The Lake Tyler Petroleum Club was built in 1949 and it was associated with the Petroleum Club downtown. In the petroleum club's heyday, the combination of downtown dining and lakeside pleasure ...

More than 70 people dressed in evening gowns and tuxedos celebrated the fifth annual prom for Tyler youth from foster care at the Lake Tyler Petroleum Club on March 4.

As petroleum clubs popped up all over postwar Texas, in any town that had a decent-size oil field and enough oilmen to make a go of it, women weren’t allowed on the premises until sundown.