“Ralph Vandersnick has purchased the tavern from Paul and Geraldine Fellabaum and has renamed it Snick’s Place,” the story reads, referring to the bar, once called Mug N’ Jug, that still sits at 1402 S. The only indication that Snick’s opened is a mention in an otherwise routine story about various Las Vegas businesses in 1976 either receiving liquor licenses or undergoing changes of name and ownership. The archives aren’t too detailed about LGBT bars, though. It is believed to be the longest continually running LGBT bar in Las Vegas, and newspaper archives seem to indicate that’s true. On Saturday, three weeks into Pride Month, it will close for good - four months after it was sold. He’s been coming to this dark, LGBT-owned and LGBT-friendly dive bar named Bastille on 3rd at least two nights a week since 1977, a year after it opened under its original name, Snick’s Place. Meoli is quiet, though, content with his cold beer. To his right, two men drink wells and talk about work.
To his left, people illuminated in a royal blue glow poke at gaming-machine screens. (Benjamin Hager/Las Vegas Review-Journal) a pale blue plaid shirt and wide-brimmed cowboy hat, Skip Meoli only breaks his stillness to sip a cool bottle of Dos Equis.īy himself, the 78-year-old sits in a high-top booth, surveying the crowd. Bastille on 3rd, the longest running LGBT bar in Las Vegas, is set to close Saturday, June 22, 2019.
