I'm a fan! My family owns a house in Truckee and I spend the winter and summer there almost every year. I am always trying to find bars to go out to at night and I have found out that this one is my favorite. Right on the Old Downtown strip tucked between fancy restaurants and other fancier bars. Pastime club is just my style. A serious dive bar occupied mainly by welcoming locals. Â And the drinks are cheap!! Dirt cheap. I couldn't believe it, but I live in Los Angeles so most drinks are cheap in comparison. $3 bloody marys which were tall and pretty darn good as well. BONUS: shuffle board and pool. So if you like dive bars, cheap drinks, juke box and bar games this is spot in Truckee.
Review Source:When it is -8 degrees in Truckee you will literally hop from bar to bar all the way down the strip to keep from walking more than 50 feet in the howling wind. Â And that's how I ended up in every bar along the strip in Truckee. Â That's my story and I'm sticking to it. Â Great dive bar. Â Friendly people behind the bar, in front of the bar and playing music. Â I'm a social guy. Â I like being social. Â And Pastime was social right back at me.
Review Source:If you are headed to Reno or just passing by Truckee on the freeway you have to pull off into old town and visit. Great little shops and you MUST stop and have a drink at the Pastime Club. It's atmosphere fits perfect with this area and the locals are willing to chat about living in Truckee and are very friendly. A must visit if you are ready for a drink and in the area.
Review Source:Let's be honest, there are not a lot of places to go in Truckee to wet your whistle. But this is not a "by default" 4 star rating but an honest "I like this place" 4 star rating.
It is kind of dive-ish but definitively not a dive like you find in a bigger city. The place has some natural charm and style along with fairly friendly people and a nice small town vibe. But because of the level of tourism the crowd is varied and looking for fun.
Good music, nice bar service, and the drinks were not overpriced!
So...it's mid-May, and we've decided Reno would be a great place for a bachelor party. Or rather, the bachelor has. So, being mid-may, we grab our golf clubs, board shorts, and drinking shoes and head east up the hill. Long story short, coming home, epic hangover in heads, we get trapped on 80 east due to an unforseen snowstorm. 80 is shut the F down. We don't move for what seems an eternity. Facebook updates us on the other wagons in our modern day Donner party and we elect to fall back to Truckee and wait it out.
So we walk in and the bartender is helpful, compassionate, and even lets us order pizza from the new pizza place down the street and have it delivered. Awesome. Soon, nearly the entire bachelor party is hanging their heads over pizza and cold beers at the bar. The hangover didn't recede, but things could have been worse. Thanks Pastime club for the hospitality!
Love this dive bar. So what if it gets a little grimey in there? Every time I make it up to Tahoe for the weekend, its a must that we make time for at least one visit to Pastime. It's tradition. The whole place isn't that big, but the bar is long, and they've managed to fit in a small stage for bands, shuffle board, a pool table, and an arcade game. I've never had a bad time here whether its jam packed at 12:30 at night, or completely dead at 2:30 in the afternoon.
The bartenders have always been friendly and chatty, and to my surprise I had one of the best bloody mary's ever. The jukebox also has a good mix of both newer stuff and awesome classics.
Till next time Pastime Club!
This is about as good of a dance party you'll find anywhere in the lovely village of Truckee, California.
After a long day of eating ribs at the Nugget Rib Cook Off in Sparks, Nevada, the natural next step was to find a hyphey dance floor to shake a tail feather for a few hours, right? Well, not so much... bopping around after eating my weight in ribs was an adventure to say the least, but that doesn't mean I wasn't having a blast!
(At this time, I'd like to take a moment to thank my sponsor, Pepto Bismol, for making this night/review happen without something very, very embarrassing happening in public.)
The hottest DJ in all of Truckee was in the house spinning top 40 jams with the ferociousness of a manatee in heat. From Lil' John to Usher to Justin Timberlake... the man behind the laptop was bringing the heat and left little room to catch your breath for even 0:30 seconds between songs in the thin air of Northern California. I do use the term "DJ" lightly, as he was literally sitting behind a Mac, clicking on another song once the previous song ended. Don't think he'll be giving Cascade a run for his money anytime soon, but hey - it is what it is.
If you're not in to the dance party, apparently they have live music during the week, as well as a shuffleboard table in the corner for the gamer types. Pair those entertaining pieces with stiff, cheap cocktails... and you have yourself a pretty fun way to spend an evening in a small town on the California/Nevada border.
This place was a kick in the pants after the Truckee 4th of July Parade. Great country western band, they said they are the only country western band in truckee. I can't remember their name tho...Sorry. Â Danced up a storm. Loved the crowd! Pole dancer got <a href="/redir?url=http%3A%2F%2Ftips.it&s=6a2d9298ce607937955665648072494d8134bc59b931a4a5c446f8dc80d9ec00" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">http://tips.it</a> wasn't me...
Review Source:Great little spot for live music. Was there last weekend to see DJ R-O live (<a href="/redir?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.djr-o.com&s=e578cb2f7f659bf252cf04a1e204ccd2cb7e8a3837d2e53ca5ed638cbce43179" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">http://www.djr-o.com</a>) and it rocked. I don't live in area, but every time I go I have a great time. Be sure to check out Keith's Shuffle puck table and order some 'Sharks Shots' (in honor of the SJ Sharks).
I even ran into 4 Olympic medalists and the owner of Squaw Valley -- apparently it's the locals spot too.
Wow. Nasty. I didn't know so many rednecks existed this far west. Â This place is the definition of a dive bar. I don't know if I expected a classy joint in Truckee, but the floor was gross and sticky, the bathroom door (a single) didn't lock, and the music playing was disgustingly country. Â On the plus side, they have free popcorn. Â On the minus side, the popcorn tastes like ass.
Skip skip skip skip skip skip skip.
Maybe we hit it on an off night (Wednesday) but I have to say I expected a lot more based on the other reviews I read here on Yelp. The service was horrible. The drinks mediocre. No food.
The pluses were that they had a shuffleboard table which we didn't have a chance to play as well as the pool table which was occupied. But still nice to see in there. Also, the place was a cool, hole on the wall, type dive bar which I liked.
Maybe on the weekend with a few more people in there, a decent bartender (who could actually remember our drinks and give correct change), and some music it could be fun but I'd avoid it mid week.
Second chance, maybe. But I'll explore some other places first...
This is the Best Bar* in Truckee! Its a just a home town bar, where both locals and visitors alike can hangout and have a drink..or two. This is not a Dive Bar! That would be the Tourist Club, which is where stinky old men, cougars, drunkards, and hobos go...to sing karaoke. If you are a Yuppie, and don't mind paying more for the same beer, you now belong at Bar of America. BofA used to be the home town bar but due to price increase and more tourists it is no longer so. They dish up some great live bands and dj sets. It is the middle of the road (literally) its a great place to start and a perfect place to end!
Review Source:Yep.. its a locals bar. Loved it. Not a better place in town to sit with my large pour of Bushmills and watch TV or play some shuffle. There's a pool table as well.
Angie, everyone's favorite bartender there, threw a wiggin out birthday bash and made us feel so welcome my girlfriend ran out and bought her a gift.
Most tourists just shuffle by this place. We strolled in and were made to feel like locals for a couple of days during our visit.
We had a blast here.
I went there over Labor Day weekend and really enjoyed the place. I was drawn in by the live music, but it wasn't that boring bar music you can hear in anyone of the thousands and thousands of bars in the US. It was more lively and had a bit of character to it with the added instruments like the saxaphone and the tamporine with musicians moving dynamically to the beat. It was very entertaining to listen to.
The place is a bit small but not to small to solicit a diverse crowd. This bar held any kind of person from the local to the spoiled hottie to the 50 year old couple trying to be young again. It actually is a rather compelling place to go.
The only knock I have against the place is that it looks like so many other bars. Sure it has random props to entice a conversation and has a few signs that draw a laugh but it was all to predictable. And not in a resort town sort of way where you would expect snowboards and skiis to hang from the ceiling but rather predictable in the average-town sort of way.
All that being said a good time is in store for anyone who decides to go.
The Pastime is a good bar. For those people who call it a dive bar, what is your standard for a regular bar? A ritzy fucking wine bar in Napa?
This is another local hangout of Truckee, filled with the seasonal mountain people working the ski resorts (at least in the winter when I ave been there).
Th shuffle board is fun, and they have a pool table.
Great dive bar in downtown Truckee. Â Live Music. Â Decent drinks.
There is a cover charge ($3).
This is a bar that draws all types. Â I find myself people watching a whole lot here. Â
I want to know what gets you on the long "lame" list that is posted at the end of the bar. Â LOTS of names on it. Â I assume that it is a list of people that have been 86'd, but not sure. Â There were an awful lot of extremely drunk people the last time I visited, but no additions to the list.....
What is not to like? Â The pours are heavy, the crowd is local, and the music is loud! Â After a day riding it pretty much is the cure for sore muscles. Â The owners tend the bar and you can always find your lost id and credit card the next day...not that I know from personal experience or anything (I blame the fact that when I am not looking the bar tender refills my drink as if I am at his party)!
If you prefer upscale head a bit farther down the block to Moody's.
Cool bar right in Old Town Truckee. Â It's easy to pass this place up. Â It's popular with the locals. Â Met Lamont & Dino - 2 very down to earth bartenders. Â
A group of women came in looking for "fancy" drinks and they walked out to go to Moody's. Â I guess The Past Time was not good enough for them. Â Just my kind of bar! Â Casual, good beer, & good people =)
okay I admit that I like shitty dive bars. Â I feel at home in them. Â they comfort me in times of need. Â the pastime club is no exception to this rule. Â it has a nice long bar to belly up to, insane shots, bottles of cheap american domestic beer made from rice, and a brass pole at one end which by the looks of it gets used frequently enough by buzzed ladies with enough gusto to keep it shiny!
a 70's era ironhead is mounted above the bar, giving the place that biker feel that warms my heart. Â live music gives this place a nice vibe to wind down dive-style after a day of snowboarding or snowmobiling or gambling in Reno or whatever.
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