10/18/2023 0 Comments Whiskey dick band![]() ![]() “This is my 15th winter at Tahoe,” he said. Instead of treating bloody patients, he pours bloody Marys. But he learned work as an EMT was not a lifestyle he wanted. Mills was raised in Amador County, attended American River College and came to South Lake Tahoe to enter the fire academy. “We are going to keep this Whiskey Dick’s tradition going. “This has been my favorite bar my whole life and now I have a chance to make it ours,” Mills said. The punk rock band’s most famous song went, “Go to Tahoe on vacation, leave on probation.” He began playing bass at the venue 11 years ago with Ninja Slaughterhouse. “We have free live music on Saturday nights.” “Music has something to do with it,” she said. It’s located on Highway 50 – Lake Tahoe Boulevard – in midtown South Lake Tahoe, just a five-minute drive to the visitor destination at Stateline, the Casino Corridor. She was able to make Whiskey Dick’s, a former art frame store, into a successful business. “I retired, sold my house and moved to Tahoe all in the same day,” she said. ![]() It was important that she didn’t arrive after midnight. Goo moved to South Lake Tahoe from Southern California to be near her daughter, arriving in her motorhome at 11:30 p.m. She’s an amazingly awesome person to work for.” Everybody loves her but she can crack the whip when she wants to. “Goo has always been in the back,” Mills said. ![]() Tomorrow, after 12 years, Jan “Goo” Conroy is selling the place, handing over the keys to the longtime chief bartender, Adrian Mills, and partner, Mei Wormkessel, who will handle the bookkeeping.Ĭonroy’s late husband was called “Pappy.” Jan was “Granny Goose,” but her infant grandson Ryan called her “Goo Goo,” or “Goo” for short, and that’s been her nickname ever since. It may seem like any other day, but it’s not. The owner of Whiskey Dick’s Saloon emerges from the tiny back office room and punches up some old country songs, including Patsy Cline’s “Crazy,” on the jukebox. Afternoon light shines through windows and nearly every barstool is filled. Inside a South Lake Tahoe working-class neighborhood bar, the midweek patrons savor tranquility instead of the tumult outside. In a mountain tourist town where years are counted in winters, it’s been a rough one. New Whiskey Dick’s Saloon owners Adrian Mills, left, and Mei Wormkessel are with former owner Jan “Goo” Conroy on Thursday afternoon. ![]()
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