A solitary Green Bay Packers banner is all that’s left of the team memorabilia that once filled a beloved Wisconsin bar beneath the Colorado foothills.

“Thirty-two years I’ve been here,” said Wyman Stacey, owner of Rocky Flats Lounge, as he stood among charred bits on the floor in the front room. His wife, Pat, said they got the call around 4 a.m. Wednesday that a fire had started in the kitchen and consumed some of the iconic bar on a lonely stretch of Colorado 93 between Golden and Boulder.

Stacey reflected on the memorabilia he had lost in the fire.

“All of my Packers stuff, except the flag on the wall,” he said, gesturing toward the southeast corner of the building, across from the kitchen, where the fire started some time after the last member of the staff left about 2 a.m. The fire department told him it was reported at 2:19 a.m., Stacey said.

The frames of the bar’s televisions, which had aired Packers games for countless fans who came to this bar, had melted around warped screens. The wall behind the bar was black.

“It’s hard to look at stuff I’ve collected for 30 years,” he said.

The fire at the hardscrabble Rocky Flats Lounge is heartbreaking for Wisconsin fans, who have been gathering at the bar since Stacey started showing Packers games there in 1985. “Now their kids are coming here,” he said.

And then there are those who came by on Fridays for the fish fry, a tradition the previous owner started in ’81. And the bikers who rolled in to play poker.

It’s also a well-known signpost on the highway for those who drove past repeatedly but never entered its doors, thinking it looked just a little too rough around the edges.

“A lot of people just pass by the bar and don’t come in, but it’s welcoming,” said employee Sue Petersen, of Westminister, who, like other staffers, drove to the lounge as soon as they heard the news. “You may not know anyone, but once you come in, you make friends.”

Petersen has been working at Rocky Flats Lounge for seven years. The place feels like family, she said, and co-worker Paula Sellers echoed that feeling: “Wyman’s like a father to me.”

Sellers drove to Colorado from Maine 11 years ago, and her 1966 Studebaker broke down just outside of the bar’s parking lot. She went into the bar for help, started going to the bar, then got a job there.

She had been scheduled to work Wednesday.

Workers were boarding up the windows Wednesday to secure the building while the Staceys waited for a call from an insurance adjuster.

Stacey said the fire department told him that the building is sound.

A few men were taking memorabilia down from the back room — an American flag and some medals. Stacey served in the Army in Vietnam.

Meanwhile, as news of the fire got out in the afternoon, Stacey’s phone rang. Often.

“I did have a lot of Packers fans calling me, and even coming by,” he said. “(One) brought a Packers shirt and a bobblehead Packer.

“He wanted to start my collection again.”

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