San Angelo's Legendary M.L. Leddy Boot Shop Featured in Texas Magazine

 

SAN ANGELO –  As the legendary M.L. Leddy's Boot Shop gears up to celebrate 100 years of making custom boots in West Texas, the San Angelo store was recently featured on the Texas Department of Transportation monthly magazine, Texas Highways.

Martin Luther Leddy began manufacturing boots in 1922 in a boot and saddle shop located in Brady. After outgrowing the space,  Leddy moved the operation to San Angelo in 1936.

One of Leddy's best-known traditions is keeping a customer's measurements and traces in a leather-bound ledger.

“Mr. Leddy was a wise man to determine that these measurements are something to be recorded for history,” said Mark Dunlap, the general manager of the Fort Worth Leddy's. “It’s really special when you see an 18-year-old kid coming in with his granddad or even a great-granddad, and they dust off his ledger and look at that old footprint from 60 years ago."

The business has been in the Leddy family for four generations and is currently run by M.L. Leddy's two great-grandchildren.

The full piece will be featured in Texas Monthy as M.L. Leddy’s Celebrates 100 Years of Custom-Made Cowboy Boots.

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