From the peanut husks that carpeted the floor to the steel guitar pickers in western shirts who shared the stage with a stuffed buffalo, the Rodeo Bar took Texas-size pride in its incongruity. Here, beneath the sparkling skyscrapers of Midtown Manhattan, lay a country oasis that served sizzling Tex-Mex food, high-caliber margaritas and live music with plenty of twang.

But after 27 years of holding out, Alamo style, against rising rents and marching chain stores, this roadhouse on the corner of Third Avenue and East 27th Street closed on Sunday.

“There’s not many country spots in New York for a Southerner — it was a sanctuary,” said Chris Yarbrough, 37, a native of the Florida Panhandle, who returned to the spot where on New Year’s Eve in 2005 he met his future wife, Suzie Yarbrough.

On Saturday afternoon. Mrs. Yarbrough walked in silence past walls covered in framed posters of the rockabilly guitarist Ronnie Dawson, albums by Johnny Cash and Link Wray and a sticker-covered horse trailer that housed a working bartender.