The
Dreyfuss Hotel
The cache is a travel bug hotel only. The hotel is small, about
half the size of a shoebox. IT IS LOCKED! The 4-digit
combination is the year that John Kennedy was shot in Dallas.
Very near to this place, up on the hill once stood the Dreyfuss
Club. Sadly, it burned to the ground in 2006, but it's resurrection
is in the works and hopefully this lovely building will stand again
on the hill. The original recreation building was built in 1936, at
a cost of $6,000, as a private clubhouse for the employees of the
late Sol Dreyfuss, a prominent downtown Dallas clothing retailer
(Dreyfuss & Son). Today the structure is owned by the City of
Dallas, which rents it out for parties and other functions. The
small hillock on which it stands is named for Dreyfuss as well.
Although the view is not quite as commanding as that afforded by
Winfrey Point, it is a good spot nonetheless from which to survey
the lake and its environs. A pleasant, shaded picnic area is
located almost immediately to the rear of the recreation
building.
A bronze plaque, attached to the stone wall that surrounds the
hill on which the clubhouse sits, provides evidence of the high
esteem in which Sol Drefuss was held. It tells park visitors that
in April 1968, "the Dallas Park Board named this point as a tribute
to Sol Dreyfuss, 1885-1951, who loved Dallas and whom all Dallas
loved" and that the plaque was "placed here by his many
friends."
On the lawn in front of the clubhouse, another bronze plaque
(included in the slide show) records the presentation of a flagpole
to the City of Dallas by the Dallas Federation of Women's Clubs in
1964." However, the flagpole is gone and has been missing for quite
some time. Does anyone know what happened to this flagpole?