The year was 1927 and Alzafar Temple was eleven years young.

When S. X. Callahan was elected Illustrious Potentate of Alzafar, it had been five years since the uniformed units had made an Imperial Shrine Convention. 1927 was the first year that a Shrine Ceremonial would be herd in the new beautiful Scottish Rite Temple. The Wrecking Crew, which was part of the Patrol at that time, worked extremely hard in setting up the new Scottish Rite Temple for its first Shrine Ceremony.

It wasn't merely the creation of new stunts but the preparation of the props and the floor were part of four months of almost nightly labors of this eager dedicated small group in the wrecking crew. After the successful ceremony, Potentate S. X. gathered his wrecking crew together and told them in view of the tremendous efforts that they had given to this ceremony, he was going to give them a trip to the Imperial Session. One of the members of this hardy band asked him how much he was going to spend. He told them approximately $25,000.00. The wrecking crew then told S. X. that rather than spend all that money on a trip, that they would rather have a few acres of ground and a clubhouse where the various units and Nobility could all share a perpetual brotherhood.

The original idea that the wrecking crew had was to buy 5 to 10 acres on the Salado and build a clubhouse on it. This was the original germinating seed that grew to full maturity in what is now known as Camp Alzafar.