Every week, we share dispatches from Texas Country Reporter, the long-running TV show that invites you to hop in and travel along to explore the back roads of Texas.
Travis and Katie Roberts say their store, Z Bar Trading Company, is like Hotel California. “You can find your way in, but you can’t find your way out,” they joke.
Inside the old Kerr Mercantile building in Sanderson, Z Bar Trading Company is a hardware store that stocks home goods, accessories, and trinkets. The building—thought by some to be designed by El Paso-based Henry Trost, architect of the Gage Hotel and Hotel Paisano—sat empty until the Robertses purchased it in 2012.
In this video from Texas Country Reporter, take a tour of the one-a-kind retail cavern—a place where a flashlight and an open mind can get you through the twisting, turning, towering aisles.
