A workaround to eliminate Safari "Bookmarks Bar"

If you sync your bookmarks with your PC based Safari, you get the folders "bookmarks bar" and "bookmarks" on your iPhone. Unnecessary and cluttering, they do not have a "delete" button, nor can they be eliminated from Safari. Annoying. In addition, any bookmarks saved on the iPhone that are not in a folder get saved back on Safari as a folder, not a bookmark. Equally annoying.
To return to sanity, I sync'ed with a blank Explorer browser, so the offending folders were created there from iPhone. In Explorer I could eliminate the folders and after sycing again, they were now eliminated from the iPhone, freeing up valuable real estate.
Hope this helps anyone with a similar circumstance.

Load a site and then drag the image to the left of the address to the toolbar, or choose Add Bookmark from the Bookmarks menu.
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