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THE POOL OF MR. PETE PETTITO IN PALM DESERT, CALIFORNIA IS ONE OF MANY DISTINC- TIVE DESERT POOLS BUILT AND LANDSCAPED BY BLUE HAVEN POOLS. SEE COLOR PHOTO ON PAGE 19, THIS ISSUE. Specialists Jn... DISTINCTIVE DESERT POOLS POOL LANDSCAPING OFFICE AND DISPLAY POOL 72-098 Highway 111, Rancho Mirage Phones: 328-4494 FI 6-1161 The Complete Travel Service 1 •1• PALM DESERT JPACIFIC ;EA FI 6-6966 RAVEI ASSOCIATION FI 6-6331 PALM DESERT SPA Hydro & Physio Therapy • I 1• 1 Mineral & Sauna Baths Organic Beauty & Facial Care I• Weight Control •••• 73950 Highway 111 • FI 6-6453 THE MOST POWERFUL RADIO STATION BETWEEN SAN BERNARDINO, CALIF. AND PHOENIX, ARIZONA KEY STATION FOR THE DESERT EMPIRE \m THE HOME STATIDN FDR * LA. RAMS FOOTBALL • UCLA FOOTBALL KCHQ - FM 25,000 WATTS 93.7 me. • LA. ANGELS BASEBALL KCHV AND KCHQ-FM ARE ON THE AIR 24 HOURS A DAY 365 DAYS A YEAR 5000 WATTS 970 Kc • NEWS—Local. State, World • MUSIC—Adult! . TIME and WEATHER • REMOTE BROADCASTS • LIVE BROADCAST— 3 p.m. to 5 p.m. except Sunday from Celebrity Room of the Howard Manor, Palm Springs THE COACHELLA BROADCASTING COMPANY Studios and Offices—Howard Manor—Palm Springs, Calif. Mailing Address: P. O. Box 1826, Indio, Calif. Area Code 714 — EXpress 8-5534 12 / Desert Magazine / March, 1964
of the tracks to the Southern Pacific and later the evennumbered sections were given to the Cahuillas who had camped in this area for hundreds, perhaps even thousands, of years. The original mineral springs, which now house one of the most elegant spas in the world, are still owned by these Indians and the land is leased. Considered the golf capital of the world, and one of America's most glamorous resorts, Palm Springs streets are lined with branches of eastern and western luxury shops. Hotels, motor lodges and apartments are everywhere. There are stables for horseback riders, art galleries and museums for culture, and the new aerial tramway (largest passenger carrying one in the world) for thrills. There are also secluded and tropically splendid trails for hiking and picnicking away from all the glamor. These are listed below. PALM CANYON At the head of Palm Canyon is a grove of some 4000 desert fan palms (Washington filifera), the only palm native to the western U.S., ranging in age from seedlings to 300 years old. Many of the giant ones show traces of fire on their lower trunks. According to legend, the Cahuillas, who picked clusters of berries from the palms for food, always burned the trees that belonged to a single family when the head of the family died, to enable the departed to carry his berry clusters with him on his journey. This is the best known palm oases of the Colorado Desert. The whole of Palm Canyon, which includes Andreas, Murray, West Fork, Palm and Fern Canyons is part of the Cahuilla Reservation and a small fee is charged by the Indians for each car at the toll gate on Palm Canyon Drive. ANDREAS CANYON Here is a place to picnic among cottonwood, sycamore and native palms to the tune of a rippling stream of excellent water. For those who wander afoot there is much to see—bedrock mortar holes in "Gossip Rock" where native Desert Cahuillas ground mesquite beans and seeds, Indian petroglyphs in a cave, rock shelters, and stream orchids growing in shallow water along the stream. The canyon was named for Captain Andreas, a famous chieftain of the Cahuillas. MURRAY CANYON Named for Dr. Welwood Murray who built a health resort and the first hotel at Palm Springs, this is the least visited of the Palm Canyon group of side canyons, but one of the best if you're a hiker and bird watcher. WEST FORK CANYON Not recommended for novices, this is a rugged hike or horseback ride, but rewarded with breathtaking panoramas of Coachella Valley and the tops of palms growing in the other canyons. FERN CANYON Hiking here is easy for the most part and leads to Dripping Spring, marked by a bank of maidenhair fern for which the canyon is named. FINE SHOPS LINE PALM CANYON DRIVE. DR. MURRAY'S FIRST PALM SPRING'S HOTEL. BELOW: EXOTIC TAHQUITZ CANYON FALLS.
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