If you hadn’t noticed The Sandbar’s Subshop brand popping up everywhere around Larryville before Saturday there’s no way you could miss it after their 5th annual Block Party, celebrating their new convenience store at 8th and New Hampshire. Tommy Bahama shirts and fruity drinks flooded the dance floor for local giants Cowboy Indian Bear and classic act The Fabulous Thunderbirds, best known for their prolific truck commercial single “Tough Enough.”

Words and photos by Lillian Wright Smith