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Picture[edit]

I don't understand this collage, Image:Palm Desert.jpg What is the relation of the building to the street? It isn't imediately clear that the sculpture is in the median instead of the roof. Would the street scene alone be clearer? -Will Beback 08:05, 17 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]

I agree, the collage is confusing. I appreciate the motive, which is to present different aspects attractively, but as an encyclopedia we generally want to stick to plainer and "more factual" pictures - if Main Street is boring, the pic should be boring too :-), etc. Multiple pictures also helps people rearrange as article grows. (I have some pics of my own, will upload one of these days.) Stan 14:38, 17 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Dead link[edit]

During several automated bot runs the following external link was found to be unavailable. Please check if the link is in fact down and fix or remove it in that case!

http://www.ci.palmdesert.ca.us/
- In Palm Desert, California on Sun Jul 16 21:24:13 2006, Socket Error: (-2, 'Name or service not known')
- In Palm Desert, California on Mon Jul 17 17:22:02 2006, Socket Error: (-2, 'Name or service not known')
- In Palm Desert, California on Thu Jul 27 01:09:12 2006, Socket Error: (-2, 'Name or service not known')

maru (talk) contribs 05:09, 27 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Restored deleted post[edit]

I found this in the page's history log and found it is relevant to the city, and the information was on that celebrity's article. I had to improve the post's grammar and description, so to clarify what the post said, I revert other links to Wikipedia articles for those in research to related topics.

<<<Not long ago, Palm Desert was a center of worldwide attention when a 14-year old girl was discovered to be the illegitimate of Prince Albert of Monaco, now he admittedly fathered the girl when courting her mother on a vacation 15 years ago. The French and Italian media wanted to interview the 14 year old girl, but refused as she went into a secret service van and drove away from her school. Palm Desert (the Coachella Valley) are used to celebrities who retired, visited and golfed in this desert resort. Don't forget former U.S. presidents Dwight Eisenhower, John F. Kennedy, Gerald Ford, Jimmy Carter, George W. Bush and Bill Clinton stopped by Palm Desert. If you got movie stars, tennis, presidents and now royalty, PD must be really popular (except people ask where is it...just say near Palm Springs).+>>>

Palm Desert was a center of global attention last June by the shocking allegation of Prince Albert's love child resided there. Palm Desert goes by nicknames like the "world's golf capital", the "playground of presidents" and "heaven's waiting room". The city is renowned for its' conservatism and homogenous demography, but being from the area, I tell you not every resident is old (over age 60), white (30% of other racial groups) and conservative (nearly half the locals vote came from liberal Democrats). Retirement and outdoor sports (golf or tennis) did put Palm Desert on the map anyways, but the city should hoist a new big sign: home to Princess Alberta (I made that one up) and the sister city is Principality of Monaco (its' a joke).-- Mike D. +207.200.116.196 19:46, 25 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Missing history[edit]

During WWII, the area of Palm Desert with nearby Indian Wells back then were farmes and agriculture fields, and in Rancho Mirage (the Magnesia Falls Cove) was mostly an United States Armed Forces training base. The Camp Young Desert Training Center covered most of the Lower Deserts of California including the Coachella Valley and east of Indio all the way to the National Trails Highway (U.S. Route 66), the Colorado River or the Salton Sea. The army could have built a new housing tract for the soldiers, but they decided to evict some residents out of their private properties, especially members of the Cahuilla Indian tribe and many persons of "foreign/un-American" Mexican and Japanese descent (the army's internment and relocation of Japanese-Americans on the West coast during WWII). So the army had forced out hundreds of residents from existing homes to house soldiers in the U.S. Army and other Armed Forces personnel in the Magnesia Falls Cove, Palm Village and Indian Wells communities. This act violated the U.S. constitution to prohibit residents from having to house soldiers in their own private housing quarters, which was put there due to the British Redcoats would evict the American colonists out of their houses as their quarters, and it's one of the chief causes of the American Revolution. 71.102.1.101 (talk) 22:25, 28 August 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Kyuss Really? You guys don't have any comment on Kyuss? geez... greetings from germany. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 195.37.56.242 (talk) 14:47, 21 March 2014 (UTC)[reply]