GREEN BAY – Quicker than you can say Jelly Roll, Luke Combs and Post Malone, That ’70s Bar has gone from groovy to country.
The Broadway District bar that opened in October 2022 as a colorful throwback to the decade of ABBA, “Saturday Night Fever,” lava lamps and Farrah Fawcett posters underwent a surprise extreme makeover on Labor Day weekend and came out the other side as Lone Star.
So long, cut-out of John Travolta in the silk shirt and polyester pants. Hello, wall art of George Strait in a cowboy hat. The one-of-a-kind interior bar made to look like “The Partridge Family” bus? It’s a cattle truck now. The flower power artwork and Twister dots have been covered over with barn wood, corrugated metal and paint the color of Texas clay.
You can even belly up to the bar and sit on one of four stools that are saddles, a nod to the famed Gilley’s honky-tonk in Pasadena, Texas, where the 1980 movie “Urban Cowboy” was filmed.
It all went down a little like 1984 when the Baltimore Colts abruptly up and left Baltimore and moved to Indianapolis in the middle of the night, joked Chris Hansen, who co-owns Lone Star, 124 S. Broadway, and its predecessor with Brian Bunkelman. They also own The Sardine Can just down the street.