Palm Springs, California

     We went to Palm Springs in January 2016 and experienced colder than normal temperatures, rain and flash floods, and an earthquake.  We decided to give the desert another try, and we are glad we did.  We spent the first day walking around downtown Palm Springs.

Sonny Bono is a Palm Springs icon.  This is his star on the Palm Springs Walk of Fame.

Sonny sits next to his star.  

After paying my respects to Sonny, I had a talk with Lucille Ball.

Mike posed with Marilyn Monroe.

This is the home of Cornelia B. White, a Palm Springs pioneer.  Yes, the people who came to settle this desert spot in the late 1800s and early 1900s were called pioneers.  This house is built from recycled railroad ties.  Cornelia lived on this spot from 1913 to 1961.  

The bedroom is charming.

The parlor is elegant.

They might have been living in the desert, but they still had a formal dining room.

I wonder if Ms. White always had the luxury of a pump at the kitchen sink.  I'm thinking the water source might have been a bit less convenient back in 1913.

I also think this bathroom might have been installed in the 1930s or 1940s.

I love all these examples of crocheted lace.

This piece of crewel work is lovely.

This is the 1884 adobe home of John McCallum.  It was the first adobe structure built in the Coachella Valley.  This home and the home of Cornelia White are owned by the Palm Springs Historical Society.  The McCallum house was not originally located on this site.  It was taken apart and reassembled here, next to the Cornelia White home.

Adobe walls - thicker than me.

The general store exhibit is a feast for the eyes.

General stores stocked everything you might need - kind of like Wal-mart.

Such a well stocked drug store.

There was a time when I could have used some of Baldwin's Herbal Female Pills!