Palm Springs Paradise: Vintage Photographs from America's Desert Playground
by: Moruzzi, Peter

Hardcover. Layton, Utah, Gibbs Smith, 1st, 2015, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 176 pages. Hardcover with no dust jacket. Color photographs throughout. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to boards. This book collects more than two hundred fascinating and rarely seen historical photographs of Palm Springs, newly digitized from the Palm Springs Historical Society's expansive archive. Featured are many Hollywood celebrities, including Sinatra and the Rat Pack, who vacationed there, the early days of the desert paradise, various architectural masterworks, such as the fabulous El Mirador Hotel and the extraordinary, outrageous, and irreverent people of Palm Springs.