Pirates in Mourning - Full Throttle Saloon Burns to the Ground

[bigjohnsd]

https://m.rapidcityjournal.com/news/local/full-throttle-saloon-burns-down/article_8b8e08d0-5625-11e5-8392-9fb1ca092d67.html?mobile_touch=true

 

[Intech]

I hope they are well insured.

 

[TomInPA]

By "pirate" I assume you're talking about K.J. who was last seen doing a food porn article from the Full Throttle that us "old guys" couldn't handle.

They will rebuild it. Bigger, better, faster. It is the bionic saloon.

Half the crap in there was already dead. Personally I always preferred the Knuckle Saloon...I wonder why they call these "Pirate Bars".

 

[rbentnail]

That's the 3rd or 4th "Full Throttle Saloon" I've heard of burning. Maybe it's a conspiracy.

 

[stevec677]

Based on the tv show, I wouldn't rule out insurance fraud. Maybe he didn't make enough money during this years rally. Still; it's a sad thing. Did KJ leave a burning cigarette in a trash can?

 

[Pterodactyl]

They come, they go and then they're back again. Who cares, so long as no one was injured?

 

[Bill Lumberg]

They're meeting places for vampires. That's why Akasha is burning them.

That's the 3rd or 4th "Full Throttle Saloon" I've heard of burning. Maybe it's a conspiracy.

 

[Warpdrv]

Ya think it might have to do with the clientele ?

 

[Bungie]

Yesterday, I stopped by Tim Hortons for bike night. Not a word of a lie, their was some guy in full pirate garb. Doo-rag, black leather vest festooned with ride crap (I believe they call it a 'cut'), Boots stout enough to kick and moose unconcious, and I **** you not, a parrot on his shoulder.

I so wanted to walk up to him and say "YAR!".

.I wonder why they call these "Pirate Bars".

 

[LCB]

Yesterday, I stopped by Tim Hortons for bike night. Not a word of a lie, their was some guy in full pirate garb. Doo-rag, black leather vest festooned with ride crap (I believe they call it a 'cut'), Boots stout enough to kick and moose unconcious, and I **** you not, a parrot on his shoulder.
I so wanted to walk up to him and say "YAR!".

Shame it wasn't the 19th...

https://www.talklikeapirate.com/piratehome.html

 

[bluesdog]

Was it an actual, live parrot? Or was it only sleepin'?

 

[Uncle Hud]

Guess he has a saddlebag modified like marcusorelious so his parrot can ride with him. (Or did he arrive in a car?)

As seen on TV, the Full Throttle was a big place, right? Must've been a hell of a fire.

 

[VMaxChuck]

Wow John!

My riding bud Greg and I were just there during the June get together.....sure looks ALOT different now!!

 

[gixxerjasen]

As described by a friend of mine on a local forum who was there just a week or so ago.

I'm still thinking with how that place was built, it was only a matter of time. It was basically a cobbled together wooden shanty town with propane powered whiskey stills inside of it.

Pretty good pics of the fire on this news page.

https://www.9news.com/story/news/local/2015/09/08/full-throttle-saloon-fire/71874128/

 

[Top_Speed1]

*In morning* SAD DAY, and 500 gals of Saloonshine gone also!?. Man, that's a lotta party and possible dropped panties that went to waste.

No comment about the burning cigarette doobie that I left burning for Fajita Mike... It was a fatty after all, but dang.

I knew this was really a fireball

 

[Big Sky]

Not exactly in the same league as say, oh, the Empire State Building. Stopped in the parking lot during Sturgis 2014, let one of our group peel off, then rolled outa there. Looked like a big ramshackle edifice that was made of balsa wood, baling wire and staples.

 

[beemerdons]

Went to Full Throttle Saloon @ Sturgis Bike Week when it was a tent outside of city limits, rode up with Red and White Amigos from Long Beach!



Yes KJ, that is your Papa Chuy Viejo on his Harley-Davidson Shovelhead 74", 4 speed with chain drive; S & S carb with drag pipes! Bad Ass Bike!

In the 70's and 80's I wore my beard ZZ Top style, my Lady Judy would weave flowers in to my beard (I still do miss her!). Far out and solid, Man!

 

[HotRodZilla]

^^^Wait just a Goddammed second-You weaved flowers into your beard? The level of weird just went up about 3000 points. Jeebus man...I'm almost speechless.

 

[beemerdons]

^^^Wait just a Goddammed second-You weaved flowers into your beard? The level of weird just went up about 3000 points. Jeebus man...I'm almost speechless.

Do they not teach reading comprehension in Grammar School in Moriarty, New Mexico ese! My Beautiful Blonde Wife Judy would weave flowers into my long beard, as sexy as she was she could talk me in to anything; I mean, ANYTHING! JSNS, Memory Lane! Fairlaner Rolls in Flowers!