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.

Pearl McCallum McManus is known as the person responsible for bringing Modernism to the Palm Springs area as early as 1923 when she hired Lloyd Wright to design an art deco tower for her new Oasis Hotel.

Known today as much for its painted-on-velvet “mascot” of a Polynesian woman by Edgar Leeteg as for anything specific, the Chi Chi Club was nevertheless a vibrant part of Palm Springs’ nightlife for nearly 25 years,

The “Western Art at the Autry” art show and auction, held March 2-4, 1990, at the Gene Autry Hotel featured paintings by local artists Paul Grimm and Charles Craig.

La Plaza Shopping, still the hub of downtown Palm Springs today, was one of the first multi-use shopping centers in Southern California when it was built in 1936.

On Feb. 21, 1964, President Lyndon Johnson and Presidente Adolfo Lopez-Mateos arrived at the Palm Springs Municipal Airport aboard Air Force One after attending a conference at UCLA in Los Angeles.

Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, Sammy Davis Jr. and a host of other celebrities came together for the the Frank Sinatra & Friends Valentine’s Love-In II in February 1983 to raise funds for Desert Hospital.

The Palm Springs International Film Festival draws thousands of film enthusiasts from all over the world to the Coachella Valley, but the desert has for many decades been a haven for filmmakers.

When he was asked to lend his name and support in the early 1960s, the Thunderbird Invitational Pro-Am became the Bob Hope Desert Classic, creating a major stop on the PGA Tour for years to come.

Liberace attended the ribbon cutting ceremony when Joseph Magnin’s opened a high-end specialty department store on Jan. 2, 1970, in Palm Springs’ Desert Fashion Plaza.