BARBER: Talked about how he came up with the name Club Car Lounge

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“As I got one of them fixed up, I got it leased out,” Barber said. “So now, I’ve got all seven offices leased out.”

Barber said there was a bar in there.

“I decided that since I had sold my other place, I would restore the lounge and open up the lounge,” Barber said.

He is now working in the kitchen and getting finger foods for the lounge that people can snack on.

Barber said that next, he’s going into the big area and will turn that into a reception hall for things like weddings and banquets.

He and some of his employees from the hardware store are doing what work they can and they’re hiring to get the bigger stuff done.

Barber talked about how he picked the name.

“It was a stained glass window that said Club Car and when I saw that, I decided we’d name it Club Car Lounge,” Barber said. “I looked back at pictures from the 1970s and that stained glass window is in the pictures.”

Barber said he’s got a lot of memorabilia that he’s going to put up. “It’s just a nice laid back lounge that’s playing some jazz and blues,” Barber said. That’s our background music. We’ve got TVs for sports. We’ve got a good crew. We’ve got a great selection on the menu and if we don’t what you’re looking for and if there is any way possible, we’ll get it for you.”

Barber said that everything is original. Some of it has been restored. Anything that can be saved, we’re keeping all of that. There won’t be a lot of additions.

Also he is trying to keep it to where we can utilize it.

“It’s just a cool historical building and I just couldn’t see it being torn down,” Barber said. “It’s been around longer than anybody has been in Washington Parish. We know it’s at least 118 years old.”

Besides Club Car Lounge, Barber owns a hardware store, two package liquor stores and a bunch of residential and commercial property.