Then and now: Businesses and billboards
2012
1965
If I remember correctly, even before it was Meal On A Bun, it was a drive-through dairy milk stand.
Today the building houses Teaz-n-Pleaz.
Notice the Harrah’s billboard across the street advertising Liberace. Billboards were banned when the city of South Lake Tahoe formed in 1965.
— Bill Kingman
That was The Dead Head for years also.
Now, Gardnerville seems to be growing. New Walmart is under construction and a Dollar General Store is nearing completion near the bowling alley. The included projects that Walmart was forced to include are amazing. New roads, drainage and water supply. Whats wrong with South Lake Tahoe?
And Meek’s is still there. Noticably absent are the overhead wires.
“What’s wrong with South Lake Tahoe?”
For one thing, the city fired the good lawyer when they had two of them, and kept the one that told them what they wanted to hear. Big mistake.
Bill:
You’re right – the drive -up
I could always count on a cute gift and car at the Dead Head! They moved over into that building after being over by Ski Run.
Thanks for the old picture and story.
Steven…you would want a wal mart and dollar shore here? Yuck. Look at the great new project at Edgewood with massive amounts of environmental fixes….Edgewood creek actually a creek to the end, ponds to collect water on way to lake and more. The new housing next to Lake Village, the same thing. Costs are very, very high to put in anything new but there are people starting to do so.
Let’s build a Walmart megastore so we can ruin any business that doesn’t offer the cheapest crap and groceries at the lowest possible slave-labor produced prices? The free market at work for the betterment of all. Yea, that’s the ticket.
The old Bill’s Casino building doesn’t have any billboards, but has anyone noticed their classless signage? It is hard to believe that the Lucky Beaver Bar and Burger sign on the the front of the building was approved for public display. Showing a woman with her legs apart in a very provocative pose should be offensive to everyone. Of course, with the name of a business called Lucky Beaver, should we expect anything less?
As I recall it was a Kentucky Fried Chicken in the 70’s
The “drive-thru dairy milk stand” was the precursor (in the late 50’s) to today’s ‘convenience store’ (starting with 7/11, of course) – “swing by, grab a gallon of milk & a loaf of bread on the way home”. . .
Note that the Red Hut just next door survived intact thru all these changes. . .
Thanks Bill for sharing these great old photos!!!
” Showing a woman with her legs apart in a very provocative pose should be offensive to everyone.”
Why? Most humans came out of a woman with their legs apart.
You neuters need something else to do.