"He'll never be able to replace all the memorabilia, but you can't change his heart. "He had been collecting since he was 17," he said. Years of investment and hundreds of classic, antique pieces of memorabilia also were lost that night. Ballard lost much more than a building, Garner said. I wouldn't even walk the grounds at first." "When I pulled up, I couldn't help but tear up. "It was a hard pill to swallow," he said. Alleged 19-year-old Fargo gang member sentenced to 9 years on drug charges. Six miles away on South Dakota Highway 34, visitors stopped to visit the site of the former Full Throttle, where employees set up a bar, small stage and a T-shirt shop, keeping it open this year as a gathering place for those who want to reminisce.īut the charred trees and ground, burnt vehicles and open, empty lot is a hard thing to see, said Michael Garner, national sales representative for Full Throttle S'loonshine & Jesse James Bourbon. The new location is on South Dakota Highway 79, home of the former Broken Spoke. Just five days before Friday's first scheduled concert at the new Full Throttle, campers arrived, parking among the dust, hammering, and frenzied pace of crews under a strict deadline set by owner Michael Ballard. WE Fest kicks off with colorful crowd and concerts.The annual Sturgis rally, which draws thousands of bikers and visitors to the Black Hills officially kicks off Saturday. Three cattle shot and killed in Beltrami Countyīut at the new 550-acre site where construction workers, welders, artists, volunteers, friends and employees have worked a dizzying number of hours in an effort to open in time for this year's rally, Day said the 2016 Sturgis Motorcycle Rally will unveil a new and better Full Throttle."It was horrible," said Day, who lived there about four months each year and was the only person in the facility when the building caught fire Sept. STURGIS, S.D.-After narrowly escaping the fire that burned down the famed Sturgis Rally Full Throttle Saloon nearly a year ago, employee Lynn Day said there was nothing left to do that night but sit and watch it burn.
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