Ruben Gonzalez’s never-say-die activism started alongside Cesar Chavez and continues with Coachella’s artistic set.
The Sky’s the Limit
Pioneers of modern architecture, fashion, industrial design, and entertainment found inspiration in the wide-open desert.
Pioneers of modern architecture, fashion, industrial design, and entertainment found inspiration in the wide-open desert.
Our Place in the Sun
These innovative thinkers could launch their ideas almost anyplace, but they choose Greater Palm Springs.
These innovative thinkers could launch their ideas almost anyplace, but they chose Greater Palm Springs to realize their dreams.
Original BFFs
Barbara Sinatra and Nelda Linsk were the It Girls of Palm Springs’ Golden Age.
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: 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.
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.
Harold Matzner: An Oral History
Part 1: Prince of the Desert.
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.
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
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.
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!
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.
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