Looking for a great night out? Marvyn’s Magic Theater is located in La Quinta and features world class magic and comedy performances three or four nights a week. The venue is an intimate modern theater with just over 120 seats. The theater is named after the late Marvyn Roy…a La Quinta resident and known as “Mr. Electric”. Mr Roy appeared on Ed Sullivan five times and traveled the world performing his magic for more than 50 years. You...

Almost every weekend the distinctive roar of the radial piston engines of various World War II aircraft can be heard above of Motorcoach Country Club in Indio, CA. When you look up you may see an army green transport plane. This Douglass C-47, (also known as a DC-3 “Skytrain” in its commercial configuration) with its distinctive three “invasion stripes” takes between five and ten passengers on a tour that includes the Coachella...

The inspirational pilot named Jacqueline Cochran is the namesake for the airport in Thermal? Jacqueline was instrumental in creating the program during WWII that allowed over a thousand women aviators to ferry the Army Air Corps aircraft around the country in preparation of joining the war effort. This group ultimately became known as “Women’s Air force Service Pilots (WASPs) and these women mastered the controls of almost all...

From the years 1942-1944 the area 25 miles east of Motorcoach Country Club in the Mojave Desert became the temporary home to over million service men being trained to survive the grueling conditions to be faced for the planned invasion of North Africa (Operation Torch). General George Patton grew up in San Gabriel, CA and knew the perfect place to train for surviving the Sahara Desert was this barren area that ultimately contained...