Kimberly Pierceall
Land O' Pools
It's hard to not get a kick out of the local history especially when it involves a speakeasy and reputed mobsters building hotels that doubled as gambling houses.
After being built for such a seedy purpose, The Colonial Hotel eventually attracted Hollywood types and fans of "the twist" (those crazy kids and their hip-gyrating dances). A man named Robert Howard then bought it and renamed it Howard Manor (the hotel business is certainly not for those with a faint ego).
But then it fell into disrepair. The hotel has been renamed the Colony Palms Hotel and is scheduled to re-open before the end of the month. For more info check out the Business section for my story.
And for more photos, because who can't pass up an opportunity to scroll through pictures, here's a great site that's catalogued old postcards that feature images of the early Palm Springs variety. Lots of pools. Lots of modest bikinis.
-- KIMBERLY PIERCEALL
kpierceall@PE.com
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