[238] The present site now operates as a branch library, research library for the Palm Springs Historical Society, and tourism office for the Palm Springs Bureau of Tourism. [218] The Palm Springs High School[219] is the oldest school in the district, built in 1938. The city is home to 20 clothing-optional resorts including many catering to gay men. [31]:17 In 1880, local Indian Pedro Chino was selling parcels near the springs to William Van Slyke and Mathew Bryne in a series of questionable transactions; they in turn brought in W. R. Porter to help market their property through the "Palm City Land and Water Company". As of the census[135] of 2000, there were 42,807 people, 20,516 households, and 9,457 families residing in the city. During 2009–2013, Palm Springs had a median household income of $45,198, with 18.2% of the population living below the federal poverty line.[4]. [119] It also includes small resorts and the Ramon Mobile Home Park. Start planning for Palm Springs … Palm Springs is located in the Sonoran Desert. [82] After the war started, the U.S. government bought the hotel from owner Warren Phinney for $750,000,[83] just over $13,000,000 if including inflation in 2020, and converted it into the Torney General Hospital,[84] with Italian prisoners of war serving as kitchen help and orderlies in 1944 and 1945. (760) 778-3727. … Spa Resort Casino, which is based on the original hot springs of the town, The McCallum Adobe – the oldest remaining building, built in 1884, Ruddy's General Store Museum – a 1930s general store, Children's Discovery Museum of the Desert – in, James O. Jessie Desert Highland Unity Center. [27] The earliest use of the name "Palm Springs" is from United States Topographical Engineers who used the term in 1853 maps. [25]:120 After the Cochran-Odlum (Indio) and Shadow Mountain pitch and putt courses were built after World II, the first 18-hole golf course in the area was the Thunderbird Country Club, established 1951 in Rancho Mirage. As Culver (2010) explains: "The bohemian sexual and marital mores already apparent in Hollywood intersected with the resort atmosphere of Palm Springs, and this new, more open sexuality would gradually appear elsewhere in national tourist culture. [61] It is maintained by the Agua Caliente Tribe. [207] The Desert Riders were also significant in providing combination chuckwagon meals and rides through nearby canyons to hotel guests as Palm Springs developed its tourist industry. For every 100 females, there were 129.3 males. The 2010 United States Census[134] reported that Palm Springs had a population of 44,552. 1885 Golf Club Dr. “ said, if you plan a trip to … The median age was 47 years. These cars, built by Von Roll Tramways,[142] ascend from Chino Canyon two and a half miles (4 km) up a steep incline to the station at 8,516 feet (2,596 m). Private post-secondary education institutions include Brandman University (branch in Palm Desert),[225] California Desert Trial Academy College of Law (in Indio),[226] Kaplan College (Palm Springs),[227] University of Phoenix (Palm Desert),[228] Mayfield College (Cathedral City),[229] and California Nurses Educational Institute (Palm Springs).[230]. The Palm Springs DMA is unique among TV markets as it is entirely located within only a small portion of Riverside County. [10][11][12] Cahuilla Indians lived here in isolation from other cultures for hundreds of years prior to European contact. In the 1960s, Robert Fey built 70 homes designed by Donald Wexler and Ric Harrison in the El Rancho Vista Estates. Depicted on Palm Canyon Drive in late teens/early 1920s; Original estate built in the 1920s, and operated as the Ingleside Inn by Ruth Hardy. Two early, but fictional, visitors were six-year-old Mary and her cousin Jack. Historical note: during World War II it was operated as the. Private schools in Palm Springs and nearby communities include Desert Chapel Christian School (K-12), Desert Adventist Academy (K–8), Sacred Heart School (PS-8), St. Theresa (PreK–8), King's School – formerly known as Palm Valley School (K–8), Desert Christian (K–12), Marywood-Palm Valley School, and The Academy. With multiple plots in checkerboard pattern, more than 10% of the city is part of the Agua Caliente Band of Cahuilla Indians reservation land. The population was spread out, with 6,125 people (13.7%) under the age of 18, 2,572 people (5.8%) aged 18 to 24, 8,625 people (19.4%) aged 25 to 44, 15,419 people (34.6%) aged 45 to 64, and 11,811 people (26.5%) who were 65 years of age or older. 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