Historic Articles
Gladding, McBean Fountain at The Bishop House
A small advertisement for luxurious art tile appeared in the August 1926 issue of Pacific Coast Monthly. It featured a lavishly decorated tile fountain adorning
Desert Circus – Desert Magazine (November 2014)
“Crime does not pay-but you will!” admonished the Kangaroo Court citation issued by deputized teenage girls who were instructed by Sheriff Two-Gun Thompson to arrest
Harry Oliver – Desert Magazine (October 2014)
“I never did learn how to spell-but I did learn the typesetter’s rule ‘Set up the type as long as you can hold your breath
Water in the Desert – Desert Magazine (Summer 2013)
Despite its designation as a desert, the Coachella Valley is blessed with water. The very names associated with the places in the desert, such as
Gardening in the Desert – Desert Magazine (May 2013)
“I’m an enemy of the average” stated world-famous Polish opera singer, socialite and six-time-married Madame Ganna Walska, who certainly wasn’t average. In 1941 at the
The Painted Desert – Desert Magazine (April 2013)
All of the big names were here. These artists, whose paintings now garner unimaginable sums at auction, worked “en plein air,” away from their studios,
