So well put
I think it's so cool you have Rock Hudsons old home. Wow.
Do you golf?
No, not anymore I have a bad back, so I save it for work instead. My back Doctor's would die if the saw the camera gear I run around with.
This place is full of history.
All the older Country clubs have a great history, like Indian Wells CC, La Quinta CC, Tamarisk CC, where Sinatra lived, (Used to do parties at Sinatra's house for him). Eldorado CC, where Eisenhower lived, Thunderbird, where President Ford Lived (I was his photographer here for 14 years until he passed away and then photographed his state funeral, which was tough on me. Some of that is on my Web site). President Obama, also loves Thunderbird, he stays with friends there when he is here. I don't have anything to do with him here, however, I covered him for 8 years for several, agencies, on many, many trips. Before that Bush 8 years, and Clinton 8 years.
My Mom used to call my cell phone, as I was shooting Clinton, in god knows where, to tell me that he looked drunk coming off Air Force One, and I would have to tell her we will talk later, I'm too busy now, the motorcade is going to leave without me.
Getting back to the PS area :
That was the era of this town which I refer to and, I call the old guard or the golf culture, the people who built the valley as we now know it. From 1950 - 2000. After 2000 it was not the same, golf took a nose dive, and then economic collapse.
Problem is all these wonderful people, they are all gone now, and I miss then a lot, it depresses me very, very much that they are gone as they gave me the opportunities of a lifetime. Their replacements in no way measure up. At all!
In in the old days, it was nothing for some man to come over and put a roll of hundreds in your hand at a gala, discreetly, of course. They were very generous people. The new people want everything for free.
Sorry if if this went OT.