Hogs Gives Back | Non-Profits that We Support! - Hogs & Heifers Saloon Las Vegas

From the outside looking in, one might not think a rowdy bar like Hogs & Heifers would be the type of place that gives back. Sure we like to get our dance and drink on, we party harder than most, but that doesn’t mean we’re not good people! Going back to our early days in New York, Hogs has always held multiple events a year to help raise money for selected charities – and from day one in Las Vegas, over 15 years, we’ve continued to do this. Since we opened our original location in New York, Hogs has helped raise over a million dollars for various charitites. Despite the challenges that 2020 and 2021 continue to bring us, we still put raising money for non-profits on top of our to-do list.

Below is a list of the local groups we plan on working with in 2021. This is not a complete list of everyone we’ve worked with in the past, nor is this a list limited to who we may work with in the future. We simply want to share with the world that anyone can give back and help others in their community, even a place like Hogs!

Nevada Childhood Cancer Foundation

Sunrise Childeren’s Hospital

The Nevada Chapter of Paralyzed Veterans

The Center LV

We also sell a selection of merchandise items where a portion of the sales go to one of these selected charities, CLICK ME to do some online shopping!!

Hogs & Heifers Saloon | 201 N 3rd Street | Downtown Las Vegas | One Block North of Fremont Street

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If you’re a YouTube person, we’ve shared a few charity work highlight links below the image gallery!

If you like photo blogs, CLICK HERE to see years worth of fundraiser events hosted by Hogs & Heifers Saloon Las Vegas!!

The History of Hogs & Heifers Saloon

The idea for opening a bar and calling it Hogs & Heifers was conceived in, of all places, a bar. Allan Dell was a self-proclaimed functioning alcoholic and figured he spent enough time sitting at a bar and that he might as well make some money while he sat there. Allan’s two friends and drinking buddies were a Master Carpenter and a Graphic Design Artist and he talked them into helping him build a bar. They would all drink for free and get laid regularly and for three broke guys in their early to mid twenties, who could ask for anything more. Allan’s father agreed to finance his project if he could find an experienced bar owner to “father” him in the business. Enter Tom McNeil, legend in the Dive Bar business. McNeil owned the Village Idiot in Manhattan’s East Side, which was the Boys’ favorite watering hole, where they could sit for hours drinking ice cold Pabst Blue Ribbon for a $1.75 a can. Allan knew that he wanted to open a bar that had to do with motorcycles and women and the original logo did, in fact, include an illustration of a chopper. The Boys were trying to come up with a name, while sitting in the Village Idiot one afternoon…”Hogs & something”. On the wall above the bar was a sign for a Heifer Auction, and a heifer being a cow that has not yet been bred, is essentially a virgin cow. The name Hogs & Heifers was born. The fact that the bar ended up being in a real meat market was simply due to the affordable rent at the time, but it was a perfect match and had a great deal to do with the success of the business.

Hogs & Heifers Saloon was to be an all American classic country and southern rock-n-roll dive bar. Allan knew he wanted it to have the look and feel of a gin mill and that he wanted to hang “stuff” all over the walls. Other than that, there was little else that he had thought about. He had a lot of friends who liked to drink and planned on throwing a party for them every night. Allan may never have imagined that it would turn into the famous bar it is today, but it was absolutely his pride and joy and he considered it his greatest achievement and reveled in its quick success.

Having entered the picture prior to its opening, Michelle Dell was the first bartender to be hired. The routine performed and style of dress worn by the bartenders behind the bar, which has made Hogs & Heifers famous, was born from Michelle’s heart. Hogs & Heifers opened in November of 1992 during an unseasonably cold winter. There was literally no heat source of any kind in the bar and it was so cold you could often see your own breath. Both Allan and Michelle believed in the notion of less is more when it came to dressing behind the bar and it was always freezing; did we mention the bar had no heat? Finally, Allan bought these little space heaters that did next to nothing to provide heat and with Necessity being the Mother of all Invention, Michelle began dancing on the bar–in the empty bar–as a means to keep warm. She would throw a few dollars in the jukebox and just get up on the bar and dance. Little did she know it would become the trademark theme of Hogs & Heifers and lead to countless celebrities dancing on the bar and donating their bras. The Julia Roberts photo was seen around the world and her bra still hangs there today, albeit hidden beneath some 18,000 bras! Michelle’s famous routine has inspired a Major Motion Picture and a league of copy cat Bars.

Essentially, Allan and Michelle, and their friends, were just a bunch of kids with nothing to lose and they threw a party that they enjoyed. They were fortunate and blessed that so many others would love to come to their party and would do so repeatedly. The two were married in Reno, Nevada, on November 16th, 1993. Allan Dell passed away on June 7, 1997. Hogs & Heifers continues to be run by Michelle Dell who was the sole proprietor of the New York City location. She now lives in Las Vegas, close to her favorite saloon!

CLICK HERE FOR A VIRTUAL TOUR OF THE ORIGINAL NEW YORK CITY LOCATION