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Back to homepageRamona California Is Still A Stagecoach Stop For Visitors
Ramona California Is Still A Stagecoach Stop For Visitors By Françoise Rhodes, Host of Traveling With Françoise Television and Radio It’s interesting how most visitors consider the Coachella Valley a small town community, however, Southern California is loaded with fascinating
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A Donkey on Roller Skates in Indio…What?
Coachella Valley Did You Know? In Indio, Ca, 1960 that People parked at the curb line along the main street for the annual date festival parade and among the paraders was a snow white donkey on roller
Read More50-Year old Tamarisks in Palm Springs being removed
PALM SPRINGS – Controversial tamarisk trees started being removed near Tahquitz Creek Golf course by the city of Palm Springs on Tuesday. They have been deemed “Racist trees” by some, as it was believed that they were planted to block
Read MoreModernist masterpiece Edris House, sells for $3 million
PALM SPRINGS, CA – A well known modernist house in the desert has sold for $3 million dollars. The Edris House, designed by architect E. Stewart Williams in the early 1950’s, raked in more than $1000 per square foot. J.R.
Read MoreCalifornia Desert’s Thousand Palms Oasis as “Nobody” has ever seen it before until… NOW!
In 1905, visionary stock rancher Louis Wilhelm traded two mules and a buckboard wagon for the Thousands Palm Oasis, an 80-acre jewel of land in the heart of the Southern California desert. But even he didn’t see it like this…
Read MoreBat Caves Buttes – Check it out!
Bat Caves Buttes – Check it out! By Brad Wheeler Latitude: N 33°25’26” Longitude: W 115°49’04” The Bat Caves or Bat Caves Buttes as the location is officially known, is at the crest of Durmid hill approximately one mile southeast
Read MorePalm Springs Tram Opens on September 12, 1963
About 400 dignitaries attended the festivities, and 30 business magnates paid $1,000 for the privilege of being inaugural riders. Gov. Edmund Brown’s wife, Bernice, broke a bottle of California sparkling wine over the side of the tramcar. The governor cut
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Jim Morrison at Tahquitz Creek
Jim Morrison swims the Tahquitz Canyon creek in Palm Springs despite the legend of a soul stealing angry shaman
Read More1930’s Date Stand
One of the earliest and certainly most picturesque Date stands was the Black Tent located at 1652 S. Palm Canyon Drive.
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This was the first diner in Cathedral City. It sat where the Taco Bell sits today at the corner of Hwy 111 and Cathedral Canyon.
Read MoreDestroying our Desert in the name of “Green” Energy
I’m not passionate about a lot of things – but those things that I am, are closely related to the desert, whether it be historical or cultural elements, biological, or environmental. It hasn’t always been this way, as a teenager
Read MoreMeet the Hermit of Palm Springs
In The early 1900’s, German émigré William Pester made his home among the streams and valleys of Palm Canyon (tucked in the Native American valleys in south Palm Springs). Residing in a hut made out of palm trees,
Read MoreClint Eastwood and Indio turn 85 this year!
The City of Indio turns 85 years old in 2015! Incorporated on May 16, 1930, the City of Indio is celebrating its 85th Anniversary this year. A gallon of gas was 10 cents; a new house was $7,000; a loaf
Read MoreCoachella Valley has been a place where Celebrities have found Solace
Coachella Valley has been a place where Celebrities have found Solace
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Torres-Martinez Schoolhouse
Coachella Valley Did You Know – Torres-Martinez Indian community schoolhouse built in 1907. Considered the oldest standing Indian Agency buildings in California and is located in the Coachella Valley? Thermal to be exact!
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