Tag: OB Street Fair

OB Street Fair: Da Bomb – Photos

 Staff  June 28, 2009  0 Comments on OB Street Fair: Da Bomb – Photos

After the historic 30th annual OB Street Fair, the seaside beach community nurses its hangover from the day of partying.

It was a picture-perfect day for OB’s annual street festival, its Chili-Cook-off, the bands, the vendors, the food, the festivities and crowds.

Here’s the first crop of photos, taken by Doug Porter and Jeff Stone. We’ll be adding more as they come in!

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OB Street Fair: SHOW ME THE MONEY!!

 Gary Gilmore  June 27, 2009  6 Comments on OB Street Fair: SHOW ME THE MONEY!!

by Gary Gilmore

There’s more to our little Street Fair than chili, music, beer & good times.

What makes this whole extravaganza tick is money. That’s right, crass as it may seem, it’s money that makes the Street Fair go ‘round.

All 250 vendors (give or take a few) with their colorful booths, … had to fork over $365 bucks each …

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Ride the Trolley to the OB Street Fair

 Anna Daniels  June 26, 2009  4 Comments on Ride the Trolley to the OB Street Fair

Why hassle with trying to find a parking space when you can be eating chili and groovin’ to the tunes this Saturday? If you are one of the 70,000 people anticipated to attend the fair, and if you are driving, you can park at two locations, take a trolley and leave the hassles to Larry, Curley and Bob. And it’s FREE!

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