Is the Hard Times Tavern at Stead still operating...? It was quite the gathering place in the 80's and was still open my last visit to the Reno Air Races in 1991... I flew into Reno, checked into my hotel, and caught the early-morning daily bus to Stead with the workers, got off the bus at the tavern/restaurant for breakfast...after each full day of "Stuff goin' on in the air" from dawn til dark, went back to the Hard Times for cold beer and good times until the last bus into Reno at 11:30 PM... I did that daily thru the week until the event was over... I met some of the greatest Airplane people there that one could only imagine existed... Good times...