I was born in Indio in 1954 and raised in the Coachella Valley, going to college in Palm Desert at the College of The Desert. This film brings back many warm memories of those days.
I was there in the 1950's with my family at La Quinta. We have films of that. My elder brother's father-in-law started the Racquet 🎾 Club with Fred Levy, Charles Farrell, and Bob Hope. My sister-in-law is Fred Levy's daughter, Kate. Jeff Taylor married Kate and was my elder brother.
IT'S A SMALL TOWN.......WHERE EVERYBODY KNOWS EVERY BODY......WHAT'S THE BIG DEAL........AT LEAST IT HASN'T BEEN WRECKED AND DECIMATED LIKE LA..........SO SAD
This was before corporate greed and low wages. Created a lot of poor people. And this was also when we invested in government spending and social programs to keep everything looking neat.
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I'm completely sold! Those 40s-60s travelogues always sell me on every place they visit! But now I'm curious. Do locals pronounce it like coach-ella? or as the announcer put it co-ah-chella?
Palm Springs is always such a beautiful place. Last time I visited the art museum, fabulous art and architecture. Hoping to go this summer for cheaper rates and take my kids on the tram up to the cool mountain tops. 🌵🚞⛰️
So much cool stuff no longer there in Palm Springs, but really, the look of "downtown" hasn't changed too much if you know where to look. I must admit, I am massively bummed out that the Tirol restaurant/building are long gone in Idyllwild.
@@chriss8970 @caligirllala1267 From an LA Times article, Feb 1991, "Balzer, who writes the wine column in the Los Angeles Times Magazine, recalls the heady days of the restaurant when Dwight Eisenhower, Marlon Brando, Joan Fontaine, Donald Douglas and other celebrated folks were frequent diners, driving up from Palm Springs or Los Angeles. Carpets were imported from Japan. The booths were of apricot leather. Three walls of the dining area were of glass. The restaurant won honors from Holiday magazine. And it boasted a rare item for the Idyllwild area: a liquor-serving bar." "But on New Year’s Eve, 1965, the Tirol closed. “Unsolvable problems,” Balzer recalls. Disputes, high fire insurance rates, increased costs. “I was doing land-office business,” Balzer says, “but I lost $500,000.” "For several years, the restaurant remained empty, repossessed by a savings and loan. Eventually, it was bought as a home. Then in mid-1989, the two pianists from Woodland Hills took possession. They enlisted Idyllwild architect Robert Prefer to “build a house inside of a house” while they began to think of ways in which this house near Lily Rock and Strawberry Creek could be shared with others."
@@caligirllala1267 An LA Times article from Feb 9, 1991 said the restaurant closed on New Year's Eve 1965, was repossessed by a savings and loan and eventually bought as a house. 53300 Overlook Dr., Idyllwild, CA 92549
This was the Palm Springs I knew. My grandfather lived in Cathedral City. We used to feed the horses in the date palm groves. I removed when Bob Hope’s house was being built on the hill. It’s just too weird there now.
@@gwinnett9078 , that’s rather classist. I’m lower middle class and don’t act like an animal. There are QUITE a lot of upper class people that act like animals.
They didn’t allow easy access to guns back then. especially military rifles with 30 rounds in a minute Also, this was back when we invested in government programs. This was before corporate greed, that created so much poor people which in turn, makes them steal and have easy access to a gun today they can rob people, etc. Reaganomics kill this country.
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I was born in Indio in 1954 and raised in the Coachella Valley, going to college in Palm Desert at the College of The Desert. This film brings back many warm memories of those days.
After being in the desert all your memories would be warm!
You must have so many pleasant memories of growing up in the Coachella Valley! 🌴🏡🌴
I was there in the 1950's with my family at La Quinta. We have films of that. My elder brother's father-in-law started the Racquet 🎾 Club with Fred Levy, Charles Farrell, and Bob Hope. My sister-in-law is Fred Levy's daughter, Kate. Jeff Taylor married Kate and was my elder brother.
IT'S A SMALL TOWN.......WHERE EVERYBODY KNOWS EVERY BODY......WHAT'S THE BIG DEAL........AT LEAST IT HASN'T BEEN WRECKED AND DECIMATED LIKE LA..........SO SAD
Very cool!
Wow what an awesome connection to Greater Palm Springs history! 🌴🏡🌴
😮wow!!😮
You should create UA-cam videos with your film footage.
This area has changed so much. The land looked so much cleaner and nicer back then.
This was before corporate greed and low wages. Created a lot of poor people. And this was also when we invested in government spending and social programs to keep everything looking neat.
It’s all alphabet community now
@@Jacob-nu4nd not too late to change it back!
The United States is a third-world country now. It's a shame
As a kid in the 50's and 60's films like this sure bring back memories. One of the things I like seeing in these programs are the cars.
Yes it's so great seeing the well taken care of classic cars... That's when cars were cars! 🌴🏡🌴
Ditto! Love the classic cars! Palm Springs had always had a wonderful reputation best known for golfing I believe
@@RealEstateHappens indeed!👌
@@juliam.mallen9019 👍
@@juliam.mallen9019 ☮️ ☮️ ☮️
And yet, Palm Springs is still looking like this its amazing.
That is so nice to hear! 🇺🇸🦅👏👌
Fantastic! I was born when Dwight D was President. Palm Springs was stunning.
No more. No more.
Lily Pons house is quintessential Palm Springs! Zsa Zsa Gabor's mother Jolie lived just down the street. Great neighborhood with awesome views! 🌴🏡🌴
This is so inspirational she got her first pilot license at age 65 that is absolutely incredible!🇺🇸🦅👏
Originally presented on Jack Douglas' syndicated series "AMERICA!" in 1964.
I spotted a 1965 Ford Gaxalie though...
Probably a new model introduced at the time.
Thanks for the update! 🌴🏡🌴
That old Solomon is a pretty incredible tree!
Great interview with the pilot👍👩✈️
Certainly a Different Time & World.
My Grandparents moved to the Coachella Valley in the late 1960s.
Beautiful times
Unless you were black
Yes. Beautiful times ❤
I will now use "Tahitian War Clubs" as my standard size of measurement
I thought that was an interesting comparison also.
P.S> was fantastic in 60s/70s. Spent many months there during that period,,paradise of the times.
Now all I need is a time machine to travel back to THAT Palm Springs which isn't really the same now. Too bad ....
With AI your dreams might be coming true as soon as we expected 😱…it will process films like these and make it possible to create an expanded reality based on our wishes. For instance, you will be able to “enter” any building or houses showed in the original footage and it will generate an interior to fill in or it will combine historical footages and pictures with city maps to generate an immersive experience so one could drive around as if he/she were there.
Never Too late to change it back for the better!🇺🇸🦅
Thank you for posting. ❤
I'm completely sold! Those 40s-60s travelogues always sell me on every place they visit!
But now I'm curious. Do locals pronounce it like coach-ella? or as the announcer put it co-ah-chella?
Coe-chella
As Robert said, we pronounce it Coe-chella. 🌴🏡🌴
Palm Springs is always such a beautiful place. Last time I visited the art museum, fabulous art and architecture. Hoping to go this summer for cheaper rates and take my kids on the tram up to the cool mountain tops. 🌵🚞⛰️
Wow that was fantastic thanks.
Little could they know that 37 years later, the Agua Caliente Reservation would gain status as a premier California Native American casino.
So much cool stuff no longer there in Palm Springs, but really, the look of "downtown" hasn't changed too much if you know where to look. I must admit, I am massively bummed out that the Tirol restaurant/building are long gone in Idyllwild.
What happened to the restaurant and building anyway? And how long has it been gone? That place looked cool.
@@chriss8970 I want to know that too!
@@chriss8970 @caligirllala1267
From an LA Times article, Feb 1991,
"Balzer, who writes the wine column in the Los Angeles Times Magazine, recalls the heady days of the restaurant when Dwight Eisenhower, Marlon Brando, Joan Fontaine, Donald Douglas and other celebrated folks were frequent diners, driving up from Palm Springs or Los Angeles. Carpets were imported from Japan. The booths were of apricot leather. Three walls of the dining area were of glass. The restaurant won honors from Holiday magazine. And it boasted a rare item for the Idyllwild area: a liquor-serving bar."
"But on New Year’s Eve, 1965, the Tirol closed. “Unsolvable problems,” Balzer recalls. Disputes, high fire insurance rates, increased costs. “I was doing land-office business,” Balzer says, “but I lost $500,000.”
"For several years, the restaurant remained empty, repossessed by a savings and loan. Eventually, it was bought as a home. Then in mid-1989, the two pianists from Woodland Hills took possession. They enlisted Idyllwild architect Robert Prefer to “build a house inside of a house” while they began to think of ways in which this house near Lily Rock and Strawberry Creek could be shared with others."
@@caligirllala1267 An LA Times article from Feb 9, 1991 said the restaurant closed on New Year's Eve 1965, was repossessed by a savings and loan and eventually bought as a house. 53300 Overlook Dr., Idyllwild, CA 92549
It’s a beautiful spot.
This was the Palm Springs I knew. My grandfather lived in Cathedral City. We used to feed the horses in the date palm groves. I removed when Bob Hope’s house was being built on the hill. It’s just too weird there now.
I have never been a fan of Bob Hopes hill top home! 🌴🏡🌴
Exactly
WAY TOO CROWDED NOW !!! I moved up the mountain
@@gilwood7530 Hope you found ✌️ peace up the mountain! ☮️
#1. Things were so colorful back then.
#2. The rich built things NOT just for the rich.
❤️
And lower middle class and working class people did not behave like animals.
@@gwinnett9078 , that’s rather classist.
I’m lower middle class and don’t act like an animal. There are QUITE a lot of upper class people that act like animals.
@@bonniegaither3994 It was intended to be as broad a stereotype as blaming "the rich."
this is fantastic!
I love this!
Who wouldn't have rather lived then,....then now? Every day was a great day,....now every day sucks.
Every day sucked back then too. They just didn't complain about it as much.
@@kenmore01 You just didn't get videos of it back then 🤣
@@gilwood7530 yeah lol. Thank God! We have enough.
Great to see this
I miss palm desert
King Solomon, the Wilt Chaimberlin of palms.
Awesome!!!
America was so much safer back then. Gee I wonder why?
They didn’t allow easy access to guns back then. especially military rifles with 30 rounds in a minute Also, this was back when we invested in government programs. This was before corporate greed, that created so much poor people which in turn, makes them steal and have easy access to a gun today they can rob people, etc. Reaganomics kill this country.
None of those restaurants remain to my knowledge. Someone correct me if I'm wrong.
If i go, i expect to see Eisenhower. 😅
How special✨
Palm Springs today is overrun by rowdy Gen Z partiers. .
The "spas" sure have changed around there.
14 : 36 appreciate that
owe nothing ; coming!
I wonder if Lily Pons is the mother of the great opera singer Juan Pons.
There was time long ago.
The changes in Las Vegas, NV are even more dramatically different today, even from 30 years ago. --The city was ruined
I want a time machine.
they aight
a relic is defined as a treasure you were another's therefore you are a mine
I'm guessing 1965?
Palm Springs went out of style from around 1985-2015. I hope it does again to clear out the steerage.
Another stupid comment from a boomer.
on her sixty fifth birthday dual thumbs and fingers tongue ; extended through lips and teeth
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Lol nothing like this now. Lots of snowbirds though. Not many fellow millennials
Used to be wonderful; Today, it's full of garbage! Sad, really...
All CA.
Where's all the white folks at?
trump 2024
You are delusional
He’s going to lose easily because you boomers are dying and the youth will be even stronger in two years
rip off credits
What does that mean?
@@DJKinney : It just means that he’s full of negativity
@@pjesf and meth
Palm springs is way over rated
how white washed this film is. "the natives no longer come here in the summer" were they put on a reservation?
Ahh Palm Springs, where JFK used to go on his sexual escapades... Those were the good old days. Now it's a gay haven. Go figure.