Season 6

Cabot Pueblo Museum in Desert Hot Springs - one man's life work
Cabot Pueblo Museum in Desert Hot Springs - one man's life work
From tribal land to grazing ground to fish farm to preserve - White Water has a great history
From tribal land to grazing ground to fish farm to preserve - White Water has a great history

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Episode 6-1: Shadow Mountain Resort

Episode 6-2: Cabot Yerxa

Episode 6-3: Whitewater Preserve

Shadow Mountain Resort was the start of Palm Desert. It's still there!

In nearby Desert Hot Springs, we're going to take a look at what one man spent a lifetime building!

Whitewater Preserve - don't pass it at 70 on the Interstate - take the time to visit and explore!

The fascinating and sometime bizarre story of Howard Hughes' Palm Springs
The fascinating and sometime bizarre story of Howard Hughes' Palm Springs

Episode 6-4: Howard Hughes' Palm Springs

Not only did Hughes own several homes here, there is a bizarre incident at the El Mirador - worth a closer look!

Explore Canyon Estates, south Palm Springs best neighborhood
Explore Canyon Estates, south Palm Springs best neighborhood

Episode 6-5: The Real Story Behind El Mirador

How did such a spectacular Grand Hotel fail after World War II? We view it from a different angle.

The real story behind the demise of the Grand Hotel - El Mirador
The real story behind the demise of the Grand Hotel - El Mirador

Episode 6-6: Exploring Canyon Estates

Explore Canyon Estates on our quest to explore all of Palm Springs neighborhood by neighborhood.

Episode 6-7: Lazy C Ranch

Episode 6-8: Golden Checkerboard

Episode 6-10: The Desert Air Hotel

Episode 6-11: PSP Expansion

Episode 6-12: Desert Magazine

Golden Checkerboard by Ed Ainsworth - a skewed history of the struggles of the Agua Caliente tribe
Golden Checkerboard by Ed Ainsworth - a skewed history of the struggles of the Agua Caliente tribe
The Desert Air Hotel in Rancho Mirage - Drive In or Fly in!
The Desert Air Hotel in Rancho Mirage - Drive In or Fly in!
Desert Magazine extolled the benefits of Desert Living
Desert Magazine extolled the benefits of Desert Living
How to expand PSP yet keep that small airport feel? A challenge!
How to expand PSP yet keep that small airport feel? A challenge!
Red line laws kept people from joining country clubs. So they started their own!
Red line laws kept people from joining country clubs. So they started their own!

Hidden in a canyon near Windy Point off highway 111 is the Lazy C Ranch.

Golden Checkerboard by Ed Ainsworth released in 1965 actually changed history.

The Country Club for people who couldn't join a country club.

Fly in! Drive in! Those were the options for the Desert Air Hotel in Rancho Mirage.

The small Palm Springs International Airport has ambitious growth plans!

The publication that helped the establishment of Palm Desert as a city

Colleen Carol Crist designed the Monkey Tree Inn on Racquet Club Road.
Colleen Carol Crist designed the Monkey Tree Inn on Racquet Club Road.

Episode 6-13: Colleen Carol Crist

Episode 6-14: Joshua Tree Threat

Episode 6-15: The Rise and Fall and Rise of Mid-Century Style

Episode 6-16: Cabazon Dinosaurs

Episode 6-17: Hadley Fruit Orchard

Episode 6-18: Exploring Parkview Mobile Home Park

From popular to sneered at to popular again. Mid-century Modern!
From popular to sneered at to popular again. Mid-century Modern!
Will the Joshua Trees survive the threat?
Will the Joshua Trees survive the threat?
The Cabazon Dinosaurs, a great roadside attraction!
The Cabazon Dinosaurs, a great roadside attraction!
Hadley fruit orchards - a staple just outside Palm Springs
Hadley fruit orchards - a staple just outside Palm Springs
Parkview Mobile Home Park - but are these homes still mobile?
Parkview Mobile Home Park - but are these homes still mobile?

Wife. Mother. And designer of the mid-century hotel The Monkey Tree Inn.

Could we lose the Joshua Trees in Joshua Tree National Park?

But the big question is - Will avocado colored refrigerators return?

Larger than life! The Cabazon dinosaurs a roadside stop worth visiting!

From roadside stand to major retail outlet - this is the story of Paul and Peggy Hadley and their friends at the tribe.

Parkview has become its own neighborhood. Join me as we check out this non-mobile home park

Episode 6-19: Exploring Horizon Mobile Home Village

Episode 6-20: Temple Isaiah

Episode 6-21: ACE Hotel

Episode 6-22: Pioneertown

Episode 6-23: Lawrence Crossley

Episode 6-24: Pickleball

Horizon Mobile Home Village - certainly NOT a trailer park
Horizon Mobile Home Village - certainly NOT a trailer park
The ACE hotel, just a cool hangout with a great history
The ACE hotel, just a cool hangout with a great history
Generations of worshiper have been at this Palm Springs temple.
Generations of worshiper have been at this Palm Springs temple.
Pioneertown is a fun day trip in the high desert just outside of Palm Springs
Pioneertown is a fun day trip in the high desert just outside of Palm Springs
He started as the driver to Prescott Stevens and ended up as a developer for underserved
He started as the driver to Prescott Stevens and ended up as a developer for underserved
Pickleball is everywhere in Palm Springs!
Pickleball is everywhere in Palm Springs!

Related to Parkview? Yes. Different? Definitely yes!

Three generations of architects, multiple generation of worshippers and Frank Sinatra. How Palm Springs can we get?

From Westward Ho and Howard Johnson to hipster ACE Hotel and Kings Highway!

Fake town, good time!

From chauffeur to property developer and rule breaker. A Palm Springs Pioneer!

Is this the perfect game for Palm Springs?

Episode 6-25: Palm Springs - Dead Again?

Episode 6-26: Al Wertheimer & The Dunes Club

Don't believe the negative videos on YouTube, Palm Springs is well!
Don't believe the negative videos on YouTube, Palm Springs is well!

Despite Internet reports to the contrary, this city is far from dead...

The mod invades the desert and Palm Springs wants no part of it! Sort of...

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