Membership in the Calgary Petroleum Club has been described as the "pinnacle of social and corporate achievement in a one-industry town.

Carl Nickle reported on the event the following day in the Calgary Herald: For the next year the Petroleum Club used the Sun Room at the Palliser as its home.

On 13 April 1950 the Duke of Windsor joined the club for lunch at the Palliser as a guest of honor.

[6] The new building was one storey high; a nine-storey office tower addition was intended to be built above the club but was never constructed.

[7] On Friday, 1 August 1958 the club moved to the new headquarters and on Saturday held a cocktail reception.

"[10] In the early morning of Friday, 13 May 2005, an arsonist set a fire in the club causing roughly $400,000 of damage.