From Natural Hot Springs to Playground of the Stars: a History of Palm Springs
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variety.comKate Reggev You know it as a midcentury modern mecca and major center for art and culture. But Palm Springs, Calif., has a long history that stretches back beyond the 1940s and 1950s — all the way to pre-colonial times, when a Native American tribe inhabited the area hundreds of years before the arrival of Europeans in the 18th and 19th centuries.
So how did the desert city become the beloved, celebrity-filled icon that we know today?Long before this area of the Colorado Desert’s Coachella Valley was called Palm Springs, it was referred to as Pal Séxey, or Séx’i — “boiling water” — by the Cahuilla, the people of various Native American tribes of the Cahuilla Nation that inhabited the area.
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