Where have all of the wildflowers gone in Palm Springs? Drought conditions have made it rare to see even one purple Verbena or yellow Encilia flower.

In May of 1938, Palm Springs residents were just becoming accustomed to the city becoming incorporated by public vote a month earlier.

The Palm Springs Pop Festival held in April 1969 resulted in crowd issues, a death of a 16-year-old boy and a stop to outdoor concert permits being issued.

Albert Einstein and his wife Elsa came to Palm Springs to escape persecution in Nazi Germany.

More than 75 years ago, Palm Springs was just about under water, which is in stark contrast to today’s drought.

Franklyn Alcott Jr. and his wife Polly built their Palm Springs home in 1925, which stands today and is occupied in the Mesa neighborhood.

Frank Sinatra raised the money to build the Martin Anthony Sinatra Medical Education Library in Palm Springs to honor his father.

Beginning New Year’s Eve in 1928, the El Mirador Hotel became one of the most fashionable resorts of its day in Palm Springs.

In 1958, Liberace’s Deep Well Estate home was chosen by the Palm Springs Villager magazine as the Home-of-the-Month for December.

In December of 1937, 9-year-old Shirley Temple christened a bungalow the “Shirley Temple Bungalow” at her favorite vacationing spot, The Desert Inn in Palm Springs.