It *used* to be the coolest town in Texas... fifteen years ago. That is until some investors from WALL STREET built two dozen fakey-antique houses filled with t-shirts, bandanas and sunglasses and anything you can paint a Texas flag on, and then built a Six-Flags-eque paved parking lots with shuttle buses and RV parking....
Now its just one more tourist trap. Any true Texan wouldn't be caught dead in Gruene... he'd get run over by some Doc Marten sandal-wearing yuppie in a Bimmer just transferred to Austin from NEW YORK CITY --
I've got my true Texas haunts... but I'm keeping them to myself...