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Title: Tamarisk Country Club, Wonder Palms Hotel
Alternative Title: Kelly-Holiday Mid-Century Aerial Photo Collection
Creator: Kelly, Howard D
Contributor: Made accessible through a grant from the John Randolph Haynes and Dora Haynes Foundation
Date Created and/or Issued: 1955
Publication Information: Kelly-Holiday
Contributing Institution: Los Angeles Public Library
Collection: Los Angeles Public Library Photo Collection
Rights Information: Images available for reproduction and use. Please see the Ordering & Use page at http://tessa.lapl.org/OrderingUse.html for additional information.
Description: Title supplied by cataloger.
Tamarisk Country Club made its debut in 1952 with an 18-hole golf course designed by PGA Champ Ben Hogan. Some of the founding members of the club were Frank Sinatra, Jack Benny, George Burns, Danny Kaye, and the Marx Brothers.
View of an oasis surrounded by arid land. Photograph shows Tamarisk Country Club and Wonder Palms Hotel in Rancho Mirage. The Wonder Palms Hotel is located along Da Vall Drive and Frank Sinatra Drive; Tamarisk Country Club is adjacent to Wonder Palms Hotel. The lush grove in the background is possibly Everett Da Vall's nearby Wonder Palms Date Ranch. Photograph dated February 19, 1955.
Type: image
Format: 1 negative :safety ;12 x 14 cm.
Photographic safety negatives
Identifier: 00088040
Kelly-Holiday Mid-Century Aerial Collection
KHAF 161-7
CARL0004933033
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/4187
Subject: Tamarisk Country Club (Rancho Mirage, Calif.)
Country clubs--California--Rancho Mirage
Golf courses--California--Rancho Mirage
Hotels--California--Rancho Mirage
Mountains--California, Southern
San Jacinot Mountains (Calif.)
Rancho Mirage (Calif.)
Rancho Mirage (Calif.)--Aerial views
Aerial photographs
Time Period: 1951-1960

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