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Article: Beautiful people a re deserting Palm Springs
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- Chicago Sun-Times
- Article date:
- February 23, 1986
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PALM SPRINGS, Calif. Shortly after public relations executive Chicki
Kleiner moved from Beverly Hills, Calif., to the swank Lakes Country
Club in Palm Desert last March, a woman she discreetly describes only
as a "multimillionaire socialite" ensconced her in a Rolls-Royce for
a tour of the desert.
Along with the tour came some important do's and don'ts.
The first stop was at an intersection well east of the Palm
Springs city limits, Kleiner said.
" `The first thing you must learn,' she told me, `is never go
west of Bob Hope Drive. Everything there is old hat,' " Kleiner
recalled.
For 30 years, Palm Springs was a glittering oasis without
parallel for Southern California's hip and ...