Palm Springs is celebrating 85 years as a city, and as our Steve Sumerall shows us one of the city’s celebrated residents receiving a prestigious honor, in this edition of Our Desert Past as part of Palm Springs 85th anniversary celebration. 

Every Tuesday through June 6, the Plaza Theater in Palm Springs will be hosting an open house to share their plans for that theater’s restoration. NBC Palm Springs Steve Sumrall recently attended the first of these meetings to find out what’s in store for this valuable part of OUR DESERT PAST.

Imagine living in a city that decides to set its own time zone to benefit tourists and shop owners. So it actually happened in one Valley city and Sumrall shows us that’s all part of tonight’s “Our Desert Past.”