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25 unusual facts about Palm Springs


1968 Pulitzer Prize

the Riverside Press-Enterprise, for its exposé of corruption in the courts in connection with the handling of the property and estates of the Agua Caliente Band of Cahuilla Indians in Palm Springs, California, and its successful efforts to punish the culprits.

Adrianna Costa

Heber began working as a local entertainment reporter at the Palm Springs, California CBS television network affiliate KPSP-LP, a low-power television station known as "CBS 2", though broadcast on UHF channel 38.

Alistair Paterson

By 2004, Paterson had opened a Poetry NZ office in Palm Springs, California.

Diamond D-Jet

On November 9, 2006, at the AOPA Expo in Palm Springs, California, USA, Diamond announced that ATP Flight School (ATP) placed the first fleet order of 20 Diamond D-JETs.

Diane Shalet

Diane Shalet (February 23, 1935 - February 23, 2006 Palm Springs, California) was an American Broadway and television character actress.

Dream Slashers

Filmed under the title Choppers, Dream Slashers was filmed in Los Angeles, Palm Springs and the Salton Sea.

Edward T. Hanley

They pointed to Hanley's lavish way of life, the union-owned $2.5 million jet maintained solely for his use, and the union office near his vacation home in Palm Springs, California.

El Benny

It received its official U.S. premiere at the "Palm Springs International Film Festival" on 6 January 2007, and its east coast premiere at the Miami International Film Festival in March 2007.

Emerald Zellers

On August 15, 2006, Zellers competed against 50 other girls for the title of Miss Teen USA 2006 in Palm Springs, California and placed in the Top 10.

Hello Paradise

Hello Paradise is a weekly, magazine-format television series that is produced in and highlights the area in and around the city of Palm Springs, California.

Hugh Baiocchi

Married to wife Joan and with two children (Lauren and Justin), he lives in Palm Springs, California.

InCorp Services, Inc.

On December 12, 2006 InCorp announced that it had acquired the assets of National Business Incorporators, LLC (NBI), a provider of online incorporation and registered agent services, headquartered in Palm Springs, California.

Katie Blair

Blair represented Montana in the Miss Teen USA 2006 pageant held in Palm Springs, California on August 15, 2006, and became the first Montanan to place in the pageant.

KDZZ

The KLCX call letters were originally assigned to a station in the Palm Springs, California market in the early 1990s but were surrendered when its new owners changed the format to smooth jazz and the call letters to KJJZ.

Maichingen

Carl Eytel (1862–1925), desert artist who immigrated to America in 1885 and eventually settled in Palm Springs, California

Nancie Caraway

A resident of New York City while studying for her master of science degree in journalism at Columbia University in 1981, Abercrombie, then a member of the Hawaii State Senate, and Caraway married in Palm Springs, California.

Richard Caruso

In 2006, Caruso received the prestigious Ernst & Young and Kauffman Foundation sponsored Greater Philadelphia Entrepreneur of the Year Award for his work with Integra LifeSciences Corporation and, subsequently, went on to Palm Springs, California to win both the National Award in the Health Sciences category as well as the Overall National Entrepreneur of the Year Award.

Road to Rhode Island

Afterwards, Brian volunteers to pick up Stewie from his vacation at his grandparents' summer home in Palm Springs, California, where Stewie frames a maid for stealing to amuse himself at dinner.

Ron Fortner

Upon his move to Palm Springs, Fortner concentrated on radio as the conservative host of The Ron Fortner Show originally carried on KNWZ (AM).

Steve M. Thompson

Critics and opponents claimed that in fact, he had relocated to Palm Springs, California but was still claiming Fairbanks as his residence for political purposes.

Sun Aire Lines

Its operations initially focused on services from Borrego Springs, but the airline later moved its headquarters to Palm Springs, California.

The Golden Lily

The book follows Sydney Sage, a young Alchemist that is forced to hide inside a ritzy boarding school in Palm Springs, California so that she can protect Jill Dragomir, a Moroi princess.

The Luvvers

Wendels lives in Palm Springs, California and still plays, as does Neilson who is a jeweller in London.

Tim Gunn

While on tour in Palm Springs, California, the nearby city of Palm Desert honored him with an official resolution declaring April 27, 2007 (the day of his visit) "Timothy M. Gunn Day".

To the Shores of Tripoli

Portions of the film were shot at the Marine Base in San Diego and in the desert near Palm Springs, California.


Adrian Sitaru

His first feature film, Pescuit sportiv ("Hooked"), for which, besides being the director, he also wrote the script, has been screened in film festivals from Toronto, Palm Springs, Estoril and in the main competition of the 2009 Premiers Plans Festival in Angers, France.

Ben Hibbs

They would then meet several times at either Gettysburg or Palm Springs to discuss the article, working from an outline prepared by Hibbs.

Brian Nestande

In 1994, Nestande managed the successful congressional campaign of then-Palm Springs Mayor Sonny Bono.

Charlie Beal

Later in his life he returned to southern California, playing at the Racquet Club in Palm Springs, California.

Elizabeth Carty

Carty won the Miss North Carolina Teen USA pageant in late 2003 and represented North Carolina in the nationally televised pageant held in Palm Springs, California in August 2004.

Frederick Monhoff

He served as a design architect for the Los Angeles County Architectural Divisions and designed numerous public buildings and private residences in Southern California in the Los Angeles area, Malibu, Santa Barbara, Palm Springs, Orange County, and in Northern California in the Napa Valley.

Grounds for Sculpture

In July 2013 it was announced that The Sculpture Foundation, owners of Johnson's Forever Marilyn, would be moving the statute from Palm Springs, California (where it had stood since June 2012) to the Grounds for Sculpture for a 2014 exhibit honoring him.

Hidden Palms

Because of the high labor costs of filming in Palm Springs, California, Hidden Palms was actually filmed at a studio in Avondale, Arizona.

Michael DiGiorgio

He worked on BART with Kaiser Sand & Gravel, spent time as a stockbroker, worked for the family business at DiGiorgio Corp., managed Sun Aire commuter airliner out of Palm Springs, California, worked for aircraft speculators out of London, UK before finally moving to Novato in 1989 and purchasing a video store.

Palm Springs a la Carte

Palm Springs a la Carte: The Colorful World of the Caviar Crowd at Their Favorite Desert Hideaway (ISBN 978-1569803530) is a 256-page book co-written by celebrity biographer Marshall Terrill describing the adventures of Palm Springs, California restaurateur and hotelier, Mel Haber.

Stefanie Schaeffer

Schaeffer was born in Burbank, California to Gloria Peri-Smith and Peter Schaeffer, and was raised in Palm Springs.

Sundown: The Vampire in Retreat

Its only public screenings were at film festivals in Seattle and Palm Springs, as well as a Cannes release in 1989.

Webcam Social Shopper

In February 2011, a new version of the Webcam Social Shopper was debuted publicly for the first time at the DEMO conference in Palm Springs, California.