Palm Springs Neighborhoods--Old Las Palmas

If you want a celebrity lifestyle, the Old Las Palmas neighborhood of Palm Springs is probably the neighborhood for you. Pricy it is, but well worth the charms of living in a Spanish or mid-century pseudo-mansion butt against the 8000-foot peak of Mt. San Jacinto.  You're also within a stone's throw of the downtown shops, bars and cafes and not very far from the Design district. 

If you end up living or visiting there, you'll be walking, driving or riding your bike in some of the same places Elizabeth Taylor and Dinah Shore did decades ago. What could be more glamorous than that?

Aside from being a celebrity haven, Old Las Palmas, was the very first established neighborhood in Palm Springs. What's more? Old Las Palmas housed the first commercial meteorologist in the country--Irving P. Krick, a man who took the weather very seriously and who had been snubbed by the U.S. Weather Bureau as somewhat of a quack. He went on the head the Department of Meteorology at the California Institute of Technology. 

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