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Reserve your 2010 Palm Springs Historical Society Calendar
Our own board member Moya Henderson designed the 2010 Palm Springs Historical Society's calendar, as she has done for over thirty years. Throughout the calendar she featured the theme of "Our Western Heritage".
They make great gifts, at $6 each or two for $10. We can ship anywhere, so purchase your calendars by calling the Adobe at 760.323.8297, or emailing admin@pshistoricalsociety.org
New Book -Moya Henderson's Images of America: Palm Springs
This summer it was our privilege and honor to work with Moya Henderson on her pictorial history book of Palm Springs entitled Images of America: Palm Springs. She selected many pictures of Palm Springs and told the ultimate story of how the city began, how it grew and some of the people and activities it attracted.
In February Moya will be participating in a whirlwind of book signing engagements, and she graciously has donateed any profits from the sale of the book to benefit the Historical Society. We will have copies of her new book to sell at the McCallum Adobe after its release date, February 9, 2009.
Museum Store
We are in the process on putting the PSHS store online. Until the online store is in place please contact us regarding your requests by phone, fax or email.
Call us at Tel: 760.323.8297
Fax: 760.320.2561
Email admin@pshistoricalsociety.org
Books
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Palm Springs the First Hundred Years
by Frank M. Bogert
Hardcover | $59.20 includes tax
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A fascinating pictorial history written about California's famous desert city by mayor of Palm Springs - Frank M. Bogert. A personal narrative written by the popular and revered man who helped forge the city's history, this books is illustrated with over three hundred photographs from local photographers and his own unique collection. These images, along with his very personal narrative, tell the flamboyant story of the world-famed community.
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Palm Springs Legends: Creation of a Desert Oasis
by Greg Niemann
Paperback | $19.34 includes tax
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Palm Springs, long a desert hideaway for celebrities, has a history as unique and varied as its residents. From the original Cahuilla inhabitants of the area, to the settlers who were drawn to the therapeutic waters of the original hot springs, you will get to know the people and stories that made Palm Springs famous.
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The McCallum Saga: The Story of the Founding of Palm Springs
by Katherine Ainsworth
Hardcover | $30.17 includes tax
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The story of Judge McCallum and the role he played in developing one small area of California is a true saga of courage and faith. It is a microcosm of the American dream.
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Hollywood Celebrity Playground
by Howard Johns
Hardcover | $43.10 includes tax
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With Hollywood's Celebrity Playground, Howard Johns picks up where his Palm Springs Confidential left off-this time covering the other fabled desert resort towns that stretch from Hollywood to Las Vegas. This book includes the million dollar cities of Rancho Mirage, Palm Desert, Indian Wells, and historic La Quinta-where TV kingpin Merv Griffin owns a 240-acre Arabian horse ranch and Oscar-winning director Frank Capra scripted the memorable films It Happened One Night and Lost Horizon.
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Palm Springs Weekend: The Architecture and Design of a Mid-Century Oasis
by Allen Hess and Andrew Danish
Hardcover | $43.00 includes tax
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Revealing for the first time the eccentric treasure trove of commercial, civic, and domestic architecture that makes Palm Springs an oasis of progressive design, this book is filled with hundreds of archival and contemporary photos, vintage posters, and postcards.
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Coachella Valley, Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow
by Richard J. Soltys
Hardcover | $53.82 includes tax
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A photographic journey through the Coachella Valley, both past and present.
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Palm Springs Confidential: Playground of the Stars
by Howard Johns
Hardcover | $43.10 includes tax
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Johns, editor-at-large for Palm Springs Life, set out to write a locator guide for stars' homes but instead wound up compiling a gossipy who's who of Palm Springs, California, the desert community 100 miles from Hollywood that was once was the stomping ground of the big screen's hottest silent stars, screen goddesses, studio moguls and more.
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120 Great Hikes in and near Palm Springs
by Philip Ferranti with Hank Koenig
Hardcover | $19.34 includes tax
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The mountain wilderness surrounding this desert resort town offers extensive trail systems where outdoor enthusiasts enjoy some of the best winter and spring hikes in the nation. And there is no better companion for your adventures than this comprehensive hiking guide - by local author, hike leader, and Coachella Valley Hiking Club founder Philip Ferranti. Excursions for hikers of all ages and skill levels, as well as 58 user-friendly maps, 118 black-and-white photos, detailed trail descriptions, difficulty ratings, seasonal advice, safety tips, and more.
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Palm Springs the Landscape, the History the Lore
by Mary Jo Churchwell
Hardcover | $26.94 includes tax
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An intimate, first-person narrative that is partly an old fashioned nature journal and partly a history book backed up and fleshed out with four years of original research. To leave the celebrities completely out is, of course, impossible. But here they play only a supportive role to the not-so-famous pioneers: Mother Nellie Coffman, Auntie Pearl McManus, Judge John Guthrie McCallum, Dr. Welwood Murray, and Zaddie Bunker, the flying grandmother, a woman who embodied women's lib a good many years before it went public. Their stories are classic Palm Springs biographies, as Palm Springs, in their time, was a classic model of front-porch America.
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People of the Magic Waters: The Cahuilla Indians of Palm Springs
by John R. Brumgart and Larry L. Bowles
Hardcover | $? includes tax
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Palm Springs Modern: Houses in the California Desert
by Adele Cygelman, Joseph Rosa and David Glomb
Hardcover | $53.88 includes tax
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When designers such as Richard Neutra, John Lautner, and Albert Frey came together with members of the Hollywood elite like Frank Sinatra, Bob Hope, and Lucille Ball, they produced luxury homes nestled in bouldered hills and vacation estates located along green fairways. Palm Springs Modern documents this 40-year architectural explosion in the California desert. Author Adele Cygelman offers a succinct history beginning with the rise of desert modernity in the 1930s through to its fall from grace in the early 1970s. The photographs by David Glomb are spectacular.
DVD/VHS
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Smoke Tree Ranch, A Way of Life
by ?
DVD RT:? | $32.27 includes tax
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Traces the history from 1887 Palm Valley Land Company's incorporation through Mac Blankenhorn's founding of the Guest Ranch in the 1920's, to the Markham's stewardship in the 1930's and their expansion of the residential Colony and improvement of the hotel, to the purchase of the Ranch by its Colonists in 1945 and beyond. Illustrated by gorgeous panoramic photographs and rare 16mm footage, this remarkable documentary takes a peek at a venerable Palm Springs institution.
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Palm Springs in the Beginning
by ?
VHS RT:? | $18.00 includes tax
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Clothing
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Custom Denim Jacket
with embroidered postcard
Sizes S-M-L-XL | $125.00 includes tax
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T-Shirt
with Palm Springs Postcard
Sizes S-M-L-XL | $15.00 includes tax
