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The Golf Course 1970-01-01 00:59:59 Yes, there are golf courses in Palm Springs, in fact in the whole Coachella Valley (the valley in which Palm Springs is located), there are about 125 of the green dreams.
As a matter of fact, I can walk to three of them, each less than a mile away from my house. So why should I be writing about golf courses when I don't play?
The answer lies in the open space that they preserve. There's a
Save Washington Mutual Bank Building 1970-01-01 00:59:59 One of Palm Springs' charms is the mid-century modern architecture. The building above is eleventh on the list of the Top 20 Desert Modernist buildings in Palm Springs. The building, designed in 1961 by architect Stuart Williams, is located on the south end of what locals call "the Village," which is just another name for the downtown.
Modernists and preservationists in town wrangle to save Read more:Building
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Welcome to Palm Springs, CA Daily Photo 1970-01-01 00:59:59 Palm Springs
, California, a city with a history as rich as a thick chocolate cake, my home as well as the home of dozens of Hollywood stars throughout the years has a reputation of being wealthy and high-brow.
Not to disappoint viewers of Palm Springs DailyPhoto
, but I start with a shot that could have been taken south of the border (a two hour drive from here to Mexicali in Mexico). Read more:Daily Photo
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Crisp and Clean Palm Springs 1970-01-01 00:59:59 This would be part of Palm Springs
High School. Since this town has less than 100,000 people, there's only one high school.
Just looking at this image, one might think everyone here lives in a fantasy land. I mean look at the colors, they spill out into one's imagination. So clean, so crisp.
And this is just the shigh school, the whole city has very strict architectural requirements. Even Read more:Clean
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Palm Springs is Kaye Ballard 1970-01-01 00:59:59 You might label Kaye Ballard
as resident zero in Springs
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. Her vitality sparks the future tripping people younger than her go through about getting older, asking the question, "Can I look like that at 80?"
She's not the only super senior in town. This town's full of them--Carol Channing and Keely Smith of the over 70 set and Suzanne Somers and Barry Manilow of the hittin' 60 set.
Since
Golf Cart Home 1970-01-01 00:59:59 Getting creative in Palm Springs means (at least to some people) making a home can be a novelty.
I mean, how many people do you know, or even who live in your town can say they've seen someone living in a golf cart? Read more:Golf Cart
Minimalism 1970-01-01 00:59:59 I'm going to take a walk from minimalist architecture to minimalist art. Check out the photo here, it's minimalist. In real life it's minimalist architecture. As a photograph it's minimalist art (photography). I've cornered this building to show the upper floors of a building covered with a vertical-blind-like stucture that's built to cover the glass underneath.
This isn't just a decorative Read more:Minimalism
More Golf 1970-01-01 00:59:59 It's a fact in Palm Springs if you see someone golfing, it's not likely to be someone who lives here full time. Most of the golfers are snowbirds, many of them Canadian.
Albeit, other cities in the Coachella Valley have ten times the golf courses that Palm Springs does, and that is where most of the golfers hang out.
On a personal note, I'm baffled by the sport. I don't play. I've asked my
Buried Treasure 1970-01-01 00:59:59 We've had some demolition going on our main drag, Palm Canyon Drive. About a dozen buildings have been removed in a several square block area of downtown. Unfortunately, a few were classic minimimalist structures. It was Indian land, though, so not much anyone could do about it.
The pearl here is what I found when the demolition was almost complete, a colorful wall of tiles, paint and debris. Read more:Buried
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Design Wise Clues 1970-01-01 00:59:59 Since this is modern week in Palm Springs, I'll remind everyone who comes here that a piece of modern Palm Springs is no farther than your digital camera.
For more about modern go to Design Wise Clues...
Poodle Springs 1970-01-01 00:59:59 It doesn't take much to find a scene like this in Palm Springs
. If you want to mock this place you call it "Poodle
Springs." At any rate, here it lives up to its name.
Anna Nichole Smith Partied Here 1970-01-01 00:59:59 Yeah, Anna Nicole partied here! This "A" frame wood driveway cover is "Tiki" architecture. Tiki was the Polynesian God people in the South Pacific revered. We rever him here too. Read more:Nichole
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Palm Springs Aerial Tramway 1970-01-01 00:59:59 Rotating cars gliding up the mountainside among drastic changes in microclimates is the Springs
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Aerial
Tramway.
The Valley Station is located in North Palm Springs, an area where the heat of the desert is less severe because the station is at 3000 feet.
Once you get up to the Mountain Station the weather can be 30 degrees cooler than it is down below.
Going up and down the tram is full
Soccer 1970-01-01 00:59:59 Palm Springs is well known for golf, but soccer is popular too, especially among Latinos. Read more:Soccer
'65 Mustang 1970-01-01 00:59:59 What you have here is a 60s Mustang
in the driveway of a 50s house. So mid-century!
The neighborhood I live in, the Dumuth Park area was built to house the housekeepers, gardeners and other locals that served the rich people of Palm Springs (the rich live closer to the mountain).
Since my neighborhood is largely Hispanic, you see a '65 Mustang here and there, cause the Hispanic men dig them
Liberace's House 1970-01-01 00:59:59 Ahhhh...Liberace's home. Grand, just like the man, a flamboyant pianist and, shall we say, "queen?"
He died here at 68 after contracting AIDS in 1987.
That would make this year (last month, really) the 20th anniversary of his death.
To see all that was grand about the man, you gotta go to Vegas to the Liberace Museum.
Just in case if you're into extravagant entertainers and never heard of Read more:House
Our Mayor 2007-03-03 04:12:00 How'd you like to be mayor of Palm Springs? Sonny Bono was. Here's a pic of our current mayor, Ron Oden. Dapper fellow, he is. Read more:Mayor
da da, da, dada da ta ah... 2007-03-04 05:33:00 If you're looking for odd, you'll find it on this blog.
Why? Because Palm Springs is full of the odd and offbeat.
Palm Springs Oddities
1. There's a bronze statue of Sonny Bono downtown. Many of you are probably thinking Sonny Who?
2. Forty percent (okay, I might be fibbing) of the people here are gay.
3. The city has been labeled as a "MId-Century Modern Disneyland"
4. Jamie Keebler, the
Desert Pupfish 2007-03-05 23:47:00 Most of you know the temperature in the summer in Palm Springs can go up to 125 degrees
Remarkable enough in the oasis here, there are fish, yes fish--the pupfish.
Cute little critters, aren't they!
To see these little rascals take a hike...through the Indian Canyons. Read more:Desert
It's Time for a Raindance 2007-03-08 03:04:00 I can feel it. I can see it. What is it? It is the palm trees. Do they look thirsty to you?
Well...they are. We've had no rain here for months. We got water though, a huge aquifer underground, with some of the best tasting water in the U.S. of A.
But the aquifer doesn't help the palm trees much. They look better when there's more rain.
Please, please, give us some rain! Read more:Raindance
Sonny Bono 2007-03-09 06:50:00 Seven Lucky Questions Answered about our Former Mayor, Sonny
Bono
Who was Sonny Bono?
Sonny sang with Cher in the 1960's. The group was called "Sonny and Cher."
What was a song they sang?
They sang "I Got You Babe," among many other hits.
When was Sonny mayor of Palm Springs?
Sonny was mayor of Palm Springs in the mid 1980s
What happened to Sonny after he became mayor?
Sonny went on to
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Palm Springs Post Office Building 2007-03-10 23:22:00 This is the Springs
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post office. It is a very grand building with it's towering one floor, sleek archways and and wall to wall windows.
I have several questions about the state of this building.
1. Is the building on tribal land?
2. At one time I heard it was going to be demolished, but am wondering if it still is.
3. What architect designed this fabulous beast?
4. When was it built?
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