In today’s installment, we get introduced to “Commercial Centerâ€, which is currently under construction and scheduled for an August 1963 Grand Opening. A must read article!  “New concepts in the use of space and frontage […]
All of the Plan 6’s in Paradise Palms are south of Desert Inn. There’s a few west of Spencer, but primarily, they were on the golf course. Probably the most easily recognizable of the Palmer […]
Where was I before the last week got lost? It’s time for another volume – July 1963 – of the Paradise Palms Newsletters. This one contains a special treat, which we’ll get to on page […]
Plan 7 is on of my favorites. Plan 7B is so easily recognizable. There’s only 4 of them that were built. All are south of Desert Inn. The Caddy Shack is the most easy to […]
Our Paradise Palms 1963 series is coming to an end soon. There’s only one more floor plan brochure, an after this, the August 1963 edition of the Paradise Palms Desert News, there’s only September left […]
This is the last of the series showing the original 1963 sales brochures of the William Krisel designed homes of Paradise Palms. I’m just intelligently guessing that about 300 of the 1044 homes in Paradise […]
Alas, the last of the 1963 Paradise Palms Desert-News newsletters. I sure was hoping more of them would surface. No luck! Today we find babies, children, a Jackie K hairdo, and a very fabulous dinette […]
I said “But, wait– there’s moreâ€, and here it is. It’s the hand drawn rendering of Paradise Palms from 1963. It was also handed out at the sales office, which I now know had a Desert Inn Address, […]
I wasn’t going to do anything on Paradise Palms for a while after our big long series on the 1963 newsletters and William Krisel designs. However, there’s still a mysterious shortage of bank owned homes […]
Last year, I uncovered some of the newsletters, and parts of the sales brochures from the Mid Century Modern Neighborhood of Paradise Palms. I’m most happy to now be able to pass on the covers […]