Beyond the Gate

Winding through the Indian Canyons, Visitors Experience A Century of Perseverance and Preservation

Ann Japenga Hiking

When you pull up to the Indian Canyons tollgate, there’s plenty of time to study the posted rules (no pets, no loud radios) and watch the resident chipmunks play.

The Developers – Warren Coble

Leaving His Mark

Site Staff PSL and Villager, Real Estate

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.

Lawrence Welk

The Champagne Music Man bubbles on, and on, and on…

Helen Zukowski PSL and Villager

It’s 10:30 Tuesday morning in Studio 31 at CBS, and they’re well into rehearsal for the umpteen-hundreth taping of the Most Unlikely Success Story on Television.

The Secrets of the Road Runners

Jim Cornett, the curator of natural science at the Palm Springs Desert Museum, tucked a photo of a roadrunner and a photo of a bald eagle under his arm and ventured out onto the streets. His mission was to test the public's awareness of animals.

Story Tennesen Hiking, PSL and Villager

The Roadrunner cartoon character was especially drawn for Palm Springs Life magazine by the artists at Warner Bros. Jim Cornett, the curator of natural science at the Palm Springs Desert Museum, tucked a photo of a roadrunner and a photo of a bald eagle under his arm and ventured out onto the streets. His mission was to test the public’s awareness of animals.

Walt Disney – King of Fantasy

Walt Disney combines artistry with vision, gives the tired old world a "laughing place"

Hildy Crawford PSL and Villager

Walt Disney, whose Mickey Mouse and Donald Duck brought laughter to the world and whose Disneyland is a playground for the world’s people, calls his home at Smoke Tree Ranch, “my laughing place.”