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Home | Archives ]  Photograph By Michael Amsler  Shoe-'nuff:
Cheryl Jensen, manager and bartender at the Washoe House. Her
parents have owned the business for 30 years.  Beating the
Roadhouse Blues  Before wine country, there was Washoe House  By
Sara Bir  Roadhouse: A tavern, inn, or, especially, a nightclub
at the side of a road in the country.  That's what the ol'
Webster's New World Dictionary had to say about roadhouses. I
though I would be safe and make sure I knew exactly what a
roadhouse was before I went blabbing on about how you don't see
many roadhouses around anymore.  So, yeah, you don't see too
many roadhouses around anymore. Dive bars and shady spots are
not too tough to locate, but places of those persuasions located
out in the country are a dying breed. Maybe Red's Recovery Room
is a roadhouse, though it's more of a bar and less of a tavern.
If you want the real thing, hoof out to Washoe House, whose
wonderfully informative paper