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The corner of Tchoupitoulas and Girod streets is looking a little different these days: Warehouse District watering hole Lucy?s Retired Surfer Bar (701 Tchoupitoulas St., 504-523-8995) is no more.*

Within the past few months the owners of the California beach-themed bar have changed the restaurant?s name twice, going from the original ?Lucy?s Retired Surfer Bar? to simply ?Lucy?s? to its most recent moniker, the 701 Bar and Restaurant. An employee at the restaurant said Thursday that ?Everything is still the same,? including the drinks and the food, and that the company was "just having some trademark issues.?

Both the website and Facebook page for Lucy?s appear to have been taken down and replaced with separate pages for 701, which includes a disclaimer about the recent changes:

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