'Jim had a vision': A heartfelt remembrance of Jim Collins Bar during the Lincoln Street years

'Jim had a vision': A heartfelt remembrance of Jim Collins Bar during the Lincoln Street years

By Herbert BuchsbaumJim Collins was a Savannah bar and institution that operated on 17 Lincoln Street from 1966 to 1982 and 109 Whitaker Street from 1983 to 2001. This reminiscence was written on the occasion of the namesake proprietor's centennial celebration, which took place on Saturday, and refers to the original, Lincoln Street incarnation. That bar was on the ground floor of a townhouse. Jim and his family lived upstairs. Jim died in 1989.…