The Sky’s the Limit

The Sky’s the Limit

Pioneers of modern architecture, fashion, industrial design, and entertainment found inspiration in the wide-open desert.

David Lansing Vision, Watch & Listen - Vision

Pioneers of modern architecture, fashion, industrial design, and entertainment found inspiration in the wide-open desert.

Our Place in the Sun

Our Place in the Sun

These innovative thinkers could launch their ideas almost anyplace, but they choose Greater Palm Springs.

David Lansing Vision

These innovative thinkers could launch their ideas almost anyplace, but they chose Greater Palm Springs to realize their dreams.

barbara-sinatra

Original BFFs

Barbara Sinatra and Nelda Linsk were the It Girls of Palm Springs’ Golden Age.

David Lansing Arts & Entertainment

Homey little bits and glimpses are the kind of things only a close friend would know. For Barbara Sinatra, that friend was Nelda Linsk, who met then Barbara Marx in the fall of 1965.

harold matzner

Harold Matzner: The Brilliant Enigma

In Part 2 on one of the Coachella Valley's most influential people, nine valley residents discuss his branding brilliance, particularly in regard to the Palm Springs International Film Festival.

David Lansing Arts & Entertainment

In Part 2 on one of Palm Springs’ most influential people, nine valley residents discuss Harold Matzner’s branding brilliance with the city’s film festival.

Classic photo of La Quinta Hotel tennis court

Order on the Court

While the brawl for bragging rights raged on between the Racquet Club and the Tennis Club in Palm Springs, a new champion was emerging in the east valley.

David Lansing BNP, Tennis, Valley

It may have been some 40 years ago but tennis hall-of-famer Charlie Pasarell still remembers the last ATP tennis tournament played in Tucson before it was relocated to Mission Hills Country Club and the valley where it would grow to become the BNP Paribas Open. First of all, it wasn’t really even a tennis tournament. “They called it the American

Vintage photo - The Tennis Club Palm Springs

Love Match

Long before golf became synonymous with Greater Palm Springs, tennis was all the rage. But, like most obsessions, it sometimes went out of bounds.

David Lansing Tennis

Nelda Linsk

Nelda Linsk, Then and Now

Long before the 1980s anthem, a young woman and her racquet club crowd showed the world that girls just want to have fuu-u-u-n!

David Lansing History

The late Gloria Greer used to say it wasn’t a party until she showed up. But it wasn’t a great party until Nelda Linsk arrived.