RGJ.com: 'Place of mystery and magic'-Is Red Rock Studios a bar or a gallery? For the owner, it's a …: "t's a modest address, 241 S. Sierra St., just a room atop a basement in a 1950s building that also houses a barber, a neighborhood lawyer and a florist. But to Kevin McGehee, 40, local entrepreneur, owner of the Green Room bar and former operative for U.S. Sen. John Ensign, 241 S. Sierra is 'a place of mystery and magic.'
The office of McGehee's late father, a lawyer and public administrator, sat a half block north on Sierra Street. When he was a kid, McGehee dropped by 241 with the old man. It was called Cardinal Room bar back then, a joint 'filled with old timers drinking Scotch at 10 a.m.,' McGehee said.
Cut to the mid-1990s. Lubrication remained the order of the day at 241, but now it was called the Blue Lamp. Suit met scruff at the bar -- 'lawyers drinking with pierced musicians,' as McGehee put it -- and everyone got along. McGehee only managed the Blue Lamp, but he let everyone think he owned it. In Reno of the time, there was no cooler place to be.
After years of dreaming, McGehee finally got to own some of that cool. Last week, he opened Red Rock Studios bar at 241 S. Sierra St., in the same room where he watched men drink as a boy, in the same room he would later part"
