Texas Star Inn

Honky Tonk on the Bandera highway in Leon Valley, Texas, just northwest of San Antonio. It was established in 1946 as a beer joint and motorcyclists' hangout. In the 1990s and into the 2000s the former Texas Star has operated as a popular barbecue restaurant known as Grady's. The place was originally a mom-and-pop operation run by Mama Aselee Mattie and Papa Frank Klein, who purchased it in 1952. Papa Klein was a singer and guitarist, and his Texas Star Playboys, a group that included young Larry Nolen, called the inn home until the early 1960s.