Hotel Dalles, a business owned by members of the family of the late Pat Foley most of the time since the five-story brick building was opened in 1909, has passed to other hands, and the new owners announced Tuesday immediate start of construction of a new motel on the parking lot.

Sale of the business to Gorge Drumheller Properties, Inc., and Geo Gorger, Pendleton, was announced by Tom Foley of the Foley family. ... — The Dalles Daily Chronicle, May 8, 1964