Up until 1950, then Palm Springs Municipal Airport covered a larger area than New York’s La Guardia Airport.

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

During a period of just three days in January 1969, more than 3.25 inches of rain flooded the streets and homes of Palm Springs.

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

After the excitement of the Christmas holidays, children in Palm Springs did not have to wait long for a much-loved tradition – the annual Mounted Police Rodeo and Parade.

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.

Contradicting everything you have been taught about weather in the desert oasis, it has snowed in Palm Springs.

Early landscape painters propelled the Palm Springs artists’ colony and transformed the area into a destination for the creative set