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KOON KREEK KLUB = 'KKK'
now look at how it is spelled
1997
Just as you start to believe you are traveling yet another dusty East Texas back road lined with goldenrods and shaded by tow ering pines, you come upon an enclave of unremarkable prefab homes – us bins, really- built on boy, unmanicured lots this close . to each other. You are in the middle of nowhere, in what looks like an outpost of some long-forgotten Garland neighborhood, but in reality you have arrived. You are an hour and a half outside of Dallas. And you have reached the last vestige of true Dallas Society. You are at the Koon Kreek Klub.
New money has seeped into the ranks of Crystal Charity Ball. It has rendered The Dallas Social Directory meaningless. Even the Dallas Country Club isn’t, you know, what it used to be. Only Koon Kreek Klub-an 8,000-acre hunting and fishing club with a 40-year waiting list-is still made up of that diminishing breed of socially affluent whose Dallas roots run deep.
The most prestigious Dallas club admits not the social wannabe, but the social gonnabe. Koon Kreekers- Bill Clements, Lamar Norsworthy, Michaux Nash Jr. and David Shuford; assorted Dealeys, Hawns, Underwoods and Schoellkopfs-are bom into the place. Dad puts his boy on the waiting list the minute he’s bom and if all goes accordingly and life unfolds, you know, as it should, he’s invited to join by his 40th birthday. Should he decline the invitation-say, for instance, he doesn’t have what one Koon Kreeker says is the $40,000 initiation fee-he goes to the bottom of the list and, presumably, isn’t invited again for another 40 years.
With Koon Kreek Klub, Athens established itself as an edenic roost for the power elite of Dallas. Not merely the rich or the famous, but those who were simultaneously rich and famous and had freeways and towns and colleges named for them (or their daddies), but, really, when it came right down to it. liked nothing more than a weekend of fishing.
Back in Athens.
https://www.dmagazine.com/publications/d-magazine/1997/june/secret-hideaways-of-the-rich-and-famous/