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Renting an Apartment in Cathedral City
Cathedral City is a city in Riverside County, California, United States. The
population was 42,647 at the 2000 census. Sandwiched between Palm Springs and
Rancho Mirage, it is one of the cities in the Coachella Valley (Palm Springs
area) of southern California.
The town's name derives from "Cathedral Canyon" to the south of the town, so
named in 1850 by Henry Washington because its rock formations were reminiscent
of a cathedral. The city itself started as a housing subdivision in 1925, but
was not incorporated until 1981. The city grew 4-5 times in two decades, as the
2006 population estimate is 48,000.
* Cathedral City had a downtown revitalization program in the late 1990's,
completed in 2005, called for a permanent building to have City hall, an IMAX/
Mary Pickford movie theater complex, and a total of 130 acres of new or
remodeled stores.
* The Field of Dreams softball complex on the corner of Date Palm and Dinah
Shore drives, made up of four softball fields designed as replicas of four major
league ballparks. The Pepsi All-Star Softball Game was held there since 1998.
* Cathedral City High School opened in 1991 is a major educational and
recreational center to the city. The varsity football and basketball teams had
earned CIF-southern California championship runs in the late 1990's and early
2000's.
* Date Palm Country Club and golf course, designed in 1967 and opened in 1971,
has an 18-hole "executive style" facility designed by Ted Robinson, ASCCA. It
features 3,100 yards of golf from the longest tees for a par of 58. The course
rating is 54.9/57.2 and it has a slope rating of 90/93. It is landscaped in
Bermuda Greens and includes lakes and sand traps. The most memorable tee is the
175 yard 8th hole, which has an accurate tee shot over a lake. The Phil Harris
Golf Classic was held there for many years. Though built on part of the Agua
Caliente Indian Reservation, an exclusive retirement community of manufactured
homes line the greens. The course is walkable and quiet.
* Forest Lawn Cemetery and Desert Memorial Park are located in Cathedral City.
These parks are across Ramon Boulevard from each other. These cemeteries are
visited by many tourists because of those who are buried there. Among them are
Frank Sinatra, Alice Faye, Phil Harris, Sonny Bono, "Papa" John Phillips, Jane
Wyman, Dinah Shore, George Montgomery, Cameron Mitchell, Harold Robbins, Busby
Berkeley, William Powell, Betty Hutton, Guy Madison, Buddy Rogers and many more.
* In 1991, Wal-Mart selected Cathedral City as one of the company's first retail
outlets in California, but the store closed when the company opened 2 "Supercenters"
nearby, one in nearby Palm Springs and another in Palm Desert, both in late
2006.
* Cathedral City boosts of three major resort hotels: The Elm near the Outdoor
Resorts RV resort opened in 1964, The Doral Resort-Desert Princess is a hotel
and championship golf course and the new Sheraton Resort complex is being built
in downtown on the corner of State Highway 111 and Date Palm Drive.
* The neighborhood of Minerva Road has an annual Christmas time light event
every December since the first event held in 1987. The homeowners heavily
decorate the block's 46 homes and lawns, and streetlights are even covered in
holiday decor draws in tens of thousands of spectators to Minerva Road for a
look. The street is renamed Candy Cane Lane during this time.
* Cathedral City hosts an annual Mexican Independence Day festival on every
third weekend of September, also has an "el Grito de Dolores" to commemorate the
event at the city hall/movie theater complex. The city has an economic
partnership with the Mexican state of Jalisco, a large source of local
immigration.
* Chicano folk musician, Lalo Guerrero lived in Cathedral City in his final
years. Also the city was the teenage home of actress Suzanne Somers (she still
maintains a second home in nearby Palm Desert), and a winter residence for
actors Robert Duvall and Martin Landau in the 1960s, and TV show host Monty Hall
in the 1990s. Also US representative and football athlete Jack Kemp owned an
auto dealership in Cathedral City.
* Catherdal City has one of the first automobile dealership mega-malls in
Riverside County (most are located on Perez Road, just off Highway 111); among
the car makers represented are: Saturn, Lincoln-Mercury, Honda, Toyota-Scion and
Cadillac;there was a Volkswagen dealership on Highway 111 (Livreris' Paradise
Volkswagen) for many years, until the City of Indio (and VW of America
officials) persuaded the Livreris family to move to the I-10 Auto Plaza four
years ago.