Bailywick's
RSVP
Reno, Nevada · Est. 1981

Forty-five years later, we're getting the band back together

Mid-September 2026 · Reno

Back in the old building — now The Fox Restaurant & Brewery. Staff, customers, friends and fans: everybody who was ever part of it.

Save my seat See the old days

What it was

A hamburger and chili parlor that turned into a family.

Two twenty-somethings opened a burger joint in Reno in 1981. Nachos, Texas chili, a wall of taps, and a bar scene that got loud early and stayed loud. We were not trying to build an institution. We were trying to make rent.

What happened instead is that Bailywick's became the place. Through '82, '83, '84, '85 — if you were in Reno and you were young, you came through those doors. You worked a shift, or you closed the place down, or both in the same twenty-four hours. Ten years, a few different owners, and a run that people in this town still talk about.

We built a family without ever knowing that's what we were doing.

We're in our sixties and seventies now. In the last few years we've lost too many of the people who made those rooms what they were — several in just the past six months. So this isn't a memorial. This is a celebration of life, held while we're all still here to enjoy it.

Come back to the building. Tell the stories. Find out what happened to everybody. That's the whole idea.

The plan

One night. The old room. Everybody who was part of it.

Not staff only. If you drank there, ate there, dated somebody who worked there, played there, or just loved the place — you're on the list. Bring up to two guests.

When
Mid-September 2026
Where
The old Bailywick's building
Time
Come early, stay late. Same as always.
Food & drink
Burgers, chili, cold beer

RSVP now even if you're a maybe — it tells us how big a room we need, and it puts you on the list for the final date and everything that follows.

Reservations

Save your seat.

You'll get the final date and the details as soon as they're locked — and nothing else. One form, one time, done.

Are you in?
Use the name we'd have known you by.
This is how we'll send the final details.
Optional. Handy for last-minute news.
Optional. City and state is plenty.
Two guests maximum, so we can fit everybody.
Names, so we can make badges.
Your connection to Bailywick's
Bartender, cook, server, door, dish, management — whatever it said on the schedule.
Years you were around
We're collecting these for the night. Keep it printable, or don't.
Names of friends from those years who've passed.
Up to 5 at a time. They go straight into the wall above. Phone snapshots of prints work great.

    Your information goes only to the reunion organizers. It is never sold, shared, or posted.

    You're on the list.

    We've got you. Watch your email — the final date, the address and the rest of it are coming shortly. Now go dig through that shoebox and send us the pictures.

    One more favor: think of somebody else who belongs in that room and send them this page.

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