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.
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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.
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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.”
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1969 is remembered as one of the most tumultuous periods in our nation’s history and it was not uncommon for some cities to experience violent outbreaks. Palm Springs was no exception, as was demonstrated by the events that happened at the Palm Springs Pop Festival.
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Do you know which iconic grunge band took the stage at Empire Polo Grounds years before Coachella Fest? How about that time a large pig flew over Indio?
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Would you believe there are some exotic plants that can live up to 2-thousand years or more? In this episode of Our Desert Past, Steve Sumrall takes us to Moorten’s Botanical Garden in Palm Springs where some of these wonders are on full display.
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The Date Festival is once again underway in Indio. It’s an annual celebration of the Valley’s date harvest. NBC Palm Springs Steve Sumrall examines the history of this naturally sweet fruit (as well as the plants from which they came) in this edition of Our Desert Past.
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This annual biking event has been a great benefit to many nonprofit organizations all across the valley.
