![]() ![]() Throw in the need for some drama for a TV show, and you have a recipe for disaster for most bar owners. Pulling this all off requires more than most can handle. Plus booking bands and staffing an event with quality personnel, souvenir shops and vendors. We are talking two truckloads of beer per night. A typical bar owner would have no idea how to pull it off. Operating a business of this magnitude that requires months of planning is tough. The comment earlier that trashed the "players" was disgustingly out of line, inappropriate and wrong. Also, I have known one of the primary stars for many years. I have worked the rally and have seen the kind of things presented on the show. At one point in my life I lived in the full throttle area. The reality television series, also titled “Full Throttle Saloon,” ran for five years starting in 2009 on the TruTV cable network.Okay, that title isn't totally misleading but I'm not completely "inside". Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives said.ĭamage was estimated at about $10 million for the Full Throttle, which boasted concert stages, a wrestling ring, zip lines and rental cabins, and was said to serve up to 15,000 people a day during the weeklong Sturgis Motorcycle Rally in August. Investigators have determined the fire originated in the main part of the bar and was an accident, the South Dakota State Fire Marshal and the U.S. 8 blaze that consumed the main building at the Full Throttle Saloon, which opened in 1999 and billed itself as the world’s largest biker bar. (Reuters) - A fire that destroyed a Sturgis, South Dakota, biker bar that was featured in a reality television show and was a popular hangout during the city’s annual motorcycle rally has been ruled an accident, fire investigators said on Monday. REUTERS/Sturgis Volunteer Fire Department/Handout via Reuters The Full Throttle Saloon, which billed itself as the "world's largest biker bar," is seen reduced to burning embers following an early morning fire in Sturgis, South Dakota September 8, 2015, in this handout courtesy of the Sturgis Volunteer Fire Department. ![]()
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