Talk:Indian Wells, California
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[edit] New wealth, new homes, new jobs
Indian Wells came into being in the 1950s when developers from the Eldorado Bank Inc. created a golf course, the Eldorado Country Club on a square mile parcel of land next to the Santa Rosa Mountains. Other developers came in a second to create Indian Wells country club in 1962, followed by The Vintage Club and Desert Horizons in the 1970s. Celebrities bought second homes in Indian wells since the 1960's, such as Desi Arnaz and Lucille Ball on their street, DesiLu Circle. By the 1980's, Indian Wells and neighbors Palm Desert, Rancho Mirage and the main destination, Palm Springs had a new wave of tourism, wealth and real estate appraisal. In the 1990s, more new residents head out to La Quinta, Cathedral City and the upper-income sections of Indio. The huge socio-economic gap between Indian Wells and the Indio area like Coachella is quite remarkable. Indio and Coachella is where employees of the lodging, landscape, restaurant and retail industries tend to live, have a large lower-income class group, compared to the rest of the Coachella Valley. Where else a person earn $35,000 a year can live?...not Indian Wells, nor Palm Springs and Rancho Mirage. The shift of population to the Indio area in recent years to find moderately priced homes (for now) and a large young Hispanic immigrant community, is changing the long-held wealthy resort image of the Palm Springs area. + 207.200.116.130 04:19, 29 October 2006 (UTC) 03:12, 18 June 2006 (UTC)
