A temperamental lion that would eat only when its keeper was with it, stroking it gently as it ate. With an impressive landmark that became known and recognized everywhere - a pink Byzantine tower from which the hotel took its name - El Mirador - meaning "The Lookout."Ī somewhat bizarre touch, at one time, was a full-grown lion, pacing in a cage above the hotel entrance and spotlighted at night. It boasted an Olympic-size swimming pool with five diving boards, an underwater window on the pool for use by photographers, and a pool observation platform.
Wells, English novelist and historian, came to enjoy the desert sunshine, as did the Earl of Warwick, along with such American tycoons as John Jacob Rasob, Thomas Wanamaker and Charles Howard, who owned a famous horse named Sea Biscuit.įor pre-World War II days, in a small village known as Palm Springs, it was a remarkable achievement for a hotel.
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Guests included Albert Einstein, the scientist John Barrymore, the actor Lord Beaverbrook, the London publisher Salvador Dali, the artist, and a child movie star named Shirley Temple. It attracted well-known persons from over the nation and from Europe. More simply stated - a true luxury hotel.
It had 165 rooms to start with, and it once was advertised, with exuberant use of words, as "a magnificent palace of splendor." (Republished from the November 1977 issue of Palm Springs Life magazine)
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