Palm Springs Mayor Florian Boyd tossed out the first baseball of the opening game of the 1956 Palm Springs Little League Series on June 7, 1956.

Oliver S. McKinney found a way to tap into the water source that helped the Greater Palm Springs area flourish.

The graduation class from Nellie Coffman Junior High in Palm Springs celebrated its promotion to Palm Springs High School at Harry’s Cafe, which later became a Frank Sinatra hangout called Ruby’s Dunes.

American Legion Owen Coffman Post 519 in Palm Springs has historically honored local servicemen and women who were killed in action. This year they will honor 27 local residents from World War II, Korea, Vietnam, Iraq, and Afghanistan.

Seventy-five Coachella Valley officials gathered on May 3, 1957, to watch as bulldozers began to break up the sand dunes in an attempt to transform the barren desert into The Desert Turf Club, a luxury horseracing track.

Comedian Jerry Lewis brought his entire cast of 20 to perform at the Starlite Room in The Chi Chi on May 25, 1957, in Palm Springs.

There were two main ditches built to disperse water through Palm Springs in its early days; the Tahquitz Ditch and the Whitewater Ditch.

As the winter season begins to wind down, the annual Desert Circus celebration revs up and brings out locals and visitors for one of the last celebrations before summer arrives.

On April 13, 1947, participants of the sixth annual Palm Springs Breakfast Flight darkened the desert sky as the greatest mass flight of private planes in history touched down at the airport in Palm Springs.

More and more revelations surfaced about the corruption in New York City as Mayor Jimmy Walker left the Big Apple in the early 1930s for a restorative vacation in Palm Springs.