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→Fire: Added information about one of the co owners. He became co owner with Big Jimmy and Sue after the fire when he covered cost to rebuild. And was Co owner until his death in 2007.
===Fire===
In the early morning hours of [[April 11]], [[2001]], a fire gutted the HandleBar's historic brick building. The fire was classified as "suspicious" by the Bureau of Alcohol Tobacco and Firearms, but the cause was never determined.<ref>"HandleBar to rebuild after suspicious fire." ''Pensacola News Journal'', August 29, 2001.</ref> The insurance payment the Lamars received did not cover the cost to rebuild, and they initially had trouble with financing before getting a loan from [[Peoples First Community Bank]]. as well as long time patron Lowell Husband [[Seville Quarter]] and [[Subterranean Books]] held fundraisers to benefit the effort, and others volunteered labor and materials: a beer cooler from [[Bobby D's]], flooring from [[Florida Tile]], architectural design by [[George Koper Associates]], marble salvaged from the [[Hotel San Carlos]], and a custom deadhead cypress bar<ref name="burns"/>. It reopened twenty months later with Lowell Husband as a new co owner on [[December 21]], [[2002]]. Previously partitioned into three separate rooms, the building now has no interior walls.
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