Title:
National Date Festival
Indio California (CA), Chrome
Description:
This annual February event held at the beautiful Arabic designed fairgrounds is one of the nation's most unusual and exciting fairs. Queen Scheherazade and her court are here seen on the beautiful outdoor Arabian stage where the lavish performance of the Arabian Nights Pageant nightly attracts an audience of many thousands of people.
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Title:
Picturesque Date Grove, Shields Date Gardens
Indio California (CA), Chrome unused
Description:
Perris H. Scott Dates are harvested in Coachella Valley during the early Fall months and the men work from tall ladders, mobile steel towers, and sometimes from platforms built out from the palm's trunk. Date clusters do not ripen at the same time and each palm is picked about eight different times.
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Title:
The Great Salton Sea
Indio California (CA), Chrome unused
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Title:
The Salton Sea, 241 feet below sea level
Indio California (CA), Chrome
Description:
The Great Salton Sea, a few miles southeast of India, California. An interesting and popular resort area.
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Title:
Greetings From North Shore Beach
Indio California (CA), Chrome unused
Description:
glamour capital of The Salton Sea. Unsurpassed desert beauty by the sea. Ideally located just south of Palm Springs and Mecca, California on Highway 111 - one mile north of Salton Sea State Park.
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Title:
Greetings From Indio
Indio California (CA), Chrome unused
Description:
David M. Mills This thriving town in Coachella Valley is a gateway into Southern California where several main highways converge. It is the center of a great agricultural belt that produces an early variety of grapes, the sweetest grapefruit on the market and over 95% of all the dates raised in the USA. Each February Indio is the home of the National Date Festival, an unusual and exciting event that attracts visitors from all over the nation.
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Title:
Shields Black Beauty Dates
Indio California (CA), Chrome unused
Description:
The only date of its kind in the world, it possesses a most delicious flavor all its own. It sells for 5c each - one to a visitor, it is so rare and the supply so limited, it is never shipped. Found only at Shields Date Gardens.
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Title:
Shields Date Garden
Indio California (CA), Chrome unused
Description:
Ferris H. Scott Here amid stately date palms is one of the most popular tourist attractions on Highway 111, between Palm Springs and Indio, California. Visitors enjoy the free color motion pictures on the Date Story and visit one of the most modern showrooms and colorful rose gardens in the state.
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Title:
Street Scene
Indio California (CA), Chrome unused
Description:
This thriving town in Coachella Valley is a gateway into Southern California where several main highways converge. It is the center of a great agricultural belt that produces an early variety of grapes, the sweetest grapefruit on the market and over 95% of all the dates raised in the U.S.A. Each February, Indio is the home of the National Date Festival, an unusual and exciting event that attracts visitors from all over the nation.
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Title:
Highway 99 Looking North
Indio California (CA), Chrome unused
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Title:
Bermuda Palms Mobile Estates
Indio California (CA), Chrome unused
Description:
The desert's most fabulous air-conditioned Recreation Building and Library, Billiards, Card Rooms, Ping Pong, Shuffleboard, Shopping, Churches and Schools nearbym, 20 Miles to Palm Springs, the Great Salton Sea for Fishing and Water Sports, Private Membership at Westward Ho Golf Club. Public links are also close by. "Where the Desert Sun Lingers Longer, and Living is Fun"
Dexter Press Inc.
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Title:
Boys' Club of Coachella Valley
Indio California (CA), Chrome unused
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Title:
National Date Festival
Indio California (CA), Chrome unused
Description:
This annual February event held at the beautiful Arabic-designed fairgrounds is one of the nation's most unusual and exciting fairs. Queen Scheherazade and her court are here seen on the beautiful outdoor Arabian stage where the lavish performance of the Arabian Nights Pageant nightly attracts an audience of many thousands of people.
Ferris H. Scott
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Title:
National Date Festival
Indio California (CA), Chrome unused
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Title:
National Date Festival
Indio California (CA), Chrome unused
Description:
David M. Mills This annual February event held at the beautiful Arabic-designed fairgrounds is one of the nation's most unusual and exciting fairs. Queen Scheherazade and her court pose for a picture just before the start of the sensational camel races which are a featured event each afternoon during the National Horse Show which is an added attraction of the Date Festival.
Ferris H. Scott
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Title:
Greetings From Indio California
Indio California (CA), Chrome unused
Description:
Located on U.S. Highway 99, about 130 miles east of Los Angeles. It is the home of the National Date Festival and Riverside County Fair, one of the outstanding attractions of the desert, and visited by thousands of interested people
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Title:
October to May in Sniff's Back Yard
Indio California (CA), Chrome unused
Description:
Old world charm in a new world setting. Those who desire to become acquainted with the desert and what it may produce will find a colorful garden overflowing with information and beauty, in Sniff's Back Yard, twenty miles east of Palm Springs and three miles west of Indio on the Palm Springs-Indio Highway. A glance at the photograph on the other side of this card will give you some idea of the breath-taking splendor of this famous back yard which is a portion of the Sniff Gardens (a ranch which has produced dates, grapefruit, and tangerines for years) set aside especially for the tourist. Here you may see some forty kinds of citrus fruits, each one neatly tagged for your benefit. Odd trees and plants have been added each year; one tree has been budded with twelve different fruits.
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Title:
Greetings From Indio
Indio California (CA), Chrome unused
Description:
David M. Mills This thriving town in Coachella Valley is a gateway into Southern California where several main highways converge. It is the center of a great agricultural belt that produces an early variety of grapes, the sweetest grapefruit on the market and over 95% of all the dates in the USA. Each February Indio is the home of the National Date Festival, an unusual and exciting event that attracts visitors from all over the nation.
Western Resort Publications
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Title:
Sans Gene Restaurant, Highway 99 & Tamarisk Ave.
Indio California (CA), Chrome unused
Description:
Catering to a clientele who insist on the finest foods. Cocktail lounge open 10 am to 2 am. Entertainment nightly.
Dexter Press, Inc.
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Title:
Indian Wells Motel and Trailer Park
Indio California (CA), Linen unused
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Title:
La Quinta - Living Room
Indio California (CA), Linen unused
Description:
Albertype Co.
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Title:
La Quinta Dining Room
Indio California (CA), Linen unused
Description:
The Albertype Co.
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Title:
Room Reservation Request - Indo Hacienda
Indio California (CA), Chrome unused
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Title:
National Date Festival, Riverside County Fair and the National Horse Show
Indio California (CA), Chrome unused
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Title:
Pen-Go-In Motel
Indio California (CA), Linen
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Title:
Sun-Gold Date Gardens - Roadside
Indio California (CA), Linen unused
Description:
Salesman's Sample
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Title:
National Date Festival, Riverside County Fair and the National Horse Show
Indio California (CA), Chrome unused
Description:
View of part of the colorful fairgrounds during this annual February event which features a nightly Arabian Nights Pageant
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Title:
Bonita Motor Court, Very Nice and Comfortably Situated
Indio California (CA), Chrome unused
Description:
North 82-520 North side of State Highway 111 Directly across from the Annual Date Festival Fair Grounds
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Title:
National Date Festival, Riverside County Fair & National Horse Show
Indio California (CA), Chrome unused
Description:
This annual February combined attraction is the high-point of the desert resort season. Presented in the beautiful Arabic designed fairgrounds, it is one of the nation's most colorful and exciting fairs. The nightly Arabian Nights Pageant, daily camel races, horse show competition among the world's best, and many other features combine to attract large crowds each year
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Title:
National Date Festival, Riverside County Fair, and National Horse Show
Indio California (CA), Chrome unused
Description:
This annual February combined attraction is the high-point of the desert resort season. Presented in the beautiful Arabic designed Fairgrounds, it is one of the nation's most colorful and exciting Fairs. The nightly Arabian Nights Pageant, daily camel races, horse-show competition among the world's best, and many other features combine to attract large crowds each year
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Title:
Greetings from Indio
Indio California (CA), Chrome unused
Description:
This thriving town in Coachella Valley is a gateway into Southern California where several main highways converge. It is the center of a great agricultural belt that produces an early variety of grapes, the sweetest grapefruit on the market and over 95%of all the dates raised in the USA. Each February, Indio is the home of the National Date Festival, an unusual and exciting event that attracts visitors from all over the nation
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Title:
City Center Motel
Indio California (CA), Chrome unused
Description:
22 units; located in the Coachella Valley, the date Capitol of the USA; home of the National Date Festival; junction Highways 60, 70, 99 and 111; heated pool; refrigeration. 83-597 Highway 99. Phone Di 7-5180
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Title:
Date Palms - Bex Date Gardens
Indio California (CA), Real Photo PM 1940 Apr-6
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Title:
Pengo Inn Motel
Indio California (CA), Chrome
Description:
PENGO INN MOTEL On Highways 99 - 60 - 70 - One mile East of Junction 111 Indio, California Phone DI 7-3654 39 Units - 4-Two Bedroom Apartments - 7 Kitchenettes - Individual controlled refrigerated air conditioned - Wall to Wall Carpeting - Individual controlled Panel Ray Heat and Electric Heat - Heated Swimming Pool with Patio - Children's Playground - TV in rooms and room Phones - Dining Room in Conjunction. "Vacation in the Heart of the Date Capital of the World" Photo by Tom Reed
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Title:
Indio Hacienda
Indio California (CA), Chrome unused
Description:
Highway 99 at Clinton, Indio, California - Now Open. Complimentary continental breakfast served daily in your room- King-sized beds - TV available - Room phones
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Title:
Sniff's Date Gardens
Indio California (CA), Chrome
Description:
On State Highway 111. Two miles west of Indio. This unusual garden grows one hundred different flowers and citrus fruits. The dates are world famous for their diversity and quality. The oldest date shop in the Coachella Valley - open to the public from October to May
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Title:
Hotel Indio
Indio California (CA), White Border unused
Description:
Coachella Valley, where dates grow
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Title:
Pengo Inn Motel
Indio California (CA), Chrome unused
Description:
[ATA Logo] [Diner's Club Logo] On Highways 99 - 60 - 70 - One Mile West of Junction 111 Phone DI 7-3654 39 Units - 4-two Bedroom Apartments - 7 Kitchenettes - Individual controlled refrigerated air conditioned - Wall to Wall Carpeting - Individual controlled Panel Ray Heat and Electric Heat - Heated Pool with Patio - Children's Playground - TV in rooms - Room Phones - In Room Coffee - Moderate Prices - Dining Room Next Door. "Vacation in the Heart of the Date Capital of the World"
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Title:
Carriage Place Travel Park
Indio California (CA), Chrome unused
Description:
The Finest of Modern Facilities. Full hook-ups, all spaces, Complete modern laundries. Recreation hall, TV lounge, Swimming Pool, therapy pool. Drive-through spaces- Beneath 500 palm trees. Near "30" beautiful golf courses and Salton Sea for skiing and fishing
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Title:
Indio Holiday Motel
Indio California (CA), Chrome
Description:
INDIO HOLIDAY MOTEL 44-301 Sun Gold St. (714) 347-5583 INDIO, CALIF. 92201 OFF the highway. Friendly, Restful. Secluded pool and therapy pool
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Title:
Shield's Famous Date Gardens
Indio California (CA), Real Photo unused
Description:
Shield's famous date gardens home of 119 varieties Indio California
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Title:
Date Bearing Palm Trees
Indio California (CA), Chrome unused
Description:
Date bearing palm trees, grapefruit grown and luxuriant shrubbery and flowers afford a beautiful setting for this swimming pool. Indio, the date capital of the U. S., is the largest town in this agricultural center. The climate is warm, dry and healthful, free of smog or fog. This picture was taken on the grounds of the Dr. Hays Desert Palms Guest Ranch located on Highway 111 in Indio.
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Title:
Indo Trave Lodge, U. S. Hwys 60, 70, 99
Indio California (CA), Chrome PM 1955 Nov-08
Description:
In the Fabulous Coachella Valley Heated Swimming Pool - Cooled by Refrigeration. 82-333 U. S. Hwys. 60, 70, 99 Indio, California. Phone: 7-3103. Recommended by: AAA, Duncan Hines, Automobile Club of Southern California.
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Title:
Queen Scheherazade, Riverside County Fair
Indio California (CA), Chrome unused
Description:
"Queen Scheherazade" National date festival. A most unusual and enchanting festival, held in February of each year, in an exotic atmosphere of the ancient Middle East. Hundreds of residents, garbed in colorful Arabian costumes, celebrate the California desert's most fascinating event.
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Title:
The Thunderbird Country Club
Indio California (CA), Chrome unused
Description:
The Thunderbird Country Club has become world - famous as the golf course of the nation's celebrities. Here such famous stars as Bob Hope, Bing Crosby, and Phil Harris play their winter golf, and President Eisenhower and frequent guest during his Palm Springs, California, visit.
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Title:
Indio Hacienda, Hwys. 60-86
Indio California (CA), Chrome PM 1965 Jan-22
Description:
123 Luxurious air-conditioned rooms-heated pool-complimentary lnn room coffee-king sized switch board service-visit our other haciendas when you are in Fresno-Las Vegas-Bakersfield
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Title:
The National Date Festival
Indio California (CA), Chrome unused
Description:
The National Date Festival, Riverside County Fair and National Horse Show, Indio, California. Held each year in February, this is the first horse show of the season and seven states are represented in the entry lists. In addition the spectacular Arabian Nights pageant is presented each evening. Another "must be seen" is the world's only camel races held each afternoon in the arena.
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Title:
Dunes Of The Desert
Indio California (CA), Real Photo PM 1945 Nov-26
Description:
Dunes of the desert near shields date gardens, home of 119 kinds of dates, Indio. Calif.
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Title:
Sniff's Date Shop
Indio California (CA), Chrome unused
Description:
National Date Festival. Riverside County Fair. This unique shop features America's finest selections of rare varieties of dates
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Title:
Sniff's Date Gardens, State Highway 111
Indio California (CA), Chrome unused
Description:
Twenty-Six Grapefruit on One Stem A Plantain Banana Blossom When Fruit is Black it is Ripe A Fruit Tree Covered with Flame Vine Three Typical Scenes in "Sniff's Back Yard" Open to the Public, October to May. This unusual garden grows one hundred different flowers and citrus fruits. The dates are world-famous for their diversity and quality. The oldest Date Shop in the Coachella Valley - open to the public from October to May.
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Title:
Desert Turtle with Many Baby Turtles
Indio California (CA), Real Photo unused
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Title:
Street Scene with Cars
Indio California (CA), Real Photo unused
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Title:
On US Highways 60, 70, and 99
Indio California (CA), Real Photo
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Title:
Indian Wells Motel and Trailer Park
Indio California (CA), Linen unused
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Title:
Shield's Date Gardens
Indio California (CA), Chrome unused
Description:
New Salesroom, Packing House, and Romance of the Date Theatre Home of the World's finest desert fruits for a quarter-century On Palm Springs Highway—Three and one half miles west of Indio, California
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Title:
Cactus Garden
Indio California (CA), Real Photo unused
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Title:
Archie's White House
Indio California (CA), Chrome
Description:
ONE MILE WEST OF INDIO 80823 - HI-WAY III NEAR SNIFFS Tel. DIamond 71317 IMPORTED BEER REAL GOOD FOOD! COCKTAILS *POT ROAST OF BEEF WITH GERMAN POTATO PANCAKES *"CHAR-BROILED" STEAKS *CHICKEN AND DUMPLINGS *DELUXE BURGER (CHAR-BROILED) *SEA FOOD GOOD COFFEE!!!!
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Title:
Mt. San Jacinto from the Cactus Garden
Indio California (CA), Real Photo PM 1968 Aug-9
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Title:
Nationally Famous Camel Races
Indio California (CA), Chrome unused
Description:
Riverside County Fair and NATIONAL DATE FESTIVAL - Held in February each year, Indio, California - Home of American Dates and the famous Camel Races
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Title:
Schell Ranch & Packing Co
Indio California (CA), Chrome unused
Description:
To those who require quality Schell Coachella means satisfaction. Coachella Valley has long been a source of breathtaking amazement because of tis shimmering beauty. From what once was a desert wasteland now comes luxurious products prized even in fabulous California. The Schell Ranch has long been identified as the growers of the highest quality Coachella grapefruit, tangerines and dates. Coachella grapefruit, tangerines and dates are recognized as being the finest of their kind in the world. They contain a delicious natural sweetness and a distinctive flavor to be found only in Coachella Valley. Besides being the growers, we also pack and ship our own fruit in order to maintain the high standard Schell Brand represents. Tangerines are available from December to February. Grapefruit from December to June. Write for prices delivered anywhere in the United States
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Title:
Hotel Indio, Coachella Valley, where dates grow
Indio California (CA), White Border unused
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Title:
PIcturesque Date Grove
Indio California (CA), Chrome unused
Description:
The many fabulous golf courses in the area are never too far from a date grove. Many of the fairways are lined with these beautiful trees. The brown paper bags help protect the ripening fruit
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Title:
Holiday Inn Motel, 44-301 Sun Gold St
Indio California (CA), Chrome unused
Description:
Refrigerated Air Conditioning ? Hydrotherapy Pool 120? ? Heated swimming Pool ? Free Cable TV ? Room Phones
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Title:
Hotel Indio
Indio California (CA), Real Photo unused
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Title:
Shield's Date Gardens
Indio California (CA), Chrome unused
Description:
New Salesroom, Packing House, and Romance of the Date Theatre Home of the World's finest desert fruits for a quarter - century On Palm Springs Highway Three and one half miles west of Indio,
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Title:
Historic Indian Wells Motel And Trailer Park
Indio California (CA), Linen PM 1954 Jan-06
Description:
On Highway 111, 18 miles East of Palm Springs, Calif. Phone: Indio 763372 P. O. Address, Box 276, Indio, Calif. 10 modern, air-cooled, motel units, some with kitchens. 65 trailer spaces on large lots, each with a Date Palm. Large recreation room and complete recreation facilities. Open October 1st to June 1st.
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Title:
Verbenas on the Desert
Indio California (CA), Linen unused
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Title:
Arabian Nights Pageant And Famous Arabian Stage
Indio California (CA), Linen PM 1953
Description:
Riverside County Fair and National Date Festival - Held in February each year, Indio, California - Home of American Dates and the famous Camel Races.
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