A Mexican father, a pioneer godmother and a staff of desert midwives brought the airport terminal’s new “baby” into existence.
The Most Wives Club
The Gabors, Palm Springs’ first family of glamour, chronicled as never before.
The Gabors are to Palm Springs what fancy desserts are to a good meal: We could get by without them but they do add such a luscious finishing touch.
Merry Christmas and Bon Appetit
Palm Springs Life goes Christmas recipe shopping on the desert and finds everything from cactus juice cocktails to stuffed artichokes.
Stuffed roast turkey, plum pudding, fruit cake — these are the traditional food for Christmas dinner and whose delightful odors emanate from every kitchen about this time of year.
The Gourmet Gossip – Gary Sappington
Free-lance chef Gary Sappington shares some of his advance-preparation specialties.
Gary Sappington, free-lance chef, extraordinaire, prepares and serves divinely elegant fare for some of our most celebrated desert residents.
The Gourmet Gossip – O.L. McKenney
Tramway General manager O.L. McKenney collects recipes from around the world.
Tramway General manager and restaurateur O.L. McKenney shares a menu of customer favorites from the Firepit restaurant.
The Desert Riders
For 64 years, members of this exclusive group have ridden off into the sunrise. But a change is on the horizon.
They are the true royalty of Palm Springs. Each Tuesday morning they emerge from the desert dawn, dressed in tailored riding pants and the customary — and not incidentally, custom-made — cambray shirts, set off by heavy silver collar points.
10 at 101
Palm Springs Desert Museum Celebrates a Decade on Museum Drive
It has been said that “the important thing is not so much that everyone should be taught, but that everyone should be given the wish to learn.” For more than 15 years, the Palm Springs Desert Museum has given that gift of inspiration.
The McCallum Centennial – Palm Springs' founding family.
"... they came unto a land in which it seemed always afternoon ..." — Alfred, Lord Tennyson
The founding of Palm Springs might be placed at that moment in time when the educated son of an industrious Scottish farmer stood near the Indian Village of Agua Caliente at the base of the San Jacinto Mountains.
Howard Hughes
More Than Just a Tourist. . .
Howard Hughes was a frequent visitor to the Palm Springs area for more than 30 years beginning around 1925. He stayed in a leased house or suites at the Racquet Club or Ingleside Inn, usually in the company of a young Hollywood starlet.
The Developers – Warren Coble
Leaving His Mark
Coble put up some impressive buildings — buildings like Alan Ladd’s, Saks Fifth Avenue, Las Casuelas Nuevas in Rancho Mirage, Ocotillo Plaza, Prickly Pear Square, Sinatra Medical Education Center, Canyon Hotel Racquet and Golf Resort and the Palm Springs Airport fountain and buildings.