Although the weekend went without incident, at least one area bar owner will re-evaluate the safety of his facility in the wake of last week’s two similar nightclub tragedies in Chicago and Rhode Island.

Mike Knoop, owner of Roc’s Blackfront and Top of the Roc club, said the hundreds of lives lost in recent disasters did not have an impact on Charleston’s bar scene.

Last Monday, 21 patrons of Chicago’s E-2 nightclub were killed in a stampede when someone used pepper spray to stop a fight.

As the nation mourned the Chicago deaths, 96 people died in at a Rhode Island nightclub Thursday night after a pyrotechnics display set fire to the building, burning it to the ground.

Although attendance was typical at Roc’s this weekend, Knoop said it is impossible for a club owner to not take last week’s events into consideration.

“It’s a coincidence that it happened twice in one week, but (the events) should make every club owner think about their facility,” he said. “If something like that happened, how would you live with yourself?”

Attendance at Mac’s Uptowner, another popular bar on the Square, also was steady, said bartender/manager Scott Stewart.

Stewart said he didn’t notice a difference in the weekend crowd, and the Uptowner staff will continue to do the same things to keep the bar safe.

“We always keep our eyes open,” Stewart said.

Roc’s management will make sure everything is checked and rechecked as far as safety is concerned to avoid anything that might lead to a fatal situation, Knoop said.

“We’ll keep maintaining the facility and make sure all of our bases are covered,” he said. “Nobody wants anyone to die.”