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[[Image:HandleBar.jpg|thumb|240px|right]]The '''The HandlebarHandleBar''' is a nightclub located at 319 North [[Tarragona Street]]that dates back to the early 1980s. Owned by [[Sue Lamar|Sue]] and [[Jimmy Lamar III]], it is often described as a "hole-in-the-wall bar,"<ref>"The HandleBar: That was then, this is now." ''Pensacola News Journal'', December 28, 2002.</ref> and "the closest thing Pensacola has to a true [[Wikipedia:CBGB|CBGB]]-style dive."<ref>[http://www.inweekly.net/article.asp?artID=1884 Independent News - INMA '05 Winners]</ref> It is a popular venue for local and regional bands from the area's [[Wikipedia:punk rock|punk rock]] and [[Wikipedia:Underground culture|underground]] music scene.

==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> With the help of labor volunteered by former patrons and fundraisers held by [[Seville Quarter]] and [[Subterranean Books]], the bar was able to rebuild. It reopened twenty months later on [[December 21]], [[2002]]. Previously partitioned into three separate rooms, the building now has no interior walls. ==External Linkslinks==