog, what was (the first version of) Emergency Room, McMullan's, O'Ace's, and Chang's Hong Kong cuisine, all within walking. It's strange, I preach not to buy foreign, but yet I love Chinese food (hey, it's cooked here). And when I dress vintage I like to wear dragons, as long as it's made in the USA, to signify friendly WW2 relations with China during the early 40's.
There were a couple of reasons why I stopped going to Scoundrels, but by far it was discovering the other businesses around the area. But the first incident was a car theft that took place at the 7-eleven and Trop. Someone stole a car while the driver was inside "for a minute," but the big deal was, there wound up being a kid in the back seat that the thief dropped off down the road in front of Skip's Gold Coin bar, called something else now. There's a crime tracker channel 8 web page. While the apartment complex I lived in had no crime (emergency calls were categorized as medical for retirees), I saw there was a lot more crime traffic on Decatur and Tropicana roads than I realized after I moved in.
For a bit, they started having a DJ house music night. by this time, my apartment complex was going condo and I had started another job on the strip in one of the busiest restaurants. I had to look for a new place to live which, if I could go back, would yell at myself to not move in with the people I chose.
On one of the nights I was considering going in, I decided not to for whatever reason. going thru storage boxes last winter, I remembered I was selling on ebay a lot during this time. I must have been putting up sales. But I remember on this particular night I decided not to go, the place was robbed when the thief determined the bar was empty with just the bartender. I have no idea how things could have gone if I was there. I was just holy sh**ting that I wasn't.
Since, things have gotten better and the place is known for being patch friendly with a lot more bikers going there. A few would hang out the early times I was there, but I never wanted to ride my Honda up to where Harley's were parked. I hung out with a lot of biker's for the first time here and eventually went riding with a few to Stateline, the lake, Dam, out to Hacienda casino for cheap eats and beer. the important thing wasn't what I drove, but that I could keep up and to just enjoy the ride in the wind and sun. This was before texting made drivers an even greater danger than ones that disregard motorcycles and merge into your lane with no warning or of course signaling.
Great memories from Scoundrels!
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