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Ramona 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
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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
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50-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
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Modernist 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
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California 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
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Bat 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
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Palm 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
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Coachella Valley Fun Facts
This was the first diner in Cathedral City. It sat where the Taco Bell sits today at the corner of
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Destroying 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
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Meet the Hermit of Palm Springs
In The early 1900’s, German émigré William Pester made his home among the streams and valleys of Palm
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Clint 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
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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
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